Vânia Gala e participantes
22 Nov. 2019 | Fund. Calouste Gulbenkian
Keynote 1: Anna Viola Hallberg and Thomas Oldrell
The presentation by Thomas Oldrell museum director/artist and Anna Viola Hallberg artist/independent curator is based on a case study of how
they built up a residency at Skövde Art Museum in Sweden. The approach stretches from taking into consideration the needs of the artist to a
trajectory of institutional development and encompasses a methodology and introduction of an art residency specifically for social and critical
art.
The first five years have entailed a two month residency per year, with artists from St Petersburg, Havana, Cape town, Lisbon and Yangon.
In addition Oldrell and Hallberg have performed an in-depth research of the social art scenes of the cities above.
they built up a residency at Skövde Art Museum in Sweden. The approach stretches from taking into consideration the needs of the artist to a
trajectory of institutional development and encompasses a methodology and introduction of an art residency specifically for social and critical
art.
The first five years have entailed a two month residency per year, with artists from St Petersburg, Havana, Cape town, Lisbon and Yangon.
In addition Oldrell and Hallberg have performed an in-depth research of the social art scenes of the cities above.
Oldrell has a Master of Fine Arts from Valand academy in Gothenburg and was a practising artist for over 20 years. Between 2007-2014 he
worked with strategic development of the arts for two different administrative regions in Sweden. Since 2014 Oldrell is director of Skövde
art
museum with the regional mission to work with aspects of intersectionality and to develop artistic practices within the autonomy of the
publicly founded art institution as well as audience development. Hallberg is a graduate from Stockholm Film School.
She also holds a BA in Curatorial and Cinema Studies from Stockholm University, Sweden (2003) and an M.Sc in International Museum
Studies, University of Gothenburg (2008). Writing her thesis on contemporary art in museum exhibitions outside the paradigm of the art
institution.
Hallberg’s artistic practice is informed by the notion of in-betweeness, as personal experience and geopolitical position.
Her methodology in the immersive space-narrations of video, sound, photography and text brings forward a discussion on the documentary
of experience, remembrance, and emotions rendering collective memory and the work for social justice.
worked with strategic development of the arts for two different administrative regions in Sweden. Since 2014 Oldrell is director of Skövde
art
museum with the regional mission to work with aspects of intersectionality and to develop artistic practices within the autonomy of the
publicly founded art institution as well as audience development. Hallberg is a graduate from Stockholm Film School.
She also holds a BA in Curatorial and Cinema Studies from Stockholm University, Sweden (2003) and an M.Sc in International Museum
Studies, University of Gothenburg (2008). Writing her thesis on contemporary art in museum exhibitions outside the paradigm of the art
institution.
Hallberg’s artistic practice is informed by the notion of in-betweeness, as personal experience and geopolitical position.
Her methodology in the immersive space-narrations of video, sound, photography and text brings forward a discussion on the documentary
of experience, remembrance, and emotions rendering collective memory and the work for social justice.
Keynote 2: Anne Douglas
Anne is an Emeritus Professor at Robert Gordon University. Her research over the past twenty-two years has been two fold. First she has
evolved approaches to practice led research, doctoral and postdoctoral, through the visual arts. Secondly, she has focused on the place of the arts
in public life, increasingly in the field of art and ecology, working with constructs such as improvisation and leadership. From her Emeritus role,
Anne supervises doctoral researchers to completion and develop her role as research associate
within the Knowing from Inside EU funded research at the University of Aberdeen. She is publishing in the
field including the commissioned volume on Participatory Arts, Foundation Series edited by Keri Facer, AHRC’s Connected Communities
Leadership Fellow (2017).
evolved approaches to practice led research, doctoral and postdoctoral, through the visual arts. Secondly, she has focused on the place of the arts
in public life, increasingly in the field of art and ecology, working with constructs such as improvisation and leadership. From her Emeritus role,
Anne supervises doctoral researchers to completion and develop her role as research associate
within the Knowing from Inside EU funded research at the University of Aberdeen. She is publishing in the
field including the commissioned volume on Participatory Arts, Foundation Series edited by Keri Facer, AHRC’s Connected Communities
Leadership Fellow (2017).
Keynote 3: Sofia Wiberg
Currently postdoc, dissertating on Listening practice - citizen dialogue, unknowing and displacement where she explores listening to attitudes as a
political practice in relation to citizen dialogues in urban planning processes. The focus is on the practical knowledge as a planner / process manager
in these processes. She critically highlights the growing interest in citizen dialogues and emphasize the importance of not only looking for answers
but also giving way to and standing in the blinding and difficult-to-handle questions in order to make more judicious decisions in the long run.
