André Araújo (Porto, 1999) is a Portuguese artist, musician and researcher.
With a Bachelor's degree in Jazz at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (Belgium) and a Master's degree in Contemporary Artistic Creation from the University of Aveiro, he is currently pursuing a PhD in Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro, School of Music and Performing Arts (Porto), School of Media Arts and Design (Porto), School of Arts and Design (Caldas Da Rainha).
His practice is guided by an interdisciplinary research that crosses social sciences methodologies and artistic strategies as a relational, sensorial and reflexive potential, framed in the symbolic relationship between memory and place, by a critical, artistic and political sensibility.
Through the exploration of the Archive's resonances, his work, which reflects a technical and technological non-linearity, has been presented in several exhibitions in institutions, museums and galleries in Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia, Lisbon, Odemira, Aveiro, Vila Verde, Viseu and Washington.
Araújo is currently developing the project “Along Blurred Lines”, in which he explores the repositioning of memory in the borderlands through sensorial experiences.
Collective Exibithions:
[2023] Reimaginados - Ectopia - Experimental Art Lab. Lisbon, Portugal. 30.11.2024-02.02.2024
[2023] Living with Cork - Kinnara’s Fund, Cultivamos Cultura, Odemira. 12.08-09.09.2023
[2023] Ecos da Ida e do Retorno - Museu do Linho de Várzea de Calde, Viseu. 20.05-30.08.2023
[2023] Intermedia Artes 2023 - Espaço P.Artes, Porto. 30.05-02.06.2023
[2023] Expanse - Cultivamos Cultura, Odemira. 12.08-09.09.2023
[2023] Arte Box - Unboxing Portuguese Contemporary Culture. Washington DC International Airport, USA. 10.2022-05.2023
[2023] Ecos - FBAUL Gallery. 9-25.02.2023
[2023] 5ª Bienal Internacional de Arte de Gaia - 08.04-08.07.2023
[2022] Depressa vai o tempo que depressa vem, André Araújo, Nuno Sousa e Sally Santiago. Espaço Porta-Jazz, Porto. 29.10-31.12.2022
[2022] Perspectivas - Biblioteca Municipal José Saramago, Odemira. 15.12.2022-28.01.2023
[2022] Aveiro Jovem Criador 2022 - Museu Santa Joana, Aveiro. 05.03-17.04.2022
[2022] XII Bienal Internacional de Arte Jovem de Vila Verde. 12.11-16.12.2022
[2022] Árvore das Virtudes 2022 - Cooperativa Árvore, Porto.
[2021] Penumbra_ O Banal que nos Escapa - Museu Santa Joana, Aveiro. 2021
[2021] Árvore das Virtudes 2021 - Cooperativa Árvore, Porto. 23.10-20.11.2021
Performances:
[2022] Ice Veins Ressonating. (w/Eduardo Dias). KISMIF International Conference, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. 14.07.2022
[2022] Os Nossos Seres São Iguais. w/Nuno Sousa- Cultivamos Cultura. São Luís, Odemira, 27.03.2022; Montras 2022. 13+14.08.2022
[2022] Bairro Chinês. Projecto Sombras no Umbral, Binaural Nodar+DeCA/UA. Presentation in Universidade de Aveiro. 19.01.2022
[2021] LIMBO. - (w/Nuno Sousa, Tiago Margaça). MTF LAB. Teatro Aveirense. 18.10.2022; (w/Nuno Sousa). Museu Santa Joana. 21.10.2021
[2021] Chamamento. w/Nuno Sousa, Eduardo Dias. Ferro Bar, Porto, 02.12.2021
[2021] O Mineiro. Auditório do CCCI. DeCA Universidade de Aveiro. 05.12.2021
Artistic Residences:
[2023] Cultivamos Cultura. São Luís, Odemira, 08/2023
[2022] Ecos da Ida e do Retorno - Binaural/Nodar. Várzea de Calde. 09.2022
[2022] Refracted Presence - Cultivamos Cultura. São Luís, Odemira. 03/04.2022
[2021] A Arte do Encontro Caramulano - MCAC/UA + Binaural/Nodar. Vouzela, 06.2021.
Education:
[2017-2020] Koniklijke Conservatorium Brussel: Bachelor in Jazz and Light Music (Woodwinds).
[2020-2022] Universidade de Aveiro. Master in Contemporary Artistic Pratice.
[2022-ongoing] Doctoral Programme in Artistic Creation. Aveiro University (Aveiro), School of Music and Performing Arts (Porto), School Of Media Arts And Design (Porto), School Of Arts And Design (Caldas Da Rainha).
Texts and Publications:
Araújo, André; Sousa, Nuno; Magalhães, Graça. "Place and memory between sound and image. Digital interactive performance". Abstract and Communication at Multimodus 22 1st International Conference on Sound and Image in Art & Design, Portalegre, 2022.
Araújo, André; Eduardo Dias. "Ice Veins Ressonating". Abstract+Performance based Presentation at KISMIF International Conference, Porto, 2022.
Araújo, André; Magalhães, Graça; Bessa, Pedro. "A formação simbólica do arquivo mineiro: som e imagem enquanto veículo da memória". Paper at AVANCA 2022 | Conferência Internacional de Cinema, Arte, Tecnologia e Comunicação. Avanca., Avanca, 2022.
Araújo, André; Sousa, Nuno; Marta de Menezes. "LIMBO (2021) The Sea Levels in a Sound and Visual Immersive Experience". Artist Talk Presentation and Publication at ISEA | 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art | Barcelona 2022, Barcelona, 2022.
Araújo, André. “ Ecos do real: a interacção artística enquanto veículo da dimensão afectiva da memória”. Dissertação de Mestrado em Criação Artística Contemporânea. Universidade de Aveiro, 2022. link
Araújo, André; De Menezes, Marta. “ Vorticella: Sonic feedback loop of the ecosystem as a listening relationship “. RE:SOURCE - 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology | Venice 2023