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Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 3pmMesa, só de misturas: presentation of a sound production workshop with Frankão, O Gringo Sou EU and Sons do Bairro
A table can be used for many different purposes. It can be a great mix of things. A table can be a place for people to meet, but it can also be a place for eating and chatting. Maybe even for improvisation. We want the table to be a stage for the different sounds and compositions that will be spread throughout Vivian Caccuri's exhibition Electric Jungle Fever.In this final session of the workshop, Frankão, O Gringo Sou Eu, accompanied by the Sons do Bairro group, invites us to weave our voices with rhythms and sounds, like flavours for our ears.Venue: Galeria Municipal do Porto, floor 1
Admission is free, subject to room capacity.
Frankão, O Gringo Sou EU was formed spontaneously while living in the Brazilian periphery and favelas. A restless observer in Portugal since 2010, Frankão decided to create a project with lyrics inspired by his vision of the world and everyday life, with fervent beats and simple lines. Under the sound of tamborzão, he has added new values to his style, without nostalgia, but with the same purity as when he started in the 90s. Nevertheless, in a tone that fights against asymmetries and increasingly takes on a global form. With a strong component of political criticism, he also works in the socio-cultural field, forming musical collectives with children and young people, from the communities of Rio de Janeiro to the urban neighbourhoods of Portugal.
Sons do Bairro is a project promoted by Famalicão City Council with the aim of empowering young people, adults and senior citizens through music, and promoting the musical and personal development of its participants. The project is not only about about composing and recording music, but also about building a more inclusive and cohesive community that values and understands the cultural richness of each individual. -
Saturday, February 22, 4:30pm
Guided exhibition tours
This is the last opportunity to learn more about the ideas behind Vivian Caccuri's exhibition "Electric Jungle Fever" and Rita Caldo's "As in Heaven so on Earth'".Admission is free.Tour in Portgueses: 4 pmTour in English: 4:30 pm -
FOGO FÁTUO - 14h30
Pauliteiros de Miranda
The Pauliteiros da cidade de Miranda do Douro have been around for twenty years, dedicated to the preservation of the Portuguese Mirandese tradition through music and dance. Accompanied by the sounds of bagpipes, snare and bass drums, their movements are a warrior dance that symbolises local historical moments, involving the use of two sticks with which they perform a series of coordinated steps and movements. With typical costumes, contagious energy and a rich repertoire of ‘lhaços’ — the name given to their melodies, text and choreography — the Pauliteiros’ performances have taken the Terras de Miranda, in the north-east of Portugal, to stages all over Europe.Venue: GMP – TerraceHour: 2:30pmFree admission. -
FOGO FÁTUO - 15h00
Eddie Peake - Organ Harvest
Eddie Peake is a London artist who works with performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. Through exhibition projects, he addresses autobiographical and self-identitythemes, often emphasising the relationship between the audience and the artwork, the viewer and the viewed. He explores the implicit drama within relationships, reflecting on the impact of desire, sexuality, socio-political and cultural constructions, as well as psychological states such as depression.Organ Harvest is a football match between two teams of five players with one referee. Competitive in nature, this game, like any other, fun and exciting, or banal and boring. Played conventionally, it is not “performed”. Two simple shifts render the game unusual: one is the context of the art gallery in which it takes place and the other is the fact that all the players are nude.Image: Fiorucci Art Trust & The Vinyl Factory (Pawel Ptak).Venue: GMP – Floor 0Hour: 3:00pmFree admission. -
FOGO FÁTUO - 16h05
Chiara Bersani - Seeking Unicorns
Chiara Bersani is an Italian author, choreographer and performer working in the fields of performing arts, theatre and contemporary dance. Her research is based on the concept of the “Political Body” and the creation of practices aimed at testing the limits of attention and presence.The performance Seeking Unicorns is a version of Gentle Unicorn, her artistic manifesto for non-theatrical venues. The site-specific soundscape stimulates all our senses. It enhances our ability to hear and our vision becomes sharper, discovering places that need to be inhabited. The Unicorn embodies the concept of the Political Body, pivotal in Bersani’s research, according to which the body no longer testimonies to the history lived by someone but to a political entity made so by the meeting/clash with society.Image: Foteini Christofilopoulou
Collaboration: Banda Marcial da Foz do Douro
Venue: GMP – Floor 0Hour: 4:05pmFree admission. -
FOGO FÁTUO - 5:05pm
Wimme Saari
