Talk between the artist Ryoji Ikeda and the architect Nuno Brandão Costa about micro|macro (pavilion). They will discuss the conception and development of micro|macro (pavilion) and the creative dialogue between artist and architect. The talk will be moderated by Philippe Vergne, Director of Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.

Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda (1966, Gifu, Japan) has gained a reputation as one of the most radical artist working across visual arts and music. He elaborately orchestrates sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations.

This project for a temporary pavilion at the Serralves Park is part of a continuous practice of inviting artists to conceive and install works in the natural patrimony of the Park. The temporary pavilion was conceived in collaboration with the Porto-based architect Nuno

Brandão Costa.

Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the essential characteristics of sound itself and that of visuals as light by means of both mathematical precision and mathematical aesthetics. Ikeda has gained a reputation as one of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately orchestrates sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations. Alongside of pure musical activity, Ikeda has been working on long-term projects through live performances, installations, books and CD’s.

Nuno Brandão Costa graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in 1994, where he received his doctorate in 2013 and has taught since 1999. He was an assistant to Professor Domingos Tavares and Professor Pedro Ramalho, and he is currently assistant professor of Project 4, curricular unit he has taught since 2001 and coordinator with José Miguel Rodrigues of the option E “Theory and Project Practices” of the FAUP PHD program. Between 1992 and 1993 he did a curricular internship with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, between 1993 and 1997 he collaborated with José Fernando Gonçalves and Paulo Providência in Porto and in 1998 he started his practice following the 1st prize in the competition for the project of Library of the Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He was awarded the “Jornal Expresso SIC” revelation and merit award in 2004, the Secil award in 2008, the Vale da Gândara award in 2011, and the AICA award 2021.