2012 – Invited Speech and Training (6 hours): Art and Psychology as Transdisciplinary Habitats: ‘...sub’incipiens’ (I, II e III) – January 13th, at the Piaget's University Institute of Transdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies, Viseu (Portugal)
Summary:"The incidence of the different disciplinary areas - Art, Psychology, Medical Sciences and Technology - occurring in the artistic vision, looking through the depersonalize / build of the subject in gradual change through praxis, process and technique, wander to a field of perspectives, where the body projects intentions phýsis aisthetik-psychikos. Weaknesses that the technological advances in different areas - surgical, chemical, genetic engineering, biomedical, nanotechnology, etc. - question about, whether the technology will eventually not be superimposed on the biological. Revelations that we all address the void of the subject (Lacan), and the opportunity that the growing integration of the object element in the body switches as transitive (Winnicott) structuring."
(Speech 2012, Sá Cabral)
2011 - Invited Speech: Art, innovation and health. Art of the future? How do we use our right brains? – January 7th – Conference Camp: Innovation in health: What actually is innovation?; Ethics and values in relation to well being...; Well being issues for 2050..., by INFARMED – National Authority of Medicines and Health Products, I. P. International Congress held on the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th of January, at the York House Hotel, Lisbon (Portugal). Working session ruled by Ph.D Rui Loureiro and Doctor Susana Parente – spokesperson for the Pharmaceutical Industry – INFARMED.
2010 – Participation in the POP UP LISBON 2010 event, from November 4th to December 11th, with the Project/Installation: INLAE - VENEREM HIC IACET (pre-test to 'The Rape of Atropos' from the author. The text presented here does not seek to explain the work, just revert to a state/thought.)
Abstract: ‘The rape of Atropos’, tells the story (author fiction) of the inflexibility of fate on affinity complex (Psyche) of the drives between two beings. Place, where the love that brought by the same incessant desires for alacrity and delight, finds himself in an irreversible pierced execution initiated by Atropos. An innate misfortune in the inexorable unfolding of the experience in demise (Thanatos), which accuses the opposition to the tension imposed by the stoic desire (Eros) from both, to a single perish as archetype, pure (Platonicus).”
(Essay 2010, Sá Cabral)
2010 – Communication at the CSO'2010 First International Congress, Lisbon, March 28th and 27th, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.
Moderator: João Paulo Queiroz
Author: Vasco J. Cabral De Sa.
Title: "The urgency of the standard: aisthetés chimera."
Abstract: The beauty in the individual, it is decreed by the tissue or the flesh that is made. The image given to the beauty of mixing present and envisions a future where intentions indicate breaks with the (id) entity. Configurations that replace the subject, new designs in the desire of beauty, on the other.
(Article 2010, Sá Cabral)
2010 – Communication at the CSO'2010 First International Congress, Lisbon, March 28th and 27th, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.
Moderator: Luís Jorge Gonçalves
Author: Clara Games (speech about the work of Sá Cabral)
Title: "Disable the body in its bowels."
Abstract: This article aims to reflect on the work of Sá Cabral, more specifically about his works in stainless steel. Using steel and human entrails as placenta and umbilical cord, an antithesis between materials and the feelings invoked by them, the artist / researcher focuses on the question of the trauma of birth and through the Other's demand to changes in the body art, science and medicine. A Freudian approach between the steel scalpel and mutations of the flesh.
(Article 2010, Clara Gomes)
2009 – Participation in Apartamentos event, held in Pavilhão 28 – Cultural Room at the Júlio de Matos Hospital, Lisbon, with the Project/Installation: DIVINUS DEITATE
“...a purgation, which shows the homogeneity between ritualistic practices and physical punishments, like natural passers by in the history of the humanity. Nauseating habitats, which very means flow of the image of the body in anguish of crucified Christ. Prosthesis- adornment, of transcendental intentionality, when release granted to the intersticial dogmatic propaganda of the catholic doctrine, like ostensible aim of pain versus liberation. Singular realization, where the physical distension provoked by the unity, it translates an fundamentally symbolic intention, in the human perishment.”
