arts festival ENGLISH 5–20 july 2019 ISLAND

WALK&TALK A PROJECT BY FINANCING Artistic Direction Walk&Talk is the Azores Arts Festival and Jesse James Sofia Carolina Botelho the Artist Residency Program that happen

Guest Curators 2019 INSTITUCIONALS SPONSORS Miguel Flor throughout the year. Experimental and Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues The Decorators participative, the project encourages Mariana Pestana, Carolina Caicedo, Suzanne O’Connell and Xavi Llarch Font SPONSORS the creation of new objects in dialogue Production Direction Luís Brum – Island Circuit with the territory and the socio-cultural Bruno Sousa – Exhibition Circuit Joana Cardoso – Performative Circuit specificities of the archipelago. It focuses João Rebelo Costa – Pavilion ASSOCIATED PARTNERS

Knowledge Program on the involvement of local communities Sofia Carolina Botelho Rita Mendes and visitors, through the knowledge that Communication Direction is generated by today’s artistic practices, Sílvia Escórcio, Curating Communication (CUCO) Tânia Moniz LOGISTIC PARTNERS and intersects art, dance, performance,

Production theatre, architecture, design, cinema and Dário Rosa Joana Moreira music. In 2019, the festival completes its João Sousa Marta Espiridião ninth edition inviting artists and curators Welcoming Mafalda Brazão to present their works, especially new Bruna Maré Rita Sampaio PROGRAMMING PARTNERS projects developed in residence in the Rodrigo de Sá

Communication Design Azores, in more than twenty locations vivóeusébio on the island of São Miguel and in five Web Design Pedro Rodrigues artistic circuits: Island Circuit, Exhibition Image Direction Sara Pinheiro Circuit, Performing Circuit, Residency

Photography Circuit and the Knowledge Circuit. Álvaro Miranda Mariana Lopes

Filipa Couto COMMUNICATION SUPPORT

Video Bernardo Ferreira Cláudio Oliveira Rui Nó

Legal Consultant Lina Tavares Raposo

Financial Consultant Paulo Veríssimo

1 KNOWLEDGE W&T Pavillion Info Point / W&T Shop Largo de São João, Ponta Delgada SolMar Avenida Center, Thinking, participation and sharing are Central Square Sunday* to thursday: 11H – 00H the key axis of the Walk&Talk Knowledge Friday: 11H – 03H Monday to Saturday: 12H – 19H Saturday: 11H – 04H Program. In the festival, knowledge describes an autonomous circuit with *except july 7, open between 21H – 00H Open Canteen 6 – 20 JUL / 20H / 8€ activities that cross the different The Pavilion is a temporary structure, Pre-registration required: destined to inhabit Largo de São João, [email protected] circuits and involve people and distinct next to Teatro Micaelense, in the center of the city of Ponta Delgada, during The W&T Pavilion is also the festival’s groups around artistic production. the festival period. It is a functional canteen and at dinner it’s open to all space that gathers canteen, bar, people that wish to share a meal, get The W&T Pavilion is an open space auditorium and stage, and promotes to know the backstage, the artists, get-togethers between artists, team curators, staff and guests that built for the community and it hosts Talks, and visitors. Meeting point of the the human frame of the project. Brunch&Talks, Open Canteen dinners Walk&Talk activities, also hosts concerts, talks, parties and performances. and nights of party and conviviality. Contacts The first W&T Pavilion was created General Information Children, youngsters and people of all in 2018 by the architecture collective [email protected] Mezzo Atelier. This year, is projected by ages can develop their artistic skills the collective Artworks & GA Estudio Press and Partners and inspired, in its concept and form, in Holiday Ateliers at Carlos Machado [email protected] by the traditional Azorean cloak. Museum, in the Summer School or Knowledge Circuit [email protected] in thematic Workshops. The festival Summer school, férias no museu, ateliers, visitas-guiadas relies on the support of volunteers Reservations [email protected] and in 2019 welcomes a group of Open Canteen, Brunch&Talk youngsters who travel specially from Tickets Available at presentation Terceira island. Artists working in venues and W&T Pavilion. São Miguel open their studios to new visitors and the guided tours invite to know closer the various projects of the festival, as well as the people of the island, its stories and special places. 2 Program subject to updates. KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE

(Geo)graphy of the body Summer School Férias de Verão Walk&Talk What happens to the geography of an island 8 – 12 JUL no Museu Summer that is affected by natural phenomena, W&T Pavilion by climate change, by volcanoes that 18 – 19 JUL Workshops suddenly wake up or giant waves? + 16 years old / 50 € / Pre-registration required Museu Carlos Machado What changes in its identity? [email protected] (+351) 913 412 105 Núcleo de Santo André 15 – 19 JUL Like an island we have a body with very W&T Pavilion and Quinta do Priôlo clear and defined lines, from the tip of 18 JUL > 6 – 12 years old / 19 JUL > 13 – 16 years old the hair to the tip of the feet, surrounded Free / Pre-registration required 6 – 11 years old / Free / By appointment The W&T Summer School (+351) 296 202 930 [email protected] by air and by others, just as the island is is a daily program of talks (Educational Service Museu Carlos Machado) (+351) 913 412 105 surrounded by sea, sky, other islands. If we blur the boundaries of our body a and exercises with artists Workshops that explore the bit, of our perception, what happens? and curators participating collections of the Museum in The Summer Workshops What changes in our identity when we in the festival, which aims to invite youngsters to explore are overwhelmed by tenuous changes? dialogue with its territory. This workshop plays with the geography promote the artistic skills, the various contents of of our body - valleys, mountains, rivers, especially of young adults and The exhibition Limbo de Gonçalo Preto, Walk&Talk - visual arts oceans, plains - to give it another shape. students of high schools in presented within the Exhibition Circuit, exhibitions, design, crafts, has its starting point on the herbariums São Miguel, through informal of Museu Carlos Machado collection and architecture and the festival’s The body of RARA / sessions of sharing and on the way these plants relate in nature. relationship with the city RARA in the body discussion of work methods. Can one plant stand next to another and the island, aiming to (from the Design and Crafts in the herbarium collection but Residency of the Azores - RARA) not in nature? Why is that? stimulate their critical skills (an object thinks to itself) How was I 8 JUL (mon) 10 JUL (wed) This activity aims to discover how the and abstract thinking. thought? And built? How did an idea 10H – 13H 15H – 17H plants relate to each other and to create come from me? How does one thing Diana Vidrascu + The Decorators new landscapes inspired by the exhibition. The sessions last change into something else? How do Johan Harnsten approximately 1 hour you make fabrics with a strand of yarn, a 11 JUL (thu) basket with wicker, or a vase with mud? 9 JUL (tue) 10H – 13H and are for participants The objects are with us every day. They 10H – 13H Ana Cristina integrated into ATL groups are part of us and we cannot do without Sérgio Fazenda Cachola (schools holidays activities). them. And their story is already long. Rodrigues People began to make them millions of 12 JUL (fri) years ago. And nature has been doing 9 JUL (tue) 10H – 13H it for even longer! It’s from her that we 14H – 17H Danny Bracken learn and that we continue to learn. Abbas Akhavan This workshop returns to a primary idea: our body is the object. And with 10 JUL (wed) it we will research, build, think and 10H – 13H unveil how to start with an idea, will Alex Farrar or desire, until the final result. 4 5 KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE

