07.2010
I move to Berlin until the middle of December 2010.
My film Arize (Zona) will be screened at FUSO.Anual de Video Arte Internacional 2010 on 30st July at Museu Berardo (Lisbon, Portugal).
My music video "Holy Ghost" will be screen at Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival on 7th July.
06.2010
Exhibition of my film "Endless Title" at Bratislava City Gallery (Slovaquie, Bratislava). From 29 June to 29 Augost 2010 and this exhibition is part of JCE Biennial of Contemporary Art 2009/2011.
My film Arize (Zona) will be screen at Rencontres Internationales Berlin Festival. The screen will be at 22h00 on 30th June 2010 in Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin).
Live cinema performance labrador + p.ma at Sónar Festival. At Expo Corunã (Spain) on June 18th , more info here!
New music video for Rita Redshoes song "Holy Ghost" (Lights & Darks, 2010). The video will be released on July 14th in the "Thirteen Films About Lights & Darks" DVD enclosed in the new album "Lights & Darks". View video here.
05.2010
Live visual performance as p.ma in collaboration with Evols on 15th May at Clubbing / Casa da Música (Porto, Portugal).
04.2010
Videos and photos of the live visual collaboration as p.ma with Lee Ranaldo & Rafael Toral on 21sp April in Lisbon.
Live visual collaboration as p.ma with Lee Ranaldo & Rafael Toral on 21sp April at ZDB (Lisbon, Portugal).
My film Arize (Zona) selected to Rencontres Internationales Madrid / Berlin / Paris Festival. Festival from April 12th to April 21st 2010 at Madrid. My film will be screen at 22h00 on 14th April 2010 at Filmoteca Española.
03.2010
p.ma project goes loop at Evols concert on March 19th at Plano B (Porto, Portugal).
Arise (Zona) will be part of the Bienal de Arte Jovens VaLoures’09 exhibition, at Galeria Municipal de Loures / Pavilhão de Macau (Loures, Portugal) from 06th March to 04th July 2010.
02.2010
EndlessTitle will be presented in a exhibition at Klaipeda Exhibition Hall (Lithuania) from 19th February to 30th March 2010.
Live visual performance as p.ma in collaboration with Labrador on 06th February at Passos Manuel Cinema (Porto, Portugal).
12.2009
Live visual performance as p.ma in collaboration with Evols on 30th December at Passos Manuel Cinema (Porto, Portugal).
Live visual performance as p.ma in collaboration with BlackLand on 4th December at Clubbing / Casa da Música (Porto, Portugal).
Live visual performance as p.ma in collaboration with Evols on 12th December at Cine-Parque (Vizela, Portugal).
11.2009
My film Arize (Zona) selected to Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin / Madrid Festival. Festival from November 30 to December 9 2009 at the Centre Pompidou, the Jeu de Paume national museum, the Châtelet Theatre and other venues.
Live visual performance as p.ma in collaboration with Labrador on 28th November at Louie Louie (Porto, Portugal).
10.2009
New web site for the project/performance POLAR - www.polar.pt.vu.
My vimeo chanel is updated - www.vimeo.com/pedromaia.
New videos at Installations and Live Visuals sections.
Honorable mention video prize at Prémios Salúquia às Artes 2009, promoted by Câmara Municipal de Moura.
My film Arize (Zona) selected to Media 10/10 Festival (Namur, Belgium), from 11th to 15th of November 2009.
Exhibition at La Fabrique (Montrouge, France). From 26 September to 25 November 2009 and this exhibition is the opening of JCE Biennial of Contemporary Art 2009/2011.
My work is now being distributed by Light Cone.
09.2009
I've been selected to the Salão Europeu Jovens Criadores 2009/2011, promoted by Amadeu de Souza Cardozo Museumn. The prize consists of an itinerary exhibition across Montrouge (France), Klaïpedo (Lithuania), Krakow (Poland), Bratislava (Slovakia), Pécs (Hungary), Salzburg (Austria), Genoa (Italy), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Spain) and Amarante (Portugal).
My work will be screened at the Super Pecha Kucha Night Lisbon, in collaboration with Experimenta Design '09. The event take place on 13th Setember at EDP Electricity Museum (Lisbon, Portugal). View of the Installation here.
08.2009
Videoarte award at Bienal de Arte Jovens Valoures '09. The dates of the exhibition at Municipal Gallery Vieira da Silva (Loures, Portugal) will be soon announced.
07.2009
POLAR performance at MontemorDoc (Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal) on 18th July.
17th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival from 4th to 12th July 2009.
Video installation for the collective exhibition "In An Absolut World"curated by Who Creative Talents Agency. From 4th July to 12th September at Muuda Gallery (Porto, Portugal).
