Explosion and Expansion
PT at PQ and PQ in PT
Starting from an informal historiography of the official and unofficial Portuguese representations at the Prague Quadrennial up to 2019, this programme aims to problematise, identify, and discuss strategies and dynamics surrounding the act of exhibiting scenography, through the testimonies of participants and observers. We seek to bring to the Portuguese context the diverse approaches of each moment, proposing a chronological reading of PQ with a focus on the records of Portuguese representation, exploring possible identities for representations and making these acts more shared and inclusive.
We bring together associates, curious minds, and interested parties in a national meeting that celebrates our practice and what most strongly and fundamentally unites us, across time and against all adversity. The full audiovisual recording of the meeting aims to produce an archival document — a digital catalogue that will enable the wide dissemination of the event among associates, students and professionals, schools, theatres, and institutions in our artistic field.
Through the exhibition of ideas and images, we intend to make known the possible and potential modes of national representation, in terms of their identity(ies), history(ies), and cultural and artistic memory, through the gestures and works of their creative agents in the diversified field of visual and performing arts.
We hope, in this way, to also contribute to the (re)cognition of the history of our association, which will soon complete its first decade of existence, and whose founding has its roots in a memorable first meeting beyond time, where people sat side by side and intertwined their wills, around a generous fig tree.
The meeting's working group:
Inês de Carvalho, Sara Franqueira,
Luís Santos, Marta Silva, Joana Gomes,
Joana Saboeiro, Luna Rebelo, Inês Mota,
Aurora Campos and Ana Paula Rocha
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