Workshop Rain Wu’s proposal for the Island Guided Tours 8 JUL (mon) 16 JUL (tue) Circuit is based on the story of Sabrina 17H – 19H 17H – 18H Island - an island that appeared and Meeting points: PREFÁCIO PARA UM LIMBO Gonçalo Preto + for families ARQUIPÉLAGO RECETÁCULO Rita GT disappeared in the middle of the sea, 8, 12 and 19 – City Hall PDL Maria Trabulo + LIMBO 13 JUL /15H to think on the unpredictability of 9, 10, 11, 16, 17 and 18 – W&T Pavilion Gonçalo Preto + RECETÁCULO Rita GT 17 JUL (wed) W&T Pavilion nature and how we relate to it. Various locations / Free + EAST ATLANTIC 17H – 18H This workshop aims to reflect on how Miguel C. Tavares e PREFÁCIO PARA UM Families with children + 5 years old / Free nothing is permanent and to think about José Alberto Gomes ARQUIPÉLAGO Pre-registration required + TIMESHORES Maria Trabulo Further information and registration: our island how it was and how it is now. The Exhibition Circuit is Diana Vidrascu + + EAST ATLANTIC [email protected] From here we will build our island. IN(SUL)AR Mónica Miguel C. Tavares e (+351) 913 412 105 formed by seven solo shows What plants? What animals? What de Miranda José Alberto Gomes rocks? What kind of smell and colours? in four different locations in 18H – 19H Workshops that invite families What shape will it have? What shape the city of Ponta Delgada, 9 JUL (tue) RARA RESIDENCIES will it gain in the future? Let’s build it? 17H – 18H With the curator, to creatively explore the which are the result of the LIMBO Gonçalo Preto + designers and artisans festival’s programming. work developed by artists RECETÁCULO Rita GT (Quinta do Priôlo) in residency at Walk&Talk. 18 JUL (thu) The guided tours will focus 10 JUL (wed) “Drawing with...” is an activity promoted 17H – 18H 17H – 18H Drawing with... on the curatorial proposal of PREFÁCIO PARA STRATA Andreia Santana by the Urban Sketchers Azores that invites UM ARQUIPÉLAGO + TIMESHORES Diana authors to share their ways of exploring Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues Maria Trabulo + EAST Vidrascu + IN(SUL)AR 13 JUL / 14H30 Mónica de Miranda the practice of Drawing in a notebook. ATLANTIC Miguel Lagoa das Empadadas to explore the process and C. Tavares e José These are informal conversation and With Urban Sketchers Açores the projects of each artist. Alberto Gomes 18H – 19H practice sessions around drawing are RARA RESIDENCIES Free With the curator, Further information: designed for everyone who likes to draw. The route of the visits is designers and artisans [email protected] 11 JUL (thu) extended to the parallel shows 17H – 18H (Quinta do Priôlo) STRATA Andreia Santana of Olivier Nottellet at Fonseca + TIMESHORES Diana Vidrascu + IN(SUL)AR 19 jul (fri) Macedo Gallery, Madalena Mónica de Miranda A workshop that is also an invitation to 17H – 19H Workshop Correia at Instituto Cultural PREFÁCIO PARA participate in Cascas d’OvO performance 18H – 19H UM ARQUIPÉLAGO by Jonas&Lander, which will be presented de Ponta Delgada and to the LOADING Madalena Maria Trabulo + Cascas d’OvO Correia + EMOTIONAL LIMBO Gonçalo Preto at Estúdio 13 on July 18th. All people RARA residency workshop. RESCUE Olivier Nottellet + RECETÁCULO Rita 15 – 16 JUL / 17H – 20H interested, with or without experience, GT + EAST ATLANTIC Miguel C. Tavares e Estúdio 13 can attend this workshop of dance and 12 JUL (fri) José Alberto Gomes + rhythm, where the duo of creators proposes STRATA Andreia Santana; Pre-registration required until July 8th 17H – 19H TIMESHORES Diana [email protected] to sharpen the rhythmic sense of the PREFÁCIO PARA UM Vidrascu + IN(SUL)AR participants and to work the body as a ARQUIPÉLAGO Maria Mónica de Miranda musical instrument. Collective exercises Trabulo + LIMBO Gonçalo Preto + RECETÁCULO to form structures of sound composition, Rita GT + EAST that also function as dialogue grounds, eyes ATLANTIC Miguel C. closed to amplify the sound sensitivity and Tavares e José Alberto Gomes + STRATA Andreia to listen to the sound before the word. Santana + TIMESHORES Diana Vidrascu + IN(SUL)AR Mónica 6 de Miranda 7 KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE

Thematic What shall come to Talk Abouts the island, from here W&T Pavilion Tours it shall not depart 5 JUL / 10H – 16H Guest expert: Pedro Pascoal de Melo Pre-registration required / 15 € per visit Talk About #1 Talk About #2 Meeting point: W&T Pavilion From Ponta Delgada to Vila Franca do Seeing gender From persistent dioramas Further information and registration: Campo, with stops along the regional road [email protected] 9 JUL / 21H30 to transforming panoramas Ana Cristina Cachola (+351) 936 403 999 for tasting, contemplation and visit to a Curator and Professor How to write “another” very special private house and collection. History of the island There is Walk&Talk and there without new visions? is Talkie-Walkie, a project The curatorial practice and all the ethics 16 JUL / 21H30 inherent in it (recalling here the great Dalia de la Rosa and Lola Barrena, Memories of the Solar. Acción Cultural based in Porto, founded by landscape built on difference between ethics and morality) the architects Ana Vieira and an unpredictable soil can no longer be hidden behind the fallacy Matilde Seabra, who design 8 JUL / 10H – 16H “I do not see gender”. It is common to The curators Dalia de la Rosa and Lola Guest expert: Rui Coutinho say that one does not think of the genre Barrena, through the cultural association travel programs for culture Go through the concavities and “melted of the artist when one looks at a work of Solar. Acción Cultural, with headquarters and art lovers. In São Miguel, mountains” of the Lagoa das Sete Cidades, art. But it’s necessary to recognize that a in Tenerife, Canary Islands, are especially inspired by the legacy of visit the Pedreira de Caboucos, the house work of art is always the result of a series immersed in researching the concept of and the art residencies Pico do Refúgio. of social processes that are invisible at “island”. The Canary Islands - Tenerife, are Walk&Talk, the TW team the moment we contemplate it. Before also an island as well as the Azores - São went to meet the people an artwork is exhibited in a gallery, in Miguel, and constitute the raw material of the island, listen to their Beyond landscape a museum, or in an art history book, it from which the question that triggers 9 JUL / 10H – 16H has gone through a set of instances of this talk is formulated. Both archipelagos factual and fictional stories, Guest expert: Diana Diegues social exclusion and legitimation in which belong to the Macaronesia territory and discovered private homes and A sight on the architecture of São Miguel gender categories operate systemically they share, not only the same geological collections, local architecture with visits to Quinta da Tília, by the (in Contemporânea magazine Gender origin and natural specificities, as well architect Pedro Maurício Borges, to the (In)visibilities: feminist practices in as a set of present circumstances which and landscape technologies. Arquipélago - Contemporary Art Center, contemporary artistic production, define them - from the need to rethink They’ve also explored unusual by the duo Cristina Guedes and Francisco March 2017, by Ana Cristina Cachola, the adverb “far” until its emergence on spots and new sights over Vieira de Campos, and to the industrial Daniela Agostinho and Joana Mayer). artistic contemporary matters. A talk open landscape in ruin on the North Coast. to all the people interested in discussing must go places that escape and talking about their territory, following hasty visitors, and even many Participants are advised to wear comfortable strategies that change perspectives and shoes. Lunches are not included in the registration locals.This adventure results in fee. The program is subject to updates. generate new ways of narrating history, and by incorporating tangential, adjacent, three thematic tours that invite divergent or simple suggestions. to understand the island for it’s geological, but also social This TALK ABOUT has the support stratigraphy, with the people of Acción Cultural Española. who inhabit and transform it. 8 9 KNOWLEDGE RESIDENCIES Brunch&Talk Brunch&Talk #1 W&T Pavilion 6 JUL / 12H – 14H The Residencies Circuit features the Talk: Free / Brunch: 5€ Island Circuit Expedition: Empathy Talk with the curators and artists. artists in residency at the festival,

Brunch&Talk gathers curators, Brunch&Talk #2 among them the winners of Walk&Talk’s artists, cultural agents and 13 JUL / 12H – 14H PARES - Program to Support the Artistic annual open calls, artists invited by the the public for a deeper Activity in the Azores, is the latest project artistic direction and guest curators, approach to the projects by the cultural association Anda&Fala that are being developed in and is aimed at artists and cultural and the designers who collaborate with agents who work or develop their the context of Walk&Talk. activities in the region. In this Talk, we Azorean artisans to create new RARA Processes, experiences and will meet the winners of the first phase objects. The artists participating in expectations will be the of PARES 2019, talk about the activities and projects that they have ongoing. focus of these Saturday’s the Artists Residency Program usually talks, with brunch served by Brunch&Talk #3 work between two editions of the the restaurant Q’énosso. 20 JUL / 12H – 14H W&T in Residency - Talk with the festival, a period that allows them to artists in residency at the 2019/20 Walk&Talk Artist Residency Program research in the Azorean context, benefit about the ongoing researches and from artistic and curatorial follow up, their experiences of the festival. produce and present new projects that can take the form of an exhibition, Open Studios Brui Galeria Oficina Free Show Greg le Lay, 11 AND 18 JUL 18H – 20H installation, object or performance. Diogo Sousa RUA ANTÓNIO JOSÉ 11 AND 18 JUL Studios, workshops and DE ALMEIDA, 10 18H – 20H In 2019, Walk&Talk hosts 11 new PONTA DELGADA galleries run by artists RUA D’ÁGUA, 46 names in a total of 14 artists and working in São Miguel present PONTA DELGADA Papel da Lua collectives with ongoing residencies in new projects or open their Brum Atelier Anne Bruyere Beatriz Brum 11 AND 18 JUL doors especially to welcome 18H – 20H art, cinema, architecture and music. 10 AND 17 JUL RUA D’ÁGUA, 48 visitors during the Walk&Talk 18H – 20H PONTA DELGADA RUA DIREITA DAS festival. A itinerary of six ALMINHAS, 4 LAGOA different spaces that display Santos 45 the artistic fabric of the MIOLO Galeria Beatriz Victorino, Show Kol de Diogo Sousa, Filipe island, the artists and agents Franco, Luís Brum Carvalho, e Vanessa Branco that make it an increasingly Greg le Lay 10 AND 17 JUL plural and active context. 11 AND 18 JUL 18H – 20H 18H – 20H RUA PRAIA DOS RUA PEDRO HOMEM, SANTOS, 45 SÃO ROQUE 10 47 PONTA DELGADA RESIDENCIES RESIDENCIES

Abbas Akhavan Alex Farrar Alice dos Reis Danny Bracken Visual Arts Visual Arts Visual Arts Visual Arts © ABBAS AKHAVAN © JACK CAWOOD © ALICE DOS REIS © DANNY BRACKEN

