pings! 2023
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 Paralaxe project (Carolina Grilo Santos, Diana Geiroto and Luisa Abreu), among others, through workshops, conversations and interviews in the scope of the three programming axes Gineceu+Estigma, Memória de Elefante and Exodus. Each pings! session will be recorded in a podcast with the collaboration of Mariana Sardon.
Join the colective!
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.
PING! / PINGS! / April 29
0.1 Exodus walk with Paralaxe
The Paralaxe collective, formed by artists Carolina Grilo Santos, Diana Geiroto and Luísa Abreu, proposes visits to spaces of thought and artistic practice that are often, and simultaneously, domestic and intimate spaces.
Following on from their project Primeiro Fascículo, in which they invited to create artist's books, the collective seeks to dive into the very particular dynamics of artists with studio-house, studio-screen, or stage-street, seeking to discover the stories behind objects, scribbles, or works exhibited on the walls of their homes.
The walks focused on artists and cultural agents based in the area of Bonfim and Santo Ildefonso: José Oliveira, Regina Guimarães, Luís Cepa e Juliana Campos.
PING! / PINGS! / July 7
0.2 NOCTURNAL Exodus for PINGs!, with Irina Pereira
The night walks have always excited us. It seems that the city becomes a new and different place.
The openings of art spaces or galleries are also captivating. We see, but we also let ourselves be seen. There is also the privacy of artists' ateliers, either individual or collective, located in the neighbourhoods of Bonfim, in the eastern area, and in Fontaínhas.
This walk guided by Irina Pereira began at Praça da Alegria, where the artist Svenja Tiger set up an urban scenario of the piece "The Extinction of Venus". From there, and following this theme, we visited some places that have stood the test of time – such as the Praça da Alegria Association –, or others around, such as the Galeria do Sol space and the more recent Donau.
PING! / PINGS! / July 29
0.3 Workshop Eletrónica Analógica for PINGs!, with Mariana Sardon
Proposed by sound artist Mariana Sardon, who has also been capturing the sounds and conversations of PING!, the PINGs! explored the possibilities of sound through synthesisers, sound devices, electrical circuits and open knowledge networks.
PING! / PINGS! / June 17, 3pm
0.4 Workshop Body Morning Movement, com A Piscina
The end of the holidays was marked by one of the most eagerly awaited sessions for the PINGs collective!
The day, which kicked off early, was spent at A Piscina, with Body Morning Movement, the workshop that got bodies and senses moving through music, dance and lots of creativity and improvisation.
PING! / PINGS! / September 23
0.5 Workshop: Hotel for Insects in a Garden, with Kiko Pedras
More and more often there is a worldwide crisis in terms of dwindling bee colonies. Flowers, in general, cannot self-pollinate as effectively as can be done by animals or wind.
Apart from insects, a large number of other animals are seduced by the nectar of flowers, which we can find in the Gardens of Palácio de Cristal, such as bats, birds and amphibians.
This workshop, oriented by Kiko Pedras, proposed the construction and placement of structures made with trunks and branches, where insects can find shelter while they have the important task of pollinating the surrounding botany, from flower to flower.
Thursday, November 29, between 3 and 6pm
0.6 Workshop: Resonances of a Garden, with Alexandra Rafael
From the collection of organic elements made by the artist in the gardens of Palácio de Cristal, we will create archives of textures and shapes, crossed with botanical illustrations from history and many years of study and observation.
And what about the location?
- There's no better place for this workshop than a space with different printing possibilities, such as Oficina Mescla. This space, run by various artists, has dedicated itself to different printing techniques: from the oldest to the most recent, here we will explore decals, frottages and various transfers; observation drawing techniques and many others, always with the material in hand: leaves, petals and some branches.
What Nature has given us will be used for a large "atlas-poster", made by several hands, generating reflections between images, shapes and stains; resonances of a garden imprinted forever.