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Music Between Companion Species
May - November 2023
May - November 2023
Music between Companion Species is a series of concerts conceived and performed for and with dogs, their human companions and other more-than-human presences who may join these sessions. Inspired by Donna J. Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto and by cientific studies about dog’s preferences for sound and music, the concerts will take into account these animals’ unique sensibilities and hearing capabilities. Curated by Lovers & Lollypops.
Curated by Lovers & Lollypops
Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize
17.06-20.08.2023
17.06-20.08.2023
Created by the City Council as a tribute to the late Councillor for Culture Paulo Cunha e Silva (1962 – 2015), a central figure for the city’s artistic life, the award, held every two years in Porto, recognises the talent of new generations of national and international artists. This year’s edition underlines the Prize’s commitment to fostering creation and cultural exchange by establishing a partnership with three world-recognised residency programmes: Arquipélago Centro de Artes in S. Miguel, Azores, Cove Park, on Scotland’s west coast, and Pivô, in São Paulo, will all host one of the nominated artists, appointed by a jury of three members.
The Nominators for the 2023 edition of the Art Prize are:
Artist Ângela Ferreira, Jan van Eyck Academie Director Hicham Khalidi, and cultural programmer Tabitha Thorlu-Bandura.
With
Euridice Kala, Márilu Namoda and Luis Santos (nominated by Ângela Ferreira); Rouzbeh Akhbari, Kent Chan and Hira Nabi (nominated by Hicham Khalidi) and Maren Karlson, Malik Nashad Sharpe aka Marikiscrycrycry, and Eve Stainton (nominated by Tabitha Thorlu-Bandura).
Artist Ângela Ferreira, Jan van Eyck Academie Director Hicham Khalidi, and cultural programmer Tabitha Thorlu-Bandura.
With
Euridice Kala, Márilu Namoda and Luis Santos (nominated by Ângela Ferreira); Rouzbeh Akhbari, Kent Chan and Hira Nabi (nominated by Hicham Khalidi) and Maren Karlson, Malik Nashad Sharpe aka Marikiscrycrycry, and Eve Stainton (nominated by Tabitha Thorlu-Bandura).
Duet
Maria Paz and Joan Jonas
16.09 – 19.11.2023
Maria Paz and Joan Jonas
16.09 – 19.11.2023
Duet is an invitation for two artists to share an exhibition space. It started as a proposal for a young artist from Porto to think of an artist they would like to share an exhibition with. Recalling the impact of her survey show at the Serralves Museum, Maria Paz invited Joan Jonas to share the exhibition space of the Galeria Municipal do Porto. In this transatlantic exchange of generations, the two artists will reveal their common investigations of forms, colours and materials.
Curadoria de Filipa Ramos
The Sylvan and Harsh North
09.12.2023 – 10.03.2024
09.12.2023 – 10.03.2024
What are the meteorological patterns, the myths and stories, the rhythms, colours and shapes, the human and nonhuman inhabitants that make up the Iberian Northwest, in its reality and fiction?
Wondering about the rituals and expressive modes of people, animals, plants, elements and minerals, we went looking for the roots, terminations and tentacles of the Iberian Northwest, trying to locate the places where they might reside. In doing so, we considered the past but above all faced the present-future of these concrete and imagined spaces between seas, woods and settlements. The Sylvan and Harsh North is an exhibition that follows roads and lines of intensity, centrifugal forces that take us beyond Porto, towards those supposed margins where permutations erupt, to discover and share the references, stories, words and connections to these places with a long past and an even longer future.
Wondering about the rituals and expressive modes of people, animals, plants, elements and minerals, we went looking for the roots, terminations and tentacles of the Iberian Northwest, trying to locate the places where they might reside. In doing so, we considered the past but above all faced the present-future of these concrete and imagined spaces between seas, woods and settlements. The Sylvan and Harsh North is an exhibition that follows roads and lines of intensity, centrifugal forces that take us beyond Porto, towards those supposed margins where permutations erupt, to discover and share the references, stories, words and connections to these places with a long past and an even longer future.
