What is the power of words? This is the question asked in the documentary film by Luísa Sequeira and Luísa Marinho, which has just been premiered in Doclisboa’s 20th edition. And also a certainty after reading New Portuguese Letters, the work that fed the documentary...
What is the power of words? Th...
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At the beginning of the last century, it was the natural sciences journal of the Portuguese Jesuits. It went down in history for its relevant research in the areas of botany, zoology and genetics, covering chemistry, physics, medicine, biology and agriculture. On its 120th anniversary,...
At the beginning of the last c...
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We live in an instantaneous world of policies, promises and platitudes. In the debate between what should and what can be done, where is critical thinking and ecology? Respect and empathy? Do utopias allow for other possibilities?...
We live in an instantaneous wo...
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primeira desordem, Hugo Gomes and João Marques’ project, is Umbigo’s November cover; at a time when the skate-punk-rock band that gave it its momentum (and name) is finally born....
primeira desordem, Hugo Gomes ...
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Every year new and decisive global-impacting events are written. We are in 2022 and two facts particularly strike me: the celebration of Brazil’s independence bicentenary, and the death of the queen with the British crown’s longest reign in history, Elizabeth II....
Every year new and decisive gl...
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Mafalda Ruão interviews Ana Catarina Teixeira, author of Umbigo’s October cover, talking about a work with several points of contact with the outside world....
Mafalda Ruão interviews Ana C...
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Mafalda Ruão interviews Joana Siquenique, author of Umbigo’s September cover, who presents a work full of colour, transparencies and movements. A kinesis of optical illusions with desires, intimacies and past memories. With the exhibition LOTE 17 about to open, the artist will disclose the harmonious...
Mafalda Ruão interviews Joana...
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After Lisbon (1994), Porto (2001) and Guimarães (2012), 2027 is the year in which a Portuguese city will once again become European Capital of Culture (ECoC). To nurture a common cultural space, highlighting the cultural features shared by Europeans and the varied richness of practices,...
After Lisbon (1994), Porto (20...
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The current and visible social discrepancy, ecological devastation and global automatism driven by capital allow (new) aesthetic paradigms, also promoted by breakthroughs in science, technology, and social relations. We are always at the frontier where the self-consistency of artistic practices must be (re)affirmed in relation...
The current and visible social...
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The world is a fabric that we create daily through large (and slightly imperceptible) looms of information, discussions, films, books...
The world is a fabric that we ...
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