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  • Saturday, January 11, at 3pm

    "Surface Disorder": Guided exhibition tour with Aida Castro

    Aida Castro's practice brings together diverse productions that explore hybrid methodologies between practices (visual and written) and speculative knowledge. Her research has explored the archaeologies of media-bodies, a term that emerged in the project (de)MONSTRAS: imaginaries, corporealities and amphibious materialities, to study figures, materials and imaginaries in demonstrations of hybrid and technical bodies.
    Venue: Galeria Municipal do Porto

    Free admission, subject to room capacity.

    Aida Castro is a researcher, teacher and artist with a PhD in Communication Sciences: Communication and Arts from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. She is currently a guest lecturer at the Multimedia department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, where she teaches on the bachelor's and master's programmes. She is a member of ICNOVA, where she coordinates the research project (de)MONSTRAS: imaginaries, corporealities and amphibious materialities (2024). She is also a collaborator with I2ADS, where she co-programmed VIDEODREAMS: Practices of the Imaginary (2022, FBAUP).
    She has been working with Maria Mire as an artistic duo since 2017, having co-edited issue 59 of the Journal of Communication and Languages, with the theme "Media-Bodies: Matters and Imaginaries" (2023), and the book DEAD LINK: mediations of artistic practices (2021), for Interact: Online Journal of Art, Culture and Technology.

  • Thursday, January 16 at 7pm

    Simulation and Hallucination: What comes after art? - Talk with Zachary Mainen, Gonçalo Guiomar and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha

    The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence-based technology has allowed machine learning models to insert themselves into practically all forms of sociocultural relation and production. With their deep historical links to neuroscience, these brain-inspired models have demonstrated an uncanny ability to simulate what were previously thought of as singular human faculties such as language, image production and, in some sense, abstract reasoning.
     
    As with a human brain, these artificial intelligence models are also able to hallucinate, and it is within this hallucination surface that a series of collaborative projects, developed in the context of digital therapeutics research in the Champaliamaud Centre for the Unknown, was born.
     
    In this discussion, neuroscientists Zachary Mainen and Gonçalo Guiomar, together with artist Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, come together to discuss how their work fits in the interstices of their fields of practice and in what ways these objects have influenced their research.
    Venue: BMAG Auditorium

    Free admission, subject to room capacity.

    Photo: Renato Cruz Santos
  • Saturday, February 1, at 4:30pm

    Guided exhibition tour with Rita Caldo and Patrícia Coelho

    Artist Rita Caldo, who is presenting "As in heaven, so on earth" in the exhibition room on level -1, will give a guided tour of the exhibition, with the project's curator, Patrícia Coelho.

    Later, at 6.30pm, there will be a performance concert by Crisálida.
    Free admission.
  • Saturday, February 1, at 6pm

    Concert-Performance by Crisálida

    Crisálida [Chrysalis] (a project by Sofia Pinto) is the name given to the metallic gold colouring of a butterfly pupae. It is the third stage in the life of these insects, in which they hardly move, except to wiggle their segments and emit sounds to scare away predators.
     
    This chrysalis is no different, it's a state of latency and embryo, waiting for something to define itself before it has the courage to come out of its protective shell. Until it flies, it hides there, never falling asleep, lulling itself with cassette tapes and organ chords while it discovers how and where its voice is. Wings on its back, flight on the soundboard.
    Free admission.
  • Friday, February 7, at 6pm

    Book launch of Gineceu&Estigma

    The publication Gineceu&Estigma is the result of the programme of the same name, an axis of knowledge and mediation based on the Botany of the Gardens of the Palácio de Cristal, as part of ping! - Programa de Incursão à Galeria, an educational project of the Galeria Municipal do Porto. The contributions collected here, as well as the activities that have been presented over time, show different ways of establishing fairer relationships and approaches to the natural world. This book is not just a memoir, but an extension of a project that is constantly expanding and developing. Divided into four chapters - Especulações Botânicas, Micorrizas, Hackers&PANCs and Terrários - it shows an eco-thinking that runs through both theoretical reflection and practical educational actions, through workshops, essays, lectures and interpretive routes.
     
    To celebrate the fourth anniversary of Gineceu&Estigma, the launching day will take place on February 7nd, with the participation of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, author of A Visão das Plantas, and Paulo Pires do Vale, philosopher and commissioner of the National Arts Plan, and Matilde Seabra, coordinator of ping!, for a conversation about the relationship between human life and nature.
    Venue: BMAG Auditorium
  • Saturday 15th February at 4.30pm

    Artist talk with Amy Ireland

    Amy Ireland is a writer and theorist best known for her work with the technomaterialist transfeminist collective, Laboria Cuboniks, whose Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (2018) has been translated into 18 languages. With Maya B. Kronic she is the author of Cute Accelerationism (2024).

    Amy currently works as an editor and translator for the UK contemporary art and philosophy publisher, Urbanomic.
    Venue: Galeria Municipal do Porto

    Free admission, subject to room capacity.
  • Saturday, February 15, at 6pm

    Live Act by Nsasi

    In the context of the public programme for Jonathan Uliel Saldanha's "Surface Disorder", Galeria Municipal do Porto presents Nsasi, a musical artist who brings us the undergroung echos of Uganda. 
     
    Their sound combines traditional rhythms and sound palettes with the universe of ultra-modern and disruptive music. Their acoustic cosmos is recognised by the ability to alternate contrasting sounds, carrying listeners on a journey through different times and genres. The result is a dynamic landscape where acid beats collide with Kiganda percussion and East African rhythms. 
     
    This "Enfant Terrible" from the picturesque and deeply conservative town of Jinja, Uganda, gained an early reputation for questioning norms, developing subversive DJ sets, between slowed-down dance anthems, glossy R&b's and dynamic experiences in fringe clubs.
    Venue: Galeria Municipal do Porto

    Free admission, subject to room capacity.

    Image: Juho Reinikainen
  • Join the colective!

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    If you're between the ages of 16 and 22 and want to take part in the Gallery's activities, visit the art spaces in the city, or attend workshops led by different artists and thinkers, just send an email to galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
    The PINGs! collective accepts applications on a continuous basis.

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