The work of Abbas Akhavan ranges from Alex Farrar will use his residency in São Alice dos Reis will work on the island of TURN OF THE SEA (working title) site-specific ephemeral installations to Miguel to develop a group of inventions Santa Maria in the Azores. An island of Danny Bracken is an artist and musician drawing, video, sculpture and performance. in the Azores for next year’s Walk&Talk geological and paleontological singularity, who explores technological change The direction of his research has been festival. In addition to engaging with where the construction of the first and its impact on our perceptions and deeply influenced by the specificity of the this years’ edition and its participants, European low-cost space station is planned. experiences of the people and places sites where he works: the architectures that Farrar plans to sensitively explore Located in the middle of the Atlantic, that surround us. His projects often house them, the economies that surround locations, materials and techniques found it is believed that Santa Maria is one of incorporate video, sound, and physical them, and the people that frequent them. on the island, allowing an undefined the possible locations of the lost city of objects; ranging from installations to The domestic sphere, which he proposes outcome to emerge that will reflect on Atlantis as described by Plato. Starting from small-scale sculptures, printed material as a forked space between hospitality and his experience of life in the Azores. this myth of a technologically advanced to record releases. The work investigates hostility, has been an ongoing area of study With a systemic approach to art utopian civilization that succumbed the tension between our idealism for in his practice. More recent works have making, Farrar produces concentrated to its self-righteousness, Alice dos Reis the future, nostalgia for the past, and an wandered into spaces and species just groupings of works that have recently project considers a serie of fictions that increasingly conflicted present moment. outside the home: the garden, the backyard, focussed on the bodily as a liminal space are alternative to contemporary space It is with this in mind that he approaches and other domesticated landscapes. between our psychological interior and exploration projects. The research, which his residency at Walk&Talk. While in the Akin to learning new etiquettes, social lives. Often using humour and will mainly converge on a short film, Azores he will be considering the unique his residency in the Azores, will complex sculptural relationships between will make use of speculative fiction and history of the islands as a place between be an opportunity to visit various materials and their forms, Farrar mines experimental documentary format to the new and old, both metaphorically locations in order to glean formal embodied experience with strategies that re-imagine possible futures and and practically. The working title for his and conceptual material that will recall Salvador Dali’s paranoiac-critical cosmologies of the island, in the context of project, Turn of the Sea, is a reference hopefully be fruitful for the realization method, the Situationists’ psychogeography its rapid development in a space travel port. to navigational technique perfected by of a future project for Walk&Talk. and Alfred Jarry’s pataphysics. Portuguese navigators which significantly aided European expansion and influence around the world. Using a combination of trade winds and ocean currents, explorers used a counterintuitive sailing method to navigate great distances. Bracken will be using these ideas as a starting point and as his introduction to the residency. 12 13 RESIDENCIES RESIDENCIES

Luísa Salvador Michelle Blades, Nadia Belerique Polliana Dalla Barba Visual Arts Vaiapraia e Tomás Visual Arts Visual Arts Paula Marques Music and Documentary © JURAJ KOSTURIK © NADIA BELERIQUE © POLLIANA DALLA BARBA

DA MATÉRIA INACABADA DO TEMPO HOUSE HEAD (WHAT IS A ZONA DOS MISTÉRIOS

FAZ UMA PROMESSA (working title) © MICHELLE BLADES FLOOD) (working title) The project Zona dos Mistérios (“Mystery The work of Luísa Salvador will focus on Driven by a close engagement with Zone”) aims to create a set of works - which the conception of geological time, a time Absorbed by the possibilities that how images perform in our current can include drawings, paintings, collages, that is pre and post-historical. Starting the island of São Miguel offers, the moment, Toronto-based artist Nadia photos, videos, texts and other media, from from the volcanic matter, the artist began multifaceted trio composed by Michelle Belerique combines photography and the residency and experiences obtained by being interested in the formation Blades, Vaiapraia and Tomás Paula sculptural installation to track the shifting by the research of the volcanoes in the and composition of the Azorean islands, Marques, join to develop a set of works relationship between the perceptual, the Azores, and also to observe and analyze having as starting point several geological that explore from music to cinema and psychological and the representational. the effects and impacts of the Volcano in elements, different types of rocks and from audiovisual experimentation to Frequently pushing at the limits of the the social configuration and, consequently, minerals and also volcanic fossils. The storytelling as a common craft. The project photographic image - both real and in the cultural production of the latter will be the starting material for an starts from the intersection of the musical imagined - Belerique’s works regularly communities that live in its surroundings. outdoor installation composed of several work of Blades and Vaiapraia, being stage scenes that confuse or conflate Zona dos Mistérios dialogues with sculptures of different dimensions, at possible to intersect styles and blur their figure and ground, image and object, the expansion of the artistic space Ponta da Ferraria. At the same time, there boundaries, considering topics such as the signifier and signified. As an Azorean conquered from the 60’s of the XX century, will be another exhibition where she exploration of floating notions of identity descendant, this residency will be the particularly by Land Art. This process of will present a set of drawings related to and the search for a sense of belonging, artist’s first time engaging with the islands dematerialisation of the artistic object as a erosion and geological sedimentation. from an autobiographical perspective directly. Following previous projects, closed universe supported the expansion immersed in socio-political contexts. Bed Island (2016), and The Weather of the concept of work of art, which This encounter will result in a Channel (2018), Belerique’s research resulted in the absorption of a larger concert during the festival, an EP with into the metaphoric and psychological context in which different artistic media new themes and a short documentary phenomenon of the island-as-body in touch and intertwine. The constitutional film, born of the spectrum of reflections the advent of rising sea levels, will reach themes of the work were defined by and experiences lived in residency. a more personal-historical focus, and cultural relations - literary production, specifically reference these significant nine folkloric and religious manifestations, islands in the center of the Atlantic ocean. and geological relations - volcano.

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Ponto Atelier Sofia Caetano & YOUNG CREATORS Architecture Elliot Sheedy Cinema Young Creators is an open call for artists born or based in the Azores, up to 30 years old. It allocates annually two grants within the Walk&Talk Artists Residency Program, with curatorial and production follow-up over a period of one year. Joana Franco and Margarida Fragueiro are the winners of Young Creators 2019, beginning their residencies at the festival and © PONTO ATELIER presenting the final projects in the 2020 edition.

A team of three young architects who © SOFIA CAETANO work and live in Madeira Island want to find other dialects. Architecture as THE HAPPIEST MAN language produces regional dialects that A science fiction film and musical comedy Joana Franco Margarida Fragueiro are interesting to understand, explore by Sofia Caetano with Elliot Sheedy. Visual Arts Visual Arts and experience, spaces that evolve as In residency since 2018 for writing the a living and endemic organism. They plot, this project returns to Walk&Talk The works Joana Franco has produced, Flutuações Pendentes (“Pending look for small architectural elements, in 2019 for the first phase of shooting intentionally or not, focus on the Fluctuations”) is the resumption of a which build spaces with the same in magical locations of the island of São ‘Individual’, in the definition and/or project that the artist has pending, and proportion between archipelagos. Miguel, such as Sete Cidades and Furnas. variations of the word. She has a great which has in its genesis the Azorean roots. Being an islander is different, but The film tells the story of a caveman need to discover all there is to know The project originally orbited around the among archipelagos, it’s common. from the future who makes music about the essence of the human being. buoy, a floating object that can generate Between languages, regionalisms, cultures with his pet raven. When the animal This topic creates immense confusion and an image between the comic and the and customs, the Atlantic influence brings becomes ill, the man is forced to seek she intends to work it, to make it visible, profound, given its diverse formats and architecture to an elementary field: the a cure in a post-apocalyptic city. so it can be absorbed. The focus in the functions, ranging, for example, from the simultaneous proximity between land and ‘Individual’ emerged from her participation life buoy to the recreational buoy with the sea. They are interested in understanding in the Medeiros Cabral art contest, where shape of a crocodile. Another factor that the diversity within this community of she presented a series of images with instigates Margarida Fragueiro to research archipelagos, and the spaces that make her face to Fazer-me noutro (“Make me this object, and others related, is the them common. As well as in talking about another”). As she experimented, new and eventual appearance of barnacles in the the spaces or elements that characterize innumerable possibilities came to light. part of the buoy that is in contact with the the sites, small architectural operations How does the essence of the individual sea, a process that makes her think about that have been built over time in these relate to the object, movement, and the power of the context/environment in territories and which, with time, go shape? As in Philosophy, she doesn’t the being. On her last trip to Faial Island unnoticed: the stone walls, the gazebo answer, she just asks. And this question she went in search of buoys and in this towers of the Azores, the terraces of basalt will be the target of experience during project she intends to expand this search and the little “pleasures houses” of Madeira. her time of residency in Walk&Talk. to other islands, as well as collect other They are interested in speaking and objects and sounds. The purpose is to understanding spaces that are so diverse use the collected materials as inspiration and finding the common and insular factor. and elements of the work itself, which the artist foresees will become a sound installation, to allow the exploration of the environments that surround the buoy, 16 floating between facts and imagination.17 RESIDENCIES PERFORMATIVE The Performative Circuit gathers the performing arts program of the festival with music, dance, theatre or hybrid projects, which outcome from artistic collaborations and disciplinary crossings that are very common in the contemporary context. In 2019, this circuit features shows on tour, projects co-produced by Walk&Talk or © MIGUEL FLOR in partnership with Teatro Micaelense and Arquipélago – Contemporary RARA Arts Center, and in two associated RARA - Design and Crafts Residency of the Azores, venues, Estúdio 13 and Sentado em gathers in São Miguel designers invited by the Pé Bar & Lounge. The main stage, curator Miguel Flor to work on new objects with local artisans. Filipe Alarcão and Soraia Gomes Teixeira meeting point and dance floor of the will collaborate with the artisans Horácio Raposo festival is the W&T Pavilion, hosting and Alcídio Andrade, cross ancestral knowledge projects that range from Tarraxo to with contemporary visions and explore raw materials and techniques such as wood and wicker. Techno and from performance to video, Throughout six editions, the RARA residencies created by artists, musicians and DJs have valorized Azorean handicrafts and artisans, that reflect on identity, gender and innovating in the creation of objects that constitute the portfolio of the homonymous brand. relationships between technology Some of these objects are available for purchase, and nature, issues that are transversal and their revenue help to support the artisan in the festival’s programming. activity and the continuity of the project, which is also supported by the US Embassy and hosted by Quinta do Priôlo and Associação Arrisca. 18 PERFORMATIVE PERFORMATIVE

