Alfredo Costa Monteiro

He finishes his studies in sculpture / multimedia at the fine art school of Paris in 1992, and the same year, he moves to Barcelona, where he lives and works. Since then, his work stands somewhere between visual arts, visual/sound poetry and sound. His installations and sound pieces, most of them of a low-fi character, have in common an interest for unstable processes, where the manipulation of objects as instruments or instruments as objects has a strong phenomenological aspect. He has shown his work in many individual and group exhibitions since 1995. From 1998 to 2007, he was member of 22a, an independent collective for contemporary art. From 2001 to 2007, he was member of IBA col.lectiu d’improvisació.
In sound poetry, he performs in solo, but also with Leos Ator, writing and reading polyglot and noise poems in portuguese, french and spanish. Since 2001, he’s been involved in many improvisation projects and has toured in Europe and Japan. He regularly collaborates with french theatre company Émile Saar, as an author, and
with spanish video-artist Dionís Escorsa.

RUBBER MUSIC (Hazard Records. 1999). LES SILENCES DE LA BNF (Labofar. 1999). PAPER MUSIC (Hazard Records, 2001) RUMEUR (for solo accordion) (Creative Sources. 2004) STYLT (absurd. 2005) Z=78 (pt:195,09) (Audiobot. 2006) ALLOTROPIE (bourbaki records. 2007) ÉPICYCLE (Etude Records 2008) ANTOMY OF INNER PLACE (Monotype Records 2008) CENTRE OF MASS (another timbre 2008) CREMASTER OOMFSQUAWK auto-edition.2001 FLYSCH G3G Records. 2002 INFRA Antifrost. 2003 23 NOVEMBER 2002 Sound 323. 2003 32,41 n/m2 absurd. 2003 BARCELONA (with Mattin) audiobot. 2006 I TRENI INERTI