On the 6th of January | 18h30
Concert as part of the Microvolumes 4.42 event, organised by Sonoscopia Associacão.

The Selva is an improvisation unit featuring Lisbon-based Ricardo Jacinto and Nuno Morão on cello and drums, and Rotterdam-based Gonçalo Almeida on double bass. Formed in 2016, their music explores the intersections among its member´s wide musical spectrums, proposing a synthesis based on a live narrative construction introducing multi-idiomatic approaches. In 2017, 2019 e 2021 and 2024 they recorded four albums with Clean Feed and Shhpuma: The Selva, Canícula Rosa, Barbatrama, Camarão-Girafa

Ricardo Jacinto: cello + electronics
Gonçalo Almeida: doublebass
Nuno Morão: drums

More information about this project here.

O tom do pomar
[INVASOR ABSTRACTO #7]
OSSO colective + Júlio Pomar

Atelier-Museum Júlio Pomar
EXHIBITION-INSTALLATION
30th January to 26th May 2024

CONCERT
10th April 2024

In this occupation of the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, OSSO colectivo aims to establish a set of relationships between a wide selection of works by Júlio Pomar and the sound and visual observations of social, natural, symbolic and material territory of the rural village of São Gregório, Caldas da Rainha, where this collective has its address.

The works of Rita Thomaz, Nuno Morão and Ricardo Jacinto, shown in this seventh “iteration” of Invasor Abstracto (a project by OSSO colectivo, dedicated to the conception of installations, performances and concerts, which has as its motto “an imagined journey between its creative territory and the host territory”), bring the village of São Gregório, in Caldas da Rainha, to the AMJP, generating an imaginary territory which is also a space for creation, reflection and public presentation, valuing what was actually a result of the April’s 1974 revolution: the possibility of collective and collaborative work.

More information about this exhibition: here

More information about Invasor Abstracto: here

 

 

Design: Joana Machado / Atelier Museu Júlio Pomar

Residence of the Invasor Abstracto Project at Moagem – Cidade do Engenho e das Artes, in Fundão.

“Invasor Abstracto” is a project dedicated to the circulation of different constellations of members of the OSSO collective. In its various iterations, the creative territories of each author intersect in an imagined journey between their creative center (Village of São Gregório, Caldas da Rainha) and the spaces and communities that host them. “Invasor Abstracto” is the nomadic expression of a collective whose artistic work has operated on the notion of territory, in the aesthetic and political implications it may have in the construction of the temporary communities that OSSO promotes, or those in which it is inserted.

Invasor Abstracto is in its eighth iteration and has already passed through the Convent of São Francisco in Coimbra (2019), Oficinas do Convento in Montemor-o-Novo (2020), Gnration in Braga (2021), TBA in Lisbon (2021), CCB_Garagem in Lisbon (2022), Appleton Square (2022), and Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar (Lisbon, 2023-24), now arriving in Fundão.

The natural and human landscape of Cova da Beira, the local communities, and their cultural traits will be the focus of this journey by the OSSO collective (Ricardo Jacinto, Rita Thomaz, and Nuno Morão), which will unfold in a series of public events to be presented at MOAGEM at the end of 2024.

More information about this project here.

 

Concert FOGO | Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar
May 10th at 9:00 PM

This concert is part of the Exhibition “o tom do pomar” [Invasor Abstrato #7] at the Atelier Museu Júlio Pomar.

FOGO A brand new project by Ricardo Jacinto and Nuno Morão. Both musicians associated with free improvisation and its most experimental drifts, with extensive discographies and varied collaborations. FOGO is a duo that seeks modes of site-specific musical creation with a focus on its atmospheric dimension. Articulating acoustic instruments with the domains of electroacoustics, electronics, and field recordings, the duo presents music that combines attentive listening with minimal repetitive strategies rooted in spectral exploration, experimenting with the boundaries between improvisation and composition. We call it the “drone” of post-truth or music to set orchards on fire at dusk.

Cello and electronics: Ricardo Jacinto
Harmonium and electronics: Nuno Morão

Osso Colectivo at Buraco
With works b Rita Thomaz e Nuno Morão
Opening: June 8th

This is the “next stop” on a “journey” that explores the encounter between visual and sound art. This installation invites you to experience a union between sound and image, where the boundaries between visual and auditory perception dissolve in the construction of an atmosphere where you can “hear” the paintings and “see” the sound.

Rita Thomaz (1979) lives and works between Lisbon and São Gregório. His artistic practice centers on drawing, currently focusing on the relationship between its materiality and the landscape.Nuno Morão (1976). As a teenager, I wanted to be a geographer and a train driver. Later, I chose music and sound. Since then, I have played a wide variety of musical instruments (although focusing on drums and percussion) as if driving a train through endless railways. Alongside this journey, I honed my skills as an engineer and sound artist with the same spirit that is present when I contemplate vast landscapes in the outdoors, whether in musical, cinematic, or exhibition contexts.

+info [links]:
objecto-desenho
ritathomaz.com
som-alvo
www.nunomorao.pt

OPEN DAY April 5th
at OSSO from 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Workshops for children, exhibition, concerts, and community dinner.

– Exhibition – 4:00 PM | Rita Thomaz and Teresa Carepo
– Open Workshop – 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM | with OSSO Collective (for children aged 6 to 12)
– OSSO BAR – 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM | with Chef Hugo Brito
– Concert – 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM | Gustavo Costa
– Distribution of the 6th edition of the OSSO Newspaper

Registrations until April 1st, for Workshop and Dinner at ossocultural@gmail.com
Contributions for the Open Day: €5

More information about OPEN DAYS: here

OPEN DAY April 6th
at OSSO from 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM

Workshops for children, exhibition, concerts, and community dinner. The program will take place at OSSO and at the São Gregório Hall.

AT OSSO
– Ceramic and Natural Fibers Modeling Workshop – 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM with Teresa Carepo (for children aged 6 to 12)
– Exhibition – 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Rita Thomaz and Teresa Carepo

AT SÃO GREGÓRIO HALL
– OSSO BAR – 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM | with Chef Hugo Brito
– Concert – 6:30 PM | Zé Cruz and guests
– OSSO BAR – 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM | with Chef Hugo Brito
– Concert – 9:00 PM | MOVE (João Valinho, Yedo Gibson, and Felipe Zenicola)
– Distribution of the 6th edition of the OSSO Newspaper


Registrations until April 1st, for Workshop and Dinner at ossocultural@gmail.com
Contributions for the Open Day: €5

More information about OPEN DAYS: here

EMERGENCY PLANT
Opening – May 4th at 4:00 PM

The Emergency Plant project arises from the historical collaboration between Oficinas do Convento and the structures Pó de Vir a Ser, OSSO, and Maus Hábitos, as well as the recognition of the work they have been doing in the field of creation and programming in visual arts and interdisciplinary crossings. Thus, we challenged these partners to develop a national creation and circulation residency project with shared curatorial. Each structure invited an artist or collective associated with it, and during the last quarter of 2023, the four artists/collectives carried out residencies at the spaces of Oficinas do Convento, in Montemor-o-Novo, in a context of effervescence, crossing, and experimentation among artists, their research, materialities, processes, and results.

