Ricky Seabra
creativity, ideas, curating, strategies
Curriculum Vitae / CV / Resum
+55 (21) 8204-5382 / yo@rickyseabra.com / Skype: rickyseabra
Education: BFA in
Communication Design from Parsons School of Design 1987 and a Masters in Design
Research from the Design Academy Eindhoven 2002.
Languages: Fluent in English and Portuguese and communicates in
Spanish, Dutch and French.
Urban Experience: An eclectic cultural experience having lived
12 years in Washington DC, 13 years in Brasilia, 7 in New York City, 8 in
Amsterdam and 7 in Rio de Janeiro.
Dual Nationality: American and Brazilian currently living between Rio
de Janeiro and Brasilia. Born Washington DC 1964.
2010 – Wrote article for University of
Maastricht publication Art and Activism in the Age of
Globalization. An article recounting my experiences as an artist and
activist from 1993 to present and if the combination of the two is possible.
Publication date September 2010.
2009 – Commissioned by SICA (Dutch Foundation of
International Cultural Activities) to write a 30 page report for the Dutch
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Dutch Ministry of Culture and Education
entitled Mapping Theater in Brazil. I was one of 15 Brazilian specialists
commissioned to map various fields of cultural expression in Brazil. The report
is a guide for the Dutch (or any foreigner) who like to engage in cultural
exchange with Brazil. Whenever representatives of SICA are in Brazil I am asked
to consult with them.
2010 – Asked by the Dutch Consulate to make a presentation about
Brazilian theater scene to the Brazil in Amsterdam Festival organizing
committee of the Beurschouwburg of Amsterdam.
2010 – Asked by the Belgian Consulate to make a presentation about
the Brazilian theater scene to the organizing committee of the Europalia
Festival.
2010 – Curator for Dana em Foco (An International Dance-Video
Festival in Rio de Janeiro) asked me to be one of three curators/jurors to
select 5 artists to receive money prizes to produce dance-video artworks. Job
entailed evaluating 100 applications, reading resums, budgets and sinopses of
works. Deliberation took place with two other jurors: Marcus Moraes and Felipe
Ribeiro.
2008 - Mentor at DasArts of 9 students in Advanced
Studies of Performing Arts Amsterdam. Theater director Dirk Verstockt and I
came up with and gave a 10 week workshop with a budget of 50,000 euros. We
called the workshop Renting the Shade of a Tree in which we gave lectures,
invited lecturers and gave performance assignments on rethinking notions of the
future in light of the 17 world problems as laid out in the book The Meaning of
the 21st Century by James Martin.
2010
- Mentor for CoLABoratrio: Worked as mentor of 10 dancers in Teresina and Rio for 3 week
periods. Workshop based on my own workshop called Relevancy, Imagination and
Avoiding Clich in the Creation of Performance, Dance and Theater. Organized
by the Panorama Dance Festival, Rio de Janeiro.
2009
– International Performance Festival of Belo Horizonte invited three artists to give
a one week workshop on image, sound and text. I was chosen for image. Other two
artists were Luca Forucci and Lcio Agra.
2009 – Designing for
Post-Olympic Awareness: Workshop for students of architecture and design at the
University Veiga de Almeida, Rio de Janeiro. Discussed the role of the designer
for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and the ethical implications in packaging
palliative, cosmetic and temporary projects. Students create urban solutions
for the city that will outlast the Games.
2010 – 2011 –
City of Crato: An Art Dec Secret in the Brazilian Drylands. Currently requesting funds for
independent research into the peculiar architecture of Crato. The research will
recount its origins, why its so well preserved, and how to broaden the
aesthetic to architectural aberrations within the city. Result will be a book
rich in photos, drawings and computer renderings.
2000 – Daimler Chysler
Aeropspace, Bremen, Germany – Collaborated in market study for
Cultural Utilization of the International Space Station.
2002 - Ceci Nest Pas Mon Soleil – Exhibit
commissioned by the European Space Agency to create artworks using satallite
photography from the agencies solar fleet of satellites: SOHO, ULYSSES and CLUSTER.
Salle Gaveau, Paris.
2003 – Speaker at Art and Science
Symposium, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro. Spoke about the History of Art in Space.
2003 – Technical University of
Delft – Gave workshop about lunar architecture to undergraduate
students of aerospace engineering sponsored by the universitys Architecture
Department.
