ECOS_ 1
Published at — 16 November 2021
In May of this year, ECOS_ Creative Meetings for Online Streaming was presented. It’s a cycle of videos designed for digital platforms, with creations commissioned by authors from different artistic fields, in a partnership between Teatro Aveirense, GrETUA and the University of Aveiro. The first one had the musician João Pais Filipe and two interpreters from the dance area, Maria R. Soares and Carminda Soares, as protagonists and Nuno Barbosa as the movie director. While the second episode is being prepared, with new players, we are publishing the debut video in Teatro Aveirense's digital content area.
ECOS_ promotes not only the creation of audiovisual content but also the disciplinary crossover between different artists and disciplines, with a special focus on performing arts. The matrix involves launching the challenge to two or more artists to co-create performances for the audiovisual format, either from works they already have or new ones, to which a director is added. This line of work promotes transdisciplinary creation and the meeting of authors.
It is also intended to make a new contribution to a broad reflection on what the future of cultural fruition could be. This issue, which has already been addressed by those who think about Contemporary Culture and its modes of enjoyment, and has been a recurrent theme since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, being an important topic in the light of this context and of an art practice. A reflection that has artistic creation at its core, but that encompasses other subjects, such as technological possibilities, intermediary enjoyment, the definition of public service, the management of cultural structures, among others.
ECOS_ promotes not only the creation of audiovisual content but also the disciplinary crossover between different artists and disciplines, with a special focus on performing arts. The matrix involves launching the challenge to two or more artists to co-create performances for the audiovisual format, either from works they already have or new ones, to which a director is added. This line of work promotes transdisciplinary creation and the meeting of authors.
It is also intended to make a new contribution to a broad reflection on what the future of cultural fruition could be. This issue, which has already been addressed by those who think about Contemporary Culture and its modes of enjoyment, and has been a recurrent theme since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, being an important topic in the light of this context and of an art practice. A reflection that has artistic creation at its core, but that encompasses other subjects, such as technological possibilities, intermediary enjoyment, the definition of public service, the management of cultural structures, among others.
