Curriculum
Vitae: Ricky Seabra
born Washington DC 1964 / Nationalities: Brazilian
& American
yo@rickyseabra.com
Education
Foundation Year at Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC, 1983
Bachelor in Fine Art in Communication Design, Parsons School of Design,
New York City 1987
Masters in Design Research, Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
2002. Thesis: The ISADORA Module; A Design Study for an Arts and Habitability
Studies Module for the International Space Station.
Performances
Empire, Love To Love You, Baby. Residency for a new performance
about the notion of the American Empire at the Kunstencentrum, nOna
in Belgium. Concept Ricky Seabra, Directed by Dirk Verstockt, historical
consultancy by Jan de Pauw. December 8, 2005 - February 3, 2006.
Isadora.Orb,
The Final Metaphor Created and Performed by Ricky Seabra and Andrea Jabor. Produced
Kunstencentrum nOna
> Work in Progress presentation Dec. 4, 5, 6 of 2003, at KC NONA
in Mechelen, BE.
> Premiere, Feb 3,4 & 5 2005 at KC NONA Mechelen, Belgium
> Instituto Cultural Itau, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 21,22, 2005
> Instituto Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro, September 16-18,
2005
> Live Art Festival Trouble, Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels,
November 25,26, 2005
Airplanes
& Skyscrapers; a manipulated monologue. Concept, Text & Performance by Ricky
Seabra. Directed by Andrea Jabor. Produced by nOna Theatre, Mechelen,
Belgium.
> Premiere September 11th 2002.
> November 28 & 29, 2002, Gasthuis Theater, Amsterdam.
> February 5 & 6 2003, Gasthuis Theater, Amsterdam.
> March 2003 The New Theatermakers Series (Serie Nieuwe Theatermakers)
Tour through 16 cities in Holland.
> June 4th, Technical University of Delft, Architecture Department
(Bouwkunde) Lecture Hall A
> Sept 1, 2003, Het Theater Festival Vlaanderen, Parallel Program,
Zwaarte Zaal, de Singel, Antwerp
> National Review of Live Arts, Glasglow, Scotland March 19, 2004
> Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal June 28, 29, 2004
> Solos em Cena, Brasilia, Brazil, November 13, 2004
> Instituto Cultural Itau, São Paulo, Brazil, July
23, 2005
> Instituto Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro, September 16-18,
2005
> Menagerie de Verre, Desacostumados Festival, Paris, November
8-12, 2005
Stories
of Exile (Verhaaltjes over Verplaatsing) 30 minute monologue about moving abroad
commissioned by the Brakke Gronde for the Flemish Theater Festival.
> Premiered Sept 10, 2003 at the Flemish Theater Festival at the
Brakke Gronde Theater in Amsterdam.
> March 13, 2004: Part of Goodbye Stranger, Cluster #2 Event at
De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium. Produced by Villanella. An event which
bought together stories, music, debates and lectures about integration
and assimilation of immigrants. Participants included Yussef El Hallal,
Pieter de Buysser, Tuiza, Ebru Umar, Abou Jahhah, Nahima, Langri, Pascal
Smet, Eric Corijn, Bart Eeckhout, Elena Simons, Donkey Diesel, Dimitri
Verhulst, Bas Haring, the film Nous/Austres, Sara S'Jegers, Peter Haex,
DJ Vincent and the Theatre of War.
Weird Circumcision monologue about genital mutilation. Concept,
Text & Performance by Ricky Seabra.
> Premiered Nov. 2002 at the Porn Ar(t) the World Festival, NONA
Theatre, Mechelen, Belgium. along with artists such as Annie Sprinkle,
Shu-Lee Chang, Yoshie Suzuki.
>Gasthuis Theater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 2003
From
Sand to Sea, (De Areia e Mar) a fusion of contemporary
dance and fine art for stage co-directed, co-produced and performed
with choreographer Andrea Jabor.
> Premiere October 1997, Brazil in Caracas Festival, Venezuela.
> Festival Temporadas Populares, Brasilia, February 1998,
> Theatre Festival of Curitiba, March 1998,
> Universidade do Professor, Faxinal do Céu, Paraná.
