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Solus, 2019 Inkjet print on paper 100 x 150 cm

Distante

prelude In the last six years, I have travelled the equivalent to two circumnavigations of the Earth.

I dove in Mankind and the products of its cultures. I saw beauty and decay as I never thought to be possible.

All these voyages turn pale beyond the deepest of them all: the voyage towards the Self, the navigation through the seas of memory and the unconscious.

A travel that is infinitely harder; damnation and salvation amalgamated. There were times when I didn’t know when one ended and the other one began.

My name is AntĂłnio Distante, I am a visual artist and architect from Lisbon.

I work predominantly in multi-format installation and painting.

For the last six years, I have travelled 80.000 km by land, capturing photographs, video, sound and interviews. The process of physical travel and inner dive resulted in a wider knowledge of my own psychic structures and how these relate to the universal that command the decisions and cultural constructions of Mankind.

Eastern philosophies and spiritual practices have shifted my perception of the world and have become the extraction field for ideas that I use in my art. These ideas are made concrete through the sampling and remix of my own archive.

My art works as a sublimation of my own personal experiences.

I understand it as a form of self-understanding and comprehension of the world. The Other becomes a mirror for my self-knowledge, my practice has become simultaneously self-referential and universal.

I have recognized and accepted my condition of nomad. My nomadism is of an ideal or idealizing order. My poetic is born from the amalgamation of ancestral and contemporay: Vedas and meditation technology collide with processors and algorithms.

I understand Art as a psychonautic science.

I am searching for a poetic theory of everything.

I have created Distante as a platform for my artistic and architectonic practice and as a way to communicate my work, research and ideology.

www.distante.org www.instagram.com/atelier.distante www.facebook.com/atelier.distante

Atelier -

bio _Portuguese artist and architect born in Lisbon, 1984 based in Lisbon and Yangon, Myanmar. _Master of Arts - Painting - Faculdade de BelasArtes - Universidade de Lisboa with project Dark Atlas - Nomadism Between Reality and Fiction under tutelage of Manuel Botelho and João Seguro. _Master of Architecture Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa with thesis Poetics in the Age of Information under the tutelage of Fernando Hipólito. _Recipient of the Research Scolarship from Fundação Oriente in 2015 w/ Infinisterra - Architecture and Culture in Contemporary Asia. _Founder of atelier Distante, a studio and platform for his personal production and investigation. _Member of Blue Temple, an Arts and Architecture studio and research group specialized in social character projects, based in Yangon, Myanmar. The studio’s Gyo Byu Pipeline Initiative won the HongKong Design Trust Seed Grant in 2018. _Founder of Infinisterra, a studio and think-tank based in Lisbon (2012-2017).

INFINISTERRA November 2012 - November 2017

I Russia — Mongolia — China — Nepal — India — Sri Lanka II India — Nepal — China — Myanmar

Black Box, 2014 - Museu do Oriente, Lisbon AV projection 25 min. color, scaffolding, zinc plates, wood, water and debris 650 x 400 x 250 cm

5 terabytes of original material 70 000 km, 90% by land + 200 publications completely original material - photos and videos — presented with research articles

in situ data capture creative transformation dialogue between ancient and modern creating new knowledge and relations anchored in the complex contemporary reality.

INFINISTERRA

Infinisterra, 2014 - Museu do Oriente, Lisbon

Ellora Kailashanatha, 2014 - Museu do Oriente, Lisbon Physical Model 1:100 scale Mixed media 150 x 180 x 140 cm

Memories, 2014 - Museu do Oriente, Lisbon AV projection, 123 min. color

Visions, 2014 - Museu do Oriente, Lisbon Three AV projections, 15 min. color

Untitled, 2015 Roofmate + white glue variable dimensions

ARCADIA

Arcadia, 2015 - ISEG, Lisbon Roofmate, wood, MDF, grey cardboard, bristol cardboard and debris 100 x 85 x 200 cm

Self-portrait studies, 2015-2017 Mixed media, acrylic prints variable dimensions

Untitled, 2016 Mixed media, acrylic print variable dimensions

Error number 1, 2016 Mixed media, acrylic print variable dimensions

Medusa, 2015 - Luxembourg Water-based paint + spray 300 x 1200 cm

RETHORICA STASIS Boom Festival 2016 Portugal

Symbiosis with nature Evolution Ruin

Stasis, 2016 MDF, chicken wire, clay, sand, earth, straw and cement 400 x 800 x 208 cm

De Onde Viemos O Que Somos Para Onde Vamos, 2018 - Luxembourg Water-based paint + spray 300 x 1200 cm

Black mirror Leap of Faith, 2017 Mixed media 230 x 280 x 220 cm

ATLAS OBSCURO I have lost, Kingdom after Kingdom, province after province, the most beautiful half of the universe, and soon I will know no place where I can find refuge for my dreams.

