Cruzada Season Portugal France splits between Lisbon and Porto
The residency of the artists Leonor Parda and Aliha Thalien, in Porto, and the ‘performance’ “Lisboa Crossing”, by the duo boijeot.renauld, which will take place in the streets of the capital, will take place in August, as part of the Temporada Cruzada Portugal-France contract. .
Leonor Leonor Aliha Thalien will share, from the French Aliha Thalien, from the fair, in Porto, “the creative processes of the results of the cross residency that represented Mauritius in the long and two months of Quinta da Temporada Portugal-France” , , and which will culminate in a joint exhibition, from October to December, in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand, as highlighted in the communication of the Season.
The associated the French structures Artistes en Résidence and In Extenso, and the Portuguese Saco Azul and Maus Hábitos, which hosted the residency of the two artists, which began in June, in France, which settled in Portugal, in July, and which now has the his ‘Open Lab’ in Porto, ahead of the exhibition to be opened in October, at the contemporary art space In Extenso, in Clermont-Ferrand.
Leonor Parda, multidisciplinary plastic artist, “sound experimentalist”, completed her master’s degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, and developed projects such as “Eternal Deviations”, “Não Era um Coração, a”, “Poetik Anarki” and “Playground Visions of Disaster”, presented in several centers.
With work developed in areas ranging from art to music and curatorship, an expression by Leonor Parda assumes “some central ideas”, such as “politics of the body, self-domestication and fluid interdependence as forms of resistance”, according to her biography, published on the website of Universidade Lusófona do Porto.
Aliha Thalien, whose starting point is cinema and the moving image, with films such as “Slender” and “Feu Soleil” (already shown at FEST – Novos Realizadores, Novo Cinema, in Espinho), specialized in artistic video and installation at the School of Fine Arts in Paris and at the Atelier Julien Prévieux.
In his installations, structured around films, videos, photographs and sound compositions, there are also common objects, evoking everyday life, which may or may not take on a fanciful character.
Portugal and France converge in culture
As for the “Lisboa Crossing” project, by the French duo boijeot.renauld, it will cross the city for 13 days, from August 30th to September 11th, with the installation of wooden furniture in the public space, inviting “inhabitants to occupy the their places”, as the Crusader Season statement describes.
This is one of the actions of the duo Laurent Boijeot, sociologist, and Sebastien Renauld, developed over a period of local time, in streets and squares, following the trajectory through the architect or promoter of the population.
In 2015, a similar action led her to place beds and tables, placing themselves, along Broadway, in Manhattan, defining spaces on the public road, which both inhabited. The same happened in French cities such as Nancy, where they come from, Nanterre, Mulhouse and Bordeaux, in Luxembourg, in Saluzzoo, in Italy, and in Tokyo, Japan, according to their website.
“To act in the best form of knowledge of common practices, of shared memories about these actions, cited by the statement from Rua Temporada Assim, cited by the statement from Rua Assim, neighborhood”, ended up questioning “the limits of the intimate, the private and the public”.
In Lisbon, the trip will end in the North, in the parish of Santa Clara, with the performance “Lisboa Crossing” intersects with the festival Todos – Caminhada de Culturas.
As part of the Cruz Season, to Lisbon, close to the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT).
In Porto, the ‘exhibition-performance’ “O Testemunho das Águas”, by Tarek Atoui, will be held at Fundação de Serralves until the 28th.
The Portugal-France Crusade Season is a bilateral diplomacy initiative between Portugal and France based on the cultural relationship between the two countries.