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In this first edition of Periple Duet, a cycle of residencies on-the-move, the Triennale convenes two emerging figures from LINA network to create and undergo a thematic itinerary that unites the city where they live with Lisbon.
Ajda Bračič and Tevi Allan Mensah are now returning to Sinel de Cordes Palace to present their experience of travelling through more than 20 cities by collective means of land transportation, on rails or wheels, for a reflection on architecture and landscape framed by notions of border, fluidity, mobility, or heritage, both material and immaterial.
Travelling becomes the raw material of an exercise in observation: experiencing territorial diversity, reducing distances and extending limits are key elements addressed in conversation. This moment opens with a presentation by guest speaker Pedro Tropa on artists whose work is related to the notions of journey and displacement. Film director Graça Castanheira will moderate the event to broaden the discussion.
We also invited artist Tatiana Macedo to return to the Palace to inaugurate the legacy left by her tour of 21 landmark buildings in nine European countries, as part of the Triennale 2019 Natural Beauty exhibition.
Ajda Bračič presents her intimate travel diary spawning twelve fragments, one for each day of train travel between Ljubljana and Lisbon. Focusing on the correspondences between language and space, she examines in a non-linear way how words and architectural ideas have always migrated and travelled, ignoring borders and creating identities that continuously overlap.
From a collection of artefacts and images gathered during his journey, Allan Mensah builds a reflection that appropriates the title of an anthology of short stories by Julio Cortázar. Questioning what it means to go from one place to another, on his way he encounters immanent objects, heterogeneous landscapes and borders to cross in order to address what these produce or inhibit: displacement.
More information18h30 Conference by Pedro Tropa
19h00 Periple Duet presentations by Ajda Bračič + Tevi Allan Mensah
19h30 Talk moderated by Graça Castanheira
20h00 Inauguration of photographic artwork by artist Tatiana Macedo
20h20 Cocktail
The presentations and debate will be in English. The result of the first two Periple Duet residencies, part of the European programme LINA, is materialised in a small publication that you can take with you.
Editor and cultural critic in various media, whose research focuses on the intersections between architecture, identity and language in different communities' practices, techniques and knowledge. In 2021 she founded Kajža, an NGO dedicated to rehabilitation and sustainable vernacular practices and in 2022 she co-edited the book Super Vernaculars! and made her debut in fiction writing with the publication of Leteči ljudje, a collection of short stories.
The imaginaries of border territories are a recurring theme in his practice that intersects artistic creation and architecture to interrogate the role of this discipline as a means of collective communication. Allan Mensah co-founded in 2019 the collective frontières* dedicated to publishing in architecture, in 2022 he co-created a micro-festival of architecture, Balthazar, and currently teaches in the master chair 'Utopie/Dystopie' at ENSA Lyon.
Portuguese filmmaker and professor of Documentary Film and Directing Practices. Her work includes A Rua da Estrada, from the book of the same name by geographer Álvaro Domingues, about the Portuguese landscape and its idiosyncratic country roads, or the series O Tempo e o Modo, in which eleven personalities talk about the future.
Pedro Tropa's artistic practice questions the notion of landscape and the universe of mountain territories from the Himalayas to the Alps. The rough and rarefied nature of these places, sensorially explored on a journey through walking or climbing, is the subject of works in video, photography or drawing. The embodied experience in loco is then revisited in the studio in a synthesis between perception and memory.
This artist's work explores the fields of film, photography and sound, as in her 2012 film Seems so long ago, Nancy, which was awarded the SAW Film Prize by the American Anthropology Association. For the exhibition Natural Beauty presented at the Palácio Sinel de Cordes as part of the 2019 Triennale, she travelled across Europe to photograph a wide selection of architectural works with her subjective eye.