The Stranger
Program of Concerts, Conferences, Exhibitions and Performances
Curated by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Daniel Ribas, José Alberto Gomes e Nuno Crespo
20th Feb until 29th May
Free entrance
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Aline Motta Aline Motta was born in Niterói (RJ) in 1974 and lives in São Paulo. Her work combines different techniques and artistic practices, such as photography, video, installation, performance and collage. In 2022, he released his first book “A água é uma máquina do tempo” (Water is a time machine), which was a finalist for the Jabuti literary prize. In 2023, he exhibited at the 15th Sharjah Biennial (UAE), the MoMA Museum of Modern Art (NY) and the 35th São Paulo Art Biennial. In 2024, he was awarded the PIPA Prize for visual arts. |
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Djaimilia de Almeira Pereira Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida is a writer. She is the author of several books, including Esse Cabelo, Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, As Telefones, Três Histórias de Esquecimento, Ferry and Toda a Ferida é uma Beleza, winner of the APE/DGLAB 2024 Grand Prize for Novels. |
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Fred Moten Fred Moten studies the social practice of poetry/criticism. He lives in New York and teaches at New York University. His most recent work, in collaboration with Brandon López and Gerald Cleaver, is the blacksmiths, the flowers (Reading Group Records, 2024). |
| Frederico Pereira | |
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Geovani Martins Geovani Martins was born in 1991 in Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. In 2013 and 2015, he took part in workshops at the Flup Literary Festival of the Peripheries. His first book, the collection of short stories O sol na cabeça, won the Rio Prize for Literature (2019) and has been published in ten territories around the world. Via Ápia is his first novel and tells the story of five young people during the arrival of the UPP in Rocinha. The book won the APCA award (2023) for best novel. |
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João Grilo João Grilo was born in Luxembourg in 1993. He graduated in Piana Jazz in 2015 and is currently studying for a master's degree in composition and performance at three Scandinavian music colleges. He leads projects such as “O Grilo e a Ligifolia” and works with groups such as “Probióticos”. |
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Marco Martins and Beatriz Batarda Marco Martins (Lisbon, 1972) is a Portuguese filmmaker and director with an extensive body of work in the fields of cinema, theater and the visual arts. In 2000, together with actress Beatriz Batarda (London, 1974), he created the theater company Arena Ensemble. This is a creative platform where he develops work with a strong experimental and social component. His work for the stage has been presented on the main national stages and at international festivals. |
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Miguel Gomes Born in Lisbon in 1972, Miguel Gomes is one of the most awarded Portuguese filmmakers of our time, praised for the originality and daring of his works, which often mix genres and defy classification. Portuguese director Miguel Gomes won the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival in France for his film “Grand Tour”. |
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Mónica de Miranda Mónica de Miranda was born in Porto in 1976. She is a Portuguese artist of Angolan origin who lives and works between Lisbon and Luanda. With a degree in Visual Arts and Sculpture from Camberwell College of Arts (London) and a PhD in Art Studies from Middlesex University (London), she is an artist and researcher whose work is based on themes of urban archaeology and personal geographies. She works in an interdisciplinary way with drawing, installation, photography, film, video and sound, in their expanded forms and on the borders between fiction and documentary. |
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Rodrigo Areias Throughout his career, he has developed creative work in the field of fiction and documentary filmmaking, alternating with other work in the fields of video art and video clips for some of the best names on the Portuguese rock scene (The Legendary Tiger Man, Wray Gunn, Mão Morta, Sean Riley, D3o, etc.) and various other projects. Samuel Coelho Samuel Martins Coelho (1980) is a violinist and multi-instrumentalist who has been on a journey of discovery and constant reinvention of his musical language. With roots in classical music, he has been developing his own language, using various sound sources. His work crosses various genres and musical universes, from classical music to conceptual and experimental music and improvisation. His artistic activity is developed in various projects, such as: Samuel Martins Coelho, Tosco, Peixe Míope, Estranhofone, Space Ensemble, Escola do Rock, Colectivo Invisível, Ondamarela, JP Coimbra, I ERROR. In recent years he has collaborated as musical director, composer and instrumentalist with various dance and theater companies. In 2024 he composed the soundtrack for the film The Worst Man in London, directed by Rodrigo Areias, produced by Paulo Branco-Leopardo Filmes, with a script by Eduardo Brito, and a cast including Albano Jerónimo, Edward Ashley, Victoria Guerra, Scott Coffey, Christian Vadim, Carmen Chaplin, Simon Paisley Day, and Jean-François Balmer. |
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Vasco Araújo Vasco Araújo (Lisbon 1975) has a degree in Sculpture from the FBAUKL and completed the Advanced Course in Plastic Arts at Maumaus. He works mainly in the area of installation centered on video, but also uses the appropriate object, photography and text, often in dialogue with text and sound. |
