The 180 Creative Lab is a moment of collaboration and co-creation among creative professionals and interaction with a broader audience, set in a city with great artistic and cultural potential.
The first and only edition, in Guimarães, 2013, a year after the city was named European Capital of Culture, featured artists like Hiro Murai, Mac DeMarco, Becky&Joe, Jonathan Calugi, and Joaquín Mora. These artists led various workshops and co-creation activities that resulted in numerous interventions in the city and innovative audiovisual content, including a music video for the song "Let My Baby Stay" by the Canadian musician.
11 years after this first edition, the 180 Creative Lab reemerges, this time in Aveiro, the Portuguese Capital of Culture 2024, from June 19 to 22.
Seven international and national artists, including filmmakers, illustrators, performers, photographers, and sound artists, will gather at VIC // Aveiro Arts House—the museum house of Vasco Branco, an emblematic space of the city that includes a cinema room built in the 60s and a recording studio—and on the streets of Aveiro, over four days for various experimentation sessions, film sessions, and talks, culminating in a collective exhibition.
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The 180 Creative Lab is a unique opportunity to share our vision with the community.
In these meetings, we bring together artists to share experiences, knowledge, and let their creativity flow, and we can see that the creative process inspires and contributes to the cultural environment.
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— Joaquín Mora, Creative Director
SIMONE BRILLARELLI
Simone Brillarelli, Italian illustrator, will bring his unique blend of analog and digital art, combining painting and illustration with rotoscoping and digital animation techniques. During the event, Brillarelli will lead a rotoscoping workshop and perform live painting, offering participants the opportunity to experience and learn his innovative techniques firsthand.
ANIA VOULOUDI
Ania Vouloudi explores the intimacy of home through photography and poetry, capturing moments and emotions in everyday spaces. At the Creative Lab, she will conduct a public portfolio review, sharing her creative process and the stories behind her works. Additionally, Vouloudi will collaborate with other artists, combining her work and techniques to create collaborative pieces that blend various media and styles.
SAM BREWSTER
Sam Brewster, a multidisciplinary creative, will share his vision of creativity in a talk that highlights some of his extensive work in illustration, design, film, and various published content across different media. Additionally, during the event, he will film a short film inspired by VIC // Aveiro Arts House and its history.
TÂNIA DINIS
Tânia Dinis will present her experimental shorts and performances that play with the fleeting nature of life and the fragmentation of memories, and she will also lead a workshop on reinterpreting the photographic archives of seven elderly people from Aveiro. This workshop will include the retro-projection of images, inviting participants to recontextualize and reinterpret their visual memories.
BARBORA MATONYTE
A visual and sound artist, Barbora will present a video installation exploring parallels between her home country of Lithuania and Portugal.
GAILĖ GRICIŪTĖ
Through sound art and musical compositions Gailė creates immersive experiences that engage viewers in unique and contemplative atmospheres.
MONO LIRA
Christian Mono Lira will traverse the city of Aveiro, capturing moments and architectural elements to create a video collage titled "Documento Territorial." This unique work will be projected in front of the Teatro Aveirense, offering a dynamic and visually striking perspective of the city, connecting everyday life and architecture in a cohesive visual narrative.
Wednesday - 19/06
Presenting 180 Creative Lab
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Screening
"A chegada de um comboio"
Thursday - 20/06
Workshop
Ceramic Painting
Collective artistic intervention
With Simone Brillarelli
16:00-18:00
Parque de Santa Joana + VIC // Aveiro Arts House
No sign-up required
Music session
Piurso
Screening
Short films by Sam Brewster
and Tânia Dinis
Friday - 21/06
Workshop
Reimagining Reality — Rotoscoping
with Simone Brillarelli
11:00-13:00 + 15:00-19:00
VIC // Aveiro Arts House (morning)
Escola Secundária José Estevão (afternoon)
Portfolio Presentation
Inside Ania Vouloudi’s “house”
Listening Session
"Dark elastic liquid"
Concert
Lobo Rocha Espvall
Saturday - 22/06
Talk
Articulating Abstract Notions (From ideas to images)
Showcasing the results of the week’s work
Exhibit Opening
Tânia Dinis + Ania Vouloudi
16:30—17:30
VIC // Aveiro Arts House
No sign-up required
Screening
Reimagining Reality results
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Short films by Sam Brewster and Mono Lira
17:30—18:30
Teatro Aveirense (MUPI)
No sign-up required
