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PINGS! are young students between 16 and 22 years old who get to know and follow GMP's activities, dialoguing with curatorial teams, artists and other guests, participating actively in the daily life of an artistic institution.
PINGS! invent formats and methodologies of meeting, dialogue and sharing of ideas as they discover the way an art centre works, its agendas and operational logic.
PINGS! will continue the project in their classes and educational contexts through guided visits, moderating talks, making audio-visual materials or other modalities they want to propose and implement.
PINGS! will dialogue and collaborate with researchers and creator like Irina Pereira, but also with the Quotidiano de uma Negra project (Mafalda Fernandes), among others, through workshops, conversations and interviews in the scope of the three programming axes Gineceu+Estigma, Memória de Elefante and Exodus.
pings! / February 17
0.1 Exodus walk for pings! with Mafalda Fernandes — Quotidiano de Uma Negra
Mafalda Fernandes designed a route where colonial narratives that are perpetuated in the city's streets and public spaces were debated, while visiting cultural and commercial places run by a black, Portuguese and migrant community from different African countries.
"Quotidiano de uma negra" is the project of this young psychologist who teaches and reflects on the anti-racist struggle and which will take shape and space throughout this Exodus walk aimed at the ping! collective.
pings! / March 23, from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm | Gineceu+Estigma
0.2 Ressonâncias de um Jardim: Developing workshop for pings! with Casa da Imagem
The process of imagining this workshop began with a collection of organic elements such as leaves, seeds and branches from the Palácio de Cristal Gardens, but also with a selection of photographs from the Teófilo Rego archive, which depict times lived in this garden in the city of Porto and show dog shows or stands for a Wine Fair. The practical part took place at Casa da Imagem, an art and knowledge-sharing space where students were able to get to grips with different developing processes - more experimental and ecological - that use some of the plants collected earlier.
Botanical collecting and scientific representations of plant and animal species were replaced by a representation of nature that is not so humanized, but more experiential and personal.
Saturday, May 11, from 3 to 6pm
0.3 Exodus walk for pings!, with Flor and Daniel Sá
In 2021, a public petition was launched, which has now been deactivated, questioning the Porto City Council's Municipal Master Plan and debating new uses for some land in the Paranhos - Arca d'Água area. One of these urban vacant spaces, on the other hand, was full of non-human life and became known as "A Charca de Salgueiros". Microorganisms and a wide variety of plant and animal species live here, in a limbo that is very interesting to visit and discuss.
A stadium, a shopping mall or water polo pools were some of the wishes put forward by the centenary Sport Clube Salgueiros.
On this walk, led by Flor and Daniel Sá, we will discuss the role of art in the discussion of public space and learn about bureaucracy, community, disobedience and intervention, reflecting on process and error when trying to navigate the political temperaments of a city.
pings! / Saturday, June 29, from 3 to 6pm | Memória de Elefante
0.4 Corpographies Reimagined: dialogue with/against the archive of the 1st Portuguese Colonial Exhibition - Fanzine workshop with Marcela Pedersen and Rafael Campos
Corpographies can be cartographies with/of the body in/of spaces. It's a concept created to establish connections between the scales of the body and the city, which can manifest themselves in various formats.
The Gardens of Palácio de Cristal reveal a memory space that bears the marks and reminiscences of Portuguese colonial history. In this workshop, we propose to analyse this relationship - that of space-memory - by tensing our bodies with the archive of the First Portuguese Colonial Exhibition, with the aim of examining the presences and absences that permeate both the Gardens of Palácio de Cristal and the city's public space, constantly updating colonial thinking.
We invite participants to compose Reimagined Corpographies through the production of a fanzine, encouraging reflection on the past and questioning reparative gestures that imagine possibilities for fairer, more plural and horizontal futures.
pings! / Thursday, July 11, from 17h30 to 19h30 | Gineceu & Estigma
0.5 Bodies and Language for a garden and a city: Dance workshop with Melissa Pérez Sousa
This workshop is divided into two moments, for two places: the Gardens of Palácio de Cristal and the urban surroundings of Galeria Municipal do Porto.
Through the temporal space of a body in movement, we'll propose new ways of representing the architecture and social language of a city.
How can dance be shown in a public space? If the city is traversed by different speeds, by car, on foot, by bicycle, how can you give a certain velocity to bodies that dance? A square, a garden or a public building have different scales and logics of occupation. In this workshop we will rehearse these variations and contaminate each place with our passage.
pings! / Friday, September 13, from 17h30 to 19h30 | Gineceu & Estigma
0.6 Bodies and Language for a garden and a city: Dance workshop with Melissa Pérez Sousa
This workshop is divided into two moments, for two places: the Gardens of Palácio de Cristal and the urban surroundings of Galeria Municipal do Porto.
Through the temporal space of a body in movement, we'll propose new ways of representing the architecture and social language of a city.
How can dance be shown in a public space? If the city is traversed by different speeds, by car, on foot, by bicycle, how can you give a certain velocity to bodies that dance? A square, a garden or a public building have different scales and logics of occupation. In this workshop we will rehearse these variations and contaminate each place with our passage.
pings! / Saturday, October 5, from 3 to 6pm
Formas sónicas das plantas – Drawing and sound workshop with Escola de Desenho Inconvencional
The Escola de Desenho Inconvencional proposes a series of moments - like radio stations - where we record the auditory nature of the Crystal Palace Gardens. In each place, we'll create a moment of capture: the sound is extracted and transferred to images scratched on paper, or digitally, as sonic waves.
Art, science and technology are the branches of this ping! workshop, which we want to bring out different sensations. Let's feel, touch and draw the sound of the plant beings that grow and expand endlessly in these gardens...
In a variety of ways, we'll think about drawing and listening far beyond what we learn at school, bringing new perspectives on the plant world, full of sensitive and communicative beings.
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0.0 Be a ping!
If you're between the ages of 16 and 22 and want to take part in the Gallery's activities, visit the art spaces in the city, or attend workshops led by different artists and thinkers, just send an email to galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.