2004 – Speaker at Proeflokaal 7
Event in Rotterdam. 18 artists were invited to speak at the Rotterdam Municipal
Theater about the Srebenica massacre.
Author and performer of the following
works:
1998 - 1999 – From Sand to Sea, Performance with
dance and sand drawings with Andrea Jabor presented in various cities in
Venezuela and Brazil.
2002 – 2006 - Artist in residence
at the Kunstencentrum Nona in Mechlen, Belgium where I created Airplanes &
Skyscrapers, Isadora.Orb and Empire Love to Love You Baby among others. Granted
the New Artists Tour through Holland and showed works in theaters like
Culturgest in Lisbon, De Singel in Antwerp and the National Review of Live Arts
in Glasgow amongst many others.
2006 – present, Showed works at
the main festivals of Brazil - Won various grants such as Caixa
Economica and Funarte Petrobras (State banks and oil company). Performed in
venues such as Les Halles de Schaarbeek in Brussels, Menagerie de Verre in
Paris, KaaiTheater in Brussels and TeatroStageFest in NYC. In October 2010 I
will premiere my latest work: Koyaanisqatsi The Performance co-produced by
the KaaiTheater in Brussels.
Visit my website: www.rickyseabra.com
About my works critics have written:
Suspense is maintained from beginning
to end in the performance of objects and projections Airplanes &
Skyscrapers, manipulated with brilliance by American-Brazilian Ricky Seabra.
The attacks of September 11, 2001 are re-examined through the magical prism of
the memory of Seabra, a fan since childhood of planes and skyscrapers. The two
are subject of an emotional decoding related to the life of the artist. Seabra
works out a sophisticated scenario in which he manipulates images cut out from
magazines, composes collages, makes miniature planes glide, shows archive
footage. One misses nothing of this definitive epos like the loss of innocence
and faith in the future. After Ricky Seabra, one can no longer look at
airplanes and skyscrapers the same way.
- Rosita Boisseau - LE MONDE, Paris
Isadora.orb cleverly mixes dance and
audiovisuals. Fine humor, great precision and good use of technical means and
live movement.
- Carlos Gil Zamora, REVISTS ARTEZ, Bilbao
Empire is a light-hearted, intelligent
performance. Seabra doesn't do more than collect images from TV, films and
internet, as far as they fit his subject. A bit like Michael Moore. But Seabra
doesn't feel the need to convince his audience. Moore makes his arguments with
a hammer - which has its value - and Seabra with the wink of an eye.
- Marc Cloostermans, DE STANDAARD,
Brussels
Co-founder of Architecture of Movement
dance company with Andrea Jabor - The company completed 10 years in 2010 and
currently comprises of 6 dancers. We have received the Klauss Vianna Grant of
Funarte Petrobras in addition to grants from the State of Rio. In 2010 the
company completed a trilogy about Samba.
2009
– present - Belas
Estratgias is the company founded by Ricky Seabra,
Andrea Jabor and Bia Jabor that enables them to request education, curatorial
and art grants. It began in 2004 with Bia executing research, education and
curatorial projects in partnership with Luiz Guilherme Vergara, Oi Futuro in
Rio, The National Historical Museum and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In
2009 artistic partners Ricky and Andrea joined Bia and formed Belas Estratgias
(Beautiful Strategies). Together Ricky and Andrea bring various projects to the
companys curriculum. Andrea as an independent artist won several State and
corporate for the maintenance of Arquitetura do Movimento while Ricky with his
own works won grants from SESCs for touring the country, the Klauss Vianna
Grant as well as the Caixa Economica.
In
the 90s I worked at Miramax
Films in NYC where I was part of the creative team that designed posters for
films such as Pulp Fiction, the Piano and the House of the Spirits. Other
studios included Indika Design NYC and Propeg Advertising and Marketing in
Brasilia. I also directed the video segments along with Ricardo Nauemberg for a
Hamilton Vaz Pereira play. Between 1989 and 1992 I was known as the airplane
artist and I have one piece in the collection of the National Art Museum in
Brasilia.
Last updated – May 19, 2010
For more information: www.rickyseabra.com
+55 21 8204-5382 / yo@rickyseabra.com / Skype: rickyseabra
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