My Journey Through the 1980s and 1990s as an Art Student and Young Artist

Abstract

I will present my journey through the 1980s and 1990s as an art student and young artist in Portugal. Based on an autoethnographic methodology, meaning an approach to research and writing that seeks to synthesize, describe, and analyze personal experience to understand a broader cultural context, I start to present my work as an artist of mixed media visual installations to later introduce the impact of new media technologies on my visual arts work. Finally, I present and document the Rupture installation (1998). This text aims to contextualize a historical moment that is about to disappear from the collective memory.