NERVAL, GÊrard de (1843) – Letter to Theophile Gautier.

universal self-referential

/ DARK ATLAS

RĂźckenfigur, 2018 Video, 29 min. color

Atlas Obscuro, 2018 Fotogrametria do autor para obtenção do modelo digital tridimensional do ‘viajante’

Atlas Obscuro, 2018 Pequena amostra de objectos recolhidos para o projecto

Vivek, 2017 Hand drawing on paper 36 x 61.5 cm

O que pretendo é a construção de um museu dedicado à navegação pelo inconsciente e pela memória.

Mother’s Day, 2017 Mixed media 43 x 30 cm

Dark Atlas, 2018 - FBAUL, Lisbon Axonometry exhibition proposal room 3.20

Vastus, 2019 Inkjet print on paper 70 x 100 cm

Bellum, 2019 Inkjet print on paper 70 x 114 cm

Galeria Bessa Pereira -

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Nostalgia, 2019 - Mute Art Project, Lisbon 28 photographs Inkjet print on paper variable dimensions Dark Atlas

INDRANET, 2019 concept + process

Antรณnio Distante + Nuno Mika - Indranet, 2018 Virtual reality installation w/ associated video (37 min) captured with 360ยบ camera variable dimensions

Indranet 2.0, 2019 - Mute Art Project, Lisbon 300 x 300 x 400 cm Dark Atlas

YOUTUBE: Antรณnio Distante + Nuno Mika, Indranet - 2019 https://youtu.be/JOOdhWs7j7U

AKASHA, 2019 concept + process

archive archetyp interactiv

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ATLAS OBSCURO

AKASHA: Building a meta-archive

digital collective unconscious

Akasha, 2019 - FBAUL, Lisbon Interactive multimedia installation 200 x 400 x 350 cm

YOUTUBE: Antรณnio Distante + Frederico Pimpรฃo, Akasha - 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdAThEbcYOc

video + sound

ever-changing colliding algorithms

Antรณnio F. Duarte - Atelier Distante

NIHIL

Drone control room source: Telegraph.co.uk

Nihil: The Dark Side of Technology 2018 - ongoing

2018 - ongoing

Chinese Government facial recognition system, 2018 Fonte: TrueHUEnews.com

Nihil, 2018 AV installation project

Aleppo drone footage, Syria, 2016

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Galeria Bessa Pereira -

Lockheed-Martin - 41 Year Stock Price History source: Macrotrends.net

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The Parasol Project 2019 River Gallery, Yangon

Insein, 2019 - Myanmar Mixed media on burmese traditional parasol 120 x 80 x 80 cm

RESUME

ANTÓNIO DISTANTE Visual Artist and Architect based In Lisbon, Portugal & Yangon, Myanmar contact@distante.org | +351965315509 BIRTH | March 1984 NATIONALITY | Portuguese REGISTRATION | Registration as Architect in the Portuguese Architect Association (OASRS) in September 2012 GRADUATION §

Graduated with distinction (18/20) - Master of Architecture, Universidade Lusíada, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011

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Graduation Dissertation Poetics in the Age of Information, under mentorship of Fernando Hipólito PhD, selected for publication by Universidade Lusíada

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Registered as apprentice in OASRS, 2011

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Recipient of Leonardo da Vinci scholarship, 2012

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CODARTS Rotterdam Music Conservatory Piano Free Course, Netherlands, 2013

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Recipient of Fundação Oriente Research Scolarship for Infinisterra Architecture and Culture in Contemporary Asia, 2015

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Graduated with distinction (19/20) - Master of Fine Arts - Painting, Faculdade de Belas-Artes - Universidade de Lisboa, with dissertation project Dark Atlas Nomadism between Reality and Fiction, under the mentorship of Manuel Botelho and João Seguro PhD, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019

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Studies Painting under Burmese artist Shine Lu in Yangon since December 2017.

