A UCCLA vai realizar a sua Assembleia Geral no Porto durante a manhã do próximo dia 31 deste mês. À tarde desse mesmo dia, a partir das 15h00, na sala 2 do Coliseu daquela cidade, haverá um Encontro subordinado ao tema Perspetivas Económicas dos Países da CPLP, cujo programa é o seguinte:
15:00 / 16:15 - “Diversificação e Financiamento das Economias”
Oradores: Prof. Doutor João Ferreira do Amaral (Prof. Catedrático no ISEG)
Dr. Carlos Costa Pina (Administrador de empresas)
Moderador: Prof. Luís Todo Bom (Prof. universitário e gestor)
16:15 / 16:30 – Pausa para café
16:30 / 17:45 – “Economia e Geo-política do Petróleo”
Oradores: Prof. Doutor Nuno Ribeiro da Silva (Prof. Catedrático convidado do ISEG e PCA da Endesa)
Dr. Agostinho de Miranda (advogado especialista em assuntos petrolíferos)
Prof. Doutor António Costa e Silva (PCE da Partex)
Moderador: Dr. Vítor Ramalho (Secretário-geral da UCCLA)
18:00 / 18:30 – “Uma perspetiva de África”
Orador: ex-Presidente da República de Cabo Verde, Comandante Pedro Pires
Este Encontro é aberto ao público sem necessidade de inscrição.
Durante a preparação do programa Artista na Cidade 2016, o coreógrafo Faustin Linyekula exprimiu a vontade de apresentar o seu trabalho a públicos dos bairros limítrofes da região da Grande Lisboa. Depois da apresentação memorável de Le Cargo na Cova da Moura em janeiro passado, o Teatro Maria Matos coorganiza este evento: Le Cargo será apresentado numa praça do Bairro Padre Cruz em Carnide, no contexto do primeiro Festival de Arte Urbana.
The conference “CIRCULATIONS - The (un)making of Southern Africa beyond and across borders”, between 3 and 4 November 2016, in Johannesburg, invites scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (history, sociology, anthropology, area studies, cultural studies, art history, etc.) to rethink the region’s past and present in its multiple transnational intricacies and complex maps of connectivity, beyond and across borders. We encourage interested scholars to send paper proposals for 20 minutes presentations in any of the following indicative, but not exhaustive, areas:
– Borderlines: the making and unmaking of borders in Southern Africa.
– Of Settlements and Diaspora: rethinking migration and settler colonialism.
– Dangerous liaisons: security and circulation under colonialism and apartheid.
– Migrating power: networks and movement during liberation struggles.
– Pathways of circulation: social histories of infrastructure (roads, railways, etc).
– Bodies on the move: histories of legal and illegal migration, for labor and leisure.
– Intersections: the politics of race, gender and class in transnational movements.
– Knowledge unbound: scientific cooperation and circulation of scholars and ideas.
– Celebrating togetherness: the politics of cultural diplomacy and official visits.
– Moving objects: consumption, material cultures and the social worlds they make.
– Moving words: circulation of newspapers, correspondence, books, etc.
– Moving images: photography, film, art, and visual culture across borders.
– Moving sounds: the making and circulation of music beyond borders.
– Entangled representations: circulation of writers, artists, filmmakers, etc.
Potential contributors should submit a short abstract (no more than 200 words) and a career description (one paragraph, no more than 15 lines) no later than May 31, 2016. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on June 15, 2016. Draft papers are expected on October 1, 2016, and will be pre-circulated amongst participants. We intend to publish a collection of essays in an edited volume or journal issue.
Between 3-6 November, Johannesburg will host the conference “The (un)making of Southern Africa beyond and across borders”.
This conference invites scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (history, sociology, anthropology, area studies, cultural studies, art history, etc.) to rethink the region’s past and present in its multiple transnational intricacies and complex maps of connectivity, beyond and across borders. We encourage interested scholars to send paper proposals for 20 minutes presentations in any of the following indicative, but not exhaustive, areas:
– Borderlines: the making and unmaking of borders in Southern Africa.
