For this exhibition Curator Pedro Lapa selected a series of other music related works, from different periods of the artist’s career, to accompany The Blues Quartet.

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea — Museu do Chiado

Sept 05th – October 26st
Tuesday to Sunday 10 am to 6 pm

- curated by Pedro Lapa -

For this exhibition JPF prepared a special soundtrack compiling more than 30 versions of the classic portuguese tune “Coimbra – April in Portugal”. Curator Delfim Sardo selected a series of other music related works, from different periods of the artist’s career, to accompany The Blues Quartet.

Centro de Artes Visuais
June 28th – August 31st 2008
Tuesday to Sunday 2 pm to 7 pm

- curated by Delfim Sardo -

Screen Play (2005) premiered in the Performa biennial in New York, is inspired by the tradition of graphic scores – expanding it to include moving images and digital graphical elements that can function as signs suggesting emotions, energy, rhythm, pitch, volume and duration.
Three different musical groups are invited, one after the other, to produce a live performance and improvisation based on the “score” – the projected fi lm – enabling the general public to observe the musical process implied in each of the three soundtracks thereby created.

Group I
Nuno Rebelo – guitar
Marco Franco – drums
João Paulo Feliciano – organ
Rafael Toral – modular synthesizer and electronica

Group II
João Martins – saxophones and home-made electro-acustic instruments
Gustavo Costa – percussion and electronica
Jonathan Saldanha – electronica

Group III
Steve Beresford – electronica
Mark Sanders – percussion
Alan Tomlinson- trombones

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (auditorium)
Friday, 26 September 2008, 22:00

After its successful presentation in the US the Blues Quartet returns to its homeland for a series of presentations around Portugal.
Starting this summer, the twinking light quartet will hosted by different venues, from gallery and museums to clubs and music rooms.
Some of the presentations take the form of exhibitions, with the BQ being accompanied by other works by Feliciano. Others will be more like concerts, with the BQ ‘playing’ along different musicians.

Coimbra – Centro de Artes Visuais
(exhibition)
28 JUN – 31 AUG

Lisboa – Museu do Chiado
(exhibition)
05 SEPT – 22 OCT

Guimarães – Centro Cultural Vila-Flôr
[ Festival de Jazz de Guimarães ]
13 – 22 NOV

Caldas da Rainha – Centro Cultural e de Congressos
29 NOV – 26 DEC

Making a comment on Christian Marclay ‘Record Without a Cover’ João Paulo Feliciano, together with the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, is releasing ‘Cover without a Record’. The object, a gate-fold album cover, is produced on a standard record plant on edition of 1000 copies.

Published by the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinatti) the book documents JPF’s project – The Blues Quartet – presented last year in a solo exhibition at the CAC.

With texts by Matt Distel, Delfim Sardo and David Toop, plus an interview conducted by Raphaela Platow and Emily Mello.This publication will be possible thanks to the generous contribution of the following portuguese institutions: Direcção-Geral das Artes / Ministério da Cultura; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Fundação Luso-America para o Desenvolvimento; Fundação Ilídio Pinho.

MUDAM
Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean,
Louxenbourg

Curated by Marie-Claude Beaud, Clément Minighetti and Björn Dahlström

see site

Country Club Gallery,
Cincinnati, USA

curated by Matt Distel & Christian Strike

more info

September 15, 2007
Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, USA

featuring João Paulo Feliciano, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Rafael Toral and Trevor Tremaigne (Hair Police) playing live with The Blues Quartet

Serpentine Gallery,
London, UK

Organized in collaboration with the “Curating Contemporary Art MA” at the Royal College of Art.

“We are collecting doubts from key figures in the art world. The doubts will be displayed at a one-day event at the Serpentine Gallery on 20 June 2007, as well as being collated in a small publication. The event will coincide with the Paul Chan exhibition at the Serpentine and will include an afternoon ‘doubt surgery’ where visitors to the gallery can air their doubts and add them to the collection. The collection will also be available in a PDF format, and will be sent to all the participants after the event.” (taken from the curatorial briefing)