Guest Artists:
OC – AIDEL: Cristina Gallizioli (IT) and Marco Ferrari (IT)
PDVS – EDUARDO FREITAS (BR)
OSSO – TEMÉLIA: umgrandefilhodamãe (PT) & Teresacomcerteza (PT)
MH – BERRU: Bernardo Bordalo (PT), Rui Nó (PT), and Sérgio Coutinho (PT)

Since this is a curatorial project that circulates throughout the national territory, we sought to incorporate the ideas of itinerancy, nomadism, and mutation into the presented works, resulting in hybridization, contamination, and imaginary contiguity between different territories, trying to create a map of poetic and conceptual relationships between Montemor-o-Novo, Évora, São Gregório (Caldas da Rainha), and Vila Real, where the exhibition culminates. More than representing a place, the artists sought strategies for accumulating information, creating works that deal with their personal memories, memories of the spaces they circulate through, and include these references as part of the work. The temporal and spatial continuity will be made through successions, overlaps, simultaneities, or magical contiguities, leading to site-specific adaptations for each place. By presenting the exhibition in these decentralized creation spaces, we focus on the specific discourses and issues of these territories, giving space and visibility to the artists who circulate, inhabit, and create there, showing other ways of artistic production – an emergency plant for artistic projects that challenge the geographical, economic, and social boundaries where contemporary art normally emerges and is presented to the public.

More information about the project: here

OPEN DAY July 26th
at OSSO from 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Workshops for children, exhibition, concerts, and community dinner.

more info soon

Registrations until April 1st, for Workshop and Dinner at ossocultural@gmail.com
Contributions for the Open Day: €5

More information about OPEN DAYS: here

OPEN DAY July 27th
at OSSO from 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM

Workshops for children, exhibition, concerts, and community dinner.

more info soon

Registrations until April 1st, for Workshop and Dinner at ossocultural@gmail.com
Contributions for the Open Day: €5

More information about OPEN DAYS: here

EIRA #14
March 30th to April 6th, 2024
[Continuous broadcast on eira.osso.pt and on FM 89.6 MHz, in the São Gregório area (Caldas da Rainha), with live broadcasts from Saturday to Saturday, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM]

The fourteenth edition of EIRA takes place from March 30th to April 6th, 2024, and features the participation of cellist and singer Joana Guerra, who was in residency at OSSO and will present a radio program. Musician Zé Cruz, who had a long creation residency that led to the recording of his first solo album, will also present a program and talk to us about his sound and musical universe. The resident archive is OSSA, the OSSO Sound Archive, which will explore previous editions of EIRA and other sonic achievements. We also have the participation of bookseller Luís Gomes, who will lead us in a new program of conversations with residents of the Village of São Gregório, and we close with two Open Days (at OSSO and at the São Gregório Hall), featuring concerts by Gustavo Costa, Zé Cruz + Sebastião Bergman, Ricardo Jacinto and Tiago Martins, and the trio Move (João Valinho, Yedo Gibson, and Felipe Zenicola).

To listen on:
FM 89.6MHz (São Gregório and surrounding areas)
Streaming at eira.osso.pt

More information about the EIRA project and previous editions can be found here.

REVEIL 2024
May 4th, 2024 | From 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM in the morning

At this year edition of REVEIL, OSSO collective deploys a stereo ORTF microphone in the vicinity of its artistic residencies space. We should be able to hear different bird species, some cars passing on two nearby roads (one closer, the other farther away), and some sounds related to the rural work happening in the orchards around.

To listen: here

EIRA #15
July 20th to July 27th, 2024
[Continuous broadcast on eira.osso.pt and on FM 89.6 MHz, in the São Gregório area (Caldas da Rainha), with live broadcasts from Saturday to Saturday, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM]

more information about EIRA#15 soon

 

To listen on:
FM 89.6MHz (São Gregório and surrounding areas)
Streaming at eira.osso.pt

More information about the EIRA project and previous editions can be found here.

EIRA #16
Dec 7th to Dec 14th, 2024
[Continuous broadcast on eira.osso.pt and on FM 89.6 MHz, in the São Gregório area (Caldas da Rainha), with live broadcasts from Saturday to Saturday, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM]

more information about EIRA#16 soon

 

To listen on:
FM 89.6MHz (São Gregório and surrounding areas)
Streaming at eira.osso.pt

Natural Dyeing and Weaving
19th January – 14:oo PM/ 15:30 PM

Natural dyeing workshop with dyes from the local flora of São Gregório’s. We’ll dye wool, carded wool and plant fibres (such as palm, rice straw and reeds) with pigments from plants collected in OSSO’s garden.After that, we will use these dyed fibres and combine them in weaving on cardboard looms and try spinning carded wool with suspension spindles.

Alice Albergaria Borges (Lisbon, 1997) studied Artistic Textile Production at Escola Artística António Arroio (Lisbon) and graduated in Textile Design at Chelsea College of Arts (University of the Arts London). In 2015, she played the lead role in Teresa Villaverde’s movie ‘Colo’. She is currently studying for a Masters in Product Design at ESAD.CR. She works as an independent weaver and her work aims to explore, preserve and share traditional textile techniques in a contemporary approach, with special attention to sustainability in textile production. She creates textile objects mainly by request, using exclusively natural fibres, hand-dyed with natural ingredients, for both useful and contemplative purposes. More information: here

Workshops for the children of São Gregório Elementary School

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Natural Dyeing and Weaving Workshop
20th January – 11h00-13h00

Natural dyeing workshop with dyes from the local flora of São Gregório’s. We’ll dye wool, carded wool and plant fibres (such as palm, rice straw and reeds) with pigments from plants collected in OSSO’s garden.After that, we will use these dyed fibres and combine them in weaving on cardboard looms and try spinning carded wool with suspension spindles.

Alice Albergaria Borges (Lisbon, 1997) studied Artistic Textile Production at Escola Artística António Arroio (Lisbon) and graduated in Textile Design at Chelsea College of Arts (University of the Arts London). In 2015, she played the lead role in Teresa Villaverde’s movie ‘Colo’. She is currently studying for a Masters in Product Design at ESAD.CR. She works as an independent weaver and her work aims to explore, preserve and share traditional textile techniques in a contemporary approach, with special attention to sustainability in textile production. She creates textile objects mainly by request, using exclusively natural fibres, hand-dyed with natural ingredients, for both useful and contemplative purposes. More information: here

General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Open Workshop with OSSO Collective | 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The OPEN WORKSHOP by OSSO aims to be a space for free and autonomous use by children, where they can develop small individual or collective projects through the exploration of the workshop possibilities that OSSO provides: sound and image recording and editing, radio broadcasting, painting and engraving, laser cutting and printing, manual woodworking, and other technological practices. To help children find their autonomy and explore their imagination, we will have a group of monitor-artists present during these workshop periods.