5 JUL / 21H30 6 JUL / 22H At the still point Mondkopf Timeshores of the turning world W&T PAVILION Joana Gama, Luís Fernandes, José Alberto Gomes, Miguel C. Tavares OPENING TEATRO MICAELENSE / 7,5€ Tickets available at the Theatre’s box office PARTY W&T PAVILION © DIANA VIDRASCU

Paul Régimbeau, aka Mondkopf, is 22H30 Chima Hiro (DJ Set) 01H DJ NinOo a household name among edgiest international music festivals and has put forward his talents as a live artist, giving his melodic ambient music a power and At the still point of the turning world a rager inspired by extreme metal. comes from the regular collaboration His performance at Walk&Talk festival between Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes will be a musical interpretation of in a project that crosses piano and Diana Vidrascu’s new video installation electronic. Here the music travels in a Vulcão, an artist with whom he has wide space, entering routes that come been collaborating for two years. He will in permanent shock. In shock, you improvise live on her 16mm images,

understand that there is no conflict, © LUISA FERREIRA © MARTA PINA also using the field recordings she but an explosion of sounds that captured in the Azores while shooting illuminates a space that begins dark. Chima Hiro is a music fan first and DJ NinOo is one of the troops of Firma the documentary that can be seen at At Walk&Talk, the project features foremost. This is expressed in the way she do Txiga, a collective that also gathers the festival’s Exhibition Circuit. the Conservatory of Ponta Delgada, dances and in how she was already looking Puto Anderson, K30 and Wayne. In 2017, live visuals by Miguel C. Tavares and for special tracks in the most unexpected their premiere album, “Firma do Txiga”, corners, well before she even dreamt of orquestration by José Alberto Gomes with 3 7-inch vinyl singles, collected being a DJ. The tracks she picks for her sets embrace a spectrum that is as expansive the stylistic diversity of its authors, Joana Gama Piano and composition as it is surprising, just like her untainted confirming a particularly romantic and Electronics and composition Luís Fernandes Arrangements and orquestration taste. Moody but colourful, innovative but elegant DJ NinOo in his productions, José Alberto Gomes archetypal - it’s music that touches on New being that in his DJ sets he does not shy Emsemble Conservatório Regional de Ponta Delgada Age and Jazz, as well as distorted beats over away from showing the predilection for Video Miguel C. Tavares Acid lines or uplifting, melodic House. the shifters who sail between Tarraxo Duration 1h and the times of his accurate Houses. 20 21 PERFORMATIVE PERFORMATIVE

6 JUL / 23H 6 JUL / 01H 7 JUL / 19H 11 JUL / 22H30 Colin Self Line of Two (DJ Set) East Atlantic Low Lumens Siblings W&T PAVILION Miguel C. Tavares & José Alberto Gomes W&T PAVILION W&T PAVILION ARQUIPÉLAGO - CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER

Free admission. Limited capacity © MIGUEL FLOR © DANNY BRACKEN © JOHNATHAN GRASSI The complicity between Miguel Flor and Audiovisual artist Danny Bracken creates

Colin Self is an artist and composer. Nuno Paiva electrifies the dance floor, © MIGUEL C. TAVARES melodic electronic music under the name He creates music, performances, and since 2006, with several sonority shades Low Lumens. Bracken was a member of environments as devices for making trouble but having in Techno its essence. Inspired by Raul Brandão’s trip to the the Chicago collective Anathallo, with and altering boundaries of perception. Between Lisbon and Porto, can be Azores archipelago in 1924, Miguel C. whom he toured extensively and released From his formative years experiencing highlighted their passages by Lux Frágil, Tavares and José Alberto Gomes travelled their final album with the record label Riot Grrrl shows in Oregon (USA), Self Rive Rouge, Passos Manuel, Plano B, and on board Corvo cargo ship for a 10-day Anticon. Bracken began Low Lumens, refreshes the DIY ethos to a space of in events at Casa da Música and Museum journey between Mainland Portugal and releasing Dawn/Dusk in 2014, followed by Do-It-Together. His portfolio of projects Night at Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga. the Azores, with stops along the islands of The Distant, Everyday in 2017. In 2018, he spans a DIS Magazine boy band and a drag On their way back to Ponta Delgada São Miguel, Faial, Terceira, Flores and Pico. teamed up with the artist and filmmaker ensemble Chez Deep, to the Holly Herndon and to the lead of Walk&Talk festival’s East Atlantic is an audiovisual piece Samm Hodges to develop a dynamic live A/V Trio that toured with Radiohead. dance floor, they literally feel at home, in a film-concert format that translates performance using projected animations Self co-wrote the operetta, The Fool that’s why the night with these two can this imagery, with the Azorean archipelago that are triggered and manipulated live (Elation V), with the artist Raul De Nieves. always have surprising outcomes. and its island condition in its centre. In a with the music. Musician and visual artist, Siblings (Elation VI), Self’s second record hybrid space between the documentary and who incorporates video, sound and physical release, proposes an alternative means the artistic object, the work also intends objects his projects, the multifaceted of relation, interfacing with biological to represent the dichotomous insular Braken is also one of the artists that and technological software. As the final character, both seductive and attractive, begins a residency at Walk&Talk in 2019. chapter of the speculative sci-fi operetta as well as prisoner and claustrophobic. Elation series, Siblings has been performed Premiering at Walk&Talk, the iteratively and internationally with show will be marked by a strong humour, drama, and fierce, earnest song. performative component that takes advantage of the Arquipélago’s Blackbox architecture and scale for an immersive, uncertain and abstract experience.

East Atlantic occupies a container that becomes context and component of its presentation in the Exhibition Circuit. 22 23 PERFORMATIVE PERFORMATIVE

12 JUL / 22H30 12 JUL / 00H 12 and 13 JUL / 23H30 13 JUL / 21H30 A Lake By The Moon Terror Sound System Silent Disco Lento e Largo W&T PAVILION W&T PAVILION Alfredo Martins Jonas&Lander SENTADO EM PÉ / 5 € TEATRO MICAELENSE / 7,5€

Tickets available at W&T Pavilion and at Tickets available at the Theatre’s box office the venue 30m before the show © A LAKE BY THE MOON © TERROR SOUND SYSTEM

A Lake By The Moon is an act of liberation Founded in Oporto, the label T E R R O R © ANA FERREIRA © TIAGO COELHO from the self and what surrounds it, materializes an oblique teratoma creating small cosmos through the where Funk Carioca, Reggaeton, Silent Disco is an immersive show that Lento e Largo is a new creation by image and sound, allowing the entrance Dancehall and Gqom collide in happens in night-clubs to explore the Jonas&Lander, where they inscribe to whoever sees and hears it. It’s an hyper-digital vehicles, solidifying in potential of the technology from ‘silent robotic and human performers to open-hearted intuitive therapy, almost hybrid productions, signed by a collective disco’ parties. The audience forms a create a visual apocalypse. In an unreal tactile, without gender barriers, names of transdisciplinary artists composed by temporary community, guided only by landscape, both entities will socialize, or spectres. It follows in its fluidity of Diogo Tutela, Frankão, Jonathan Uliel headphones in the club’s empty space, dance, kiss, command and obey, from feeling and of interactivity, encouraging Saldanha and Luis Kasprzykowski. As the reshaping and problematizing the now equal to equal. They will explore the and inviting the impulses of the listener, label’s operational format, the Terror Sound common experience of parties in clubs, limits of performative virtuosity, more proving that nobody is firm and solid. System diffuses the contents produced by where the crowd gets together to each or less subtle, of each performer. The Field of expression without limits, his the collective, as well the manipulations dance to their own music, isolated from robotic hability of flying over the audience project serves mainly as an exercise of of its circumscribed universe through one another by the sound they listen contrasts with the human hability to communication, both interior and exterior, a performance between the DJ Set, the through their own headphones. kiss, expanding and blurring the borders through soft experimental sonorities. concert and the session of improvisation. Spectacular identities, multiple of the action of each organism. sexualities, hedonistic consuming, raw physicality – could they constitute Artistic Direction, Choreography and Performance Jonas Lopes and Lander Patrick political practices of resistance? Performance Lewis Seivwright, Actor and director Alfredo Mathilde Bonicel, Francisca Pinto Martins invites the dancer and Scenography and Costumes Rita Torrão Scenography and Light Design Rui Daniel choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira Technical Direction Bruno Santos for a collaborative creation that reflects Technical Assistance and Robotics Joana Mário, Filipe Metelo on gender identity and clubbing, on Management and Production Patrícia Soares temporary communities and dance. Production Sinistra Associação Cultural

