Pat Janeiro (PT) is a poet, visual artist and filmmaker currently living in Rotterdam, NL. Janeiro grew up in the 80s in Lisbon, PT, and has a background in Sociology studies. In July 2021 they earned their BA in Fine Arts at Gerrit Rietveld Academie and completed the Art and Research Honours Programme in collaboration with fellow students from the University of Amsterdam. Janeiro works primarily with film, digital and analogue, text and sound. Their works are improvised and experimental in nature, rooted in lived experiences and often integrate the process of chaos and control involved in their making. Janeiro’s latest research and BA thesis explored the transformative qualities of the cinematic.
Education
2022 - Just Poetry course at Warman School (US)
2016 - 2021 – BA Fine Arts (5 years' course), Gerrit Rietveld Academie, University of Fine Arts and Design Amsterdam (NL)
2020 - 2021 – Art and Research Honours Programme, University of Amsterdam - Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL)
2015 – Orientation Year, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, University of Fine Arts and Design Amsterdam (NL)
2010 – Autobiographies, Life Stories and Artists' Lives course at Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon (PT)
2006 - 2008 – Post-Graduation in Sociology, Communication and Culture, School of Sociology and Public Policy, University Institute of Lisbon (PT)
2002 - 2006 – BA Sociology, School of Sociology and Public Policy, University Institute of Lisbon (PT)
Screenings / Selected group shows
Someone else speaking from your throat, Labyrinth Festival, WORM, Rotterdam, 2022
Someone else speaking from your throat, online screening at Visions du Réel, VdR–Industry Film Market, Nyon, 2022
A Triad of Paper Horns, screening at IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon, 2021
Graduation show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie BA Fine Arts Graduation Show, Amsterdam, 2021
I Like This Ruin, Love, online group exhibition, Art and Research Programme 2020, University of Amsterdam - Gerrit Rietveld Academie
A Triad of Paper Horns, screening at Goethe-Institut Sofia, part of SAW-Sofia Art Week organized by Æther Art Space, 2020
A Triad of Paper Horns, screening at Nightingale Cinema through DfbrL8r art gallery, Chicago, 2020
Ghostly Manners, screening at WORM, Rotterdam, 2019
Ghostly Manners, screening at Oberhausen Film Festival, 2018
Ghostly Manners, screening at Kinosaurus, Jakarta, 2017
Visual group performance, Sound & Vision programme, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017
Untitled 16mm film loop, group exhibition, MIRTE art gallery in Rotterdam 2016
Untitled 16mm film loops, group exhibition, Raw Art Rotterdam 2014