General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Mask-making workshop with plant fibres
16th february – 14h às 15h30

Following the workshop from January, we’re going to imagine and build masks using fibres, leaves and other plant materials dyed using natural dyes. With these disguises, will we look like beasts from the forest?

Eneida Lombe Tavares (Barreiro, PT) has a degree in Product Design from ESAD.CR. She lives and works in Caldas da Rainha in her own studio. She has taken part in several group exhibitions in Europe, Brazil and Cape Verde. Eneida has also collaborated with Portuguese design brands, participating in events as Maison et Objet, Milan Design Week or Ambiente Frankfurt. Using materials, craft techniques and other rituals, she aims to find links between Portugal and her countries of origin, Angola and Cape Verde. She has also worked in partnership with other designers, artisans, artists and cultural institutions. More information: here

 

Workshops for the children of São Gregório Elementary School
More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Mask-making workshop with plant fibres
17th february – 11h to 13h

Following the workshop from January, we’re going to imagine and build masks using fibres, leaves and other plant materials dyed using natural dyes. With these disguises, will we look like beasts from the forest?

Eneida Lombe Tavares (Barreiro, PT) has a degree in Product Design from ESAD.CR. She lives and works in Caldas da Rainha in her own studio. She has taken part in several group exhibitions in Europe, Brazil and Cape Verde. Eneida has also collaborated with Portuguese design brands, participating in events as Maison et Objet, Milan Design Week or Ambiente Frankfurt. Using materials, craft techniques and other rituals, she aims to find links between Portugal and her countries of origin, Angola and Cape Verde. She has also worked in partnership with other designers, artisans, artists and cultural institutions. More information: here

General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Open Workshop with OSSO Collective
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The OPEN WORKSHOP by OSSO aims to be a space for free and autonomous use by children, where they can develop small individual or collective projects through the exploration of the workshop possibilities that OSSO provides: sound and image recording and editing, radio broadcasting, painting and engraving, laser cutting and printing, manual woodworking, and other technological practices. To help children find their autonomy and explore their imagination, we will have a group of monitor-artists present during these workshop periods.

General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Music and Organology Workshop
15th March, 14h to 15h30

 Ze Cruz is a trumpeter, composer, and collector of musical instruments. His collection includes instruments from all around the world (Morocco, Mali, Burkina Faso, China, Iran, Brazil, Peru, Cuba, India, Serbia, or Reunion Island). We will explore their origins, stories and sounds. We will travel the planet using this sounds of multiple traditional instruments. The workshop will culminate in a group musical improvisation session.

Ze Cruz (Lisbon, 1992). Ze has a degree in Jazz and Modern Music by Universidade Lusíada (2017) and Music Producer from ETIC (2013). He is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, producer and teacher. He started studying music at 13 and performing live at 14. He has more than 100 instruments from all around the world. He was one of the founders of the band They Must Be Crazy and produced the albums Mother Nature and Khayalan. International festivals: “Ding in Balance” (China 2019), “Le Rêve de L’Aborigène” (France 2015), “Griasdi World Music Festival” (Austria 2018). In 2021, he composed the original soundtrack for two short films and one feature – “Vórtice”, by Guilherme Branquinho, won best Portuguese short film at MOTELX 2022. He is part of projects such as Expresso Transatlântico, Ela Li and Gabriel Pepe, Criatura, Bandua, Fred, Conan Osiris, Mariana Root, Tempura the Purple Boy, Golden Slumbers, Meses Sóbrio, Órfelia, Farra Fanfarra, Pás de Problème, Dream People, Charanga, Funk Orquestra (Brazil), Matsumoto Zoku (Japan), Rollin Thorne (Peru), Oghene Kologbo (Nigeria) and Philip Catherine (Belgium).

Workshops for the children of São Gregório Elementary School
More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Music and Organology Workshop
16th March, 11h to 13h

 Ze Cruz is a trumpeter, composer, and collector of musical instruments. His collection includes instruments from all around the world (Morocco, Mali, Burkina Faso, China, Iran, Brazil, Peru, Cuba, India, Serbia, or Reunion Island). We will explore their origins, stories and sounds. We will travel the planet using this sounds of multiple traditional instruments. The workshop will culminate in a group musical improvisation session.

Zé Cruz (Lisbon, 1992). Ze has a degree in Jazz and Modern Music by Universidade Lusíada (2017) and Music Producer from ETIC (2013). He is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, producer and teacher. He started studying music at 13 and performing live at 14. He has more than 100 instruments from all around the world. He was one of the founders of the band They Must Be Crazy and produced the albums Mother Nature and Khayalan. International festivals: “Ding in Balance” (China 2019), “Le Rêve de L’Aborigène” (France 2015), “Griasdi World Music Festival” (Austria 2018). In 2021, he composed the original soundtrack for two short films and one feature – “Vórtice”, by Guilherme Branquinho, won best Portuguese short film at MOTELX 2022. He is part of projects such as Expresso Transatlântico, Ela Li and Gabriel Pepe, Criatura, Bandua, Fred, Conan Osiris, Mariana Root, Tempura the Purple Boy, Golden Slumbers, Meses Sóbrio, Órfelia, Farra Fanfarra, Pás de Problème, Dream People, Charanga, Funk Orquestra (Brazil), Matsumoto Zoku (Japan), Rollin Thorne (Peru), Oghene Kologbo (Nigeria) and Philip Catherine (Belgium).

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Open Workshop with OSSO Collective | 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The OPEN WORKSHOP by OSSO aims to be a space for free and autonomous use by children, where they can develop small individual or collective projects through the exploration of the workshop possibilities that OSSO provides: sound and image recording and editing, radio broadcasting, painting and engraving, laser cutting and printing, manual woodworking, and other technological practices. To help children find their autonomy and explore their imagination, we will have a group of monitor-artists present during these workshop periods.

General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Open Workshop with OSSO Collective | 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The OPEN WORKSHOP by OSSO aims to be a space for free and autonomous use by children, where they can develop small individual or collective projects through the exploration of the workshop possibilities that OSSO provides: sound and image recording and editing, radio broadcasting, painting and engraving, laser cutting and printing, manual woodworking, and other technological practices. To help children find their autonomy and explore their imagination, we will have a group of monitor-artists present during these workshop periods.

General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Modelling with Ceramics and Natural Fibres Workshop
6th April – 11h to 13h

Children will be introduced into the magic of ceramics, learning traditional modelling techniques of clay. Combining ceramics with natural fibres, each one will be invited to explore the plastic and sensitive qualities of these materials, through the creation of small objects.

