Pat Janeiro is a poet, visual artist and filmmaker currently living in Rotterdam, NL. Janeiro grew up in the 80s in Lisbon, PT, and has a Sociology and Fine Arts studies background. Janeiro's work is mostly improvised and experimental, rooted in lived experiences, and often developed through collaborative practices. Their most recent film works took the form of projection installation and performance.
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)
Texts / Screenings / Performance / Group shows
Devotion Object to Observe Life, film performance, in collaboration with Renata Daguerre and in the context of Daguerre's residency at Labor Berlin, Berlin, 2023
Introduction of Orlando, My Political Biography film by Paul B. Preciado, WORM, 2023
Interludes: Projector Sounds & Spoken Words, radio show in collaboration with Erwin van ’t Hart, with input projector sounds, optical soundtracks, and fragmented readings from Roland Barthes, Trisha Low, Masha Typitsyn, and Teresa Villaverde on sound and image, cinematic encounters, and filmmaking, WORM Radio, Rotterdam, 2023
Desire and Freedom film programme, in collaboration with Mars Saude, with films by Ana Bravo Perez, Joey Carducci, Malic Amalya, and Barbara Rubin, Back to the Future Film Festival, WORM Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam, 2023
To Carry Something Back, film loop installation, in collaboration with Renata Daguerre, Back to the Future Film Festival, WORM Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam, 2023
Visual group performance in collaboration with musician Alex Zhang Hungtai, WORM Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam, 2023
Ghostly Manners, screening at Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, 2023
Short texts included in Stellata Koppe's book '365 Jurkjes', Rotterdam, 2022
Visual group performance in collaboration with musician Thiago Nassif, WORM Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam, 2022
Short text included in 'faire Corps - Comun' collective publication organised by Victoria Kieffer, Paris, 2022
Visual group performance at SPECTRAL BAL Summer School, Baltic Analog Lab, Cēsis, 2022
Someone else speaking from your throat, screening at SPECTRAL BAL Summer School, Baltic Analog Lab, Cēsis, 2022
Someone else speaking from your throat, screening at 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 2020-2021, 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, Rotterdam, 2016
Untitled 16mm film loops, group exhibition, Raw Art Rotterdam, 2014