Following its premiere in April at the ‘Festival Dias da Dança’ in Porto, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha’s ‘AXIOM CASINO’ comes to CAM. In an interview with BANTUMEN, the composer, visual artist and director explains how he took gambling as the staring point to explore the rules that organise life in society, and what continues to elude control within a machine.
In this interview by Marisa Mendes Rodrigues, the creators of the mobile game 'The Scheherazade’s Labyrinth' explain how they developed this project, which turns a CAM visit into an interactive experience.
The Engawa Space receives Katharina Lackner for a residency that culminates in the participatory installation ‘Dreamscape’. Bantumen spoke with the Austrian artist who seeks to reveal the difference between games and the idea of purposeless play, challenging visitors to become actively involved in creating the installation.
A workshop led by Katharina Lackner encouraged children and adults to explore creativity through free experimentation. In this article, BANTUMEN contributor Edson Vidal reflects on the value of the creative process that marks the start of this residency.
Presented at CAM, the European project ‘Institution(ing)s’ questions the supposed neutrality of institutional language and proposes a collaboratively constructed glossary.
In this opinion piece, Carolina Sebastião, from BANTUMEN, takes us on a tour of ‘Bruno Zhu. Belas Artes’ , revealing, room by room, the concerns that inhabit each space.
Bruno Zhu spoke with Marisa Mendes Rodrigues from Bantumen about his artistic practice, which spans Portugal, London and the Netherlands. ‘Belas Artes’ [Fine Arts] has now arrived at CAM and stems from a very specific institutional frustration, raising questions that go far beyond the museum’s walls.
Choreographer and dancer Gustavo Ciríaco is preparing a Carnival parade, in a process that encompasses his mother’s poetic legacy, pedagogy and community participation. In an interview with Marisa Mendes Rodrigues from Bantumen, he tells us about the culmination of this residency.
In this article, Marisa Mendes Rodrigues, from BANTUMEN, analyses the selection of works from the CAM Collection that artist Carlos Bunga and curator Rui Mateus Amaral brought together for the exhibition 'Carlos Bunga. Inhabit the Contradiction'.
Carlos Bunga, in a conversation with BANTUMEN’s Marisa Mendes Rodrigues, talks about turning the museological space into a territory of listening and presence. Between the ephemeral and the political, the artist seeks to reflect on vulnerability as a structure and impermanence as a language.
Between Angola, France and Portugal, the director Pocas Pascoal, in conversation with BANTUMEN’s Marisa Mendes Rodrigues, reflects on memory, exile and the Black gaze in cinema. Her career reflects an ongoing fight for representation, justice and creative freedom.
On 8, 9, 15 and 16 November, CAM is hosting ‘Black Gaze – Showcase of Black Cinema in Portugal’. Curator Kitty Furtado, in conversation with Marisa Mendes Rodrigues, from BANTUMEN, discusses the gaze of Afro-descendant directors in order to rethink representation and the place of Black perspectives in Portuguese cinema.
BANTUMEN spoke to the artist Grada Kilomba about her artistic practice, creative freedom, the right to be complex and the need to understand her work as a universal gesture.
As part of the ‘SYNCOPATIONS’ project, a sound installation that pays tribute to the historical presence of Black women in Lisbon, BANTUMEN spoke with XEXA, a music producer born and raised in the São Toméan diaspora, whose work spans sound, performance and memory as forms of resistance and creation.
‘In Flight with Damara Inglês,’ a workshop led by Damara Inglês, is a reflection on the true meaning of the metaverse and the importance of precisely naming emerging technologies. BANTUMEN took the opportunity to get to know the creative mind and designer who sees the metaverse as a natural extension of human communication.
In 2023, Tristany Mundu guided Julianknxx through the areas of the Sintra rail corridor and the South Bank [Margem Sul]. This meeting between artists and African diaspora communities in Portugal gave rise to the exhibition ‘Julianknxx. Chorus in Rememory of Flight’.
BANTUMEN invited intercultural mediator Nael D’Almeida to visit the Reading Room of the exhibition ‘Julianknxx. Chorus in Rememory of Flight’ and this experience stimulated a sensitive and profound reflection on the black body, collective exhaustion and the utopia of rest.
In conversation with BANTUMEN, Tristany Mundu rejects the notion of the ‘periphery’ and proposes the Sintra Line as a creative centre. The artist celebrates this region in ‘City around the City’, his first solo exhibition.
‘ARUS FEMIA’ is inspired by Guinean women who turned their hair into granaries of ancestral wisdom. BANTUMEN spoke to Zia Soares, who shared stories of the Guinean rice fields and the creation process for this performance.
BANTUMEN spoke to the writer Ondjaki and the musician Tristany Mundu about the participative project ‘Tide of stories’, which culminated in a poetic audio guide made by children and inspired by works in the exhibition ‘Tide Line. CAM Collection.’
Julianknxx, a poet and visual artist whose work explores themes such as heritage, loss and belonging, spoke to BANTUMEN about his time in Lisbon in 2023, which culminated in the exhibition ‘Chorus in Rememory of Flight,’ shown at CAM in 2025.
BANTUMEN interviewed Tristany Mundu about the opening of his first solo exhibition, ‘City around the City’, featuring a brand new video installation commissioned by CAM.
Piny is an artist, architect, performer, dancer and choreographer. A native of Lisbon with Angolan roots, her life has always been a balancing act between two arts that, although different, combine to make her feel complete: architecture and dance.
Through articles, interviews and reports, digital magazine BANTUMEN has teamed up with Gulbenkian to convey the stories of outstanding artists from a decentralised perspective. In this opinion piece, Vanessa Sanches, the magazine’s co-founder, reflects on her connection to culture and the barriers she has overcome along the way.