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Eu, tu, nós: arte, afectos e comunidade vistas desde o Planisfério da Interculturalidade (Almada)

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Presentation together with Alexandra Rato and Mariana Fernandes at the II EIRPAC in Porto. Here the abstract in english, for the portuguese abstract and the presentation itself see here. Me, you, us: art, affection and community seen from the “Planisfério da Interculturalidade” (Almada) In this paper we want to discuss the practice of community art projects, based on our own experience as volunteers in the project “Planisfério da Interculturalidade” (Planisphere of Interculturality).

Resenha de Arte e comunidade (2016)

Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Há já um ano ou mais que a volumosa obra Arte e comunidade (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2016), coordenada por Hugo Cruz, aguardava olhar atento num canto da prateleira. Eis o dia, admitindo desde logo que o que aqui se traz é mais um convite a ler que uma resenha minimamente à altura dos conteúdos do livro, riquíssimo. Uma forma de apresentar o livro é dizer que a iniciativa é da PELE (<www.

De pé, ó voluntários! Cidadania e auto-aprendizagem no Planisfério da Interculturalidade (Almada)

Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Paper presented with Alexandra Rato and Mariana Fernandes at the International Colloquium “Arte Pública na Era da Criatividade Digital,” April 27–28, 2017, at the Universidade Católica, Porto.

Rethinking Collaborative Public Art: Agents and values in the monument to multiculturalism in Almada, Portugal

Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

What are the advantages of having a collaborative process instead of a single authorship to build a public monument? Is the result really a reflection of the communities’ values? How do the various agents interact? The paper focuses on the evaluation of a collaborative art process in Portugal.

A Participatory Public Art Process in Almada: Agents and Values

Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The impact of public art on the territory has an undeniable cultural dimension since it creates new sensorial and visual agents, with potential social interactivity. In this paper we present and discuss a Portuguese case-study of participated public art, developed for the Caparica Civic Centre (Almada, Portugal) by a team that includes artists (sculptors), anthropologists, local associations and inhabitants. The territory and the community were the main pillars for the conception of a three piece monument, built in a multicultural neighborhood, through a progressive and interactive working methodology, between 2011 and 2013.

Anthropological contributions to participated public art: The case of the Monument to Cultural Diversity in the Fróis Urban Park, Almada (Portugal)

Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Paper co-authored with Filipa Ramalhete, Maria Assunção Gato and Sérgio Vicente, and presented at the IUAES 2013 Congress, which took place in Manchester on August 5–10, 2013.

Art and politics in the former 'Portuguese Colonial Empire.' The monument to Mouzinho de Albuquerque in Lourenço Marques

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

In 1940, a monument to Mouzinho de Albuquerque is inaugurated in the former capital of the Portuguese Colony of Mozambique, Lourenço Marques. The result of a lenghty commissioning process, this homage to one of the main heroes of the colonial pantheon becomes a center-piece in the many political rituals which had become common-place during the 1930s. The concepts of aura and cult value are used to analyse its “traditionalist” aesthetics and the role it played in political spectacles, arguing that it obeys a strategy of representation of the public space as “Empire.”