Research Catalogue

Backdrop project/PORTFOLIO

“Além dos Muros” é fruto de uma criação artística colaborativa em contínuo, onde três artistas fundem poesia e música histórica com improvisação contemporânea. Inspirado em sonetos de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz e composições de Hildegard von Bingen, será apresentado em ambiente intimista e espaços de património cultural e religioso. Uma proposta interdisciplinar que celebra a expressão livre, a reflexão e o legado de mulheres que foram além dos muros conventuais, abrindo horizontes do saber.

In the Anthropocene, human activity is the driving force of environmental changes, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This exposition combines visual arts and social sciences to explore what roles science can play in navigating these changes in the Westfjords, a peninsula in the Northwest of Iceland. It presents five objects to tell place-based stories about science and to identify its potential contributions to resilient and thriving human-environment relations.

The long-neglected industrial wastelands of Romania present themselves as heterotopias in need of help. Post-Communist industrial ruins form a link to a multi-layered and difficult past, and their systemic erasure has contributed to a collective amnesia that perpetuates historical trauma and denies the local population access to the landscapes, natural and artificial, that tie them to a shared past and a collective cultural identity. This contribution aims to illustrate one methodology of bridging the gap between preservation through museumification and invasive architectural intervention. In this context, artistic and design-driven research practices can enable the emergence of ephemeral creative spaces that foster engagement with industrial heritage and reach beyond commodification and capitalist exploitation.

Agnès Varda was more a photographer and invested in photographic storytelling in her fictions and non-fictions, such as the murals in Faces Places (Visages Villages, 2017). Experimental photographic narration and her artwork-like uses of the internet therefore is not a coincidence. In her internet accounts, she posed with her fans, while her Instagram account looks like an experimental work, an exhibition, open to the public and unfinished. In her first photograph, she is holding a necklace with a cat figure in her hand.

A person listening to Ludwig van Beethoven might think he is in a Jean-Luc Godard movie. An opponent of laws and canons. Beethoven sought to break the convention and laws of harmony. Johann Sebastian Bach, in contrast, never attempted to break the traditions.