06.2009
Live visual performance as p.ma in collaboration with Evols on 27th June at the opening of Teatro Municipal (Vila do Conde, Portugal)
Video spot for the 17th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival. Watch in others menu or here.
Video installation for the collective exhibition "In An Absolut World"curated by Who Creative Talents Agency. From 4th to 27th June at Who Gallery (Bairro Alto, Lisbon).
05.2009
Project POLAR selection for Serralves em Festa promoted by Serralves Foundation. This project consists on a performance in collaboration with Luís Teixeira (Labrador) and will be presented on 29th May at Porto downtown and on May 30th and 31st at Serralves Museum. (video excerpt here).
Super 8 Series #3 will be screened at Portugal ConVida (3rd edition of the Portuguese Cultural Week of Barcelona) at MACBA Museum of Contemporany Art.
Live visual performance as p.ma in collaboration with Evols on 25th May at Passos Manuel (Porto, Portugal).This concert will be the first part of Spectrum (Sonic Boom, Spacemen 3)
Super 8 Series live performance as p.ma in collaboration with Labrador on 21th May at Museu de Olaria (Barcelos, Portugal).
Arize (Zona) selection for the 13th One Minute One Shot Film Festival, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia.
Live visual performance as p.ma in collaboration with Black Land on 15th May at Plano B (Porto, Portugal).
Super 8 Series #3 will be screened at A4 - Association for Contemporary Art and Culture (Slovakia).
My Sizo's new videoclip She Nods will be presented on 7th May at Passos Manuel (Porto, Portugal).
04.2009
New videoclip - "She Nods" - made for the portuguese band Sizo. Track included in the "Got To Love People Who Set Themselves Up For Disaster" album.
Super 8 Series live performance as p.ma in collaboration with Labrador on 18th April at Rua da Picaria #84 (Porto, Portugal). Performance promoted by Cinbol and integrated in the opening of Francisco Eduardo's exhibition at Dama Aflita Gallery.
My new film Arise (Zona) was sellected to 7th Indie Lisboa (Directors Cut section). The screens will be at 25th April and 2ndMay at 17:45 - Cinema Londres - Sala 2.
03.2009
Super 8 Series #3 selection by Instituto de Camões to integrate the first cluster of EUNIC that will taking place at Kulturhuset (Stockholm) in April.
Presentation of Endless Tittle, a screen version of my instalation Portrait.Super 8 Series, at Jovens Criadores 2008. Jovens Criadores is an annual selection of the best young artistic and creators from Portugal and will take place at Centro de Congressos de Lisboa from 19th to 22th March.
Live performance as p.ma in collaboration with Labrador on 14th March in Clubbing at Casa da Música (Porto, Portugal).
02.2009
My new work Arise (Zona) will be distributed by Agência da Curtas Metragem and will be at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival market from 2nd to 6th February.
01.2009
Super 8 Series live performance as p.ma in collaboration with Labrador on 29th January at Plano B (Porto, Portugal).
Live performance as p.ma integrated in S0N1V1S10 cycle on 23th January at Octubre Center de Cultura Contemporània (Valencia, Spain). First part by the Spanish collective La Comida Visuals.
Live performance as p.ma in collaboration with Evols on 17th January at Rua da Picaria 84 (Porto, Portugal).
Live performance as p.ma in collaboration with Labrador on 8th January at Caffé au Lait (Porto, Portugal).
12.2008
My new work Arise (Zona) will be presented at Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão (Lisbon) on December 18th. This work is integrated in the the Videoart course promoted by Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme.
On December 17th I will participate in the conference "A recriação de conteúdos através da apropriação de imagens" moderated by Nuno Figueiredo at Lisbon Univercity of Fine Arts.
My work was included in the book "Video Art and Art & Essay Film in Portugal" published by Número Interface(s). The book presentation will be at Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão (Lisbon) at December 12th.
11.2008
Super 8 Series live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with Labrador on November 28th at Uma Certa Falta de Coerência (Porto, Portugal).
Live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with Evols on November 21th at Armazém do Chá (Porto, Portugal).
On November 11th I will deliver a masterclass about my work at Universidade Católica | School of Arts | Sound and Image course.
Super 8 Series live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with Labrador on November 7th at Cabaret Maxime (Lisbon, Portugal).
10.2008
I was accepted at the Videoart course promoted by Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal).
The course will take place from October 6th to December 12th and the tutors will be Chantal Akerman, Madeleine Bernstorff, Jean Pierre Gorin, Avi Mograbi, Harun Farocki, Colin McCabe, Françoise Parfait and Filipa César.
Live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with Mainslide on October 11th at Imago Film Festival (Fundão, Portugal).