Duration 1h30 Artistic Direction Alfredo Martins Co-creation and Performance Alfredo Martins and Marco da Silva Ferreira Dramaturgic Collaboration Teresa Fradique e Pedro Marum Graphic Design Ricardo Barbeito Music and Sound Design Rui Lima and Sérgio Martins Executive Production Daniela Ribeiro 24 Duration 50 min 25 PERFORMATIVE PERFORMATIVE

17 jun / 21H30 18 JUL / 21H30 ARRAIAL Cascas d’OvO Burning Pricks Jonas&Lander Antonio Branco & Riccardo T ESTÚDIO 13 / 5€ ARQUIPÉLAGO - CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER / 5 €

WALK&TALK Tickets available at the W&T Pavilion and Tickets available at the Arquipélago’s box office at the venue 30m before the show Limited capacity W&T PAVILION Limited capacity

18H Paco Piri Piri + Las Mákinas

23H Pedro Mafama 00H King Kami (DJ Set) © HOLLY REVELL © JONAS&LANDER In an iconoclastic performance, two Cascas d’OvO was born of the need individuals interact from image to image to explore telepathic, superhuman in a flow of pain, truth, and hypocrisy. communication as the ultimate While enacting violent and sexual acts exponent of a couple’s relational they read statements of political and connection. Cascas d’OvO offers the philosophical nature shaping the surreal experience of a new dimension of performance into a radical lecture dialogue, where social relations and on virility, femininity, contemporary © FILIPA PINTO MACHADO © XIXIPA their ways of expression are rethought: sexuality, porn consumption, cybersex, theatre as a microcosm of society that polyamory and gender norms. Pedro Mafama presents a deeply King Kami is one of the halves of cara// immerses the public in the silence and The performance functions through a original proposal, claiming Fado as vag//yo, the duo of DJ’s, with explosive music of communicating bodies. conceptual script, it’s never rehearsed one of the signs to accuse on his wide and engaging mood. She also performs and it’s allowed to change constantly, radar, able to also capture the pulse of with Pedro Mafama on stage, in his fados Concept and Choreography Lander Patrick with different spaces and contexts, and of disquieting beats. Here, as King Kami, Interpretation Jonas Lopes and Patrick Lander Kuduro or the darkest side of Trap. to respond to the site in which is set. she absorbs, the influence of the Brazilian Dramatic Assistance Jonas Lopes He debuted on the music scene with the Northeast and mixes it with her love Light Drawing Lander Patrick and Rui Daniel For Walk&Talk the artists have created Light Operation Rui Daniel, Cristóvão Cunha release of the EP Má Fama, followed by for Technobrega, as well as the junction and Carlos Ramos an installation that will function both on Tanto Sal, that brought us Jazigo, theme of Funk and Bregafunk in the sets. Coproduction Festival Materiais Diversos its own and as a set for performance. with both Fado and something else that Duration 45 min is not possible to understand, but that Age Rating 16+ Age Rating 16+ we can feel, and Arder Contigo, sensual and martial portrait of an emotion that Workshop Cascas d’OvO: 15 and 16 JUL More info on page 6 sometimes invades us, without without control. Now, Pedro Mafama is willing to spread his poison, like a “lacrau”. 02H DJ Desculpa 27 PERFORMATIVE PERFORMATIVE

19 JUL / 22H30 19 JUL / 00H 20 JUL / 22H30 20 JUL / 00H Michelle Blades Clara! (DJ Set) Vessel & Pedro Maia NSDOS W&T PAVILION (Live AV) W&T PAVILION + Vaiapraia TEATRO MICAELENSE / 7,5€ W&T PAVILION Tickets available at the Theatre’s box office Limited capacity © COQUELIN © NSDOS

© MICHELLE BLADES Part of the collective PRR! PRR!, Clara! After studying dance, Kirikoo Des aka NSDOS, felt the need to create his own makes heterogeneous blends of hopping © VESSEL & PEDRO MAIA In residency during the festival to tempo, with music from different sound in order to explore movement. develop an EP with new songs and backgrounds and cultural settings, guided A composer and producer whose persistent This is how he started imagining a whole new sonic order, an alternative approach a short documentary film with the by curiosity, humour and a strong love for evolution cannot be second guessed, to music - through abstraction. director Tomás Paula Marques, dance. In 2016 she signed Reggaetoneras 2 Sebastian Gainsborough’s output as NSDOS can’t restrain himself to the concert-performance that the and 3, a 100% female mixtape of Reggaeton Vessel has reached another peak with existing technological tools and softwares, duo Michelle Blades and Vaiapraia MCs, with rhythms since the 1990s of the his chamber influenced and classically he prefers to create his own mediums: intend to present will already reflect 20th century to this day. A project full of suffused third LP, Queen Of Golden Dogs. futurist instruments made of old audio their experience in the Azores. rude drums and hooks levered by great For Walk&Talk, Vessel will present his latest converters, Gameboy emulators, pieces of On stage, they will intersect personal dance hits, mixed with skits and personal album alongside his faithful collaborator metal dismantled and weld together giving styles and mark one of the steps of a recordings. In 2018 she released her first Pedro Maia, the Portuguese Berlin-based form to surreal machines. Textures are broader research, which explores from solo EP - Clara! y Maoupa - Meneo, visual alchemist known for his radical and exploded, sounds mutilated, and brought back to their essence. His alternative vision music to cinema to approach floating together with Maoupa Mazzocchetti, innovative use of analog film techniques. and the way he reinterprets technological identities and senses of belonging. where she sings her anger, sarcasm and tools have made him one of the most seduction, in her own Reggaeton beats. important techno hackers of his generation.

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20 JUL / 01H The Exhibition Circuit maps the FLiP + Tape (DJ Set) exhibitions and new works that are W&T PAVILION presented at the festival by artists who complete their residencies in Walk&Talk and by artists invited by the curators. In 2019, the curator Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues draws an Identity Roam through different venues of Ponta

© FLIP+TAPE Delgada city, where seven solo shows, Flip lives in [in]definition, of liking to by the artists Andreia Santana, Diana stick your feet on the earth as much as to feel them on the water, of tasting the Vidrascu, Gonçalo Preto, Maria Trabulo, bittersweet, on existing in the twilight. His path in music was made on records Miguel C. Tavares & José Alberto and on machines, to spill what we have Gomes, Mónica de Miranda and Rita (seen) heard and felt. This path started over 20 years ago, with splendid sights, GT, are articulated. The shows were along the way, but the best part is that it is still being made today, made wider, developed by the artists and curator made differently, always [in]defining! Tape has been one of the main stirrings in residencies held between 2017/19 of the clubbing scene on the island of in São Miguel, and three of these São Miguel, tireless “azucrinador” of stuck minds in the past, being able to residencies also passed by Terceira, consistently succeeded in raising BPM of the sentimental and brave Azorean hearts, Faial, Flores and Pico islands. with his sets ruled by fun and good taste. Flip and Tape team up to close the last night of the 2019 Walk&Talk edition. The festival’s music program is completed on the dance floor of NINGS PE the W&T Pavilion, which O hosts at its commands SAT the DJs FELLINI, DELÍCIA, MILHAFRE, NEX and other 6 JULH guests. On Thursdays, 16H – 20 the party continues at

Raiz Club, also in Ponta Opening visit guided by the curator starting at Delgada city center. 4º Andar SolMar 30 Avenida Center EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS

IDENTITY ROAM Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues Curator

The curatorial proposal for the Punctuating, dispersing and Exhibition Circuit of the Walk&Talk converging are thus the basic festival, in Ponta Delgada, in 2019 actions that guide a logic that aims articulates a set of seven solo to be extended, transformative presentations, on view in five and participative, dictating the different locations of this city. participation of the artists: These presentations question the traditional format of the exhibition Gonçalo Preto at Museu Carlos and problematize the idea of Machado - Núcleo de Santo