Curated by Filipa Ramos and Juan Luis Toboso
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Saturday, August 3, at 4pm
forms of the surrounding futures: guided tour
Meeting point: Gallery counter.
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Saturday, August 24, at 4pm
forms of the surrounding futures: guided tour
Meeting point: Gallery counter.
Admission is free. -
Saturday, August 31, at 4pm
forms of the surrounding futures: guided tour
Meeting point: Gallery counter.
Admission is free. -
Saturday, September 7, at 4pm
forms of the surrounding futures: guided tour
Meeting point: Gallery counter.
Admission is free. -
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.Melissa Pérez Sousa was born and raised in Venezuela. She studied Contemporary Dance Performance in Caracas and Social Dances of the African Diaspora (Urban Drumming, Hip Hop, House, Tap and Body Percussion) in New York. As a performer, she has worked with Sandrine Lescourant, Dana Foglia, Ladies of Hip Hop Festival, Alvin Alley School, Jorge Gonçalves, Joclécio Azevedo, Catarina Campos, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Jonas & Lander, Bouziane Bouteldja, Jep Melendez. She is the creator of En el Vacío (2017) and co-creator of BOWND (2019) and PLAYGROUND.Starting in Matosinhos and Porto, she founded the pedagogical project YOLK - Free Styler Dance Project with Catarina Campos, focusing on improvisation through Street and Club Dances that take place in the urban public space. She is currently developing the solo project TAMBOR, which was recently in artistic residency at the Paulo Cunha e Silva Campus.Image: Renato Cruz Santos -
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.The PINGs! collective accepts applications on a continuous basis. -
Ongoing
Exodus for Schools
To participate in the Exodus, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.All routes are carried out on foot.Meeting point to be defined.
Thursday and Friday, 10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm. Duration: 120min -
Visitas-Pavão to the Exhibitions
Visitas-Pavão to the Exhibitions
To participate in the Visitas-Pavão, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.Duration: 90 min. -
Visitas-Pavão to the Gardens
Visitas-Pavão to the Gardens
To participate in the Visitas-Pavão, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.Duration: 90 min. -
Ongoing
Podcasts with Mariana Sardon
Sound artist Mariana Sardon has been accompanying the activities of PING! - together with the group of PINGS! - who come together to capture the sounds and conversations of the artists and thinkers who are part of each year's educational programme.Mariana Sardon lives and works in Porto. She has a degree in Multimedia Communication Technologies from the School of Music and Performing Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto and a master's degree in Interactive Music and Sound Design from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. She is dedicated to the visual and sound arts and researches audio and image archives. She is interested in the technical processes of recording visual and sound memory, which she explores at performance or installation level. Mariana Sardon currently also gives training in electronics workshops aimed at the construction of sound creation objects. -
Oficina Pedrêz
Blues of our time
The duo behind the project, Matilde Cabral and Francisco Fonseca, conceived the different blues according to multiple meanings: from the ideas of Louis Kahn when who said that "a square is nothing more than a façade facing the sky", to the reference to the blue objects that, inexplicably, resisted the fires in Maui, Hawaii; one can even recognise on those surfaces the continental masses and oceans that permeate the planet.Oficina Pedrêz is an experimental architecture studio in the fields of material research and human ecologies. It was founded by the fashion designer Matilde Cabral and the architect Francisco Fonseca in 2020, following the fusion of the “Porto Fashion Office” development studio and the “Skrei” experimental architecture office. Pedrêz takes its name from a breed of chicken native to northern Portugal and Cantabria – the pedrês chicken – in recognition of its fundamental role in the human and urban ecology of these regions. Pedrêz is an integrative architecture workshop, with a particular focus on architectural devices and self-built projects, bringing together various lines of applied research, such as cultivable building materials and the development of self-sufficient domestic infrastructures.A project commissioned by Galeria Municipal do Porto / Ágora – Cultura e Desporto, do Porto E.M., S.A.