(Essay 2009, Vasco J. Cabral De Sá)
2009 – Participation in Apartamentos event, held in Pavilhão 28 – Cultural Room at the Júlio de Matos Hospital, Lisbon, with the Project/Installation: GALACTOPHAGEÍN I & II
“...inciter of the desire, of the eroticism, of the veiled one and of the prohibited one, the chest, for apposition is not any more than an allusion par excellence to the motherhood. Lecherous object and paramount bearer nutritious, he cumulates in the whole his symbology, the weight of being the first object (Freud). Erogenous- nourishing pleasure zone, responsible and determinative in the personal and interpersonal relations.”
(Essay 2009, Sá Cabral)
2009 – Participation in Apartamentos event, held in Pavilhão 28 – Cultural Room at the Júlio de Matos Hospital, Lisbon, with the Project/Installation: 'never enough...'
“Lost forever in his intention, the fellow is like an unfinished being, whose inability to return to the birth precede unity, live in the plenitude of nostalgic pith. One wollow structured intrinsically in the desire. Desire, according to Lacan “isn’t more than the other desire. Reason reflected by the incessant research for identification or excelled ideals. (...)“
(Essay 2004, Sá Cabral)
2007 – Invited lecture, March 3rd: “Art versus body intervention” in the Training Course "Best Practices in Clinical Psychology: performances, interventions and psychotherapy cognitive behavioral" taught by Professor Fátima Feliciano, in Coimbra (Portugal).
2004 – Participation in the event : La piel – BAC: Barcelona Arte Contemporáneo; International Exhibition, V Edition, held at the CCCB: Centro Cultural Contemporáneo de Barcelona – in Barcelona (Spain), with the Project/Installation: ‘never enough...’
“Lost forever in his intention, the fellow is like an unfinished being, whose inability to return to the birth precede unity, live in the plenitude of nostalgic pith. One wollow structured intrinsically in the desire. Desire, according to Lacan “isn’t more than the other desire. Reason reflected by the incessant research for identification or excelled ideals. (...)“
(Essay 2004, Sá Cabral)
2003 – Participation in the event : Los Miedos – BAC: Barcelona Arte Contemporáneo; International Exhibition, IV Edition, held at the CCCB: Centro Cultural Contemporáneo de Barcelona – in Barcelona (Spain), with the Project/Installation: ‘made in...’
“...it’s to conceive and design a new social camp where people interact acquiring new functions and
meanings. This new ergonomics aren’t just a question of design of interfaces, styles and fashion, but the
coupling and operating logic of the man inside his environment.
The human body turns into experimentation field – not just in genetics field – a place where the humanity
and the technology forges a new and powerful connection. We build or sculpt ourselves like we build chips
or political systems. A person like a hybrid net, where the body is, therefore, a flesh computer who self
programs in order to answer the higher level needs of the system. (...)”
(Essay 2003, Sá Cabral)
2002 – Participation in the event : Aterrizaje forzoso – BAC: Barcelona Arte Contemporáneo; International Exhibition, III Edition, held at the CCCB: Centro Cultural Contemporáneo de Barcelona – in Barcelona (Spain), with the Project/Installation: ‘Brokenhearted lovers’
“The life entrance is at the same time the biological birth and the step to the adult condition. The birth is the first stage in the life path of an unfinished organism. His incomplete being is observed rather is the physiologic structure like in the tendency character compared to the instinct. Such is the biologic basis of the human project, just as the intersubjectivity whose first structure is the dual relation, Mother/child. This relation has a vital necessity of maintain the close union, afterwards the physic separation, like the intrauterine life prolongation. With the umbilical cordon cut rite, final process of separation physic, we give beginning to the breaking-off of that profound entailment, like an wound without hopeless, who mark the entire destiny. Origin of the fusion desire never fulfill, for the anguish to the absence of the beloved person feeling. (...)”
(Essay 2001, Sá Cabral)