Where I (we) Stand

International Meetings Where I (we) Stand

Between 22 and 23 November, Where I (we) Stand will bring together a group of authors, artists and activists around the issues relating to the decolonisation of history, bodies and narratives, but also to the very structure of the Museum as a place of representation and a producer of knowledge.

DATES

• Fri, 22 Nov / 10:00 – 18:00

LOCATION

Modern Collection – Multi Use Room

R. Dr. Nicolau Bettencourt, Lisbon

PRICING

Free entry, subject to room capacity.

Throughout 2019, in the Modern Collection Project Space, the Gulbenkian Museum has developed a programming cycle dedicated to national and international contemporary artists whose works question and problematise the colonial past and its legacy in the present – a present still to be decolonised – summoning history, memory, the experience of the diaspora, proposing alternative narratives and giving a voice (and image) to other protagonists. Yto Barrada, Filipa César, Irineu Destourelles (on exhibition until 6 January) are the artists who have developed projects specifically for the space. Associated with this programme and new acquisition policies for works in the Modern Collection, in November the Museum will host the Where I (we) Stand Meetings in the Multipurpose Room, next to the Project Space. These meetings were conceived in collaboration with the associations and collectives Djass, Femafro, Inmune and Padema.

With the title Where I (we) Stand, the Meetings summon the places of colonial history, focusing on the Portuguese colonial past while anchoring itself in the present to reflect on the places from which we defend the construction of other narratives and expand possibilities to other ‘imaginations’. In this sense, it is also the site of an active positioning in relation to these issues. The Meetings intend to focus on black feminisms that, through intersectional thinking and structure, deal with problems of colonialism, decolonisation and racism, but also with issues of gender and class. Such voices have long been subject to a process of double invisibility.

Participating in the Meetings are Ângela Ferreira, Denise Ferreira da Silva, , Irineu Destourelles, Melissa Rodrigues, Raquel Lima, Rita Fabiana, Vânia Gala, the Museum Detox project and the Entities and Associations of Youth Mill, Djass, Femafro, INMUNE and Padema.