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Music Between Companion Species
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

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).
 Duet
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

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.

Curated by Filipa Ramos and Juan Luis Toboso
  • Colectivos Pláka 2023 - Becoming Assembly

    Colectivos Pláka: Applications open for new course
    Between October 9 and 14, the municipal programme Colectivos Pláka is organizing another open course to reflect on society, culture and contemporary art, which will take place at Maus Hábitos in Porto.
     
    Organized by Vera Sacchetti, a design critic and curator based in Basel (Switzerland), "Becoming Assembly: On the Whys and Hows of Design Today" has a participation fee of 50 euros and registration is open from today, September 11, until September 25.
     
    The "Becoming Assembly" course will be taught in English and Portuguese. Limited to 30 participants, applications must be made by sending an e-mail to plaka@agoraporto.pt with the following information: name, age, profession or occupation, telephone number, letter of motivation and an abbreviated CV (up to three thousand characters, with spaces, in English or Portuguese). 
    Participants will be selected by the course organizer. 
     
    The full course programme can be found on the PLÁKA platform website.
    Image: Archipelago: Architectures for the Multiverse, Geneva, 2021. Photo HEAD / Michel Giesbrecht
  • Studio Visit 👁

    Attilio Fiumarella
    Attilio Fiumarella is an architect who graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto. He arrived in Porto as an Erasmus+ student from Naples and quickly fell in love with the city, its architecture and, from there, photography. 
     
    What could have been a simple studio visit to talk about photography, in its documentary, architectural or exhibition aspects, turned into a conversation that revealed a very broad body of work, rooted in the places where he has lived, such as Milan, Birmingham and Toronto.
     
    Back in Porto, his studio houses objects that the sea returns to the beach, combined into what we call sculpture, to be photographed in the studio and manipulated analogically in negative and with color. @attiliofiumarella has developed a disciplinary path centered on photography, increasingly exploring the image in its most artistic and expanded aspect.
  • Open call

    Galeria Municipal launches call for artists' residency in France
    The deadline for applications for the new residency at the Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré is now open!
     
    You can find all the information here.
  • Studio Visit 👁

    ter/rajo
    Music has been a part of ter/rajo's life from an early age. At the age of seven, they began classical studies, finding a place of comfort in the  euphonium. The contextual transits – from the village to the conservatory and then to university – transformed their relationship with music; both from the point of view of doing, thinking and feeling. 
     
    For them, sound and music exist as a language and acquire new meanings and possibilities through collective making, in dialog with different artists and disciplines, such as poetry, dance or performance. In "Ahora Si", their first solo work released on K7 by Crystal Mine in May of this year, soundscapes take us on a dense and eruptive journey from the heart of the earth to the highest point of the horizon. Currently, ter/rajo is in residence at Atravessa platform, researching vibration, repetition and noise on metal supports.
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