identity. Working with the places that André (punctuating) © BRUNO LANÇA, ARTWORKS connect with their nature, the artistic interventions question what defines, Miguel C. Tavares & José Alberto composes and reinvents the identity Gomes at Avenida Marginal de Ponta Strata Andreia Santana also intervenes in logic, operating in a close relationship Delgada / Portas do Mar (punctuating) Andreia Santana two rooms adjacent to the swimming between spaces and contents. pool where she applies a succession Each intervention calls for a set of Maria Trabulo at Torre Sineira of 4TH FLOOR SOLMAR AVENIDA CENTER of posters that occupy all the existing cultural, social and anthropological Ponta Delgada (dispersing) MON – SUN / 14H – 20H walls. One of the rooms receives a slide references, ranging from gender, projection which is read as one more memory, landscape and architecture. Rita GT at Museu Carlos Machado Andreia Santana relies on an idea of layer added to the existing ones. Interpellations that problematize Núcleo de Santo André and on search and observation that questions The images come from the initial phase the expression of time, the idea the adjacent streets (dispersing) the perception of time and the logic of of the project and are transposed from their of change and the concept of objects. The work she developed comes place of origin (underwater parks) to the knowledge, and which, suggesting Mónica de Miranda, Diana from research conducted at the Angra do exhibition space, where the relationship an inclusive path, cross three types Vidrascu and Andreia Santana, Heroísmo Underwater Archaeological Park, between the excavation object and the of intervention. These typologies on the 4th floor of the SolMar where she explored the use and production excavated object is staged. The idea of organize different exhibition models: building, at Avenida Marginal de of new systems and new work tools. stratum is tested vertically, on the pool floor Ponta Delgada (converging) The artist occupies an abandoned and horizontally, with the images that cover (1) Particular interventions in swimming pool, raised in relation to sea the walls. What arises is a set of fragments specific places (punctuating) As a whole, the exhibitions promote level, which appears as an open sky hole. that, by matter and image, personify a a reflection on what identifies a In this scenario, which resembles an memory and establish nets of affectivity. (2) Interventions that propagate community, believing that this excavation site, there is a set of sculptures Something that holds the potential in urban space (dispersing) considers a process of constant that appear to emerge from the surface. for a recollection and completeness, renewal, where creativity, debate The walls are covered by a layer of white intentionally impossible to achieve. (3) Interventions grouped in and inclusion, have a leading place. paint and the floor is coated by a material The intervention problematizes one place (converging) In this sense, all the works try to that mimics Terrazo technique, used in the hypothesis of successive recycling, problematize not the difference fieldwork, which unifies the findings that that questions the idea of authenticity, that distinguishes us, but rather, the have been inscribed in the soil over time. authorship and appropriation, establishing reinvention that draws us closer. The connection that is created a new existence that interrupts between the insular/Atlantic context chronological succession and linear time. and the deactivated pool is based on the The Exhibition Circuit is supported by the presence of water and on the act of digging, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. which is inverted here. In fact, when referring to the universe of subaquatic archaeology, in an empty and discovered construction, the artist problematizes the 32 memory and the place of its emergence. 33 EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS © DIANA VIDRASCU © GONÇALO PRETO

Timeshores By intersecting abstract experimentation Limbo visual universe of the artist. The object Diana Vidrascu and narrative documentary, forms and constructs an environment where one concepts are twisted, working the idea Gonçalo Preto rehearses the re-creation of a study 4TH FLOOR SOLMAR AVENIDA CENTER of an alternative chronology. The ocean MUSEU CARLOS MACHADO landscape, where the images recorded on MON – SUN / 14H – 20H is transformed into boiling lava and old NÚCLEO DE SANTO ANDRÉ the transparent plates are reproductions TUE – SUN / 10H – 18H images are transfigured into new forms, of scientific illustrations. On the other Diana Vidrascu relies on the tectonic while memory morphs between liquid and hand, the insertion of taxidermied animals imaginary that informs the archipelago of solid states to something that is diluted. The exhibition Limbo arises from an introduces volume, colour and texture to the Azores and establishes the narrative investigation around the historical the composition, disturbing the rigour of an experimental documentary, where TIMESHORES: By detecting invisible herbariums that comprises the estate of of a schematic reading. The interaction she explores a scientific but also fictional presences, infrared photography allows Museu Carlos Machado. The end-of-the- with a careful lighting system, which timeframe. The volcanoes erupt from the analyzing the territory in a distinct way. century imagery that characterizes the projects the shadow and dimension of earth, mark the video installation and The photographs in the Timeshores archivist logic and the environment of these the figures, expands the composition frame a set of sonorized photographs, series display landscapes frozen in places serves as an engine for the work to a space field, of scenic value. which the artist also presents. time, like fleeting moments from the developed, which is based on a reflection The intervention starts with careful geological age. An age of volcanoes and on the key moments of the study of Botany attention to the subtlety and fragility of VULCÃO: In the Azores Archipelago, on unformed continents, long before any and the expansion of Natural History. each element but, on the whole, it works the triple junction of three tectonic plates, history was written. Together with its In the scope of this research, the exhibition an overlap of orders that simultaneously exists a bearing constant motion and sound installation, each image seems relates to the field of Synecology, respect and subvert the linearity of a ceaseless seismic activity - time collides, to emerge in the viewer’s eyes like the analyzing the behaviours of the biological classification system. Working on the mountains move, and images emerge as memory of a forgotten dream. As on rising communities, or the relations between expression that the elements regain, new islands from the ocean. This creates to the surface, these images reiterate the individuals that integrate different the creation of this new landscape, the premise of a geological mythical movements from the installation Vulcão species and the environment in which manipulated, builds an ambience that land, where narratives are produced in being, simultaneously, chapter points in they live. Based on the sociological inquires the linearity of scientific thought a pounding rhythm of 24 tremors per the narrative and the canvas onto which hierarchy of plants and the knowledge and its classification system. Limbo thus second, making way for a cinematic animation scenes are pictured. As the of Lineu Taxonomy, the intervention refers to the space that exists between the language eruption. Using analogue film robotic movement of an artificial observer, problematizes the concept of endemic, exuberance of existence and scientific techniques and special effects from the or rather as a volcanic deity looking down translated into the composition of an rationalization. Space that the artistic field optical printer, Vulcão crosses times, upon the Earth, the film camera looks artistic object that rehearses another approaches, expands and speculates. forms and different references. for things hiding in plain sight. Facing relationship between the elements. the photographic paper, the viewer is The intervention crosses the scientific invited to search for its own details, at his research with the expression of the own pace and pleasure. Observing and principles inherent to painting, operating 34 listening within the loop of the frame. on a logic of strata that inform the 35 EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS © MARIA TRABULO © MIGUEL C. TAVARES & JOSÉ ALBERTO GOMES

of freedom and of expression. Maria Trabulo Prefácio para um develops a work that connects Torre Sineira East Atlantic “Everything was reduced to of Ponta Delgada to a set of other spaces of Miguel C. Tavares & fragments, to restricted frames and Arquipélago the city. The tower hosts reading sessions nooks of the landscape. Anxious, I Maria Trabulo open to the public that, broadcast on the José Alberto Gomes sift through that first impression of radio, propagate veiled texts in the past. the whole and I do not find it.” TORRE SINEIRA DE PONTA DELGADA It becomes a place of encounter, freedom CONTEINER – AMPHITHEATER PORTAS DO MAR Raúl Brandão in The Unknown CITY HALL OF PONTA DELGADA MON – SUN / 16H – 20H MON – FRI / 09H30 – 17H30 and diffusion that, by the presented artistic Islands (As Ilhas Desconhecidas) actions and objects, reverses its lookout During the old regime, hundreds of political and control power. Being something that Inspired by Raul Brandão’s trip to the prisoners were deported to the Azores, taking exalts the memory and the poetry, it also Azores archipelago in 1924, Miguel with them their books and their forbidden exalts the memory of some of the places C. Tavares and José Alberto Gomes ideas from the continent. These people acted that welcomed the writing, printing, and travelled on board of “Corvo” cargo as a cog in a political discussion and debate diffusion of new ideas. Ideas that the artist ship for a ten-day journey between that gradually took place between islands. rescues for the present, also, in posters Mainland Portugal and the Azores, with Prefácio para um Arquipélago revisits and pamphlets with phrases, poems or stops along the islands of São Miguel, this chapter of history from the official excerpts of original publications, pasted in Faial, Terceira, Flores and Pico. documentation and intervention poetry, pro- the walls of the city. These elements mark With East Atlantic they present duced clandestinely during this period in the the said places, repositioning them into an audiovisual piece in a film-concert country. This time is analyzed in the Azores a network of memory and discussion. format that translates this imagery from the literature of resistance (up to 1974) Ponta Delgada receives the memory of into images and sounds, based on the that arrived there through the deportees, the the transgression, equating a counterculture Azorean archipelago and its insular mail, or that was written there, constituting and its relationship with society. All the condition. In a hybrid space between libraries in the present. In contrast to these actions carried out in the tower and on the documentary and the artistic object, contents, documentation is revealed about the streets embody a unified work that the work also intends to represent the experience of permanent vigilance to challenges individuals, history, and the the dichotomous insular character, which these individuals were subject. city, where the relevance of the word as both seductive and attractive, as well Based on the power of the written word, resistance strengthens a common dialogue. as prisoner and claustrophobic. in times where freedom was clandestine, the work unearths national history, through With the support of Antena 1 Açores On July 7, East Atlantic is performed the local. The artist recovers episodes of as a concert-film at the Performative READINGS-PERFORMANCE SESSIONS oppression from the past speech to observe 6 JUL / 17H : TORRE SINEIRA DE PONTA DELGADA Circuit of the festival, in an absolute debut its repercussions in the present and to 8 JUL / 17H : TORRE SINEIRA DE PONTA DELGADA at the Blackbox of Arquipélago CAC. question how the contemporary political 8 JUL / 21H30 : W&T PAVILION 15 JUL / 18H : PESQUEIRO, PORTAS DO MAR 36constructions introduce the new domains 19 JUL / 17H : TORRE SINEIRA DE PONTA DELGADA 37 EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS © MÓNICA DE MIRANDA © RITA GT

