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Music Between Companion Species
May - November 2023

Music between Companion Species is a series of concerts conceived and performed for and with dogs, their human companions and other more-than-human presences who may join these sessions. Inspired by Donna J. Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto and by cientific studies about dog’s preferences for sound and music, the concerts will take into account these animals’ unique sensibilities and hearing capabilities. Curated by Lovers & Lollypops.

Curated by Lovers & Lollypops
Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize
17.06-20.08.2023

Created by the City Council as a tribute to the late Councillor for Culture Paulo Cunha e Silva (1962 – 2015), a central figure for the city’s artistic life, the award, held every two years in Porto, recognises the talent of new generations of national and international artists. This year’s edition underlines the Prize’s commitment to fostering creation and cultural exchange by establishing a partnership with three world-recognised residency programmes: Arquipélago Centro de Artes in S. Miguel, Azores, Cove Park, on Scotland’s west coast, and Pivô, in São Paulo, will all host one of the nominated artists, appointed by a jury of three members.

The Nominators for the 2023 edition of the Art Prize are:
Artist Ângela Ferreira, Jan van Eyck Academie Director Hicham Khalidi, and cultural programmer Tabitha Thorlu-Bandura.

With
Euridice Kala, Márilu Namoda and Luis Santos (nominated by Ângela Ferreira); Rouzbeh Akhbari, Kent Chan and Hira Nabi (nominated by Hicham Khalidi) and Maren Karlson, Malik Nashad Sharpe aka Marikiscrycrycry, and Eve Stainton (nominated by Tabitha Thorlu-Bandura).
 Duet
Maria Paz and Joan Jonas
16.09 – 19.11.2023

 
Duet is an invitation for two artists to share an exhibition space. It started as a proposal for a young artist from Porto to think of an artist they would like to share an exhibition with. Recalling the impact of her survey show at the Serralves Museum, Maria Paz invited Joan Jonas to share the exhibition space of the Galeria Municipal do Porto. In this transatlantic exchange of generations, the two artists will reveal their common investigations of forms, colours and materials.

Curadoria de Filipa Ramos

 The Sylvan and Harsh North
09.12.2023 – 10.03.2024

What are the meteorological patterns, the myths and stories, the rhythms, colours and shapes, the human and nonhuman inhabitants that make up the Iberian Northwest, in its reality and fiction?
Wondering about the rituals and expressive modes of people, animals, plants, elements and minerals, we went looking for the roots, terminations and tentacles of the Iberian Northwest, trying to locate the places where they might reside. In doing so, we considered the past but above all faced the present-future of these concrete and imagined spaces between seas, woods and settlements. The Sylvan and Harsh North is an exhibition that follows roads and lines of intensity, centrifugal forces that take us beyond Porto, towards those supposed margins where permutations erupt, to discover and share the references, stories, words and connections to these places with a long past and an even longer future.

Curated by Filipa Ramos and Juan Luis Toboso
  • Studio Visit 👁

    Kiko Pedras
    Following on from "Hotel for Insects", a workshop that Kiko Pedras proposed to the young PING! students, we went to visit his house-workshop-garden. 
     
    This is where he develops projects of varying complexity, where the hand is always present, whether building canoes, beehives or greenhouses. It is also a meeting place for artists, set designers and curators to think together about structures, plinths or installations. 
     
    His practice extends to all areas, such as his own house, which is redesigned and altered according to the needs of a rural space. Outside, there are trees such as sequoias or pear trees, insect and bird shelters, where permaculture is taught and adobe bricks are made.
     
    Every day is different: "one day I'm guiding a bean plant over there, the next I'm transplanting the vegetable garden onto another field."
  • The Listening Affect

    A new sound ecology festival is coming to Porto!
    Curated by the Institute for Postnatural Studies, The Listening Affect will bring together around two dozen international artists, including composers, sound artists and acoustic researchers, at various venues in the city between November 10 and 12. Check list above for all participanting guests.

    Read the news here.

  • COBRACORAL - Postponed concert
    The forecast for tomorrow is for heavy rain, strong winds and thunderstorms.
    So, to avoid the storm catching us off guard, we'll have to postpone the Cobracoral concert to November 8th.

  • DUETO, @Arte Capital, by Mafalda Texeira
    Arte Capital wrote about the Dueto exhibition project, which brings together the artists Joan Jonas and Maria Paz. 
     
    Read the article here.
  • Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré

    Deadline for residency applications is approaching
    Reminder that the period for applications for the artist residency at CCC OD, in France, is coming to an end!
     
    This open call is a collaboration between GMP and the Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré (CCCOD) and is open to artists living in Porto who want to undertake a research residency in 2024 in the French city of Tours.
     
    📅 Submissions until October 30th!
     
    All information available here.
    Photography: Benoit Fougeirol

  • DUETO, @Público, by Mariana Durães
    The Público newspaper visited the Dueto exhibition. 
     
    To read the full article, click here.
  • Press

    DUETO, @Contemporânea, by Maria Kruglyak
    Maria Kruglyak spoke to Filipa Ramos about the exhibition "Dueto" with her curatorship at GMP. 

    The full article can be read here.

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