"Where were(n't) they?" is a community-based artistic project, promoted by the Braga Municipal Archive, with artistic direction by PELE. The project seeks to involve the local senior community in processes of reflection, discussion, and collective creation, drawing from the city’s photographic archive.
Cenários Futuros is a project of listening, mapping, speculation, and collaborative artistic creation that addresses the concept of the post-natural in its multiple expressions. The project was structured as a collaborative, interdisciplinary investigation that is sensitive to the relationship between local communities and the perceptions–transformations–narratives–imagery of the territory.
How much space, physical and symbolic, do women occupy in cities? TransFemina: Intersectional Landscapes proposes the creation of spaces for reflection, discussion and collective action on the invisibility of feminist narratives in cultural heritage and inequalities in the public space in 3 cities: Porto, Barcelona and Modena, through a process of co-production of site-specific artistic interventions.
Azevedo is a regenerative artistic creation program that proposes to establish dialogue between the territory of Azevedo (Campanhã, Porto), resident communities (human and more-than-human) and national and international creators.
Feeling it. What? Do you? Do you listen? Listening inside out. What happens if we don’t do anything? Bodies moving together through space, rhythms, times. Connecting, following, letting go of each other. Body-space. Holding each other. Holding on to each other. City-jungle. Co-existing. Co-depending. Look around. Listen through your skin. Being part of it. Touching it. What? Can’t you feel it?
Artistic experimentation project, designed through processes of mapping, recording, and reinterpreting the resilient intangible heritage of the municipality of Vale de Cambra.
Using tools of artistic co-creation and participatory methodologies,
the project aims to spark a new perspective on the territory's identity, highlighting its potential as fertile ground for paving future paths.
This project engages young people in the co-creation and sharing of knowledge and resources, using artistic methods and theater practices. It promotes a holistic approach to self-care, empowering participants to prioritize their health while fostering a strong sense of ownership and inspiring them to drive positive change within their communities and among their peers
Training for the Contact Zone (TCZ) is a European initiative dedicated to rethinking adult education with a special focus on museums and heritage learning. Its overarching mission is to strengthen European cohesion by fostering dialogue and promoting shared cultural understanding.
Reflecting on sustainability is, inevitably, asking about theoretical and practical processes of survival, present and future. Thus, in our practice of artistic creation, we find ourselves urgently needing to reconfigure production and consumption patterns, looking for ethical alternatives to contribute to a shared future.
Can a single soup contain ingredients from a garden, a meadow, an orchard and a forest? For a year, we watched the seasons pass and studied the visible and invisible relationships between things, living and non-living...
"To be Brave is to stand firm in what you're doing, in what you're saying, and in who you want to be."
Enxoval, considered as a social representation of the female condition and a symbolic endeavour that crosses different generations. A heritage of objects, affection and conduct, the transmission of a womanly conception passed on from grandmothers to mothers and daughters.
We'd like to create an archive of present-day experiences. We'd like to add ours to other voices.
A micro-history that, based on multiple provocations, proposes to reflect, share, question, speculate and imagine other possible flows and practices.
Suggests a transgressive bordering and potentially stimulating practice of access to cultural participation. Inspires mobility routines by occupying the space of interdependence between artistic creation and programming.
A space that is dedicated to creating synergies between residents and invited artists. It aims at inspiring alternative models of collective experience that will interact between Tension, Conflict, Sharing and Utopia. A place open to experimentation that contributes to affirming a common identity.
A space of collective creation that mingles languages, sectors, and communities.
It is assumed as a regenerative ecosystem of participation, discussion, conviviality, and action. It proposes to reflect on alternative models of production, networking, and training.
Futura is the collective creation of metanarratives that inspire alternative futures and social imaginaries; Future is the appropriation of the potential of knowledge transfer via genetics to horizontalize relations of multi-species dialogue; Future is the deconstruction of established hierarchies of biopower; Future is the co-creation of tension between Art and Biology; Futura is post-nature.
