The Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship was established in 2004, with hopes of encouraging creativity and to support contemporary artists at all points of their careers. Fellows are chosen for the quality, skill, and uniqueness of their artwork, as well as their commitment to their artistic development.

Each recipient receives $25,000 to allow them to continue their artistic development.

Teixeira is a visual artist and researcher who was born in Porto, Portugal. His interdisciplinary and research-based work involves primarily video-essay, photography, installation, text and performance. It explores and expands on notions of identity, otherness, language, boundary, exile, and displacement.

Through strategies of participation, Teixeira’s pieces address specific issues related to locational identity, global diaspora, and the limits (or overlapping) of personal/social, physical/mental, and political territories. He focuses on processes of empathy and intersubjectivity, therefore incorporating multiple voices and subjects into his audiovisual projects.

At the intersection of art, politics, cinema and anthropology, Teixeira is a socially-engaged practice, stemming from a (self-)reflexive and critical approach. The fellowship will enable him to complete a project in progress and to develop and expand his next body of video installation work that would continue to examine displacement and the refugee condition with a specific focus on movement, assimilation and integration.

Fellowship support will specifically be used for artistic travel, translators, equipment rental and contracted labor for video editing and video post-production work. Learn more at: www.josecarlosteixeira.com.

And read more about the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship and all of the 2018 Fellows here.