Part of the Convergent Programme of Anozero’21-22: Bienal de Coimbra, the Seminário project is a response to curators Elfi Turpin and Filipa Oliveira’s challenge to the College of Arts....
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"The portuguese language abounds in words for gardens; besides quinta, a garden behind a dwelling house is called quintal, a garden for any particular object jardim, for instance jardim botânico, and a kitchen-garden, whether open or inclosed with hedges, horta"[ii] Hortus Conclusus is by definition a...
"The portuguese language aboun...
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Armário will travel. Until June 2023, Armário will be in four Portuguese cities. The first is Coimbra, at Colégio das Artes, in an installation by Gisela Casimiro, with music by Odete....
Armário will travel. Until Ju...
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Our relation to the real is only a mental equation about what is laid out in front of us, something that is impossible to merely see. The wild eye, mentioned in the passage that I use as a preamble to this piece, is entirely utopian....
Our relation to the real is on...
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Entitled Meia-noite, this edition of Anozero’21-22: Coimbra Biennial, for the first time with two curators, Elfi Turpin and Filipa Oliveira, chooses the night as a place of fluidity, poetry and resistance to normative thinking....
Entitled Meia-noite, this edit...
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In Coimbra, darkness rules over the City Room, leading us into a performative, intimate and immersive experience. We are welcomed under the twilight and rhythmic lights. The scenography of the old refectory of the Santa Cruz Monastery, covered by the four-stretched starred vault, and the...
In Coimbra, darkness rules ove...
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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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2021 is a turning point for UmbigoLAB.After an expected postponement, the partnership with the ArtWorks art residencies programme comes to fruition. Diogo da Cruz was selected and presents – on the occasion of a solo show at Forum Arte Braga until November 23 – an important...
2021 is a turning point for U...
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Nella Cohorte di De Chirico is a collective exhibition that presents several of the most well-known names hailing from Colégio das Artes de Coimbra.Giorgio de De Chirico, the Italian surrealist painter after whom the exhibition is named, is commonly described as the artist of metaphysical...
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There is a non-transferable quality to submersion: ephemerality. The possibilities for resistance are endless, but a human body does not live underwater. It does not breathe. In the time of submersion, the literal body and the voice escape us. This is the warning of José...
There is a non-transferable qu...
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