July 1998,
> Brazil in Merida Festival, Merida, Venezuela, September 1999
> Cacilda Becker Theatre, Rio de Janeiro, October 1999 (two week
run)
> FILO 2000, Festival Internacional de Londrina, Brazil, April
2000
> Millennium Moves, Internationale Tanzemesse NRW, Essen, June
2000
Zero Gravity Arts Consortium,
member of a group of international artists preparing to execute various
art works and performances in a parabolic flight (zero-gravity simulator)
2005 over Greece or Florida in a K-125. My performance involves sending
Olympic divers into zero-gravity in a project called Bodies of Water.
Have You Ever Flown on a Day Like This? choreography Ricky Seabra
& Andrea Jabor, Dans Werkplaats Amsterdam 1997
House of Niemeyer, choreography Ricky Seabra & Andrea Jabor,
various performances at the Jogo de Cena Night of Experimental Theatre,
Brasilia, 1992
Airborne, solo dance piece, choreography Ricky Seabra, Athos Bulcão
Gallery of the National Theatre of Brasilia, 1991
Conferences
& Interviews
Speaker at Art in Science Symposium at the Fiocruz in Rio de Janeiro. Talked
about the History of Art in Space in a live simulated live transmission
from the International Space Station.
http://www.museudavida.fiocruz.br/publique/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?infoid=341&sid=22
Speaker at Proeflokaal 7 an event organized by Het Lokaal voor Spannende
Zaken that brought together 18 artists from Holland to discuss the massacre
of Srebenica. Participants included: xxx Rotterdamse Schouwburg, April
7, 2004
Speaker at the ACONVENTION, the inspiration for which lies in the
antics surrounding the Nova Convention, a temporary forum for discussion
and performance that happened over a weekend in New York City in 1978.
Talk about Lunar Architecture and the ISADORA Module. Adelphi Hotel,
Liverpool, October 11-13, 2002.
Participants included Uri Geller, Pete Wylie, Shoe Taylor, Chloe
Poems, Stewart Home, Adrian Challis, Tom McCarthy, the spirit of William
Buroughs and others.
Alternative Space Conference, on alternative, provocative and unusual
uses of outer space, July 15, 2002, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam,
NL.
International Necronautical Society Residency at the Austrian Cultural
Institute, participant interviewee in a forum about "death as a
type of space", London, 2001
Other particpants included: Shane Brighton, Simon Critchley, Rod
Dickinson, Alistair Gentry, Nandita Ghose, Margarita Gluzberg, Sally
Hampson, Stewart Home, Rut Blees Luxemberg, Melissa McCarthy, Luke McKeown,
Momentary Fusion, Simon Critchley, Matt Parker, Paul Perry, Will Self,
Mark Aerial Waller. Read
interview: http://www.necronauts.org
"A Moon with a View", Interviewed for SPACE.com
about 5 Guidelines for Lunar Construction, April 2000 Read interview:
http://www.space.com/news/moonbase_000423.html
"Can Art Break Science's Monopoly Grip on Space?" Interviewed for SPACE.com
about the ISADORA Module, April 2000
Read interview: http://www.space.com/news/spacestation/iss_isadora_000423.html
Other Presentations of The ISADORA Module Project have
been made at:
• The International Astronautical Federation conference, Session
T.1. Overview of Space Stations, Toulouse, France, October 2001
• Mediamatic Salon@BABY, Amsterdam
• Space Technologies Applications International Forum (STAIF
2000), Albuquerque New Mexico, February 2000
• Cultural Perspectives in Space, Leonardo Space and the Arts
Workshop, OLATS, Paris, March 1999
• Life in Space, Leonardo Space and the Arts Workshop, OLATS,
Paris, March 2000
Collaborated with BEOS a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler Aerospace in
a market survey for cultural utilization of the International Space
Station, Bremen, Germany, 2000
"5 Guidelines for Lunar Construction", Abstract accepted for
International Astronautical Federation conference, Rio de Janeiro, 2000
Read
abstract: http://www.rickyseabra.com/mooncities.html
"Tranquillity & Alto Canaveral; a Twin-City Lunar Project",
presented lecture and guided workshop on lunar-base architecture for
the AEGEE (Association des Etats Geneaux des Etudiants de l'Europe)
at their Building on the Moon - Space-Tech 1999 Conference at the Technical University
of Delft. Other lecturers included Rudy Meiner of ESA, Daan de Hoop
of the Dutch Space Agency and astronaut Wubbo Ockels. February 1999
"Building on the Moon" (Bouwen op de Maan)
Interviewed for Dutch Television Program "NOVA" together with
Chriet Titulaer and Wubbo Ockels, March 1999
Zero Gravity Workshop London, presented an art/athletics proposal
for parabolic flight and a project for a performance on the ISS, November
2000
Jô Soares Talk Show, Interview & presentation of performance
De Areia e Mar with Andrea Jabor, 15 million television viewers, Brazil,
April 1998
See
images of interview: http://www.rickyseabra.com/josoares.html
Exhibitions
Crafting Space, SMART Space Project, Center for Contemporary
Art, Amsterdam. Currently exhibiting a panel about The ISADORA Module.