Teresa Carepo (1976) lives and works in Lisbon. In 2008, she began her career in sculpture at the Ar. Co- Centre for Art and Visual Communication. Since 2010, she has participated in solo and group exhibitions: Limbo expo, at Plataforma Revólver (Lisbon, 2012); “ATIRAR PEDRAS À LUA”, at Espaço AZ, (Lisbon, 2015); the Labyrinth Studies Project, curated by Cláudia Ramos, where she exhibited with Francisco Tropa, at the National Museum of Ethnology (Belém-Lisbon, 2018); the solo exhibition “Branco Chumbo”, at CAV- Centro de Artes visuais (Coimbra, 2019); the group exhibition “O azul floresce na sombra”, with Xana Sousa at Appleton-Associação Cultural (Lisbon, 2020); and the solo exhibition “Branca e Pura Transmutação” at Museu da Luz, village of Luz (Mourão, 2021). In 2018, she was invited to join the UmbigoLab digital platform. She is present in a number of private and public collections: Lisbon City Council Contemporary Art Collection; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Library Contemporary Art Collection.

General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

SPYING AND SECRET CODES
Programming and Code Workshop
May 24th – 14:oo PM/ 15:30 PM

Imagine receiving the following mysterious message: “Hello, Sun. Sun, Hello.” Besides sounding like someone is greeting the sun, it doesn’t seem to make much sense, does it? It’s probably not even a message, doesn’t seem to have any meaning at all. It must be a mistake or just a random bunch of words… not at all! Nothing is what it seems. In this workshop, we will learn to use various symbols to create secret codes and, like them, transmit messages that only a few people will be able to decipher – welcome to the ultra-secret world of espionage! By the way, have you figured out what message might be hidden in “Hello, Sun. Sun, Hello”? Try joining the first letters of each.

( To the Parents ) Underlying the universe of “espionage” and “transmission of secret messages” lies the objective of exploring, through games and exercises, the constructive and contingent nature of systems of meaning and representation. In this sense, the workshop aims to expand and exercise the collective mechanisms of commitment, negotiation, and induction that constitute the broad practice of language; a general category from which all school curriculum contents of basic education are articulated.

 

Workshops for the children of São Gregório Elementary School.
More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

SPYING AND SECRET CODES
Programming and Code Workshop
May 25th – 11:00 AM/1:00 PM

Imagine receiving the following mysterious message: “Hello, Sun. Sun, Hello.” Besides sounding like someone is greeting the sun, it doesn’t seem to make much sense, does it? It’s probably not even a message, doesn’t seem to have any meaning at all. It must be a mistake or just a random bunch of words… not at all! Nothing is what it seems. In this workshop, we will learn to use various symbols to create secret codes and, like them, transmit messages that only a few people will be able to decipher – welcome to the ultra-secret world of espionage! By the way, have you figured out what message might be hidden in “Hello, Sun. Sun, Hello”? Try joining the first letters of each.

( To the Parents ) Underlying the universe of “espionage” and “transmission of secret messages” lies the objective of exploring, through games and exercises, the constructive and contingent nature of systems of meaning and representation. In this sense, the workshop aims to expand and exercise the collective mechanisms of commitment, negotiation, and induction that constitute the broad practice of language; a general category from which all school curriculum contents of basic education are articulated.

General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Open Workshop with OSSO Collective
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The OPEN WORKSHOP by OSSO aims to be a space for free and autonomous use by children, where they can develop small individual or collective projects through the exploration of the workshop possibilities that OSSO provides: sound and image recording and editing, radio broadcasting, painting and engraving, laser cutting and printing, manual woodworking, and other technological practices. To help children find their autonomy and explore their imagination, we will have a group of monitor-artists present during these workshop periods.

General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Modelling with Ceramics and Natural Fibres Workshop
7th June – 14h to 15h30

Children will be introduced into the magic of ceramics, learning traditional modelling techniques of clay. Combining ceramics with natural fibres, each one will be invited to explore the plastic and sensitive qualities of these materials, through the creation of small objects.

Teresa Carepo (1976) lives and works in Lisbon. In 2008, she began her career in sculpture at the Ar. Co- Centre for Art and Visual Communication. Since 2010, she has participated in solo and group exhibitions: Limbo expo, at Plataforma Revólver (Lisbon, 2012); “ATIRAR PEDRAS À LUA”, at Espaço AZ, (Lisbon, 2015); the Labyrinth Studies Project, curated by Cláudia Ramos, where she exhibited with Francisco Tropa, at the National Museum of Ethnology (Belém-Lisbon, 2018); the solo exhibition “Branco Chumbo”, at CAV- Centro de Artes visuais (Coimbra, 2019); the group exhibition “O azul floresce na sombra”, with Xana Sousa at Appleton-Associação Cultural (Lisbon, 2020); and the solo exhibition “Branca e Pura Transmutação” at Museu da Luz, village of Luz (Mourão, 2021). In 2018, she was invited to join the UmbigoLab digital platform. She is present in a number of private and public collections: Lisbon City Council Contemporary Art Collection; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Library Contemporary Art Collection.

 

Workshops for the children of São Gregório Elementary School
More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Workshop on Solar Plastic Recycling
June 22nd – 11:00 AM to1:00 PM

Discover a unique approach to the valorization of plastic waste and solar energy with Sun Factory’s innovative workshop. During this journey, participants will dive into the sustainable practice of collecting, identifying, and shaping plastics found in our communities. From sourcing to the efficient use of solar heat, explore the entire process with globally accessible lo-tech materials. Join us in transforming waste into resources and contributing to a more sustainable future.

Marco Bernardo, a mechanical engineering graduate from the Geneva School of Engineers, is a visionary committed to sustainability and the creation of common goods for humanity. After leading innovative projects with volks.eco in Switzerland, he founded SunFactory in Portugal, realizing his passion for solar energy and eco-entrepreneurship. He contributes to the Antenna foundation and serves on the boards of the Open Business Foundation and the Open IT Foundation. Marco also collaborates with the Lisbon Polytechnic School, contributing to the world’s first solar plastic recycling residency. His commitment to eco-conscious practices and innovative solutions makes him a dedicated pioneer in the global environmental revolution.


Workshops for the children of São Gregório Elementary School.
More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Workshop on Solar Plastic Recycling
June 22nd – 11:00 AM to1:00 PM

Discover a unique approach to the valorization of plastic waste and solar energy with Sun Factory’s innovative workshop. During this journey, participants will dive into the sustainable practice of collecting, identifying, and shaping plastics found in our communities. From sourcing to the efficient use of solar heat, explore the entire process with globally accessible lo-tech materials. Join us in transforming waste into resources and contributing to a more sustainable future.

