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WORKSHOP with Jakob Wirth | 'Parasiting the public - one day of performative practice'

Thursday, 27th March 2025, at 9:00 am, at Room PA301, FBAUP

The Masterclass with Jakob Wirth entitled Parasiting the public – one day of performative practice will be held on Thursday, 27^th March 2025, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, at Room PA301, in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.

Free entry, subject to prior registration until 18^th March 2025.

In the registration, please write a couple of sentences why you are interested in the workshop and how it connects (or doesn’t connect) to your own interest and practice. Please elaborate also briefly on a political topic you would like to engage with in the public.

In the workshop, we will explore performative ways of intervening and irritating the public and work on deconstructing our own constraints. Starting from little exercises to collective rehearsals in the public space. We will thereby focus on the political statements you will bring to the workshop as a starting point and try to find a collective way to express it in the public of Porto in the afternoon. So please come prepared, full of interest in getting into the public (further details you will receive in the email after registration). Jakob Wirth

This workshop is coordinated by André Rangel.

For more information, please contact the coordinator through the following email: arangel@fba.up.pt

Organised by Doctoral Programme in Fine Arts & Master in Art and Design for the Public Space [FBAUP]

BIO

Jakob Margit Wirth is an artist, activist and PhD Candidate in artistic research with a background in public art and sociology. Jakob works in the public space and choose their artistic language processually, depending on context and theme. The artist uses mediums ranging from performance art, video, social practice to direct guerrilla interventions. His /Her main interest is to intertwine the artistic field with politics and everyday realities by hijacking unknown systems and questioning the boundaries of norms - parasiting structures and using them for collective purposes. Jakob has worked extensively with collectives and is the co-founded the cultural project Die Blaue Blume e.V., collective Operation Himmelblick and the Project Space Make-up in Berlin. Jakob has realized works and interventions in non-institutional public space (Chicago, Berlin, Munich, Madrid, Santa Cruz, Kopenhagen, etc.) as well as in institutional contexts (Architecture Biennial Chicago, Museum Worpswede, Gorki Theater, Schillermuseum Weimar, Münchner Kammerspiele, Art Biennial Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Alte Münze Berlin, Allentown Center for Contemporary Art, US, etc.). He/She has taught at Bauhaus University Weimar, the Kunsthochskolen Holback, DNK, the Agogis Zürich and the Humboldt University Berlin. He /She is founder and editor of the magazine Parasite Art and is a guest editor for Kunstforum International. 
Jakob holds a Master's degree in Spatial Strategies (Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee), as well as in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (Bauhaus University Weimar), and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Politics and Economics, with periods of study in Madrid (ES), Santa Cruz (BOL), Holbaeck (DNK) and Chicago (US).