Every week, UMBIGO invites two people to share their 5 cultural suggestions. What can we do at home? From a book to a podcast, album or film: here are recommendations from artists, curators, gallery owners, cultural activists, friends.

We will share the recipe for what makes us better, and we remain united and positive.

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Salomé Lamas

Book

Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
1939

In an interview that can be read here: http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/NABOKOW/Inter06.txt), Vladimir Nabokov states: “Ulysses towers over the rest of Joyce’s writings, and in comparison to its noble originality and unique lucidity of thought and style the unfortunate Finnegans Wake is nothing but a formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book, a persistent snore in the next room, most aggravating to the insomniac! I am. Moreover, I always detested regional literature full of quaint old-timers and imitated pronunciation. Finnegans Wake’s facade disguises a very conventional and drab tenement house, and only the infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations redeem it from utter insipidity. I know I am going to be excommunicated for this pronouncement.”

The Community
Luiz Pacheco
1966

A necessary book.

Movies

In April This long Century shows a film and video program by previous collaborators. Outside and Inside show 30 films in total from the artists below:

Lucile Hadžihalilović, Shambhavi Kaul, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Haris Epaminonda, Anna Marziano, Salomé Lamas, Caroline Monnet, Camilo Restrepo, Carlos Reygadas, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, William E. Jones, Jennifer West, Oliver Payne, Nick Relph, Beatrice Gibson, Sky Hopinka, Deborah Stratman, Laida Lertxundi, Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Margaret Salmon, John Smith, Jodie Mack, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Peter Tscherkassky, Aïda Ruilova, Ben Rivers, Taiyo Onorato & Nico , Helena Wittmann, Sue de Beer, David Lowery.

Link: www.thislongcentury.com

Album

Hiroshi Yoshimura
Green
1987

Hiroshi Yoshimura was a Japanese composer and musician.

Special Edition

Fatamorgana
Salomé Lamas
2019

Fatamorgana has just been edited by Mousse Publishing. The publication is the final chapter of the multiform project carried out between 2016 and 2019, which includes a play, two films, two publications and a sound installation. The book is dedicated to the graphic translation of the text at the heart of the project, along with a variety of related materials, including notes and contributions from various authors, as well as providing online access to photographic, video and sound materials. Fatamorgana (2018-2019) will be on display until May 10 on the Broteria program “Aos Vossos Lugar”. Fatamorgana is both a political parody and a speculative comedy, in which historical and contemporary personalities narrate post-World War II global history and geopolitics.

The narrative unfolds through a network of direct references and quotes, where meaning, illusion and truth are the background.
Hanan – a Muslim cousin of James Joyce’s Molly Bloom – finds herself, without knowing how, at the Hall of Fame wax museum in Beirut after closing hours. Like Homer’s most virtuous Penelope, this woman is waiting for her husband; she seems to have made an appointment, but her husband doesn’t arrive – where will he be? While waiting, Hanan begins to interact with the wax figures in the empty rooms of the museum, and the figures, in turn, respond. Mixing and confronting sixteen different languages with sources of fiction and non-fiction, Fatamorgana is a multidimensional space, a kind of experience with the truth, or a type of fiction that creates a platform for the collision of various fragments, elements, stories and facts.

Links:
https://aosvossoslugares.com/salomelamas/
https://www.moussepublishing.com/?product=/salome-lamas-fatamorgana/

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Salomé Lamas (Lisbon) studied cinema in Lisbon and Prague, visual arts in Amsterdam and is a Ph.D candidate in contemporary art studies in Coimbra. Her work has been screened both in art venues and film festivals such as Berlinale, BAFICI, Museo Arte Reina Sofia, FIAC, MNAC – Museu do Chiado, DocLisboa, Cinema du Réel, Visions du Réel, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art,
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Harvard Film Archive, Museum of Moving Images NY, Jewish Museum NY, Fid Marseille, Arsenal Institut fur film und videokunst, Viennale, Culturgest, CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém, Hong Kong FF, Museu Serralves, Tate Modern, CPH: DOX, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève, Bozar , Tabakalera, ICA London, TBA 21 Foundation, Louvre, Mostra de São Paulo, CAC Vilnius, MALBA, FAEMA, SESC São Paulo, MAAT, La Biennale di Venezia Architettura, among others.

Lamas was granted several fellowships such as the Gardner Film Study Center Fellowship – Harvard University, Film Study Center-Harvard Fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation – Bellagio Center, Brown Foundation – Dora Maar House, Fundación Botín, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Sundance, Bogliasco Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Camargo Foundation, Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD. She collaborates with Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola. She collaborates with the production company O Som e a Fúria and is represented by Galeria Miguel Nabinho and Kubikgallery.