Marco Bernardo, a mechanical engineering graduate from the Geneva School of Engineers, is a visionary committed to sustainability and the creation of common goods for humanity. After leading innovative projects with volks.eco in Switzerland, he founded SunFactory in Portugal, realizing his passion for solar energy and eco-entrepreneurship. He contributes to the Antenna foundation and serves on the boards of the Open Business Foundation and the Open IT Foundation. Marco also collaborates with the Lisbon Polytechnic School, contributing to the world’s first solar plastic recycling residency. His commitment to eco-conscious practices and innovative solutions makes him a dedicated pioneer in the global environmental revolution.

General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Open Workshop with OSSO Collective
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The OPEN WORKSHOP by OSSO aims to be a space for free and autonomous use by children, where they can develop small individual or collective projects through the exploration of the workshop possibilities that OSSO provides: sound and image recording and editing, radio broadcasting, painting and engraving, laser cutting and printing, manual woodworking, and other technological practices. To help children find their autonomy and explore their imagination, we will have a group of monitor-artists present during these workshop periods.

General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Summer in the Nature Labyrinths
July 1st to 5th, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

The workshop proposed here is a continuation, with one hand in art, another in nature, and both feet on the ground. We will start by exploring the space around us: the territory, the landscape, the paths, its vegetation, and inhabitants (fauna and flora) to find a path for ourselves, our place in this place. Like in a labyrinth, we must keep our senses alert and perceive the signs and clues left for us; we must be observers and inventors to find the right path! Let’s be explorers of this summer with green flags of adventure and creation!

Leonor Pêgo, Graduated in Sculpture from FBAUL, lives and works in Cascais. She has been exhibiting both collectively and individually since 2002.
She conceives and directs training for teachers in the scope of Outdoor Education and the promotion of children’s contact with nature and free play. She coordinated and implemented several projects for naturalizing playgrounds in public and private schools.
Since 2019, she has been facilitating Nature and Outdoor Workshops for children aged 2 to 14.She is a mother and a great nature lover. (Bio)

General Information and Registration: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for the Summer Labyrinths: €40 per week, including snacks and lunch.
Other Information: Please bring a hat, water bottle, and comfortable clothing.

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Workshop “Transformations from the Dancing Matter” (Part I)
July 20th – 11:00 AM/1:00 PM

In these workshops, we will observe the various worlds, both individual and collective, through exercises centered around identity, human relationships, our body’s relationship with the space we inhabit, and with other materials and existences that compose it, in a collective listening and sharing, where each body moves and causes movement, and where each voice is heard and makes itself heard. In the first workshop, we will build from the body, the voice, sound, drawing, and word, and in the second workshop with the support of Lui L’Abbate, we will build from objects found throughout the space (upcycling process). We will start from an individual space towards the collective, valuing individuality and affirming diversity in a meeting that moves, transforms, connects, and revolutionizes.

Jo Castro (1988, Porto). is a non-binary interdisciplinary artist who works across dance, performance, installation, voice, and sound. They have presented some of their works in Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, and Brazil. (Bio)


General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Workshop “Transformations from the Dancing Matter” (Part II)
July 27th – 11:00 AM/1:00 PM

In these workshops, we will observe the various worlds, both individual and collective, through exercises centered around identity, human relationships, our body’s relationship with the space we inhabit, and with other materials and existences that compose it, in a collective listening and sharing, where each body moves and causes movement, and where each voice is heard and makes itself heard. In the first workshop, we will build from the body, the voice, sound, drawing, and word, and in the second workshop with the support of Lui L’Abbate, we will build from objects found throughout the space (upcycling process). We will start from an individual space towards the collective, valuing individuality and affirming diversity in a meeting that moves, transforms, connects, and revolutionizes.

Jo Castro (1988, Porto). is a non-binary interdisciplinary artist who works across dance, performance, installation, voice, and sound. They have presented some of their works in Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, and Brazil. (Bio)


General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Open Workshop with OSSO Collective
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The OPEN WORKSHOP by OSSO aims to be a space for free and autonomous use by children, where they can develop small individual or collective projects through the exploration of the workshop possibilities that OSSO provides: sound and image recording and editing, radio broadcasting, painting and engraving, laser cutting and printing, manual woodworking, and other technological practices. To help children find their autonomy and explore their imagination, we will have a group of monitor-artists present during these workshop periods.

General information and registrations via email: oficinas@osso.pt
Contribution for workshop: €3 per workshop

More information about the Labyrinth School project can be found here.

Creating an installation using light and its reflection in different materials and colours as its central resource, together with its manipulation through signals sent by external bodies.

Angela Bismarck was born in 1994 and is a lighting designer from Porto. She lives in Lisbon. Angela specialised in Analogue Photography at the Soares dos Reis Art School and graduated in Cinema at the Universidade Católica Porto – Escola das Artes. She has designed the lights for artists such as Adriana Calcanhoto, Pedro Mafama, Moullinex & GPU Panic, Linda Martini, Ana Bacalhau, Rita Vian, First Breath After Coma, Sarah Mccoy, Xinobi, Emmy Curl and Surma. More recently, she has worked on a lighting and plastic installation for four installation concerts by the band Surma. She also built a stage lighting structure for Salvador Sobral’s concerts. At the same time, she has worked as Director of Photography on several short films, such as the most recent shorts by Diego Braga and Ágata de Pinho, as an invitation of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Catholic University of Porto. For three years she led the image department as creative director of the production company Bubble Creative Studio.

Eleven years after the successful presentation of Sopa Nuvem (Momix prize) at the Spectacles en Recommandé festival, Companhia Caótica is returning to France in 2024 for the tour of Crevescer. The residency at OSSO’s, between 15 and 19 January, will be the last moment of preparation for the French tour, and counts with the presence of Caroline Bergeron (director), the performers António-Pedro and Tiago Barbosa, and the technician and performer Melânia Ramos.

Caótica, founded in 2009 by director-author Caroline Bergeron and music/filmmaker António-Pedro, is a multidisciplinary company that creates shows, workshops, films and other artistic experiences for children, families and adults. Since its inception, the Company has produced 22 multidisciplinary shows – where it has crossed music, documentary, animated cinema, puppetry, theatre, sound art, gastronomy, poetry, science, installation, performance or digital art – and 15 visual objects, including documentaries, short films, music videos and video installations, which have been exhibited and awarded prizes in national and international festivals. The Company’s artistic uniqueness is recognised in its continued collaboration with various programme entities – CCB/Fábrica das Artes, Culturgest, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Artemrede, LU.CA., Teatro Municipal do Porto/Paralelo. On an international level, extensive tours of Europe – France, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium – and performances in China, Angola and Brazil.

More information here.

The project integrates Tobias practices as a bass clarinettist, as an improviser and composer and as a bass clarinettist. In counterpoint to the sound, a visual component will emerge through pre-recorded and edited video, using unpublished images taken in the Caldas da Rainha region. The video work will aim to transform a linear structure into a circular narrative, while the sound will draw inspiration from this circular character and transform it into a linear story.