In(sul)ar and what is solid, between construction Recetáculo where these objects preserved the home Mónica de Miranda and deconstruction, ruin and memory of Rita GT sustenance, or by invoking woman’s the place - here, out of place. A universe body, which assumes the possibility 4TH FLOOR SOLMAR AVENIDA CENTER between the erudite chant (in chorus) that MUSEU CARLOS MACHADO of containing a new life in itself. Thus, MON – SUN / 14H – 20H appeals to the reminiscences of a colonial NÚCLEO DE SANTO ANDRÉ in the symbolic dimension that the TUE – SUN / 10H – 18H past, and the deconstruction of the current procession holds, the role of power is The In(sul)ar project marks the dichotomy sense of belonging, which is fueled by the rescued into another sphere, matriarchal, between reality and fiction, by creating complexity of current migratory flows. The work of Rita GT articulates a route which generates life and subsistence. meta-images of an imagined island, where In(sul)ar seeks an identity that lives from between two important points of the The performance involves several time and space are confused with each ambulation and is built through the ruins city, connected through a performance participants from the local community other. The project consists of a video, of the past and the sounds that emerge that begins at Paços do Concelho and develops a choreography that is sound and photography installation, and from the gloom. Something that arises (City Hall) and ends at Museu Carlos accompanied with sound, containing choir ascertains the territory of the Azores as from the interior of the earth and expands Machado - Núcleo de Santo André. and percussion, and by a visual record, an Atlantic place, which exists at the to the interior of the body, questioning the The artist reinterprets the traditional that includes a new identity translated crossroads between Europe and Africa. place of the individual in the narrative of format of a procession, reflecting on its in the banner and on the clothing that In(sul)ar is a work of research and artistic belonging and place. This is a project that functioning, actors and organization, is used. The work also involves the creation that reflects on the relation also arises from a residence developed and extolling the feminine condition, presentation of a video at Museu Carlos between space, memory and history, with the artist Sounslikenuno (Chullage), rethinking the patriarchal structure Machado that documents the action taken as well as on the mapping of the body based on the construction of sound. that underlies this type of religious in the construction of objects, in the and its relation with the architecture, The project proposes a trip through and popular manifestations. pottery workshop, and its activation, in and the identity. The project develops a body that is not always visible, but A group of women belonging to a procession, through the streets of the city. these concepts around the islands of the that is seen in an imaginary island, fictional sisterhood carry a set of clay vases The performance ends in a ceremony archipelago of the Azores, based on the understood like an archetype of the and carvings, taking them through the city of deposition of the vessels/baskets and representation of the landscape and its volcanic island. Read as a metaphor to be deposited in a museum space, where other elements that, on their interaction relation with architecture. Therefore, the for a journey into the individual, this they remain as a temporary installation. with the video, define the contours of work accentuates the duality between island operates a deconstruction of The material and the shape with which an installation. The installation emerges the ruin of the touristic and colonial identity, as a fixed and irreversible origin, these objects are worked establish a direct from the performance and the project projects, represented here by the disruptive underlining the dichotomy between relationship between what is transported is thought under multiple fronts, presence of the Hotel Monte Palace, nature and culture, life and death. and the body of the person who carries questioning the format of the artwork which contrasts with the romantic idea it. The idea of receptacle assumes a form and the place of its presentation. Between of a tropical landscape. In(sul)ar also and a function that binds to the feminine the event and the object, between refers us to an immaterial, imaginary, condition, celebrating the element which the city and the exhibition space. universe that alludes to another geography contains and holds what is precious; 38(metaphysics), situated between what flows invoking a historical perspective, 39 EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS PARALLEL Emotional Rescue MONTRA Loading Olivier Nottellet Oficina Madalena Correia Also on show are the solo Winner Young Creators 2018 exhibitions by Olivier Nottellet OPENING: 4 JUL / 21H OPENING: 4 JUL / 21H at Galeria Fonseca Macedo GALERIA FONSECA MACEDO ¾ CAFÉ MON – SAT / 14H – 19H OPENING: 5 JUL / 18H and by Madalena Correia at INSTITUTO CULTURAL DE PONTA DELGADA MON – FRI / 14H – 17H30 Instituto Cultural de Ponta Delgada. Oficina signs the first MONTRA at ¾ Café, and RARA Retrospetiva can be visited at Parque Atlântico Shopping Center. © OFICINA © OLIVIER NOTTELLET

MONTRA project transforms a once © MADALENA CORREIA Emotional Rescue is the theme of a banal space, between the multiple residence of artist Olivier Nottellet on the commercial facades of Ponta Delgada Taking as a starting point the Myth of island of São Miguel, Azores, for three city centre - the corner window of Café Sisyphus by Albert Camus, Madalena weeks in April 2019. Even though he ¾, in a showcase for projects created Correia introduces the absurdist rhythm lived in the Azores Archipelago during by artists established in São Miguel. in her work to reflect on daily life, hurried his childhood, this exhibition is his first The inauguration of the project happens actions, and on the constant search for the intervention in Portugal. Accustomed to during Walk&Talk f, which commissioned meaning of things. Routine is presented as developing mural paintings of monumental the workshop for the first artistic boring and repetitive. We devalue physical dimensions, here, the artist wanted to occupation of MONTRA. Oficina is a space work, the simple and everyday movements return to his work of drawing and painting that combines atelier and gallery and of our body. In the Myth of Sisyphus, the on paper, to offer a set of simple images promotes a regular exhibition program. goal is not immortality, but rather the time and signs, with poetic ambitions, and a and positivism applied by the protagonist, great economy of means. As usual, the the repeated and continuous action, with artist begins the stories without ever truly the hope of reaching the impossible. crystallizing them into a precise narrative. The artist associated this reflection Things circulate among themselves, they with her daily routine at Estúdio 13 dialogue, they question each other while (a multidisciplinary space for artistic responding to each other. The painting creation and teaching), with the purpose of space confronts with the drawing space highlighting a selection of absurdist events, and vice versa. The signs, the parcels of previously performed, and transform the images come to nest, or to lean on a them into purposeless movements. coloured, painted plot that seems to hold Loading, the project that Madalena them. An absurd language emerges from Correia shows at the Instituto Cultural the set, with an apparent sweetness that de Ponta Delgada, consists of a video the sharpest, chiselled accents come to installation, composed of five screens disturb. Incomplete images, suspended that project, sequentially and alternately, from the crossed eyes that the visitor different movements being performed by is invited to multiply without end. the body. The movements are repetitive, actions in suspense and apparently without object or purpose. What would Sisyphus be without his marble stone? 40 41 EXHIBITIONS ISLAND Formerly named ‘Public Art Circuit’, the RETROSPETIVA An exhibition of contemporary design and crafts objects that traces a retrospective of Island Circuit expands the possibilities RARA the portfolio created during five editions of RARA – Design and Crafts Residency of a relationship between the artistic Contemporary of the Azores. Curated by Miguel Flor, the designer who follows the project projects it hosts and the geographical design and since 2014, Retrospetiva RARA intends to and cultural specificities of its context - highlight the remarkable projects, most crafts objects of which prototypes, which were born the island of São Miguel. In this edition Curated by Miguel Flor from the joint work between designers, from multiple geographies, Azorean of the Walk&Talk festival the circuit is OPENING: 9 JUL / 18H artisans and local workshops that work PARQUE ATLÂNTICO - CENTRAL SQUARE materials and techniques such as wood, developed as an artistic expedition MON – SUN / 8H30 – 23H basalt, wicker, fish scales, ceramics, that is led by The Decorators, and weaving and typography. Besides a RARA (“rare”) experience, for meeting people involves the artists Clementine of different generations, origins and know-how, the residencies that are on the Keith-Roach, Inês Neto dos Santos, root of this show are, above all, moments of exchange of affections motivated by Practice Architecture, Pedro Lino, the appreciation and desire to innovate Prem Sahib and Rain Wu. These artists the cultural heritage of the Azores. explored different landscapes, media On show at Parque Atlântico, a venue that

© MIGUEL FLOR welcomes for the first time a project of and sensorial dimensions to create the Walk&Talk festival, the display will seven site-specific projects, in different Artisans and workshops be presented in the central square, in a Associação Arrisca, Cerâmica Vieira, structure made of cryptomeria wood and places of the island, ranging from the Fátima Andrade, Herdeiros Agostinho specially designed by the architect Nuno Medeiros Lda, Horácio Raposo, Idalina Paiva to act in the transformation of the centre of Ponta Delgada, to the Fenais Negalha, Jacinta Teixeira, João Andrade, surrounding environment, adding to it Maria Pimentel, Oficina Museu das an object of sculptural character, tactile da Luz on the North Coast. As a whole, Capelas, Quinta do Priôlo, Tipografia and open to be explored by the visitors. Expedition: Empathy Micaelense, Veneranda Silva the explores immeasurable, irrational, unintelligible Artists and designers Bráulio Amado, Brian Thorren, Carolina SESSIONS AT PARQUE ATLÂNTICO phenomena with the aim to reflect Brito, Caroline David, Célia Esteves, Kurt Woerpel, Julio Dolbeth, Leo Nguyen, 13 JUL / 10H–14H: WORKSHOP FISH about our fragile and mysterious SCALE WITH IDALINA NEGALHA Mafalda Fernandes, Nicole Shinn, Pedrita, Sam Baron, Simone Ponte, Rui Freitas, 13 JUL / 17H–21H: WORKSHOP FISH relationship with nature. SCALE IDALINA NEGALHA Rui Vitorino Santos, Tim Lahan, UVA - Cristina Hora & Sérgio Rebelo, WSDIA 16 JUL / 13H: TALK WITH CURATOR AND ARTISTS DITION - Jonathan Jackson & Sarah Jackson PE 20 JUL / 10H–14H: WORKSHOP WICKER X WITH ALCÍDIO ANDRADE E SUN 14 JUL / 16H The Inaugural visit to the MEETING POINT Island Circuit includes walking W&T PAVILION and bus routes. Capacity limited to 80 people. Pre-registration at 42 [email protected] ISLAND ISLAND

