Performance as an Intimate Encounter

Este texto parte intrinsecamente da minha prática performativa, e entendo-o como um modo de arquivo, investigação e compreensão do meu trabalho, de modo a contextualizá-lo em relação a outras obras e práticas artísticas contemporâneas

Entrevista de Vera Appleton a Susana Mendes Silva (p. 124-130 e versão inglesa p.159-165)

Entrevista de Vera Appleton a Susana Mendes Silva a propósito do aniversário da Appleton Square, espaço expositivo em Alvalade, Lisboa. A entrevista aborda especialmente a obra mostrada em 2008 naquele espaço: "Square Disorder" e as questões levantadas pela prática artística da Susana

Disorder: about the creative process of an experimental film

This is not the first time that Maria João Guardão and I collaborated with each other, but it is the first time that we decided to create something together: a film. Disorder’s point of departure is the installation “Square Disorder” (Appleton Square, Lisbon, 2008), the installation “Rectangle Disorder” (Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon, 2014) by Susana Mendes Silva and the performances created by Susana Mendes Silva and Miguel Pereira — “#1 [preview]”, “#2 [instruction manual]” and “#3 [finissage]” — with sound by Jari Marjamäki. The final result is a combination of an intense coauthorship project that was developed almost as choreography between a film-maker and a visual artist

Ser Artista, Ser Doutor/a

"Ser Artista, Ser Doutor/a" aborda a prática artística enquanto investigação e de que modos as/os artistas podem pensar os modelos de doutorament

Cadavre Exquis: motion-controlled interactive film

This interactive film, a variation on the surrealist game Cadavre Exquis, seeks the possibility of subverting the filmic discourse by exploring psychosomatic processes that may give the viewer different perceptions of cinematic time, by providing the possibility of intervening into the narrative in a disruptive way.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

O transporte vertical de momento linear num caso de convecção profunda

Mestrado em Meteorologia e Oceanografia FísicaO objectivo deste trabalho científico é o estudo do transporte vertical de momento linear horizontal (CMT) realizado pelas nuvens cumulus (Cu) em sistemas de nuvens convectivos sobre a região tropical dos oceanos. Para realizar este estudo, foram utilizadas as simulações tridimensionais do modelo explícito de nuvens (CRM) para os quatro meses de duração da campanha observacional TOGA COARE nas águas quentes do Pacífico ocidental. A aplicação de uma análise diária a vários campos simulados de modo a comparar, para um período de 10 dias, duas simulações em dois domínios espaciais diferentes: 64x64 e 256x256 nós, estabeleceu que o CMT não depende do domínio espacial. O teste realizado à parameterização do percurso de mistura colocou em evidência os fracos resultados desta parameterização na troposfera média, indicando que algumas parameterizações do CRM, nomeadamente do fluxo de massa da corrente ascendente da nuvem no CRM devem ser melhoradas. ABSTRACT: The aim of the proposed research is the investigation of vertical cumulus momentum transport (CMT) in tropical oceanic convective cloud systems. Our approach is to use a unique four month three-dimensional cloud resolving model (CRM) simulations of TOGA COARE - a major field experiment over the warm waters of the west Pacific. For the purpose of testing the CRM sensitivity to the spatial domain resolution, a daily mean analysis centered in a strong convection episode with substantial mean vertical shear was performed over several simulated fields, establishing that the CMT is insensitive to the domain size. The test applied to the skill of a downgradient mixing-length parameterization highlighted very poor results in the mid-troposphere, suggesting that some CRM parameterizations might be responsible for these results, namely in updraft cloud mass flux field, and should be refined

Surficial sediment texture database for the south-western Iberian Atlantic margin

Assessing the impact of changes on the environment driven by natural or anthropogenic forcers includes the comparison between antecedent and post-event conditions. The latter is particularly relevant in order to better understand to which extent those changes actually impact or alter a particular environment and associated services and to determine the resilience of a system. In this regard, it becomes essential to create or provide databases to inform about baseline conditions. Here, we present a database that integrates surficial sediment samples collected and analysed for textural characterization within the framework of a series of research projects over circa 20 years. Collected samples along the south-western Atlantic margin of the Iberian Peninsula extend from estuaries and beaches to the adjacent continental shelf. For the case of the more dynamic environments, namely coastal sandy barriers, samples were repeated over time in order to capture the intrinsic variability of the system. Examples of the utility of this data set for a variety of purposes and environments are also included within this paper through three examples. Therefore, here we show the added value of the database as it can be used to assess the impact of a particular event or activity at an estuary by providing baseline conditions, evaluate the continental shelf sediment suitability for nourishment activities, or contribute to the understanding of the morphodynamics and classification of beaches. Finally, it is worth stating the importance of such databases to analyse medium- to long-term variability as the one induced by sea level rise, changes in storminess, or human activities.FCT Investigator programme [IF/01047/2014]info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio