Fernando Do Campo
Fernando do Campo is an Argentinian and Australian artist, writer and curator. Do Campo has received individual grants from the Australian Regional Arts Fund, Arts Tasmania, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and the Australia Council for the Arts as well as undertaking residencies at the Chelsea Westminster Hospital, London, Cite International des Arts, Paris and BMUKK, Austrian Ministry of Culture, Vienna. He is the 2014 General Sir John Monash Cultural Scholar and won the Fall 2015 Bluewolf Manhattan Scholarship.
Regarding his project I Always Hear You Before I See You do Campo says that it “archives the moments of confusion, nostalgia, double-vision, that occur when one attempts to locate oneself in a new place. The birds that I see and my practice as a birdwatcher of classifying them, offers me an opportunity to construct a memory-list of each new location. Such a practice requires: one to think of what they are seeing, a tool set consisting of knowledge of other species, and most importantly; the visual memory to perceive another creature, cognitively name it, and confirm its presence in that given landscape. Through this last form of identification, I the human salute the bird as a co-inhabitant of that location.” …
Fernando do Campo is an Argentinian and Australian artist, writer and curator. Do Campo has received individual grants from the Australian Regional Arts Fund, Arts Tasmania, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and the Australia Council for the Arts as well as undertaking residencies at the Chelsea Westminster Hospital, London, Cite International des Arts, Paris and BMUKK, Austrian Ministry of Culture, Vienna. He is the 2014 General Sir John Monash Cultural Scholar and won the Fall 2015 Bluewolf Manhattan Scholarship.
Regarding his project I Always Hear You Before I See You do Campo says that it “archives the moments of confusion, nostalgia, double-vision, that occur when one attempts to locate oneself in a new place. The birds that I see and my practice as a birdwatcher of classifying them, offers me an opportunity to construct a memory-list of each new location. Such a practice requires: one to think of what they are seeing, a tool set consisting of knowledge of other species, and most importantly; the visual memory to perceive another creature, cognitively name it, and confirm its presence in that given landscape. Through this last form of identification, I the human salute the bird as a co-inhabitant of that location.”
He launched the HSSH (House Sparrow Society for Humans) in December 2015. Recent solo exhibitions include Praxis Gallery, New York, Australian Consulate, New York, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Mclemoi Gallery, Sydney. Recent group exhibitions include Standard Practice, Brooklyn, Participant Inc. New York, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne Liquid Architecture, Westspace, Melbourne.
Courtesy of Praxis
