About—Portfolio—CV
Most of my works are videos or video-installations with the occasional use of text and other media. My artistic ideas come very frequently from a negative view on human beings and their organizations, with a look into the human capacity for inhumanity, in a way that is reminiscent of human behaviour experiments. Repetition, which can be related to the visionary experiences of the mystics, is in my works confronted with obscenity and vulgarity, and with the language of the mass media, advertisement, bureaucracy, and politics. This is an art of (and about) conflict and repression.
Martin Heuser holds a bachelor's degree in music composition from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre - Brazil (2004), and a master's degree in Fine Arts with specialization in digital media from the C:Art:Media programme at Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg University, Sweden (2009).
Portfolio em português (BR) - 2.8 MB - formato pdf
CV — Martin Heuser
Lives and works in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
EDUCATION
2007–2009
Master of Fine Arts with specialization in Digital Media. Valand School of Fine Arts - University of Gothenburg - Sweden.
1998–2004
Bachelor in Music Composition. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS. Porto Alegre - Brazil.
Exhibitions // Performances // Others (selected)
2011
pid web gallery for moving art and sound (Konstepidemin). Jan-Feb. Cakeroulette (video).
2010
JavaMuseum 2010 – Celebrate! When a Page Becomes a Maze. Web art. With Andrei Thomaz.
Alfred Boman, Ingvild Hovland Kaldal och Martin Heuser. Exhibition at Gallery Box. Göteborg - Sweden. Golden Shower (video). Group Exhibition.
Lusty Little Heart of Mine shown at Festival Internazionale del Cinema d’Arte. Bergamo - Italy.
2009
ExPop! Kokokaka, Göteborg - Sweden. Psychosis Trio (Music performance with Barrie James Sutcliffe and Britt-Marie Hogmalm).
Variables of Attraction. Valand School of Fine Arts, Göteborg - Sweden. Interview (Video installation). Group Exhibition. Catalogue.
Los Suecos También. Video Screening at Gallery El Ovni Cuadrado. Valencia - Spain. Collective.
Teatergatan 5-3. Solo Exhibition. Gallery Rotor 2. Göteborg - Sweden
32nd Göteborg International Film Festival. Röhsska Museum, Göteborg - Sweden. Everybody’s Happy Nowadays (video)
KRETS Film Festival. Krets art gallery / project room, Malmö - Sweden. Everybody’s Happy Nowadays (video)
2008
Videoart installation works by Javier Marisco, No Borders Just N.E.W.S exhibition, title: del concepte al objecte. Sala d’exposiciones municipal d’Algemesí, Valencia - Spain. Catalogue. Everybody’s Happy Nowadays (video)
Musical performance at Röda Sten. Dånk - FM Dagen. A Pile of Hate, piano improvisation with Barrie Sutcliffe (electronics)
ELIA Biennial Conference, Göteborg. Installation Art Exhibition, Everybody’s Happy Nowadays (video). Intervention, A Pile of Hate (digital print)
Spring Exhibition at Valand School of Fine Arts Göteborg. Don’t Look Now! (video installation)
Reinventing the Television. Exhibition. Gallery Rotor 2 Göteborg. Jack-the-Ripper (electro-mechanical object)
2007
C:Art:Media Exhibition. Gallery Rotor 1. Göteborg. She Needs and Agent (randomly redubbed video)
2006
Fiat Mostra Brasil - São Paulo. In collaboration with Andrei R. Thomaz. Catalogue. When a page becomes a maze (web art)
Fundação Ecarta web site and Gallery. www.fundacaoecarta.org.br Collaboration with Andrei R. Thomaz. When a Web Page becomes a Maze (web art + print)
2005
Early Music Festival. Goethe Institut. Porto Alegre – Brazil. Mutagênese, for harpsichord, cello and piano. (instrumental composition performance by Luciane Cuervo, Felipe Adami and Marlise Goidanich)
2003
XV Biennial of Brazilian Contemporary Music. Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. Trio #2 for clarinet, cello and piano. (instrumental composition)
Publications
2009 Desvendando a Luz, for five recorders. Published by Edition Tre Fontane. Münster – Germany.
Film Music
2009 Heavenly Bodies
for the video Heavenly Bodies by Marika Orenius
2006 A Noiva e o Violinista. Directed by Vicente Moreno, Denny Chang, Moisés Westphalen. Porto Alegre - Brazil
2004 O Prazer do Silêncio. Directed by Marcos Contreras. Porto Alegre - Brazil
2003 Inundações. Directed by Letícia Ramos.
On CD
2007 Ulkomaalaiset ONE and TWO. Electro-improvisation with Edward Ka-Spel and Alena Boikova. 2 CDs — Beta-Lactam Ring Records.
2006 Desvendando a Luz / Unveiling the Light, composition for five recorders. CD Octoeólio. Porto Alegre, Brazil.
2002 Three pieces for the recorder and piano: I-Gargoyles, II-Metopes, III-Domes. CD Sonnets of Love and Death. Porto Alegre, Brazil.