MOVE ON is a two-year media art project situated between Europe, Canada and Australia, involving 19 artists from 7 countries producing new works at media institutions abroad. Throughout 2015, we are asking our German and Canadian MOVE ON media artists and filmmakers to give us their thoughts on how important place --home, travel, transit, transition & relocation-- is to their artistic practice."To "Move on" / "be in transit" is what influences me to create, so my work is about the place I am and how I experience it, who I relate to and what surrounds me rather than about my ego or inner world. I usually like to collaborate with people that I meet randomly and that's only possible because I keep myself moving rather than isolating myself. Home starts to be everywhere I make friends or where I am heard and understood somehow. The socio-cultural and political environment is my core impulse for creation, which results in specific local community research and pro-active interaction."
Pedro Ferreira, born in Portugal in 1988, holds a BA in Multimedia from the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança and an MA in Multimedia Arts and Culture from the University of Porto. He is one of the founders of the collective ASK and director of DERME live cinema performance. He lives and works as a freelancer in Wrocław and regularly presents his videos at international film and media festivals.
Ferreira is the EMARE Toronto resident 2014.
Move On - New Media Art from Australia, Canada and Europe / EMARE Australia Canada is funded by the European Commission Culture Programme 2013 and the Goethe-Institut.
Toronto program presented by the Images Festival and the Goethe-Institut in the framework of the European Media Artists in Residence Exchange.
Join Pedro Ferreira at the Goethe-Institut Toronto for a free talk and presentation of his films on November 7 at 5.30pm.
by Jutta Brendemühl
image: Pedro Ferreira "Fragments #4", found film, shot in Vienna shot by German tourists in the 1970s
