AUTHOR

"My work and research about memory formation started with autobiographical memory and autobiographical remembering, specially its creative, constructive and reconstructive processes linked to the idea of remembering as an activity, a social, discursive and cultural practice, beyond archival logics of learning - encoding, storing and retrieving information. And since autobiographical memory is not independent from the cultural economy of remembering and forgetting made by biological-social-cultural lives of human beings, and the cultural and historic worlds they live, it was natural that a large part of my art work and research use and defy notions o collective memory and collective remembrance. Because my work is concerned with memory formation it was fundamental to use performance art, a medium that allows myself to remix the past, present and future - less about localizing myself in a specific chronology of time; more about creating a web of meaning in relation to a ongoing shifting cultural world."

Born in Lagos in 1981, Marcio Carvalho currently lives and works between Berlin and Lisbon. Carvalho's artistic practice is primarily focused on collective technologies and practices of remembering and how they influence individual and group memory of past events. He is interested on the different modes of public commemorations, specially mnemonic signs and systems, that we engage with on a daily basis, to embody, represent and reenact specific narratives of the past. A special focus is granted to mnemonic signs and systems – monuments, statues, books, films, photographies, photo-albums, exhibits and other symbolic structures - that commemorate the influences of history on the formation of autobiographical and collective memory. He has presented his art work extensively in four different continents notably at Ravy Biennial (Cameroon), Thessaloniki Biennial (Thessaloniki), Berlin Biennial (Berlin), Curitiba Biennial (Curitiba), Gemäldegalerie (Berlin), Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo), Live Biennial (Vancouver), Tanz in August (Berlin), Steirischer Herbst Festival (Graz), Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum (Turku), 7a11d Festival (Toronto), Project Arts Centre of Contemporary Art (Dublin), Maxim Gorki Theater (Berlin).