Originally from Germany, saxophonist and composer Tobias Klein has lived in Amsterdam since the early 90s, and his work reflects the cultural diversity of the dutch capital. The rhythmic and melodic complexity of his music is combined with a disarming emotional candour. Structures reminiscent of contemporary music are combined with cyclical techniques of the music from South Asia, the Middle East and West Africa. Klein is the artistic director of the Amsterdam-based group Spinifex. He performs regularly with the Almeida/Duynhoven/Klein trio, with the Dalgoo quartet (which includes Berlin musicians Meinrad Kneer, Lothar Ohlmeier and Christian Marien), in a duo with clarinettist Oguz Büyükberber and in a trio with pianist Marta Warelis and drummer Frank Rosaly. Klein’s work has been recorded on more than 40 CDs. Klein has worked with, among others, Chris Speed, Claudio Puntin, B.C. Manjunath, Claron McFadden, Jozef Dumoulin, Benoït Delbecq, John Dikeman, Steffen Schorn, Jeb Bishop, Jasper Stadhouders, Ches Smith and Oguz Büyükberber.

Continuing the 2023 project, where the mirroring of São Gregório’s flora began in a color archive, Rita Thomaz now expands her research to the identification of plant fibers. The archival and reflective logic is now complemented with the possibility of transformation and use in her painting and drawing work. The invitation to sculptor Teresa Carepo arose to broaden the contents of this archive to the creative work of an artist for whom the materiality of objects is a central focus in evoking memory as a qualifier of a poetics of space.

Rita Thomaz (1979) lives and works between Lisbon and São Gregório. His artistic practice centers on drawing, currently focusing on the relationship between its materiality and the landscape.

Teresa Carepo (1976) lives and works in Lisbon. “Her work, through the supports and materials she uses, unequivocally falls within the field of sculpture, sometimes seeming to challenge its intrinsic constraints, as if it could overcome the weight of materials, making them light and impalpable”

More information:
www.ritathomaz.com | https://arquivo.osso.pt/projectos/objecto-desenho/
https://teresacarepo.wixsite.com/teresacarepo

In this artistic residency at Radio Eira, the focus will be on vocal experimentation accompanied by a cello, harmonium and a tape recorder. Drawing up present and future scores, recording the wood that is rubbed, reverberating the landscape, turning the body into waves and letting the foam make its way.

Joana Guerra is a portuguese cellist, composer and singer whose passion for experimentation has led her to work with numerous musicians from different genres. She has released four records of her homonymous solo work, the most recent being “Chão Vermelho” (Miasmah Records) in 2020. She is part of several projects in the exploratory and improvised music spectrum (The Alvaret Ensemble, Lantana, Joana Guerra & Gil Dionísio), as well as other collaborations with Joelle Léandre, Surma, João Pais Filipe, Gume, Ricardo Jacinto, Victor Herrero, Lula Pena, Yaw Tembe, Asimov, Tiago Sousa and Pop Dell’Arte. Joana works in various artistic contexts as a composer and performer. In dance, with Madalena Victorino, Marina Nabais, Clara Andermatt and João Lucas; in theatre with Companhia João Garcia Miguel and Companhia Hotel Europa.

more information: here

Is it Eartha Kitt or are we facing a personality disorder? The story takes place in the 1940s in America and in modern-day Portugal, where a young non-binary singer is inspired, reflects, lives, and expands. The search for their own artistic identity, the fear of death, the intense dialogues we find in a universe of oppression, violence, and industry. The play delves into the life of the protagonist as they face the pressures of fame, question cultural roots in a globalized world, and the importance of redefining artistic success in personal terms rather than just commercial ones, amplified with electronics, synthesizers, and live Jazz. An intimate space is created, a pub, and an experimental cellar from a device that integrates live musicians as a way to drive and accompany the performativity of this figure throughout the narrative and immerse the audience in these different layers that are the life of an entertainer.

The American dream, entertainment, who chooses what survives, who is the artist if not the one who meets life, are we trying to entertain whom?

Cire Ndiaye (1999) is a classically trained violinist, actress, performer, creator, and composer. She is the co-creator of “As Docinhas”, ”C I R E” (selected for the Athens video poetry festival). She has played with several national and international orchestras. She participated in “Carta”, “Wow”, Another Rose”. She joined ESML in 2017, participated in masterclasses from early music to free jazz. In 2023, she highlights the concert with Pierre Bastien at TBA, the sound design of “A missão da Missão” by Aurora Negra, and her training as a Funeral Services Technician.

Zé Cruz is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, and also a collector of musical instruments. In addition to collecting them, he is interested in understanding their functioning, contextualizing their emergence, development, and potential mutations; above all, studying them. In his residency at OSSO, he proposes to record his first solo album in order to give life and voice to all these instruments that have long been asking to be recorded, crossing unlikely sounds, textures, and cultures.

Residency with Sebastião Bergmann, Tiago Martins, Ricardo Jacinto, Hugo Valverde, Miguel Simões.

Zé Cruz holds a degree in Jazz and Modern Music from Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa (2017) and is a Music Producer from ETIC (2013). He asserts himself as a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, producer, and teacher.

more information: here

The project “parts . extra . parts (instrumental forensic organology)” proposes the creation of a solo performance-installation by Luís J Martins developed from the concept of “instrumental forensic organology.” This concept, created by LJM in this context, arises, on the one hand, in resonance with the ideas of “Forensic Architecture” (a research project that uses various analysis techniques in the context of architecture to detect and highlight power relations, cases of violence, and violations of human, environmental rights, etc.), on the other hand, it stems from organology, as a discipline that deals with the description and classification of musical instruments.

Based on the detailed investigation of a historical musical instrument – a romantic viola from the 19th century, which will be played in the performance and was restored by the luthier Orlando Trindade – it is proposed to trace and map the extractivist and colonial relations and logics that are silently implicit in the basis of its construction. The idea of forensic organology will start from the scientific observation of this beloved instrument of the salon music of Parisian and Viennese societies of the 19th century and will seek to make explicit and resonant social and power relations of that time. From this analysis, an attempt will be made to establish a relationship with current extractivist logics and their consequences (climate crisis, monocultures, anthropocene, etc.).

This work arises from the performance-installation CasaFloresta (by Luís J Martins, Joana Sá, and Lucas Tavares) premiered in December 2022 at TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto and seeks to continue the deconstruction initiated there of the idea that the forest (foris) is an externality to urban life.

photo: Daniel Neves

ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES OF THE MASTER’S DEGREE IN SOUND AND IMAGE ARTS_ESAD.CR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OSSO CULTURAL ASSOCIATION_3rd EDITION_2024

Photography | April 8th to 12th
Featuring artist Pauliana Valente Pimentel and lecturer Pedro Letria

Photographic Narratives in the Village of São Gregório
After a visit to the Village of São Gregório (with a local “guide”), students will be guided to create a new body of work, using photographic language to compose a coherent and appealing narrative.


