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The agencia NENHUR agency is a project established to research the ‘nowhere’. The agency was created by paula roush in collaboration with 12 artists- lucia abdenur, tiago borges, carla castiajo, leticia costa, liavali coquet, maria martinho, joana sousa mieiro, teresa milheiro, paula mourao, david pontes, renata porto, and suzana rezende- during the workshop Nowhere, part of the Ars Ornata Europeana in Lisbon in the summer 2005.
One of the agency’s aims is to research, study, and locate the experience of ‘nowhere’. With this aim the agency established 10 departments with as many specialised areas of enquiry, each one in charge of producing its own documents, including videos, photographs, notebooks and objects. In addition, the agency organized these artifacts in an archive which was displayed at gallery tereza seabra in Lisbon between 9 and 29 july 2005.
NENHUR is another term for lugar nenhum or nowhere. Place/non-place, utopia/heterotopia, wasteland, site/ site-specific/ non-site and off-site are well established fields of enquiry within artistic discourse. They act as anchors between artistic theory and practice and other discourses, ie geography, anthropology, philosophy, urban studies and architecture; additionally they reveal a desire to establish links with the geo-political space and the project of urbanization of artistic practice, as this increasingly adopts an interdisciplinary approach to space and spatial strategies. The agency proposes to go beyond these dychotomies and study the NENHUR as material, to suspend the characteristics usually associated with the nowhere in an attempt to capture its experiential and performative qualities.
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A agencia NENHUR agency e um projecto estabelecido para pesquisar ‘o lugar nenhum’. A agencia foi criada por paula roush em colaboracao com 12 artistas- lucia abdenur, tiago borges, carla castiajo, leticia costa, liavali coquet, maria martinho, joana sousa mieiro, teresa milheiro, paula mourao, david pontes, renata porto, e suzana rezende- durante a workshop ‘nowhere/lugar nenhum’, que decorreu durante a ars ornata europeana em lisboa no verao de 2005.
Um dos objectivos da agencia e pesquisar, estudar e localisar o lugar nenhum. Com este objectivo, a agencia estabeleceu 10 departamentos cada um com a sua especialisacao e responsavel por produzir os seus documentos, incluindo videos, fotografias, cadernos de anotacoes e objectos. Adicionalmente, a agencia organisou estes artefactos num arquivo o qual esta em exposicao na galleria tereza seabra ate 29 de julho de 2005.
Nenhur e um outro termo para lugar nenhum ou nowhere. Lugar/nao-lugar, utopia/heterotopia, terrenos baldios, site/site-specific/non-site e off-site sao areas de pesquisa ja bem estabelecidas no discurso artistico. Nele funcionam enquanto eixos de articulacao entre a pratica e a teoria artistica e outros discursos como o da geografia, antropologia, filosofia, urbanismo e arquitectura; adicionalmente, revelam o desejo de estabelecer lacos com o espaco geo-politico e o projecto de espacialisacao das practices artisticas, a medida que estas visivelmente adoptam uma abordagem interdisciplinary ao espaco e ao uso de estrategias espaciais. A agencia propoe ir para alem das dicotomias existents e estudar o nenhur enquanto material, suspendendo as caracteristicas geralmente associadas com o lugar nenhum, numa tentativa de capturar as suas qualidades experienciais e performativas.