– Of Settlements and Diaspora: rethinking migration and settler colonialism.
– Dangerous liaisons: security and circulation under colonialism and apartheid.
– Migrating power: networks and movement during liberation struggles.
– Pathways of circulation: social histories of infrastructure (roads, railways, etc).
– Bodies on the move: histories of legal and illegal migration, for labor and leisure.
– Intersections: the politics of race, gender and class in transnational movements.
– Knowledge unbound: scientific cooperation and circulation of scholars and ideas.
– Celebrating togetherness: the politics of cultural diplomacy and official visits.
– Moving objects: consumption, material cultures and the social worlds they make.
– Moving words: circulation of newspapers, correspondence, books, etc.
– Moving images: photography, film, art, and visual culture across borders.
– Moving sounds: the making and circulation of music beyond borders.
– Entangled representations: circulation of writers, artists, filmmakers, etc.
Potential contributors should submit a short abstract (no more than 200 words) and a career description (one paragraph, no more than 15 lines) no later than May 31, 2016. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on June 15, 2016. Draft papers are expected on October 1, 2016, and will be pre-circulated amongst participants. We intend to publish a collection of essays in an edited volume or journal issue.
No próximo dia 2 de maio, pelas 18h, irá decorrer a conferência “Língua Portuguesa, Globalização e Lusofonia”, com o professor Moisés de Lemos Martins, da Universidade do Minho.
We are pleased to announce Filipa César’s participation at the IndieLisboa 2016. Transmission from the Liberated ZonesFilipa César
IndieLisboa 2016 | Nacional Competition Documentary, Experimental, 2015, 30’, DCP Script: César Filipa, Gi Dias Cinematography: Matthias Bider Sound: Dídio Pestana Editing: Filipa César Cast: Gi Dias, Lennart Malmer, Birgitta Dahl, Folke Lofgren, Ingela Romare, Rosa Waschke Producer: Olivier Marboeuf Production: Bright Dot P.C. Countries: Germany, France, Portugal, Sweden The Portuguese colonial past is actualised through performance in Transmission from the Liberated Zones. Sessions
2016-04-25 NATIONAL COMPETITION SHORTS 1 18:00 Cinema São Jorge - Room Manoel de Oliveira
2016-04-27 NATIONAL COMPETITION SHORTS 2 21:45 Cinema São Jorge - Room 3
´ROSTOS E ESPAÇOS´ é o título da Exposição individual do Fotógrafo Moçambicano Mário Macilau, a sua primeira em Angola, enquadrada na 1ª Edição de ´VIDRUL CONVIDA,´ a inaugurar quinta-feira, dia 21 de Abril no Espaço Luanda Arte (ELA) pelas 19h com Curadoria da Angolana Keyezua.
“Há cinco anos que a ´VIDRUL - VIDREIRA DE ANGOLA, LDA´ apoia fotografia experimental em Angola de forma discreta, mas sólida. Como tal, a ´VIDRUL´ posiciona-se como um modelo a seguir pelo mundo corporativo nacional. ´VIDRUL CONVIDA´ é uma sequência natural e um complemento à plataforma ´VIDRUL FOTOGRAFIA´, e um agradecimento por parte da AM-ARTE pela parceria real desenvolvida. Anualmente, terá a responsabilidade e o privilégio de convidar e expôr o trabalho de um fotografo Pan-Africano.
Nesta 1ª Edição em 2016 o convite recaiu sobre Mário Macilau, um dos Artistas Africanos com mais exposição e louvor internacional nos seus (aparentes) poucos anos de trabalho, tendo desenvolvido a sua narrativa com fotografias socialmente fortes, engajadoras e provocantes, que não deixam qualquer espectador indiferente.
Por isso, é motivo de real orgulho podermos trazer trabalhos das séries ´The Price of Cement´ (2013) e ´Living on the Edge´ (2014) para Luanda. A primeira, mostra a trágica realidade de meninos e meninas que trabalham em operações ilegais de ensacamento de cimento em Moçambique. A segunda, retrata uma lixeira no Kenya - uma das maiores no continente - aonde a queimada e os resíduos não-tratados representam um risco grave para a saúde mas, ao mesmo tempo, uma fonte de renda (importante mas escassa) para milhares que vivem e trabalham na área. Infelizmente, são temas universais em África.”
