Are about 150 events, shows, exhibitions, conferences and much more in a program that brings the question of the indigenous, afro-descendants and migrations to contemporary creation.
Newcomers to the “west indies”, in the SIXTEENTH century, europeans were fascinated with the paradise that they found. Frei Bartolomeu de Las Casas mentioned in his chronicles that the indians were “simple, without malice, filled with love for her, devoid of any ambition earthly”. But the paradise would not last long. There was that clearing the land, evangelize the people, to impose an order. It was necessary to pour a lot of blood for which America was built. Putting an end to paradise. This is what tells us Al Final Del Paraiso, a mural done purposely by mexican artist Demián Flores for the opening of the programming of Lisbon, the Capital Ibero-American Culture. The inauguration will be held at 17.00 of the day 7 January 2017, at the monument to the Discoveries.
in The evening, at the Teatro São Luiz, the party begins with three young voices and female: Gisela João (Portugal), Mariela Condo (Ecuador) and Yomira John (Panama): “A concert with which we want to express a belief in the future of these three countries and of the universe ibero-american”, in the words of António Pinto Ribeiro, commissioner-general, who yesterday presented the complete schedule of this capital will be about 150 events, among which 38 concerts and shows, 31 exhibitions, 5 cycles of cinema, 7 colloquia, and a series of activities spread over 50 spaces in Lisbon, which will involve 390 artists and invited international and 250 national.
programming has been mounted to the term “record” six months and with a budget of 1.5 million euros (3 million if we count with what the various equipment you bring) – “which is clearly very tight for a size of this type,” says Pinto Ribeiro.
The idea is always to connect the various countries of the ibero-american space. As soon as the first day it is possible to attest to the trip between the past and the present, which is the motto of this Capital of Culture and to distinguish the four axes that guide the programming: the question of the indigenous, afro-descendant, migration, and the creation of the contemporary. Without any intention of whitewashing the memory, Pinto Ribeiro proposes to present the visions of a past colonialist and slavery, the complicated relationship with the indigenous peoples, the influence of many streams of migration that crossed the Atlantic, many times the result of wars, and how, even today, this past is present – for example in the streets of Lisbon (in may, there will be a roadmap, prepared by the Office of Studies Olisiponenses, entitled “The Blacks in new york”) or in the artistic creation in these countries (see the case of Roberto Huarcaya, peruvian photographer, who, also in may, comes display, Amazogramas, an installation composed of three photos (30 square meters), which used to own the amazon forest as camera obscura).
“The culture of the ibero-american is not homogenous, and we wanted this diversity to be present in the programming,” explains Pinto Ribeiro, underlining that the challenge is that, throughout the year, the public go deconstructing prejudices and made ideas that you have about Latin America. “This ibero-american space is full of contradictions,” he says, and so it is also the programming that both can present some of the most remarkable artistic creation as you can touch the kitsch. “We didn’t want to purify the programming,” he says. Hence, also the importance of the whole to the part, more reflective, with conversations about racism or about the indigenous question.
a Large part of the programming focuses on the cultural spaces of the local authority – theatres, museums, etc. But there are also other institutions that came to the Capital of Culture, as the National Company of Ballet that will debut in November, a new creation of the choreographer sevillano Israel Gálvan. Or the MAAT, which will, in march, an exhibition of Hector Zamora (Mexico), and another of Jordi Colomer (Spain)
This is the second time that Lisbon is the Capital Ibero-American Culture (the first was in 1994, when it also was the European Capital of Culture). The councilor for Culture, Catarina Vaz Pinto, stressed the importance of, at this time, leverage the idea of this being a cosmopolitan city, culturally active and meeting point of cultures. And Fernando Medina, president of the Chamber, went further by saying that what is going to happen here, “is the opposite of what we are doing in the political debate in europe and the world”, where the words of order are closing and deletion. Or, as also said the minister of Culture, Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, instead of “building walls, it is necessary to build bridges between cities, countries and cultures, and this is what it proposes to do this programming of the capital ibero-american.
5 highlights in the schedule:
Encounter with the indigenous people of Brazil
” Vision Yanomani is an exhibition of photographs by Claudia Andujar (Brazil), which introduces us to a part of his documentary work done in the 70s and 80s of the TWENTIETH century about the people Yonomani. The collection of the Art Center of Inhotim to the Photographic Archive of the Lisbon city council, of 11 February and 15 April.
Photography lost Armindo Cardoso
” Armindo Cardoso was a photographer Portuguese, exiled in 1965, who accompanied Salvador Allende, in Chile. After the coup of Pinochet, your photos were for years hidden inside a bag, a fifth. Will be at the Museum Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva, from march 4 to June 30.
Racismos and citizenship
” Discuss the relationship between racism and citizenship over the course of six centuries – from 1497 to the present – is the ambitious goal of Racismos, the exhibition curated by Francisco Bethencourt, which opens on 6 may at the monument to the Discoveries. On day 13, held the seminar “Racism and Citizenship”.
The new teatro argentino
” the Vigil of Night is a spectacle of the playwright and director argentine Daniel Veronose: two brothers and their respective wives together–if in the back of the urn of the deceased mother. A night to confront the demons. The show will be on the scene at the São Luiz Municipal Theatre on the 13th and 14th of may.
Antropofagias Tamara Cubas
” The choreographer uruguayan Tamara Cubas will present in Lisbon, in a world premiere in his Trilogy Antropofásica, inspired by Oswald de Andrade and in the works of other choreographers on the tradition antropogáfica of brazilian creation. To see in September, at the São Luiz Teatro Municipal.
See the complete schedule on the official site HERE.
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