Artist: Ondina Pires

Ondina Pires: the show of art and wise-insanity. Ex-musician in bands like Ezra Pound and The Madness, Pop dell’Arte, The Great Lesbian Show; writer, collage and scraps addicted; collector of bizarre items. ‘I was born on November 9, 1961, in Lisbon downtown, within a very humble family that, nevertheless, had some intellectual references at home: books, newspapers, drawings, small oil paintings and a love for music. (…) With April 25, 1974 (The Revolution of Carnations) other artistic references came along and were added to the previous (…). It was the time of ‘discovering the Others’ – Camões High School mates, the reactionary neighbours, films, rock music (At the age of 11 years old, I had a crush for Susi Quatro band hard-glamour rock!). As I hated the clothes bought by my mother and godmother I also used to modify them…In 1977 – the second big musical passion – The Sex Pistols! And I’ve never stopped. So, to cut the long story short, while I was trying to ‘digest in the same basket’ Punk mouvement, countercultures like the Beat Generation and Hippie, Black American music, the classics of English literature (…), DADA, Surrealism, Futurism art, plus Leninism, Marxism, Anarchism, Fascism and an amount of ‘isms’, I had to ‘endure’ public education with its boring school ‘pedagogic’ programs. At the same time, I was rehearsing the first musical and poetic steps with some of my best pals of Camões High School. Ondina Pires In http://preguicamagazine.com/2015/01/29/ondina-pires-o-show-da-arte-e-da-loucura/

OPENING EXHIBITION: 10 July 2015, 14h30 – 15h30
Presentation: Andy Bennett, KISMIF Convenor, School of Humanities, Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Griffith University, KISMIF Project, Australia
Presentation: Paula Guerra, KISMIF Convenor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Sociology, University of Porto, Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, KISMIF Project Coordinator, Portugal
Presentation: João Paulo Dias, Executive Director, Coordinator of Projects and Research Management Office, Centre of Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
10 – 17 July 2015 | Palacete Viscondes Balsemão, Porto | Curated by Ondina Pires and Esgar Acelerado