WORK EXPERIENCE | present – 2006|

§ | PRESENT - DECEMBER 2017 | Blue Temple | Art / Architecture / Research Practice, Yangon, Myanmar http://www.facebook.com/BlueTempleDesigns §

| PRESENT - DECEMBER 2017 | Distante | Art / Architecture / Research Practice, Lisbon, Portugal & Yangon, Myanmar

http://www.instagram.com/atelier.distante www.distante.org §

| FEBRUARY 2017 - OCTOBER 2016| Companhia JGM | Theatre and Performance Arts Company :: http://www.joaogarciamiguel.com/

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| NOVEMBER 2017 - NOVEMBER 2012 | Infinisterra | Architectural Practice / Urban, Cultural and Social Research, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.facebook.com/infinisterra

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| DECEMBER 2015 - AUGUST 2016 | Rethorica | Architectural and Artistic Practice, Lisbon, Portugal :: http://www.rethoricastudio.com/

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| NOVEMBER 2012 – MAY 2011 | IND (under Felix Madrazo & Arman Akdogan) | Architectural Practice, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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| 2011 | MDE | Engineering and Consultancy Practice, Lisbon, Portugal

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| 2006 - 2007 | K-MED | Healthcare Company, Leiria, Portugal

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| 2007 – 2011 | A Pépita | Documentation Agency, Odivelas, Portugal

PRIZES

§ Recipient of Hong-Kong Design Trust Seed Grant 2018: Gyo Byu Pipeline Initiative, Yangon, Myanmar, Blue Temple 2018 §

Recipient of Fundação Oriente Research Scolarship for Infinisterra Architecture and Culture in Contemporary Asia (2015)

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Nominated for European Mies van der Rohe Award for Arkadia Apartments (IND - 2014)

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Selected for MINDtheGAP group exhibition at The Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York (2013)

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Project of the Year Turkish Architecture Association for Koç Swimming Pool (IND - 2012)

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1st Place ITU Cyprus Competition (IND – 2011)

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3rd Place ARTSCIST International student competition (2010)

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1st Place ENTRE PÓLOS - Magnética Magazine Illustration competition (2010)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

§ Dark Atlas, Mute Art Project, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019 § Dark Atlas, FBAUL, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019 § Infinisterra, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal, 2014 § Infinisterra, Lx Factory, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013 § Infinisterra, Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Lisbon, 2013

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

§ Parasol Project 2019, River Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar, 2019 § GAB-A/ Galerias Abertas das Belas-Artes 11ª Edição, FBAUL, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017 § VI Bienal Culturas Lusófonas, Centro de Exposições de Odivelas, Portugal 2017 § Lusíada 30 Anos Arquitectura, Museu dos Coches, Lisbon, Portugal 2016 § BOOM Festival 2016, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal, 2016 § A Paiã em Arte, Centro de Exposições de Odivelas, Portugal 2016 § Festival AURA, Sintra, Portugal, 2015 § De Onde para Onde exposição colectiva, ISEG, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015 § MINDtheGAP, The Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York, USA, 2013 § ARTSCIST, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2010 § ENTRE PÓLOS, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010

CURATORIAL WORK

§ Mundo Interior - uma Exposição de João Garcia Miguel, Praça do Príncipe Real 19, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017

CONFERENCES

§ Atlas Obscuro, FBAUL, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019 § The Eyes of the City - Invisible Cities 1.3, Pansuriya Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar, 2018 § Infinisterra 2.0, Casa de Goa, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017

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Infinisterra 2.0, FBAUL, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017 Infinisterra 2.0, Museu dos Coches, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016 Exposição Infinisterra, Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal, 2013 Viagem de Arquitecto - Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal, 2013 ARTSCIST The Cell - Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal, 2010 ARTSCIST The Cell - Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2010

PUBLICATIONS

§ Dark Atlas - Nomadism between Reality and Fiction, 177 pages, color, Master of Painting dissertation, 2019 § Infinisterra, Architecture and Cultura in Contemporary Asia, 118 pages, color, author's edition, 50 numbered copies, 2017 § Poetics in the Age of Information, 297 pages, color, Master of Architecture dissertation, 2011