09.2008
p.ma project goes loop at Evols concert on September 27th at cinema Passos Manuel (Porto, Portugal).
Super 8 Series #3 was selected to 30th Mediterranean Film Festival of Montpellier, France.
08.2008
Selected to Jovens Criadores 2008 with the project Super 8 Series. Jovens Criadores is an annual selection of the best youth artistic creators from Portugal.
07.2008
Super 8 Series #3 was selected to 13th Split Film Festival, Croatia.
Super 8 Series #3 was selected to U.Frame Festival, Portugal.
Live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with Evols on July 7th at Curtas Vila do Conde Festival (Vila do Conde, Portugal).
Live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with IALASPI on July 8th at SET Festival in ESMAE (Porto, Portugal).
16th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival from 5th to 13th July 2008.
03.2008
My first exhibition Portrait will be presented at Solar - Cinematic Art Gallery (Vila do Conde, Portugal).
Portrait is the new chapter of my project Super 8 Series and will be shown from March 27th to April 27th (opening on thursday 27th of March at 22h00).
The exhibition will be shared with the installations SET RESET from Hugo Olim.
Live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with Territorio on March 28th in Apolo [2] (Barcelona, Spain) and in collaboration with Black Land on March 29th in Galeria El Nui (Barcelona, Spain).
Live performance with p.ma project on March 21st in Passos Manuel (Porto, Portugal). The performance will be an improvised concert with Lobster, Etna, Too Titan to Fall and p.ma
Live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with Territorio on March 8th in Passos Manuel (Porto, Portugal).
02.2008
My work is now part of the portuguese arts platform Anamnese.
More informations at www.anamnese.pt.
Live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with BC project on February 23rd at LUX, Berlin.
Currently in Berlin working as collaborator on Talent Campus (Section of Berlinale Film Festival).
Live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with BC project on February 11th at Directors Lounge, Berlin.
01.2008
Article about the documentary made for Visoes Uteis, "A Caminho do Resto do Mundo", in Publico (daily portuguese newspaper) on January 30th.
Read the article here (only in Portuguese).
Super 8 Series #3 was selected to 28th Fantasporto International Film Festival (Portuguese Panorama Section), Portugal.
Currently working on the new chapter of Super 8 Series. This new chapter "Portrait" will have an installation version (multi screen, opening on end of March) and a film version.
12.2007
VJ-Set with the project Stolen Images Inc. to the new year's party NYE2008@TSB at Teatro Sa da Bandeira (Porto, Portugal) on 31st of December. With J Majik, Futurebound, Nuno Forte, Filipe Saraiva, Bastian b2b Dj Order, Basic Manuvers and Feito Borboleta.
Live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with Phoebus on December 21st in AVENIDA (Lisbon, Portugal).
“Festa de Natal Filho Unico”: Loosers, Rafael Toral, Sei Miguel, Ritchaz & Kéke, Os N'Gapas, Kotalume, Josué o Salvador, Coclea, Axolotl, Weyes Bluhd, Heatsick, Manuel Gião, Osso Exótico with Francisco Tropa, Aquaparque, Kimi Djabate solo, Phoebus + p.ma, Whit, Traumático Desmame, Elvis Ramalho, among others.
Abstract#1, Pocket Shorts | Light and Super 8 Series #3 will be screened at CasaDaAnimação (Porto, Portugal) on December 16th. The screening will be followed by a concert with Pedro Tudela + Pedro Almeida.
11.2007
Super 8 Series #3 “Memory” selected to “El Mes + Corto - Muestra Audiovisual Luso-Extremeña”, Spain.
Live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with Phoebus on November 6th in ZDB (Lisbon, Portugal).
Directing of the film “A Caminho do Resto do Mundo” for the theatre company Visões Úteis .
This film consists of the crossing between the visual documentation of the play and the results of a workshop that involved teenagers from poor neighbourhoods of porto, during which the participants were challenged to shoot in super8 film, their personal view of their own surroundings.
The premiere will take place on 9th of November at Biblioteca Almeida Garrett in Porto.
VJ-Set with the project Stolen Images Inc. to the project Freeform Five at Povoa do Varzim on 3rd of November.
10.2007
The project Super 8 Series was included in the tv program FOTOGRAMA from channel RTP-N. The interview and a film excerpt was exhibited on October 27 and repeat on October 28.
Super 8 Series #3 “Memory” selected to festival Fest (Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal), festival Festa Redonda (Azores) and festival Curto Circuito Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
Live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with Território on October 12th in O meu Mercedes (Porto, Portugal).
09.2007
Live performance with p.ma project in collaboration with Território on September 22th in Milhões de Festa (Braga, Portugal).
08.2007
Super 8 Series #3 “Memory” selected to Imago Film Fest and OvarVideo Fest.