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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Mafalda Ruão interviews Luísa Jacinto, the author of the June cover of Umbigo’s online edition, who has an endless dialogue with painting; after all, this has within itself the relentless hermeneutic, the quest for the reason for being. At first, a gesture that rips the...
Mafalda Ruão interviews Luís...
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Mafalda Ruão interviews Rebeca Romero, author of the cover of the month of Umbigo’s online edition, exploring her multidimensional trajectory, lying in-between cultures, times and practices, to reflect on history through an invitation to imagine the world not longer imprisoned in the legacy of the...
Mafalda Ruão interviews Rebec...
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Mafalda Ruão interviews Isabel Cordovil, author of the monthly cover of Umbigo's online edition, exploring a large part of her body of work, the one that materializes an invitation to dialogue and, through the irreverence of her voice, reveals herself as an attempt to respond...
Mafalda Ruão interviews Isabe...
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Madeira, vast, steep, long landscapes and endless horizons, where the green exudes and dominates, except when we walk high up through the clouds....
Madeira, vast, steep, long lan...
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At dawn on February 24, Ukraine experienced the first jolts of the Russian invasion, which has since ridden roughshod over that territory. Life as we know it will never be the same again. The world’s current state of affairs shows us the fragility of a...
At dawn on February 24, Ukrain...
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How many lives do we live?How many times do we die?A timeline guides our existence and that of all things. At certain times this line remains stable, without any breaks; on other occasions, we may feel interferences to the alleged flat course that implies that...
How many lives do we live?...
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Synaesthesia, which comes from the Greek synaísthesis, is a neurological condition where the action of one sense – vision, hearing or another – evokes automatic and involuntary perceptive experiences by another sense[1]. We speak of heightened sensations, experiences that are far from being limited to a single...
Synaesthesia, which comes from...
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