Program
Conference dates: November 19-20, 2019
Venue: Culturgest, Lisbon
Download the book of abstracts (PDF) here.
Schedule
DAY 1, NOVEMBER 19, TUESDAY
Small Auditorium, Culturgest
10h00-10h35 Registration
10h30-10h50 Welcome
10h50 -11h50 Keynote Speakers: Catherine Quéloz and Liliane Schneiter (EN)
(HEAD/Research Platform and Doctoral Practice In Arts – Geneva, Switzerland)
Chair: Raquel Ermida
Fire up your imaginary !
The renewal of the notion of sharing through collaboration is activated by the imaginary of the arts and sciences. The modes of collaboration involve paying attention to the other (human and non-human) in order to create links and refuges. They question the powers that be while experimenting with other forms of institution, strengthening thus the perception of democracy.
The commoning inscribed in the process of collaboration offers a perspective on how to lead a “good life”, in sharp awareness of the cooperation between ecofeminism, degrowth, conviviality, voluntary simplicity, multi-species collaboration, etc. In this “troubled” and damaged world, it is necessary to weave links for the thread not to be broken up.
11h50-12h10 Coffee Break
12h10-13h30 Panel 1 | Building the common (EN)
Chair: Rui Matoso
By addressing pressing issues such as the disappearance of public space, gentrification and austerity in the funding of the arts, the panel will present three case studies of activist collectives and community centers that seek alternatives for commonal making in cities, by working together with those who inhabit them.
Alexandra do Carmo - Regime Shifts
Carla Cruz - The Mill Stories, management as an art practice
Jenny Dunn - Community Making towards situated agency
13h30-15h00 Lunch
15h00-16h20 Panel 2 | Feminist approaches in collaboration processes (EN/PT)
Chair: Giulia Lamoni
The second panel will examine the activity of artistic projects and political collectives formed largely or exclusively by women, from a historical and practical standpoint, in order to tackle gender issues in the context of collaboration.
Camilla Paolino – Tracing the genealogy of collective and art-led thinking in the history of Italian neo-feminism (EN)
Alice Geirinhas e Susana Mendes Silva – Girlschool: process and practice (PT)
Madalena Lobo Antunes e Renata Ferraz – Rua dos Anjos revisited: a gesture in shared meta-interpretive textual conception stemming from joint creation in film (PT)
16h20-16h40 Break
16h40-18h00 Panel 3 | Questioning notions of authorship (EN/PT)
Chair: Susana Nascimento Duarte
The third panel will address how the exercise of collective creation can deconstruct, invalidate and remake the notions of author, authorship and authorial.
Miguel Ferrão – Musa paradisiaca and Art & Language, practices as relation (PT)
Susana Viegas – Interceptors, Authors and Cinematic Fabulation (PT)
Sarah Fassio - Moving Authorship in the Digital Era: How Artificial Intelligence Based Art is Challenging our Attitude Towards Collective Authorship (EN)
18h00-18h30 Coffee Break
18h30-20h00 Keynote Speakers: SOOPA (PT)
Chair: Maria Mire
An archive of videos, photos, sounds, and texts coming out of concerts and performances reveals the cosmological relationships of the multidisciplinary platform for international creation, SOOPA. Two elements of the group, Filipe Silva and Jonathan Saldanha, will give an overview of 20 years of collective creation and curatorial activity in the city of Porto and abroad. The work of SOOPA has regularly contributed to the artistic agenda of the city and has eventually spread beyond its original territory.
DAY 2, NOVEMBER 20, WEDNESDAY
Small Auditorium, Culturgest
10h00-10h30 Registration
10h30-11h50 Roundtable: Collaboration in Portuguese art (PT)
Guest Speakers: António Olaio (Colégio das Artes, Coimbra), José Maia (ULP), Rita Fabiana (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian), Sandra Vieira Jürgens (IHA - FCSH)
Chair: Samuel Silva
Considering the relevance of collectivization processes in artistic practices in Portugal, this panel will firstly address the contributions made by collaborative groups/projects that emerged from the 1960s onward to the development of “unique collective models of production, self-management and dissemination of art” (JÜRGENS, 2016, p. 235), a then notoriously political gesture of resistance. In addition, the panel will discuss the different collaboration formats that appeared subsequently in the context of democracy and up to the present day, and which combine and develop aspects such as informality, cross-disciplinarity, the construction of an artistic community and the strengthening of an idea of independence.
11h50 -12h10 Coffee Break
12h10-13h30 Panel 4 - Experimentation in the Portuguese art context: from 1960 up to the
present day (PT)
Chair: Mariana Pinto dos Santos
Departing from the analysis of collaborative processes in the Portuguese artistic context of the 1960s and 70s, this panel will look at the potentialities they offer to think about collaboration in areas such as artistic education, the visual arts and dance, both in their historical contexts and today.
Eliana Santiago, Jorge Pereira and Susana Barreto – Reassembling an art school identity based on artistic dialogues and collaboration with its actors – Porto and ESBAP in the 1960s and 1970s
Mariana Gaspar – “Only enthusiasm matters…” research, experimentation and collaboration with Almada, Um Nome de Guerra [Almada, A Name of War], by Ernesto de Sousa
Sílvia Pinto Coelho – Collaborative Artistic Practices – Puzzle Practices, fitting game, or meeting game?
13h30-15h00 Lunch
15h00-16h20 Panel 5 | Intervening in the public space (PT)
Chair: Margarida Brito Alves
The panel will focus on the ways through which collaborative artistic practices transform social dynamics, support or question political models, and alter the aesthetic experience of the city.
Sónia Moura – The synthesis of the arts, a collaboration model
Patrícia Rosas – “Grupo Acre Fez” – a collective in action from 1974 to 1977
Jorge Bassani – São Paulo 1970/80: The binomium ‘collective art and occupation of streets’
16h20-16h40 Break
16h40-18h00 Panel 6 | Tensions and disputes within structures of production and cultural
creation (PT)
Chair: Cláudia Madeira
The conference’s last thematic panel will discuss the challenges and conflict resolution strategies that emerge in the midst of collectives and cultural production organisms, in the sphere of performative and community arts.
Vânia Rodrigues – Artists, producers and managers: the anatomy of a relationship
Rui Cepeda - Field notes on mediation as a collaborative-dispute resolution in collaborative art practices.
Ana Corrêa e Sezen Tonguz - The short lifetime of Artist Collective Lisbon Co-dance
18h00-18h30 Coffee Break
18h30-20h00 Keynote Speaker: Francisca Caporali (Ja.Ca - Belo Horizonte, Brasil) (PT)
Chair: Tobi Maier
The founder and artistic co-coordinator of JA.CA, Francisca Caporali, will present the institution’s ten-year history, ever since the construction of its headquarters. The project is a result of two pivotal aspects: 1) Pedagogical and educational activity in arts involving the visit of external artists and researchers; and the collaboration with artists, students and the local community. 2) Promotion of critical debate on public policies, in order to maintain independent artistic initiatives, both by conducting research on constructive processes and the reuse of materials, and by strengthening networks of autonomous spaces.