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

20 Fev at 18:30
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
Every night, in the dark
Conference
Auditório Ilídio Pinho

Having returned to Lisbon sixteen years later, I'm grappling with the past and the present and tracing the itinerary of new and old neighborhoods.

27 Fev at 18:30
Rodrigo Areias with Samuel Coelho
Dashed Concert: Film Concert
The Worst Man of London
A film by Rodrigo Areias
Music by Samuel Martins CoelhoString trio with Samuel Martins Coelho (violin), Pedro Oliveira (violin) and Carina Albuquerque (cello)
black box do auditório ilídio pinho

06 Mar at 18:30
Frederico Pedreira
Dear Unknown
Conference
Auditório Ilídio Pinho

A political exile wanders through a foreign city. He spots a kind and helpful police officer, nothing like the ones from his own country. Apparently. A small village somewhere in the Portuguese countryside prepares for the imminent arrival of numerous war refugees. A writer is working on a book whose title may be nothing more than a promise of good intentions: Dear Strangers. To what extent can hospitality sound like hostility?

20 Mar at 18:30
Marco Martins and Beatriz Batarda
Arena
Conference
Auditório Ilídio Pinho

On March 20, at 6:30 p.m., director Marco Martins and actress Beatriz Batarda come together for Arena, a conversation about cinema, theatre, and the challenges of artistic creation.
The discussion will focus on their collaborative works, including Marco Martins’ latest film, Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures, in which Beatriz Batarda plays the lead role.

27 Mar at 18:30
Arianna Casellas and Kauê
Dashed Concert
Auditório Ilídio Pinho – Blackbox

28 Mar at 18:30
Mónica de Miranda
Depth of Field
Exhibition - Opening
EA Exhibition Hall

Following her participation in the 60th Venice Biennale with the project Greenhouse and in the Sharjah Biennial with As if the world had no west, artist Mónica de Miranda presents the project Profundidade de Campo at the Católica Art Center, in collaboration with Galeria Municipal do Porto / Ágora – Cultura e Desporto do Porto, E.M.
Profundidade de Campo brings together concrete historical documents with systematic aesthetic explorations, aiming to shed light on hidden memories, ideas, and conceptions of reality. The project portrays the fall of the Portuguese empire and the colonial ruins left in its wake, now overtaken by nature in an act of natural regeneration.

10 Abr at 18:30
João Grilo
Dashed Concert
Auditório Ilídio Pinho – Blackbox

24 Abr at 18:30
Fred Moten
Notes on dis place/meant
Conference
Auditório Ilídio Pinho

In proximity to the theme of the stranger, or of estrangement, Fed Moten will try to provide a provenance and analysis of a term that has animated the thinking and writing he has been doing lately - "dis place/meant." He'll be talking about writing by Amiri Baraka and M. NourbeSe Philip, and he'll be thinking about the role of art in the continued stability of the relay between self, state, and world in the ongoing war against subsistence.

08 Mai at 18:30
Vasco Araújo
Critic Metaphor of "The Garden"
Conference
Auditório Ilídio Pinho

This session between Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and Vasco Araújo, focused on the analysis of the 2005 video O Jardim, aims to contextualize, interpret, and problematize the colonial legacy of the Tropical Garden in Lisbon and other public and private structures that persist in Portugal today with little to no historical revision.

15 Mai at 18:30
Geovani Martins
Other, who?
New points of view on brasilian literature
Conference
Auditório Ilídio Pinho

Geovani proposes with this talk a reflection on how, historically, Brazil produces foreigners born on its own soil. Black, Indigenous, favela-dwelling or peripheral people continue to be treated by power structures as foreign or exotic bodies.
Starting from the rise of these voices in contemporary literature, the conversation explores how these new perspectives challenge symbols, narratives, and the very idea of national identity.

22 Mai at 18:30
Aline Motta
A água é uma máquina do tempo
Performance
Auditório Ilídio Pinho – Blackbox

The artist-writer will give a performance reading with video projection based on the work “A água é uma máquina do tempo” (Water is a time machine), originally made up of a video installation and a book, which were part of the São Paulo Art Biennial 2023. Between word and image, between archive and fabrication, “Water is a Time Machine” brings together various artistic languages and reconfigures memories by using a non-linear perception of time. Constructing a fluid mosaic of epochs from historical documents, the artist crosses several planes, in a journey that goes through the mourning for her mother and on to Rio de Janeiro at the end of the 19th century, through fragments that reconstruct the lives of some of her ancestors.

28 mai at 18:30
Miguel Gomes
Travelling through Grand Tour
Conference
Auditório Ilídio Pinho

In this masterclass, Miguel Gomes will discuss the creative processes behind his latest film "Grand Tour" (Best Director at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival). Among them, the different phases of collective creation, which included initial documentary filming in Asia and a fictional response based on studio recordings. The purpose of "Grand Tour", like the director's previous work, is to confuse reality with fiction, establishing connections with the history of cinema, but also with the political situation in our world.

29 May at 18:30
Tomé Silva
Dashed Concert
Auditório Ilídio Pinho – Blackbox

Between electronics, song, and experimentation, Tomé Silva (aka TOMÉ) has been carving out a singular path across production, composition, and drumming.
His work spans from the jungle rhythms of All I Am Is We to the production of Suspiro... by Maria Reis, as well as various collaborations and side projects.
This year, he returns with Quando Voltar ao Chão, released by Porto-based label Fera Felina.
Drawing from field recordings, improvisation, and collage, Tomé creates a space where time seems to stand still.