The Third Thing

The Third Thing (PT/AUS) is an artistic research collaboration between Nithya Iyer and Vlad Mizikov. It seeks to investigate experimental methodologies in the negotiation, actualisation and instrumentalisation of the body in spatial territories. An Experiment in Intervals III – Violet Desert (2022) reads the site of the industrial estate in Barreiro, Portugal, through the lens of ‘monstrous architecture’. When the living, attentive and improvisational body – the phenomenological agent – encounters this territory, an Interval begins: the multiplicity of futures manifests itself in the tenuous and reflective passage of a body that leaks through space-time.

This is the second of three exhibitions at Antecâmara, part of “AYNI. THEOREMS OF RECIPROCITY”, a series of five project rooms at Brotéria, Antecâmara, HANGAR and Universidade Católica Portuguesa that will feature works by Rita Ferreira, Igor Jesus, LANDRA (Sara Rodrigues and Rodrigo Camacho), The Third Thing (Nithya Iyer and Vlad Mizikov) and Jabulani Maseko.
Curated by students from the MA and PhD programme in Cultural Studies, The Lisbon Consortium, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. With the support of the Portuguese Republic – Culture | DGARTES – Directorate-General for the Arts.