EXPEDITION: Obsidian Mirrors Placing what Hypogeum Prem Sahib surrounds us into Clementine Keith-Roach EMPATHY SEVERAL LOCATIONS FENAIS DA LUZ The Decorators the inside of us Curators Inês Neto dos Santos LAGOA DAS FURNAS Many of the foreign descriptions of Azores were written in the context of expeditions, by rationalist minds in tune with the spirit of Enlightenment, in the 19th century. They classify and categorize plants, animals, landscapes and peoples of the islands. But not

all dimensions can be measured © PREM SAHIB © COURTESY OF THE ARTIST by rational systems. The magnetic OBSIDIAN MIRROR (DIGITAL RENDER), 2019 INTERNAL OBJECTS 1&2, PART OBJECT 1, 2018 properties of rocks, the tremors of

the earth, the impending ascent As part of this expedition, Prem Sahib has © COURTESY OF THE ARTIST Hypogeum: from the greek hypo of the roaring lava, are events that produced eight Obsidian mirrors that are INSTALLATION TOOLKIT FOR THE FUTURE, ARCADE EAST, LONDON, 2018 (under) and gaia (mother earth) is defy logical scales, occurrences dispersed between various locations in the an underground temple or tomb. that can hardly be predicted or island of São Miguel. Six will remain on the Placing what surrounds us into the inside History states that the Azores were first properly measured. They escape Azores, while the others are installed on the of us is the premise at the beginning populated by the Portuguese, yet recent rational systems of thought. volcanic island of Stromboli1 or temporarily of this project, following Inês Neto dos archaeological discoveries of Hypogea Our expedition, unlike those of in the archaeological site of Pompeii2. Santos’ on-going work with fermentation suggest that there was an earlier human the 19th century, is one interested Obsidian is a volcanic glass that is (transformation of food by bacteria, yeasts presence on the islands. Evidence is scarce, in such immeasurable, irrational, produced under immense pressure and and moulds). Her interest lies in the and so fantasy blooms around these unintelligible phenomena. Taking an trauma. The material has been cut, polished exchange of information between food findings. Clementine Keith-Roach departs approach grounded on empathy, it and encased in a bespoke metal frame with and its surrounding environment, a time- from these archaeological speculations wants to merge instead of measure, a discreet shelf. The objects are derived based process that may be influenced by and links them to her personal experience to personify rather than classify, to from images found by the artist depicting elements such as temperature, humidity, to excavate an area of land in the island live and not to explain. It embodies ancient obsidian mirrors in Pompeii. atmospheric pressure and even contiguous of São Miguel, digging down into the the island and produces experience Collectively these public-facing mirrors fauna and flora. For her, fermentation stratified layers of volcanic history. on the ground, in collaboration with are sites for individual contemplation works as a site-specific archive of Similar to others from Iron Age the peoples and the landscapes. or votive offerings, portals between the hyperlocal information, a unique map of Mediterranean cultures, the Hypogea A series of works produced by locations they connect. Their cracked space-time points that rely on a constant found on the Azores are said to strongly artists and architects populate the surface is reminiscent of contemporary and symbiotic microbial relationship resemble an Etruscan necropolis outside island and invites visitors to explore communication devices as well as linking humans and nature. Starting with Rome, which the artist visited earlier this unknown dimensions of geology, materials used in scrying practices to evoke a performative walk around the island of year. On this site, the entire necropolis digestion, time and distance. divinations or access parallel realms. São Miguel, carrying her sourdough starter is chiselled out of a layer of volcanic tuff, The rational thought that came to introduce it to the land, she will explore petrified ash from a prehistoric eruption. 1 Volcano Extravaganza, DEATH, 2019, curated the ways in which ferments connect us to The Hypogea function as houses for the to dominate the world since the by Milovan Farronto, artistic leader Maria Enlightenment is today recognised Laboda, produced by the Fiorucci Art Trust our environment using food as means of dead, stocked with carved replicas of the as deeply connected with global 2 Cruising Pompeii, a performance by perception. Based on local food culture and tools and objects needed for the afterlife. Prem Sahib on July 21, Pompeii, as part processes of industrialisation, and of Volcano Extravaganza 2019 knowledge, Neto dos Santos will collect There is superimposition of temporalities consequently, global warming. ingredients, recipes and stories, weaving here: the everyday routines of human Inspired by Michel Serres’ positioning them into a new narrative which speculates life, the perpetuity of the afterlife and of natural beings as entities with legal on the role of ferments as archives of the vastness of geological time. rights, in a time when the sublime not only microbial life, but as records of Clementine uses exhumed earth is no longer possible because we place, time and emotional experience. to create a series of casts representing cannot watch nature from a distant Could we taste these on our palate? fragments of her body and contemporary position of safety (Bruno Latour), This project is part of the artists’s objects relevant to her journey to Azores we take this opportunity to make an overarching project Fermen-tour. (rather than an eternal afterlife). expedition that reflects our fragile, 44mysterious relationship with nature. 45 ISLAND ISLAND

Mistérios Negros Facsimile Of A Breeze 22 Men, 1 Ball, Some Fog Mesa-Buraco PEDRO LINO Rain Wu Practice Architecture The Decorators VARIOUS LOCATIONS JARDIM DA ZENITE, LARGO 2 DE MARÇO CAMPO DE FUTEBOL DAS FURNAS LAGOA DAS FURNAS © PEDRO LINO © RAIN WU © PRACTICE ARCHITECTURE © CARLOS JIMENEZ FRAME OF MISTÉRIOS NEGROS, 2019 WE MOVE SILENTLY TOWARDS THE FAR SHORE, 2019 AERIAL VIEW OF CAMPO DE FUTEBOL DAS FURNAS, 2019 TATE MODERN SUMMER TERRACE, THE DECORATORS, 2018

“Mistérios negros” (dark mysteries) is For Expedition: Empathy, Rain Wu When the Romans laid out a new Over the last decade, The Decorators the popular designation of trachemical created a map about the impossibility of settlement they would watch for the have designed many tables in different domes of dark irregular rock, with sharp mapping. Maps deposit a small portion of rising and falling sun, marking a line in shapes, relating to the specific sites in edges, which originated in the volcanic the knowledge of a place, in an attempt the ground between the two. This line, which they were positioned. From a eruptions that occurred in the Azorean to understand the world. But this deposit the Decumanus, is the primary axis football stadium shaped table in Wembley, islands. Following the expedition’s is only a fragment of an imperceptible from which further atrial roads were London, to a conference table in a disused invitation to explore what cannot be whole made legible through perceptible established. Our impulse to script space factory made up of sliced remnants of mapped or categorized, this video stages measures that simplify the ungraspable is a way in which we seek to order the the factory furniture, or a tabletop on a voyage to the centre of the earth, both complexity of the land in order to allow world around us. The football pitch can a dumb waiter system that transported figuratively and literally. We’ll dive into our understanding of it. By charting, be seen as a link back to these early food between a kitchen below and diners the beginning of the world, in a way we are able to take a viewpoint on inscriptions - lines in the ground that above. Each of these tables choreographs that escapes Cartesian logic, looking which we can claim our sovereignty establish a territory and demark a shift in specific rituals amongst people, turning for a more primal manifestation. of a fractional knowledge, but the order. Within the space of these lines are them into performing diners. For the Capturing inner and outer landscapes land is alive and it continues to tacit rules relating to how we interact and expedition, they wanted the visitors to of the Azores, this piece travels between evolve despite our efforts to fix it. identify with one another. They inform engage with the unknown dimensions grottoes, caverns and holes recording Sabrina Island was an islet formed a kind of social and ritual choreography. of the islands of Azores, and reflect on animate matter and energy embodied in in 1811 by a submarine volcanic eruption From a Western perspective, these lines how energy is channelled across living non-living systems such as rocks, water off São Miguel in Azores. The first in the ground can be said to denote the and non-living entities. For Lagoa das or lava. These elements are caught by the person to land in the new island was birth of the social order, the moment Furnas, they created a long table with a camera in different states - from solid to Commander James Tillard, a British where the public realm became the space circular cut-out coinciding with a hole on gaseous – inviting the viewer to interrogate captain who hoisted the Union Jack there. in which we seek our shared identity. the ground in which food is traditionally the antagonistic concepts of scale and time Following his claim of sovereignty On the pitch and around the pitch, cooked by the area’s subterranean between the geological and the human. for Great Britain, Tillard returned to the Practice Architecture invites us to enact volcanic activity. The table enables diners It chases those forces of nature that seem Azores but the island had disappeared. our togetherness. In collaboration to collectively pull the food pot from the alive (and threatening), reflecting on their Inspired by this example of the upturning with Futebol Clube Vale Formoso we earth onto the tabletop, where it can be relationship with humans. Juxtaposing of natural forces, Wu’s installation will play out a ritual, condensing time, opened and its contents eaten. The table image and sound, the video also evokes is comprised of a three-dimensional remembering, being with the land in celebrates the local ritual of cooking the beginning of cinema, where the verbal metal grid inside which lie perishable this, the most formal of gardens. in collaboration with the warm earth language still did not have a fixed place. changing objects. The project defies any below. Made of burned dark wood, and attempt at measuring and rejects fixed topped with a layer of black lava ash and notions of form and scale, proposing stones, this table pays homage to heat as a instead an evolving irresolution transformative process that turns matter between matter and representation. into different states, textures and feelings. 46 47