Pauliana Valente Pimentel (1975, Lisbon). As a visual artist, she has been exhibiting regularly since 1999. In 2005, she participated in the photography course of the Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Program. She was part of the collective [Kameraphoto] from 2006 until its dissolution in 2014. She is a teacher of authorial photography. Her first authored book “VOL I” (Pierre von Kleist) was published in 2009, “Caucase, Souvenirs de Voyage” (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) in 2011, “Quel Pedra” (Camera Infinita) in 2018, and “Narcisismo das Pequenas Diferenças” (Municipal Archive of the Lisbon City Council) in 2019, and in 2021 “Rub Al`Khali (Empty Quarter)” by Kioskzine. She also makes films. In 2015, she received the Visual Arts Award from the Portuguese Authors Society. In 2016, she was nominated for the NOVO BANCO Photo Prize. She was represented for 5 years at Galeria 3+1 Arte Contemporânea and for 7 years at Galeria das Salgadeiras in Lisbon. Currently, she collaborates with international galleries. Part of her work belongs to private and institutional collectors.

At the OSSO facilities, in the village of S. Gregório, Caldas da Rainha

Support: Polytechnic of Leiria_ESAD.CR, OSSO, LIDA, FCT, CCC Caldas da Rainha

Design: ESAD.CR

ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES OF THE MASTER’S DEGREE IN SOUND AND IMAGE ARTS_ESAD.CR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OSSO CULTURAL ASSOCIATION_3rd EDITION_2024

SOUND ART | April 15th to 19th
Featuring artist Nuno da Luz and lecturers Diogo Saldanha and Riccardo Wanke

Notes for the Study of Nature: Listening Rituals Workshop for sharing methodologies aimed at decentralizing the space between the two ears. Entirely focused on a practice of attentive listening, this short period of time – a period of five days – will be reserved for bringing the listening down from the head to the feet, or placing it at the fingertips, traversing the body as vibratile matter, a meeting place of internal and external resonances. Through a series of attention exercises and collective improvisation practices, we will not study the supposed “Nature” (with a capital N) of the classic dichotomy and separation Nature/Culture, but rather divert, via sound pedagogy, towards a natureculture in which we are invited to take part through rituals of introduction, attention, and mutual responsibility.

Nuno da Luz (Lisbon, 1984). Artist and publisher whose work encompasses the aural and the visual in the form of installations, performances, and printed material. His practice oscillates between the ecologies of noise, attentive listening, and bookmaking (through the editorial collective ATLAS, in collaboration with artist Gonçalo Sena). Currently, he is developing a doctoral research project in sound arts at the School of Arts UCP Porto, entitled “Echologies of Noise,” which deals with more-than-human forms of creating sonic worlds. In 2015, he completed the Experimentation in Arts and Politics Master’s program, founded by philosopher Bruno Latour, at Sciences Po Paris, and co-founded the interdisciplinary collective COYOTE – which assumes intersectionality as a method and theme, crossing conceptual and experimental forms (in collaboration with Tristan Bera, Elida Høeg, Clémence Seurat, and Ana Vaz).

At the OSSO facilities, in the village of S. Gregório, Caldas da Rainha
Support: Polytechnic of Leiria_ESAD.CR, OSSO, LIDA, FCT, CCC Caldas da Rainha

Design: ESAD.CR

ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES OF THE MASTER’S DEGREE IN SOUND AND IMAGE ARTS_ESAD.CR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OSSO CULTURAL ASSOCIATION_3rd EDITION_2024

SOUND ART | April 15th to 19th

Filming the Other – cinema as relationship
This proposal arises from the belief in the power and relevance of cinema in the current times, where individualism and atomization seem to have broken connections between people.
Cinema is not just a storytelling machine. It is, first and foremost, a curiosity machine that invites us, since its inception, to face the world and its inhabitants head-on. If we believe in it, we will see how cinema alone allows us to create certain relationships that would not otherwise exist.
This is one of its riches, if not the greatest – the possibility it gives us to discover the Other, and in that movement of approach and questioning, to discover our own place in the world by discovering how to film it. Let us accept its invitation, with open arms and eyes, with camera and microphone ready, to try to give shape to a (sketch of a) collective mosaic film over the course of a week that will be a portrait of the village of São Gregório and the people who live and work there.

João Rosas (Lisbon, 1981) is the author of three books of short stories and films such as “My Mother is a Pianist” (2005), “Birth of a City” (2009), “Entrecampos” (2012), “Maria do Mar” (2015), premiered in Locarno and awarded in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil, and “Catavento” (2020), which won the Best Short Film award at BAFICI 2021 and a Special Jury Mention at the 18th Brive Festival. His latest film, “The Death of a City,” won the DocAlliance Award for Best Feature Film. He has just completed his first fiction feature film.

At the OSSO facilities, in the village of S. Gregório, Caldas da Rainha
Support: Polytechnic of Leiria_ESAD.CR, OSSO, LIDA, FCT, CCC Caldas da Rainha

Design: ESAD.CR

Off : from English, means “off” or “outside”.

A little off translates an initial stage of research into voice-over, addressing the concepts of phantasmagoria and spectrality.

A little off is a reflection on voice-over as a resource capable of influencing a gaze, manipulating a discourse or altering what we are observing.
A little off is interested in situations and objects in a state of absence-presence: the memory of a place that is far away, a person’s thoughts while listening to a story, what happens in the house that appears behind the news reporter.
A little off is about questioning the way we see the world, what we believe we see and what we speculate is there, out in the open.

Romain Beltrão Teule  works between France and Portugal. Following his studies in critical design at Toulouse Fine Art School (France), he studied performance at the Fine Art School of Nantes (France). In 2013, Romain performed and worked on the scenography for “The Outdoor Offices” project proposed by L’Agence Touriste, and assisted Alain Michard on the dance pieces “I Gave It All” and “You Are Here”. In December 2014, he completed the PEPCC course at Forum Dança in Lisbon. He began developing his own pieces in 2014, creating “Elisabeth” (2014) and “Légende” (2017), and “Vertigo” (2018), co-created with Lucie Lintanf.

+ Info [LINKS]:
https://romainteule.com/en/782-2/
https://www.orumodofumo.com/en/artistas/romain-beltrao-teule_12

 

Artistic residency focused on documenting the geophony of this territory, especially the action of the wind, one of the most characteristic natural forces of this region that shapes the landscape and life in São Gregório. The goal is to document and interpret the many “dances” of the wind, delving into its sonic, symbolic, and cultural properties. Additionally, a sound archive will be created for later use in a new musical composition to be performed by the MEDUSA unit [Eleonor Picas, Suse Ribeiro, Yaw Tembe, João Almeida, Álvaro Rosso, André Hencleeday, Nuno Morão].

