The Stranger
Program of Concerts, Conferences, Exhibitions and Performances
Curators: Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Daniel Ribas, José Alberto Gomes and Nuno Crespo
20 FEB – 29 MAY 2025
“The Stranger” was a programme of concerts, conferences, exhibitions, and performances centred on a critical reflection on the figure of the stranger, hospitality, and alterity. Drawing on philosophical perspectives on the arrival and presence of the other, the programme examined how these questions resonate within contemporary contexts, bringing into tension political, economic, spiritual, and individual dimensions. Through an interdisciplinary intersection of art, thought, and performative practice, it explored forms of unease, reception, and response, questioning how artistic and discursive practices engage with the presence of the other.
Não foi Cabral:
revendo silêncios e omissões
16 FEB 2024 - 24 MAY 2024
Curators: Lilia Schwarcz and Nuno Crespo
This edition centred on a critical examination of dominant historical narratives, interrogating the silences, erasures, and omissions that structure collective memory. The programme proposed a critical rethinking of hegemonic discourses on history, colonialism, and identity, emphasising the role of artistic practices in expanding the narrative field and introducing other perspectives, voices, and temporalities into the ways the past and present are understood.
Pisar suavemente sobre a Terra
16 FEB 2023 - 25 MAY 2023
Curators: Ellen Lima, Daniel Ribas e Nuno Crespo
This edition centred on a critical examination of dominant historical narratives, interrogating the silences, erasures, and omissions that structure collective memory. The programme proposed a critical rethinking of hegemonic discourses on history, colonialism, and identity, emphasising the role of artistic practices in expanding the narrative field and introducing other perspectives, voices, and temporalities into the ways the past and present are understood.
The 2023 programme was characterised by a strong diversity of formats and themes, bringing together lectures, performances, concerts, masterclasses, and exhibitions. The proposals traversed issues related to territory, memory, ecology, sound practices, Indigenous cinema, literature, and the transmission of knowledge, with particular attention to situated narratives and forms of knowledge rooted in specific cultural contexts, articulating artistic practice, research, and pedagogy.
Arte / Pensamento / Som
Aulas Abertas 2021
25 FEB 2021 – 01 JUL 2021
Curators: Diogo Tudela e José Alberto Gomes
This edition took sound as its central axis, understanding it not merely as a sensory phenomenon but as a critical and epistemological tool. The programme explored sound as a practice capable of reconfiguring perception, discourse, and social structures, articulating it with political, philosophical, ecological, and technological questions. Sound thus emerged as a means of producing thought, creating worlds, and challenging disciplinary boundaries.
Arte & Ciência
Aulas Abertas 2020
13 FEB 2020 - 28 MAY 2020
Curators: Nuno Crespo, Daniel Ribas, Laura Castro, Diogo Tudela, César Ferreira
This cycle was dedicated to the intersections between art and science, examining affinities and tensions between different regimes of knowledge production. The sessions addressed working processes, methodologies, notions of error, experimentation, and speculation, questioning how artistic and scientific practices informed one another in the construction of world models, forms of observation, and modes of representing reality.
This edition focused on the relationship between artistic practices and ecological thought, exploring how art engaged with environmental crisis, biodiversity, and modes of coexistence between species. The programme brought together cinema, visual arts, sound, and critical reflection to address issues such as political ecology, migration, censorship, survival, and representations of the non-human, proposing art as a space of resistance, imagination, and the reconfiguration of relations between nature, culture, and power.