Group show involving 24 artists showing works about art in space. June
2 - July 7, 2002.
Ceci n'est Pas Mon Soleil, an exhibit made in collaboration with
the European Space Agency combining art and solar science. Exhibit locations:
Salle Gaveau, Paris, April 2001
ESTEC, Noordwijk September 2001
"Science or Fiction, Impressions of Space", Space Expo,
Noordwijk, December 2001 - January 2002
Seven Hills Millennium Exhibit at the Martin-Gropius Bau, Part of the Berliner
Festspiele, Wrote article "The Poetic Potential of Space"
as part of Exhibit Catalogue, Berlin, 2000
Read article at: http://www.rickyseabra.com/poeticpotential.html
III Barro de America Roberto Guevara (Land Art Biennial),
Performed an installation version of De Areia e Mar (From Sand to Sea)
with Andrea Jabor in the Experimental Room of the Museo de Bellas Artes,
Caracas, 1999
Ecofest at the Theatre for the New City, two proposals for site
specific installations of "The Hallelujah Towers" in the Brazilian
Central Plains, New York City, 1992
The Fine Arts Salon of Brasilia, Acquisition prize awarded
for "Contrary Forces" 122cm x 152cm. silver leaf and resin
on wood acquired by The Art Museum of Brasilia, 1991
The Museum of Contemporary Art "25 Artists from
Brasilia", Goiania, 1991
The Art Museum of Brasilia "30 Years of Art in Brasilia",
1990
Itaú Gallery "Airplanes Forever", Solo exhibit
in Brasilia and Goiania, 1990
National Book Institute "Airplanes" Solo exhibit in Brasilia,
1989
Design,
Moving Image and Creative Consultancy
Abandon All Hope, by David Lakein. A structured improv with dancers
and musicians. Performed live on stage as a set designer/space manipulator.
M.A.D. (Music And Dance Improvisation Night) at Muiderpoort Theatre,
Amsterdam, April 2002
Monsoon, artistic director Rajesh Mehta, Working as creative consultant
and performing sand art on stage, Melkweg Amsterdam
Com(e)post choreography Donald Fleming, Designed and wrote projections
of phrases in dance piece about ethical issues and consequences of gene
research, Toured 12 cities in Holland.
Puerto Cabello version of De Areia e Mar (From Sand to Sea),
Collaborated with the video group UCV 0:24 of the Universidad Central
de Caracas in the direction and production of a site-specific version
of De Areia e Mar (From Sand to Sea) on Puerto Cabello beach, Venezuela,
1999
Miramax Films Part of creative team. Designed posters and
promotional material for such movies as Pulp Fiction, The Piano, The
House of the Spirits and Pret-a-Porter, New York City, 1993-94
Indika NYC Part of creative team. Designed posters and promotional
material for such movies as Exotica, Unzipped, Restoration, Blue in
the Face and others, New York City, 1994-96
Tamanduá Sam Multi-media musical by Hamilton Vaz Pereira
staged in two Brazilian cities, co-directed video segment with Ricardo
Nauemberg, 1992 > > > view one video
A Culpa é da Mãe, A musical comedy for
stage. Set designer, Brasilia, 1991
Sonnets from the Pork 'n' Cheese, Winner of Paul G. Youngson
award for Most Outstanding 16mm Animated Comedy, New School for Social
Research Animation Festival, New York City 1986
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