Exposição em memória de Robert Jakobo, escultor tanzaniano de raízes moçambicanas, que se irá realizar na Polónia (Muzeum Podróżników im. Tony`ego Halika).
This paper reconsiders the way race-politics are made manifest in Afro-Cuban religiosity. Approaching critically the existing literature, it tries to argue that an active effort to make explicit issues of race and how they have mattered historically co-exists with a seemingly contradictory but equally active effort to express that race should not (always) matter. This latter effort, rather than historically, it is materialized mythically and practically or, as Sahlins would have it, mythopractically. Nevertheless, this is not done in competition to the historical dimension but adds to it a very critical edge that has been lacking in conventional understandings of race-politics.
Bionote
Paper presented by Anastasios Panagitopoulos. Post-doctoral researcher in CRIA/FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Anastasios did his B.A. in Sociology at the University of Crete, Greece. Then went on by doing his M.A. and PhD at the University of Edinburgh, UK. In his current postdoctoral position, he is focusing on the relation of Afro-Cuban religions and Cuban politics, as well as the transnational dimensions of the former.
A editora Príncipe, no próximo dia 15 de Abril, orgulha-se de lançar o novo disco de Dj Marfox “Chapa Quente”.
DJ Marfox e a Príncipe têm percorrido um feliz e transformador caminho desde o lançamento do seu EP de debute, e da editora, “Eu Sei Quem Sou”, em finais de 2011, onde tornava clara a sua intenção em apresentar as suas raízes culturais, e raízes enquanto ímpeto para uma evolução crítica, criativa, tecnológica e social. A herança de Marlon Silva aka Marfox ascende a São Tomé e Príncipe, tendo começado a produzir e a tocar ao vivo como DJ na adolescência, disseminando a sua música pelo YouTube e lançando de forma independente singles em mp3 a partir da Portela de Sacavém. A compilação “DJs di Ghetto” (2006), produzida com a sua crew com o mesmo nome, ganhou estatuto lendário no Portugal urbano e nas comunidades da diáspora luso-africana pela Europa fora, contribuindo a partir daí para a emergência de uma rede consistente de jovens criativos ávidos por inovações na cultura e som da música electrónica de dança.
O seu som outrora fundamentalmente cru e minimal progrediu para uma rede complexa e rica de influências e realizações, reflexo da vida que informa a sua música, leal às suas bases, mas ciente de onde está e para onde quer ir. “Chapa Quente” transmite um sentimento de uma contínua cena de perseguição numa Nova Lisboa em dinâmica reorganização pela coexistência de diferentes culturas, algo que ressoa com a vida passada de Marfox no entretanto demolido ‘bairro das barracas’ da Quinta da Vitória, onde cresceu entre vizinhos e amigos emigrantes da Índia, Paquistão, São Tomé e Príncipe e Cabo Verde, algo que ele vê como tendo informado a sua música, sonhada e praticada. Uma paragem para apanhar sol (“Tarraxo Everyday”) mas tudo o resto corre mais rápido que todos nós.
Godspeed.
ARTISTA: DJ Marfox
TÍTULO: “Chapa Quente”
EDITORA: Príncipe
FORMATOS: Vinil 12’’ / Digital
CAT#: P014
DATA DE LANÇAMENTO: 15 Abril 2016
PEDIDOS PROMOCIONAIS: andre@filhounico.com
O tema de avanço “2685” está desde hoje em streaming no soundcloud Príncipe: DJ Marfox “2685”
TAFETA is pleased to present the collective photo exhibition BEFORE, BEFORE & NOW, NOW that opens on the 19th of March at 4pm at MIRA FORUM in Porto, Portugal.
