Portugal France Cross Season in Lisbon and Porto
ONE Portuguese Leonor parda and French Aliha Thalien Partezham, starting on Thursday, without bad habits, without port, “created processes and results from the cross-residence that involved in the all-ergito dagenic porrancia-flazada” and which will culminate in a joint exhibition, to be held October, in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand, as the communication of the Season highlights.
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 “Eternos Desvios”, “Na~o era um corac¸a~o , to beat”, “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 Pre´vieux.
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.
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 way of knowing the common practices, known about these actions, cited by the Temporada communiqué, cited by the Temporada communiqué. Thus, “from street to street, from neighborhood to neighborhood”, they end up questioning “the limits of the intimate , private and public”.
In Lisbon, the trip will end in the North, in the parish of Santa Clara, with the performance “Lisboa Crossing” and the festival Todos – Caminhada de Culturas.
At the end of the Cruz Season, to Lisbon, close to the path with the exhibitions “Euro next the 22nd, Calouste Gulben Foundation, until the 29th, at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT)”.
In Porto, the ‘exhibition-performance’ “O Testemunho das Águas”, by Tarek Atoui, is at the Serralves Foundation, 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.
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