Terroir — Amy Pilling

Artwork Description ENG// Terroir During quiet walks around São Luís, I enjoyed the sensory experience unfolding around me: the calls of birds, the scent of foliage and wet soil, the texture of cork bark and leaves, and other perceptions native to my own way of sensing the world. Yet I found myself wondering what I…

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The Post-Babel Tower — Brenno Kaschner Russo

Artwork Description ENG// The Post-Babel Tower turns the canonic Tower of Babel — a biblical story of linguistic confusion and cultural fragmentation — on its head, proposing instead a laboratory for consciousness, repair, and reconnection. The work invites viewers into a temporal and genealogical spiral spanning seven generations into the past (to the 1750s) and…

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Projeto Parietaria — Dalila Honorato

Artwork Description ENG// Project Parietaria engages with the legacy of art in a suitcase [Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise(1948), Dieter Roth’s Staple Cheese(A Race)(1970), Mona Hatoum’s Traffic(2002), etc.] repurposing a vintage Lady Baltimore makeup suitcase into an unconventional picnic basket filled with culinary preparations of an edible yet allergenic weed. Much like Joseph Cornell’s assemblage art, which…

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Vessel #1 — Jeffu Warmouth

Artwork Description ENG// The eucalyptus leaves collected have become self-referenced text containers and are arranged as longitudinal slices of a larger form.  The poetic texts praise the function and concepts of containers in biology, art and culture.  PT// As folhas de eucalipto apanhadas tornaram-se contentores de texto autorreferenciados e são organizadas como fatias longitudinais de…

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Testing our Patience (a Multispecies Listening Device) — Louise Mackenzie

Artwork Description ENG// Testing our Patience (a Multispecies Listening Device) Cork wood, kombucha, copper wire, speakers, microphones, amplifiers and cables. Whilst on residency in Sao Luis, I was reflecting on how to make a sculpture that allowed people to sit and listen – closely and carefully – to the sounds around them in these beautiful…

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Collective Show — Extraterrestrial Posthumanism at EctopiaLab | Opening: December 11 at 6pm

PT// O projeto Extraterrestrial Posthumanism investiga como a ciência contemporânea, a ficção científica e a bioarte podem reformular a nossa compreensão da vida, centrando-se nas formas extraterrestres mais prováveis — microrganismos e organismos “pouco carismáticos”. Inspirado pela astrobiologia, o projeto questiona porque é que os micróbios continuam culturalmente negligenciados e combina um levantamento de representações…

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Workshops for all at Olaria Municipal de Odemira

PT// entre sementes & postais Depois de uma visita à exposição, lançamos um convite para criar e experimentar com materialidades, texturas e formas do território de Odemira. Nesta oficina propomos construir algo entre postais e bombas de sementes: pequenos objetos que estabelecem correspondência entre argilas, sementes, contornos, texturas e fragmentos da paisagem. Entre imaginação e…

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Criadores à Conversa — December 13 , 11am at Olaria Municipal de Odemira

PT// Já ficaste curioso para saber o que acontece durante as residências artísticas da Cultivamos Cultura? Ou o que passa pela cabeça de outros criadores da região? Como todos nós nos podemos tornar criadores? Um sábado por mês, a Cultivamos Cultura organiza uma conversa com um criador da nossa comunidade. Para a nossa 8.ª edição,…

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Borderless Bacteria, Colonialist Cash — Ken Rinaldo

Artwork Description ENG// Scientists have identified up to 3000 types of bacteria on dollar bills from just one Manhattan bank. Most of the bacteria found were skin, mouth and vagina microbes according to a study conducted by New York University Center for Genomics & Systems Biology. Bacterial cultures, fungi, and viruses finding transport on monetary…

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