This photography exhibition, firstly shown in 2014 at Bohams in London, celebrates the Nigerian history through photographers that have documented and reflected on its peoples, events and transformation into the country that we know it as today. Nigeria, as a nation state emerged from a diversity of preceding kingdoms, emirates, chieftaincies and other communities via an interlude of colonization by the British. This exhibition contrasts artworks by contemporary Nigerian photographers with a selection of works by their Nigerian predecessors (by descent or permanent settlement) produced at significant periods in Nigeria’s formation.
The exhibition invites the viewer to consider the “before” and the “now” – the similarities and differences in technology, in events, individuals and landscapes, and in the particular ways of seeing as each photographer constructs an imagery about their land. These photographers offer diverse and original visions of Nigeria and the rest of the world. Their images are the product, or rather distillation, of specifically Nigerian sensibilities shaped by the cultural, social and ecological experiences of living in the country. They articulate the “now” of Nigeria with its energy and dynamism and its contrasts of individuals, communities and landscapes. At the same time they look to the future with its new possibilities in an ever more inter-connected world. The other end of the spectrum is the “before”, whether in the years leading up to Nigeria’s formation or at independence when the right to self-determination was finally wrested from the departing British.
Participant Photographers: Adeola Olagunju, Adolphus Opara, Aisha Augie-Kuta, Akintunde Akinleye, Amaize Ojeikere, Andrew Esiebo, Emeka Okereke, George Osodi, J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Jide Alakij, Uche Okpha Iroha, Alfred Carew, Fosa Studios, J.A. Green, J.B. Abibmbola, N.W.Holm, Obafemi Luther, Olojo Studios and Sanya Freeman.
MIRA FORUM is an art gallery that fundamentally linked with photography and its relationship with other arts and knowledge. It is an interdisciplinary place that combines a social and a commercial facet, and it is considered a cultural art center due to the range of programs that it offers. Some of these include: individual and collective exhibitions, conferences, theater plays, workshops, concerts and dance performances. MIRA FORUM also emphasizes projects that involve local communities. Artistic residencies are also an important component in the intervention of Espaço MIRA and MIRA FORUM. Since October 2013, the gallery presented more than 30 exhibitions, 14 concerts, 10 workshops and 8 art residencies.
INFORMATION
BEFORE, BEFORE & NOW, NOW
At MIRA FORUM
Exhibition Opening 19 March > 4-7pm
19 March – 27 April 2016
Opening times: Tuesday/Saturday 3pm-7pm
MIRA FORUM
Rua de Miraflor 155,
4300-334, Porto, Portugal miraforum@espacomira.net (+351) 929145191/ 929113431
Contact and details about the exhibition: ines@tafeta.com | +351 918224949
14 de Março, 18h | FCSH-UNL, Edifício ID, Sala 0.06 comunicação de Orazio Irrera (IHC-FCSH/UNL-CEHFCi.UE) comentário de Manuela Ribeiro Sanches (CEC-FLUL)
Cette intervention se propose d’explorer l’espace de problématisation où la philosophie contemporaine et la décolonisation peuvent se rejoindre en mettant en place une décolonisation des savoirs visant à critiquer les rapports entre le colonialisme et les manifestations de vérité sur lesquelles il s’est historiquement appuyé. Il s’agit donc de se demander sous quelles conditions à la fois théoriques, historiques et géopolitiques est-il possible penser la décolonisation comme un véritable événement philosophique, c’est-à-dire comme un événement excédant à la fois les déterminations historiques et géopolitiques du colonialisme qui l’ont produit, mais aussi l’ensemble des savoirs qui ont gardé soigneusement les frontières occidentales du sens et ont permis de penser et de gouverner ce que la modernité européenne avec sa « mission civilisatrice » a appelé l’« Homme » ?
On verra comment le pivot autour duquel pourraient s’articuler les rapports critiques entre philosophie et décolonisation correspond à ce que, dans le sillage de Michel Foucault, je désigne comme « alèthurgie décoloniale », c’est-à-dire un champ historique et philosophique de problématisation visant à mettre en relief sous quelles conditions pratiques le rapport éthique de soi à soi arrive à produire un régime de vérité qui se manifeste à la fois dans un style individuel d’existence et dans la manifestation des effets politiques qui sont de l’ordre de la rupture et de l’interruption du pouvoir colonial.
