Off centre and in between

A conversation about the definition and development of the educational project Núcleo de Arte da Oliva an emergent art centre located in the small industrial city of São João da Madeira. Taking advantage of our young age we’re going through a process of rethinking the identity and territory of action of the project in which education is paramount. The presence of a multifocal thinking leads us to places of daily research in an experimental field where the curatorial and the educational walk together. We want to share and discuss this (de)balanced platform of action where artists, curators, educators, audiences, politicians and others are constantly crossing boundaries.

Andreia Magalhães
Andreia Magalhães
Andreia Magalhães is Director of the Núcleo de Arte da Oliva, an art centre located in the industrial city of São João da Madeira, Portugal. She has been doing curatorial work since 2000. In Portugal she has worked at the Museu da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (FBAUP), the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Museu de Serralves and Museu do Douro. Abroad she developed research projects at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk)/ Montevideo, in Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA, and the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC/USP). As a researcher her main interest is the relationship between the visual arts and the realm of film and Cinema. She has a degree in Art History and completed her MA with the thesis The Moving Image in Contemporary Art Museums (Universidade do Porto, 2006), published in 2013. Her PhD focuses on the dissemination of film in art in the 60s and 70s and the processes of its integration in museums (FBAUP / Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Lara Soares
Lara Soares
PhD researcher in Arts Education at the Faculdade de Belas Artes (FBAUP) with a grant from FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Master in Practice and Drawing Theory at the same faculty (2008). Degree in Visual Arts at ESAD CR - Caldas da Rainha (2005). Recently she made several presentations, nationally and internationally, on her research work between art and education - Cape Verde, Ireland and Denmark. Since 2017 she is responsible for the educational programme of the ORBITAL project in the city of Porto. In the last years she has collaborated with different structures of Contemporary Art, emphasising the work in CENTA and BALLETEATRO in the area of coordination and production of creative projects and artistic education. In 2010 and 2011 she was a lecturer at the Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra. In 2012, she joined the Guimarães Capital of Culture 2012 team, at the CCVF and CIAJG in the educational service programme, remaining until 2017. She’s currently working as a consultant on audience mediation in the Municipalities of Ovar (Centro de Arte), Ílhavo (23 Miles programme) and São João da Madeira (Núcleo de Arte da Oliva).