Pedro Neves Marques. Os Jurupixuna

Pedro Neves Marques created The Jurupixuna specially for raum: online artist residencies, a web platform for presenting digital projects, for the period assigned to the Museu Coleção Berardo. The work has been online since 12 November and will be featured until 25 November, the date on which it will be moved to the public archive.

In the words of Pedro Lapa, the artistic director of the museum and the curator of Pedro Neves Marques’ residency: "In Os Jurupixuna, Pedro Neves Marques undertakes a series of explorations around the procedures and outcomes of the archivisation and reproduction of the artefacts and contexts of colonised cultures in their relation to digital technology. The form of the written essay gives way to demonstration, which transforms it into narrative. In its unfurling, a fiction is created – at first realistically probable, later more ambiguous, but no less significant than the essayistic component – on different processes of cultural appropriation and the implicit power games that are outlined there. Fiction and the processes of acquiring knowledge or speculative reflection thus become indistinguishable component parts, producing a ceaseless contamination of the boundaries between them."

The platform raum: online artist residencies is produced by the Terceiro Direito Cultural Association with artistic direction of Sandra Vieira Jürgens. For a period of six months, this platform will be hosting thirteen residencies involving artists and art-related institutions, namely, academic research units, independent art projects, publishing projects, museums and schools of visual arts. The platform went online on 1 October and will be presenting one residency fortnightly, until April 2015.

* Excerpt from a text by Pedro Lapa, Pedro Neves Marques and the Jurupixuna, featured on the website raum.pt/museu-berardo and fully reproduced on the next page.