Across Africa, the struggle between the forces of capitalism and communism sparked coups, revolutions and political divisions, resulting in a huge impact on Africa’s post-independence landscape. In 1960 Moscow rightly judged anti-colonial fervour to be a good fit with Marxism and Soviet embassies were set up in many African countries. But was there a Soviet strategy for taking over Africa? To what extent was the USSR aware of political structures in Africa and the needs of those countries which it supported? What were the impacts of the Cold War on African national identities? Speakers: Dr Miles Larmer, University of Oxford, Dr Christabelle Peters, University of Warwick, Dr Meera Sabaratnam, SOAS, University of London. Chair: Richard Dowden, Director of the Royal African Society
This event was part of Calvert 22’s Red Africa Season. And It can be listened here.
Ed Cross Fine Art is delighted to announce a solo exhibition for Mário Macilau at this year’s edition of VOLTA art fair in New York City from 2-6th March 2016. This will be Mario’s first exhibition in New York and his first major show after his acclaimed exhibition at The 2015 Venice Biennale.
Mário Macilau lives and works in Maputo, Mozambique.Started his photographic journey in 2003, and went professional when he traded his mother’s cell phone for his first camera in 2007. He specialises in long-term projects that focus on the environmental and social conditions of Mozambique, and the complex reality of the labour market in the region.
Macilau’s work has been recognised with awards, and feautures regularly in solo and group exhibitions in his home country and abroad. Recently he was one of three artists presented at the Pavilion of the Holy See at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), with a body of work also presented at Volta NY (2016). Also in 2015, Macilau’s work was included in the Vitra Design Museum’s exhibition ‘Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design’, curated by Amelie Klein with Okwui Enwezor as Consulting Curator - the exhibition is planned to tour several countries for five years, and was presented in spring 2015 at the Guggenheim Museum in Spain. Other notable shows include ‘Pangea: New Art from Africa and Latin America’ Saatchi Gallery, London (2014), Fotofest Biennial, Houston (2014), International Biennial of Casablanca, Morocco (2014), ’Tempo’ Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon (2013), Dak’art Biennial OFF, Dakar (2012), Rencontres de Bamako, Bamako (2011), VI Chobi Mela Photo Festival, Dhaka (2011), Photo Spring, Beijing (2011), and Lagos Photo, Lagos (2010 & 2011).
Recent awards and recognition include Macilau having being invited to participate in a program and exhibition with the United Nations Office, World Press Photo and the Universal Rights Group (2016). Macilau was also chosen as one of the Foreign Policy’s ‘100 Leading Global Thinkers’ at a ceremony in Washington D.C. (2015). In the same year Macilau was selected to give a talk at Harvard University in Boston as one of the panelists during the Boston Global Forum. Macilau’s work has won several awards including the European Union Award for Environment (2015), the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary for Visual Arts (2014), and he is a laureate of the Africa Centre’s Artist in Residency (AIR) Fountainhead Residency Award (2014).
Wednesday March 2 - Sunday March 6, 2016 Pier 90, New York City
O livro será lançado no dia 18 de março, na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Sala 2), às 18H30, com apresentação da escritora Ana Paula Tavares e do jornalista José Pedro Castanheira. A também compor o painel, a presença dos três organizadores (Iva Cabral, Márcia Souto e Filinto Elísio).
A organização dos Seminários Nómadas em Estudos da performance convida todos a estarem presentes no próximo dia 4 de Março, sexta-feira, pelas 21h no Bar Irreal, para mais um Seminário. Desta vez com Paula Caspão, investigadora, dramaturga, escritora e artista interdisciplinar, e Claire Buisson , investigadora das linguagens do corpo, numa conversa em torno das linguagens, do corpo, das traduções, da documentação e do arquivo.
A diversidade da temática da literatura angolana, manifestada como “um pássaro planando de asas abertas”, é ilustrada no livro “Antologia de Contos”, que reúne textos, na maioria inéditos, dos 40 anos da independência de Angola.
