EXD’01 Modus Operandi
Lisboa, Portugal, 2001
Co-curated and co-directed the Biennale EXD’s second edition.
EXD’01 took place in Lisbon between 16 September and 31 October 2001 and presented the theme Modus Operandi, interrogating “How do you do what you do?”. The biennale, whose curatorial direction was led by João Paulo Feliciano and Pedro Gadanho, reflected on the processes behind project production, about the influence of new technologies and the urgency of new fields of intersections among sectors, inciting a critical eye over the institutionalised or historic “ways of doing”.
It featured 180 creators and theorists from 16 countries participating in 26 events (20 nuclear and 6 tangential ones), with a total of 84.142 visitors.
Always focused on international communication, this edition also marked the creation and presentation of a new way of communicating – the Voyager 01, a project introduced in Milan and London, then in Lisbon during the biennial, and later in Barcelona.
Special mention should also be made of EXD Magazine, a television programme conceived by EXD01 as a national communication and training project, which aired weekly on RTP2 during the Biennale and was watched by 790,000 viewers.