SELECTED WORK | present – 2006|

§ 2019 | Akasha, collaboration with Frederico Pimpão, 400 x 200 x 200 cm :: interactive multimedia installation § 2019 | Indranet, collaboration with Nuno Mika, 300 x 250 x 300 cm :: virtual reality + augmented reality installation § 2019 | De Onde Viemos, O Que Somos, Para Onde Vamos, 300 x 1200 cm, Luxemburgo :: mural art § 2018 | Gyo Byu Pipeline Initiative, Yangon, Myanmar :: Hong-Kong Design Trust Seed Grant § 2018 | Dark Atlas, graduation project from FBAUL, Lisbon's Fine Arts university, Master in Painting :: thesis + installation § 2018 | Myanmar, 3 x 15 m, water-based paint, Hostel 9, 9th Street, Yangon, Myanmar :: mural art § 2017 | Salto de Fé, collaboration with João Garcia Miguel, 300 x 200 x 140 cm :: installation § 2017 | Sonhar é Imaginar, 1500 x 600 cm, Amadora, Portugal :: mural art § 2017 | Infinisterra - Architecture and Culture in Contemporary Asia :: publication, numbered, 112 pages, color § 2016 | Stasis, MDF structure and metal net + coating mix of clay, sand and cement :: permanent installation at Boom Festival 2016, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal § 2016 | Medusa Lux, water-based paint + spray, 1200 x 300 cm, Lorentzweiler, Luxembourg :: mural art § 2016 | Infinisterra 2.0 conference at Museu dos Coches, Lisbon, Portugal § 2016 | Lusíada 20 Anos collective exhibition, Museu dos Coches, Lisbon, Portugal § 2015 | Doors of Perception, Innocence, Abandon, Aura Festival, Sintra, Portugal :: three site-specific installations

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2015 | Infinisterra 2.0 - Architecture and Culture in Contemporary Asia - India, Nepal, China, Myanmar - Research project financed by Fundação Oriente 2014 | Infinisterra Exhibition at Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal 2014 | Guggenheim Museum, Helsinki, Finland :: competition 2014 | Carpintaria São Lázaro, Martim Moniz, Lisbon, Portugal :: competition 2014 | Infinisterra Exhibition at Lx Factory, Lisbon, Portugal 2014 | Infinisterra Exhibition + conference at Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal 2013 | Infinisterra project :: Journey to the East - Russia, Mongolia, China, Nepal, Sri Lanka :: www.facebook.com/Infinisterra 2013 | Infinisterra conference Viagem de Arquitecto at Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal 2013 | MINDtheGAP group exhibition at The Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York, USA 2013 | CODARTS Music Conservatory Rotterdam :: Piano Open Course, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2012 | Central Library Postcards, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2012 | Izmir 2020 Expo Research :: collaboration w/ Zaha Hadid Architects & West 8 2012 | Arkadia Apartments, Istanbul, Turkey :: built 2012 | Urban Chambers, Kartaltepe Mahalle, Istanbul, Turkey 2012 | Koç Swimming Pool, Istanbul, Turkey :: Project of the Year Prize by Turkish Architecture Association 2012 | Bursa Recreational Complex, Bursa, Turkey 2012 | Baku Coast Masterplan, Baku, Azerbaijan 2011 | Amburan Beach Club, Baku, Azerbaijan :: built 2011 | ITU Cyprus, Famagusta, Cyprus :: 1st Prize 2011 | Troy Archeological Museum, Troy, Turkey :: shortlisted 2011 | Architecture Master Thesis Poetics in the Age of Information :: 297 pages, colour 2010 | ARTSCIST The Cell conference at Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal 2010 | ARTSCIST exhibiton + conference at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey 2010 | ARTSCIST International Student Competition :: 3rd Prize

LANGUAGES

§ ENGLISH | Excellent level of comprehension and conversation § SPANISH | Excellent level of comprehension and conversation § FRENCH | Basic level of comprehension and conversation § ITALIAN | Basic level of comprehension and conversation § PORTUGUESE | First language/Native speaker

COMPUTER SKILLS

ยง Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, 3DMax, Adobe Suite, Ableton Live, Touchdesigner, Rhinoceros and prototyping softwares

OTHER SKILLS

ยง Writing, Painting, Drawing, Large-Scale Mural Art, Sculpture, Model Building, Music, Music Composition

WORK TRAITS

ยง Ability to maintain high level of work under extreme pressure ยง Meeting deadlines ยง High improvisational skills

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