Wimme Saari is known as one of the world’s foremost ambassadors of Joik, the unique vocal tradition and form of musical expression practiced amongst the indigenous Sami people of the Arctic. Wimme Saari’s joiks are about nature and its elements, animals, places, and concepts. But he does not actuallyjoik about something. When he joiks a wolf, he does not describe the wolf with words. He digs deep into the inner spirit of the wolf and becomes the wolf. Either solo, or in collaboration — where the Finnish artist combines this vocal practice with contemporary improvisation, techno and ambient soundscapes —, his performances are mesmerising sound journeys that are both reflective and inspiring.Venue: GMP – AuditoriumHour: 5:05pmFree admission. -
FOGO FÁTUO - 5:25pm
Angélica Salvi
The Spanish harpist Angélica Salvi, based in Porto since 2011, is dedicated to improvisation, contemporary and electroacoustic music, exploring techniques for preparing and amplifying the harp in search of new timbres and sounds. Salvi invites us to dive into her emotional and spiritual references, using them as a guide for a dream. Starting from the acrobatics of breathing (inhaling, exhaling) and the dynamics of the tides, the artist explores the universe of repetition in a cosmic and structured invocation of trance in a magnetic and syncopated movement. In this inner, dreamlike and intimate journey, the audience is led along winding and tropical paths, in a potentially shamanic experience, through ambiguous and multifaceted sounds.Venue: GMP – AuditoriumHour: 5:25pmFree admission. -
FOGO FÁTUO - 6:05pm
PRICE - I Try My Tongue (sequences)
PRICE lives between Brazil and Europe and has presented work in museums, theatres, site-specific spaces and clubs. Scent plays an increasingly present role in his practice, triggering an exploration within the politics of spaces, both social and private, delving into the conflicting dynamics that exist within these socially normative categories. His projects cross media and time, encompassing performance, sonic intervention, installation and sculpture.In I Try My Tongue (sequences), PRICE measures reality with musical melodies, sonic plasticity and vocal experimentation, shifting the focus away from lyrics. It’s an homage to those who didn’t grow up speaking English, but were nonetheless flooded with the language. It’s like a child who repeats phonetically what he doesn’t understand, trying to master the vocabulary of a hegemony invaded by riddles he never chose.The performance will be accompanied by the Italian musician and composer Renato Grieco on Viola di Gamba.Image: Gianluca Picchio PisicchioVenue: GMP – AuditoriumHour: 6:05pmFree admission. -
FOGO FÁTUO - 7:05pm
Eddie Peake - The Pervert
Eddie Peake is a London artist who works with performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. Through exhibition projects, he addresses autobiographical and self-identity themes, often emphasising the relationship between the audience and the artwork, the viewer and the viewed. He explores the implicit drama within relationships, reflecting on the impact of desire, sexuality, socio-political and cultural constructions, as well as psychological states such as depression.The Pervert is a performance built on choreographic patterns of dance and sound, inviting self-reflection on states such as depression, psychosis, obsession and desire. The piece is performed by a group of gold-painted nude dancers and a narrator playing the character “Eddie Peake”, and structured as a non-linear narrative, orchestrated orchestrated from a soundscape live mixed by Eddie Peake.Image: Sara Navarro
Body Paint by Ana Tulha and Joana da SilvaVenue: GMP – Floor 1Hour: 7:05pmFree admission. -
FOGO FÁTUO - 7:50pm
Inês Condeço
Inês Condeço is a pianist and composer. Over the last year she has been performing as a solo artist, exploring her own sounds and atmospheres in the world of electronic, experimental and ambiente music. At the beginning of 2024 she released her first album, Lacuna. Using voice and synthesizers, the Portuguese artist explores contrasting atmospheres that alternate between the ethereal and the obscure. From noise, to loops, to more angelic melodies, we travel through psychedelic and delicate environments, in an incessant search for the symbiosis between voice, body and the electronic world.Image: Catarina SantosVenue: GMP – AuditoriumHour: 7:05pmFree admission -
FOGO FÁTUO - 8:20pm
Inès Cherifi - Something I Can Touch
Inès Cherifi is an artist and producer. Her music oscillates between symphonic sounds and incisive, radical kicks, navigating between experimental music, electronica, noise and hyperpop.In Say Something I Can Touch, the french artist unfolds dialogues between an electric violin, voices and synths, where the boundaries between each element seem to blur. The sounds of the violin and the voices take on a mutanting quality, as if they were resonating in a parallel world. Fragile, trembling, and unstable textures expand into orchestral dimensions, creating an immersive environment.Image: Camille LeprinceVenue: GMP – AuditoriumHour: 8:20pmFree admission. -
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