Her research interest lies primarily in exploring practical, experience-based knowledge. One of the themes she is currently working on is art /
culturein urban development. She examines processes where artists are invited to early stages in planning processes, as a way to offer new
methods for understanding the place. She is interested in the relation of changing roles in the planning field and bureaucracy
political practice in relation to citizen dialogues in urban planning processes. The focus is on the practical knowledge as a planner / process manager
in these processes. She critically highlights the growing interest in citizen dialogues and emphasize the importance of not only looking for answers
but also giving way to and standing in the blinding and difficult-to-handle questions in order to make more judicious decisions in the long run.
Her research interest lies primarily in exploring practical, experience-based knowledge. One of the themes she is currently working on is art /
culturein urban development. She examines processes where artists are invited to early stages in planning processes, as a way to offer new
methods for understanding the place. She is interested in the relation of changing roles in the planning field and bureaucracy
She is also interested in research as a practice in itself, to explore its habits and doings, and to develop forms of academic writing, and as well in
exploring approaches to research that have the physical and experience-based knowledge at the center.
exploring approaches to research that have the physical and experience-based knowledge at the center.
She teaches the courses Project Sustainable Urban Planning- Strategies for Urban and Regional Development and the actors and processes of
Planning, at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. She previously taught at the Center for Practical Knowledge at Södertörn
University.
Planning, at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. She previously taught at the Center for Practical Knowledge at Södertörn
University.
Keynote 4: Cristina Pratas Cruzeiro, Fernando Fadigas, Filipa Ramalhete, Helena Elias, João Quintela, Maria Assunção Gato, Pedro Costa,
Rogério Taveira, Sérgio Vicente
Rogério Taveira, Sérgio Vicente
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Workshop Public Ethics/Urgent matters
Anna Viola Hallberg and Thomas Oldrell
Format: Workshop in small cross discipline groups. Each workshop is facilitated by a moderator and notetaker.
Duration: 90 min
Description: This explorative workshop, focus on identifying urgent matters amongst conference goers in regard to domain of Public Ethics.
What contingencies do we need to overcome? How can we improve the way we work to allow for a richer content and artistic outcome?
What is needed? What are the urgent matters interacting with each other, society at large and governing entities.
Each workshop will be included in the publication ”What will be?” as part of the mapping of social arts from the perspective of artists,
academics and museum workers.
What contingencies do we need to overcome? How can we improve the way we work to allow for a richer content and artistic outcome?
What is needed? What are the urgent matters interacting with each other, society at large and governing entities.
Each workshop will be included in the publication ”What will be?” as part of the mapping of social arts from the perspective of artists,
academics and museum workers.
Q.B Performance
Helena Elias - Quê bê (q.b.) is an experimental art project fusing art and food, based on the interpretation of images presented in the recipes of
cooking books from various countries. The participants will try to cook the recipes by interpreting the images, with no help from of verbal signs,
since they are in different languages. Such shared procedure will lead to the creation of new recipes, celebrating participatory creativity.
Experimentation on cooking will allow the conference participants to share and create collectively while building together the conference catering
in a real-time collective experience. Enjoy your conference meal!
cooking books from various countries. The participants will try to cook the recipes by interpreting the images, with no help from of verbal signs,
since they are in different languages. Such shared procedure will lead to the creation of new recipes, celebrating participatory creativity.
Experimentation on cooking will allow the conference participants to share and create collectively while building together the conference catering
in a real-time collective experience. Enjoy your conference meal!
Performance Manifest
Isabel Costa & Daniel Gamito Marques
Selected Speakers
21.10.2019
José Pedro Regatão - Community Public Art: Promoting Social Change
Jody Wood - Power of the Temporary: Social Art in Spaces of Transitional Living
Mariana Carrolo - Drawing as a process to communicate the inmate's experience: Perception and
Representation of Space
Vânia Gala - Choreographies of Disappearance: opacity as a generative withholding
22.10.2019
Catarina Pires - Subversion as a Resistance Strategy in Artistic Activism
Skider Md Zulkernine - The Relationship Between Museums and their Communities in Bangladesh: Challenges and Opportunities
José J. G. Moura - What is a library for? What way to the future?
António Figueiredo Marques - Parasomnia: Sleep against capitalism