Pássaros de Asas Abertas – Antologia de Contos Angolanos, será lançado em Lisboa a 2 de março no Auditório Armando Guebuza, na Universidade Lusófona, é uma iniciativa conjunta da União dos Escritores Angolanos (UEA) e do Centro de Estudos Comparentistas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.
Os 36 textos, selecionados pelos académicos Margarida Gil dos Reis e António Aquino, que prefaciam a obra, foram escritos por outros tantos autores, destacando-se, entre outros, Agostinho Neto (primeiro presidente de Angola), Luandino Vieira, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Pepetela, Ondjaki, João Melo, José Eduardo Agualusa, Jacques dos Santos e Ismael Mateus.
Numa nota aos leitores no início da obra, o secretário-geral da UEA, António Carmo Neto, que também é autor de um dos textos, indicou que o livro de contos é a “primeira parte” de uma homenagem aos 40 anos de Angola (11 de novembro de 1975) e também de quatro décadas da própria associação dos escritores, a que se seguirá um outro: “Antologia da Poesia Angolana”, cuja data de publicação não adianta.
“Tendo privilegiado textos inéditos, pretendíamos que se reunissem aqui alguns contos que ajudam a contar «estórias» das vidas de quatro décadas, vistas por um olhar do século XXI. Quem correr o mundo sob o dorso do pássaro de asas abertas, viajando ao passado, continuará a estar no presente”, escreve Carmo Neto.
Durante a preparação do programa Artista na Cidade 2016, o coreógrafo Faustin Linyekula exprimiu a vontade de apresentar o seu trabalho a públicos dos bairros limítrofes da região da Grande Lisboa. Depois da apresentação memorável de Le Cargo na Cova da Moura em janeiro passado, o Teatro Maria Matos coorganiza este evento: Le Cargo será apresentado numa praça do Bairro Padre Cruz em Carnide, no contexto do primeiro Festival de Arte Urbana.
– Borderlines: the making and unmaking of borders in Southern Africa.
Between 3-6 November, Johannesburg will host the conference “The (un)making of Southern Africa beyond and across borders”.
ARTISTA: DJ Marfox
The exhibition invites the viewer to consider the “before” and the “now” – the similarities and differences in technology, in events, individuals and landscapes, and in the particular ways of seeing as each photographer constructs an imagery about their land. These photographers offer diverse and original visions of Nigeria and the rest of the world. Their images are the product, or rather distillation, of specifically Nigerian sensibilities shaped by the cultural, social and ecological experiences of living in the country. They articulate the “now” of Nigeria with its energy and dynamism and its contrasts of individuals, communities and landscapes. At the same time they look to the future with its new possibilities in an ever more inter-connected world. The other end of the spectrum is the “before”, whether in the years leading up to Nigeria’s formation or at independence when the right to self-determination was finally wrested from the departing British.
Across Africa, the struggle between the forces of capitalism and communism sparked coups, revolutions and political divisions, resulting in a huge impact on Africa’s post-independence landscape. In 1960 Moscow rightly judged anti-colonial fervour to be a good fit with Marxism and Soviet embassies were set up in many African countries. But was there a Soviet strategy for taking over Africa? To what extent was the USSR aware of political structures in Africa and the needs of those countries which it supported? What were the impacts of the Cold War on African national identities?
Ed Cross Fine Art is delighted to announce a solo exhibition for Mário Macilau at this year’s edition of VOLTA art fair in New York City from 2-6th March 2016. This will be Mario’s first exhibition in New York and his first major show after his acclaimed exhibition at The 2015 Venice Biennale.
O livro será lançado no dia 18 de março, na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Sala 2), às 18H30, com apresentação da escritora Ana Paula Tavares e do jornalista José Pedro Castanheira. A também compor o painel, a presença dos três organizadores (Iva Cabral, Márcia Souto e Filinto Elísio).
A diversidade da temática da literatura angolana, manifestada como “um pássaro planando de asas abertas”, é ilustrada no livro “Antologia de Contos”, que reúne textos, na maioria inéditos, dos 40 anos da independência de Angola.