Ricardo Jacinto (Lisbon, 1975) can be a musician, visual or sound artist, sculptor, or architect, depending on the weather conditions. He is a founding member and artistic director of OSSO Cultural Association and holds a Ph.D. from the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queens University Belfast. Since 1998, he has presented his work in solo and group exhibitions, concerts, and performances in Portugal, Europe, and Brazil. With a broad interest in collaborative processes, he has developed numerous projects with other artists, musicians, architects, and performers. (bio)

+ info [links]:
ricardojacinto.cargo.site
ricardojacinto.bandcamp.com

KNOW HOW / NOT KNOW THAT (Part II)
Second Residency of the Master’s Students in New Media Art, School of the Arts – UCP Artists in Residence: Adriana Queirós, Maria Rui Duarte, Ricardo M. Vieira.
May 20th – 24th, 2024

“Thus the object of knowledge is practical in the sense that it depends upon a specific kind of practice for its existence — for its existence as an object of knowledge.” John Dewey (1916) Essays in Experimental Logic

Continuing the first residency carried out by second-year students of the Master’s in New Media Art, School of the Arts – UCP, dedicated to the material investigation of the contingent and practical aspects of various knowledge construction systems, the second iteration of the “Know How / Not Know That” project aims to “conclude” the implementation and account for the material solutions, in their successes and contextual shortcomings, developed by students over a year of practical research. How to frame the possibilities tested by the radio protocols developed by Adriana Queirós? What are the general impasses revealed by the notational systems proposed by Ricardo M. Vieira? How to map the models and analogies activated by Maria Rui Duarte in the investigation of screaming and alveolar structures?

Connecting these questions, valid in themselves and extendable beyond the specific record of artistic practices, emerges an inquisitive axis committed to the construction of functional modalities of “knowing how,” as opposed to a universal line dedicated to “knowing that.”

+ info [links]:
https://artes.porto.ucp.pt/en
https://www.instagram.com/escoladasartescatolica/
https://ciencia.ucp.pt/pt/organisations/research-center-for-science-and-technology-of-the-arts-citar

“Audição Vibratória” is a project that transcends the conventional realm of sound art, challenging the limits of auditory and visual perception by working with extremely low frequencies (infrasound). A research project developed during the year 2024, which includes the contribution of people with hearing impairments in the creation of sculptures representing a spectrum of sound inaudible to the human ear. The main objective is to translate the acoustic energy generated by this range of sounds into kinetic sculptures that live in constant transformation, vibration, and plastic expression.

Gil Delindro (1989, Porto) is a Portuguese artist internationally recognized in the fields of Media Art and Sound Art. His interdisciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, installation, and new media. His work is represented in international private and public collections, including the Contemporary Art Collection of the European Patent Office and the collection of the Lower Silesian Society for the Arts.

He has received awards and sponsorship from institutions such as: EPO (European Patent Office), EMAP (European Media Art Platform), EDIGMA (media art award, PT), Berlin Masters Award (DE), ENCAC (European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (PT), Berlin Senate for Culture & Europe (DE), Goethe Institute (DE), OSTRALE (DE), STEIM Foundation (NL), Ford Foundation (Resilience, Brazil), Françoise Siegfried Meier Foundation (La Becque, Switzerland), EOFA (Embassy of Foreign Artists, Switzerland), VARC (Visual Arts in Rural Communities, UK), Criatório (PT), among others.


+ info:
www.delindro.com
https://vimeo.com/gildelindro
https://www.instagram.com/gildelindro/

uiv0 is a musical project by Ivo Santos (1996), a self-taught artist with a special affinity for words, exploring the various styles within the hip-hop universe. From boom bap to trap, from spoken word to metal rap, he has been producing music from his computer since 2017.

After releasing some singles, in 2022, he met Sublime808 (2002), a DJ and beatmaker. In 2023, they performed for the first time at Caldas Late Night, followed by three more concerts throughout the year, always accompanied by Sublime. That same year, he independently released the album “Human Error,” which showcased various sounds created in recent years. In 2024, he co-produced with Sublime808 the EP “Kasukel Vibes Vol. 1,” a project highlighting the versatility of styles they can achieve within the hip-hop universe.

For their residency at OSSO, they set a reminiscent goal: to create a new collaborative EP addressing three distinct phases of personal growth and their relationship with the village. The idea stems from looking back to see where they are going, echoing Kendrick Lamar’s theme in the song “FEAR,” 2017, in which he discusses the feeling of fear at ages 7, 17, and 27. To create a more immersive project, they also incorporate Pedro Mourinha with his Portuguese guitar and recordings of soundscapes.

+ info [links]
https://www.instagram.com/_u_iv0/
https://open.spotify.com/intl-pt/artist/1codLXMGNb1sVBcBDEqA3a?si=oYjX1nfLSDuPVfAfJ0FuSg
https://linktr.ee/uiv0
https://www.instagram.com/sublime.808/
https://soundcloud.com/jo-o-figueiredo-774621595

Foto: Daniela Ribzzz

In this residency, the focus is on creating a library of samples, which will later be structured into a small suite intended to be part of a short film developed by myself and my sister, Marta Almeida. This short film will be a sort of autobiographical work for both of us, with the main focus being to convey our experiences and challenges as young adults living in the city of Lisbon.

João Almeida (1997) is a Portuguese trumpeter, improviser, and composer based in Lisbon, Portugal. His solo work focuses on creating layered soundscapes that freeze time, with impactful scene changes, giving the listener the sensation of being teleported to Namek. He achieves this through his primary means: the trumpet and the No-Input Mixer. (Bio)

+ Info [links]:
https://www.instagram.com/joaocostaesilvadealmeida/
https://www.facebook.com/joao.almeida.77377
https://joaoalmeida.bandcamp.com/

LABIA is an ongoing autobiographical research project of a permanent processual nature, which never settles but transforms in every moment and space it occupies.Starting from non-binarism as an action of destabilizing one’s own identity, LABIA proposes an encounter between multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary artists who navigate between worlds without confining themselves to rooted forms of operation, in a coexistence and resignification of their (re)(ex)istences.Allied with an intersectional transfeminist thought, we propose the urgency of becoming collectivities while preserving our subjectivities and a dehierarchized relationship between them. We build a universe that allows for extrapolating, transcending individual and corporeal materiality, undoing the colonizing and binary language, proposing discourses of language from its gesture, expanding its multiple possibilities, in an endless artistic and life process. In the action of Transmuting, Transiting, Transpiring, Transgressing, Upsetting… creating other meanings and opening spaces for the encounter with an aesthetic of crossing towards (un)imaginable futures of existential expansion here and now.

The texts are written under the new orthographic agreement and the inclusive and gender-neutral language.

+ INFO (LINKS)
https://jocastroficial.cargo.site
https://vimeo.com/jocastro
https://www.instagram.com/jocastro_oficial/
https://soundcloud.com/jo-castro-music