Conversation about the ‘Syncopes’ project
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Date
- 18:00 / Cancelled 18:00 / Sold out Thursday, 18:00
Location
Studio Centro de Arte Moderna GulbenkianThe project consists of an imagined sound fiction based on Black women from Lisbon, in a spiral of time between the beginning of the 20th century and the present. Breaking through colonial amnesia, their voices are projected and impossible memories are built, on a journey through Lisbon, Santiago, Cachéu, Salvador, Harlem and São Tomé.
In this conversation, moderated by Selma Uamusse, the artists will talk about the genesis of this work, the themes that run through it, its narrative structure and the process of creating it collectively.
This piece, which can be experienced in the Sound Room between 22 May and 9 June, uses propulsive sounds of advance and retreat, of friction or confluence, blending noise to reach music and words. Through this soundscape, we immerse ourselves in stories from the past in order to imagine the future.
Speakers
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Cristina Roldão
Cristina Roldão is a sociologist, researcher at Iscte – University Institute of Lisboa and lecturer at the Escola Superior de Educação de Setúbal (ESE/IPS). She actively participates in academic and public discussions on racism and Blackness in Portugal and she is co-author of the recent book Tribuna Negra: Origins of the Black Movement in Portugal (1911-1933).
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Selma Uamusse
Singer, author, songwriter, performer, sometimes actress, Selma Uamusse was born in 1981 in Maputo, Mozambique, and has been living in Portugal since 1988. She is a Mozambican emigrant woman, who fled her engineering training and now emerged in music in several of its aspects, in the country she chose to embrace, Portugal. Vocal in social issues that disturb her, a woman who moves in faith and compassion for others and who looks at society as a whole, a kind of global village that worries when one of its parts does not work well. And here lives the inspiration of the songs of this ordinary citizen who chose music as a vehicle for the transformation of society.
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XEXA
XEXA is an Afrofuturist artist of São Toméan descent born in Lisbon. Her work reflects the exploration of sounds, creating a hybrid of rhythms with synthesisers, sound design and voice. XEXA is a sound designer, producer, composer and singer who has performed at various festivals across Europe and composed music for the British Music Collection, CMMAS, Lagos Art Biennale, Culturgest and ModaLisboa. Her album ‘Vibrações de Prata’ was released by Príncipe Discos in 2023.
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Zia Soares
Zia Soares is a director and actress who works between Africa and Europe. In her practice, she experiments with the construction of new dramaturgies rooted in oral poetics, in which the verb is a manifestation of images. Her trajectory includes the shows ‘Pérola sem Rapariga’, co-produced by Sowing_arts/TNDM/apap FEMINIST FUTURES and ‘O Riso dos necrófagos’, written by her and co-produced by Teatro GRIOT/Culturgest, which was awarded the Internazionale Teresa Pomodoro Prize (Italy) for Best Play 2021/2022.
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