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Renowned Portuguese author Gonçalo M. Tavares's returns to our cultural centre for a presentation of his ongoing editorial project produced by the Triennale. With the help of experts from various fields, the audience is invited to take part in a reflection on exclusion in architecture and how our cities and homes include or exclude people on the basis of their differences.
It's not all roses, it's not all palm trees, the thrush* does not always sing.
Where is home?
What is home?
What's the difference between the house we grew up and the house we live in today? What is the common ground between the two? From what feeling/event did this journey begin - from fear or need? from love, from desire? by chance? How do you change houses and countries? And what is the last house? Is there a first house, a house in between and the last house? How do you find this final one? What is a country-home?
Which country is our home?
How can we make art outside our home-language?
These are some of the questions that will be raised in this talk.
In addition to short video projections, we will hear from artists who have migrated to Portugal to continue making their art. It will feature Jean Paul Bucchieri, an Italian-born director, Larissa Lewandoski, a Brazilian visual artist and a message from Lauren Mendinueta, a Colombian poet - all Lisbon residents - who will be in dialogue with the writer Gonçalo M. Tavares, in yet another stage of the Project As Cidades e as Casas.
Jean Paul Bucchieri was born in Italy and has lived in Portugal since 1993. He is a director, researcher and pedagogue. He is a member of the teaching staff of the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and has participated in Bob Wilson's projects as an assistant and performer. As a director, Jean Paul has regularly presented his projects in the areas of performing arts, theatre and opera since 1994.
Lauren Mendinueta, Barranquilla, Colombia (1977). Poet, essayist, translator and university lecturer. She has lived in Lisbon since 2007.
Larissa Lewandoski (1992) is a Brazilian artist living in Lisbon, with a master's degree in Image Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto. Her practices straddle the intersection of cinema and the performing arts, where social-political themes related to the territory in which she lives permeate the centre of her explorations.
Poem sent by Larissa Lewandoski, from Brazilian romantic poet Gonçalves Dias, poem from exile:
‘My land has palm trees, / Where the thrush* sings, / The birds that twitter here, / Don't twitter like this there. / Our sky has more stars, / Our plains have more flowers, / Our woods have more life, / Our life has more love. / When I brood, alone, at night, / I find more pleasure there, / My land has palm trees, / Where the thrush sings. / My land has palm trees, / Which I don't find here, / When I think alone at night, / I find more pleasure there, / My land has palm trees, / Where the thrush sings. / God forbid that I should die, / Without returning there, / Without enjoying the exquisite things, / Which I don't find here, / Without even seeing the palm trees, / Where the thrush sings.
A three-year bibliographic, visual and field research project by a multidisciplinary team, culminating in the publication of a book and an audiovisual documentary. Iconic literary works from Marguerite Yourcenar to Clarice Lispector and Adélia Prado are revisited alongside the work of classical and contemporary philosophers such as Paul Virilio, Nietzsche and Peter Sloterdijk. The project involves a multidisciplinary team, including the artistic collective Os Espacialistas (architects Luís Baptista, Diogo Guimarães and Sérgio Estevão), illustrator Rachel Caiano, journalist Rute Barbedo, filmmaker Larissa Lewandoski and the design, sound and image team of Alfabeto Padrão.
*Its a species of bird known in portuguese as sabiá