Walk along the gardens

The trees, the roots, the flowers, the shells, the statues, the fountains, the walks, the silenced ones, the grass, the weeds, the peacock, the garden, the nature, the experience, the change, the justice, the renovation.

The CLP (Círculo das Leitoras Peripatéticas) proposes an animated reading of words, images, music, sounds, and other additives, which take root in the Acoustic Shell, but take us along the garden through three narratives, three different routes, which end up meeting and crossing paths. The common link is to bring down the statue-muses without a voice, stirring the bottom of the lake, and revealing the stories of women creators, literates, botanists, artists, singers. In the end, the dance is at the bottom of the sea around the shell.

The group Círculo das Leitoras Peripatéticas is comprised by Sofia Gonçalves, Susana Gaudêncio and Susana Pomba. In 2014, the artists attended a residency at the Moinho da Fonte Santa, in an isolated geographical area in the municipality of Alandroal, Alentejo, where they worked with materials from the Biberstein ‑ Gusmão Library to write a script that was read during a walk around the Moinho (water mill). This residency, entitled Elogio ao tempo lento, resulted in the first edition of the collective, composed of three ‘librettos’ presented as access routes to the library and its surrounding landscape.

Photography: Renato Cruz Santos