Love and Garbage
5 – 8.12.2019
Organiser:
Pláka, Ágora – Cultura e Desporto, E.M.
Comissioner:
Guilherme Blanc (Departamento de Arte Contemporânea e Cinema, Ágora – Cultura e Desporto, E.M.)
Tutors:
Assemble, com Madelon Vriesendorp, Jasmine Pajdak, Thomas Thwaites, Andrés Saenz de Sicilia, Richard Wentworth, Rainer Hehl, Jerszy Seymour, Olmo Hidalgo
Contemporary architecture, among many other things, is a prolonged and precise logistical exercise in value re-arrangement to maximise profit. The processes that produce our built environment are typically systematised, formal and strictly hierarchical, structures well-suited to social division and control. Working cooperatively offers an alternative, where there is a real possibility for mutual solidarity and engagement with people’s knowledge and experience. But how to work cooperatively on the city, when the structures which generate and govern it are based on an almost diametrically opposed logic? Assemble and a small set of their friends, collaborators and accomplices invite the participants to join them for four days of working together. Basing each day on a set of short readings and sustained bodily and material processes, working together will be used as a space for opening up discussion on the shared ideas, preoccupations and concerns that have been coursing through the undercurrents of Assemble’s working practice over the last ten years.
Programme:
05.12.2019
Jasmine Pajdak and Olmo Hidalgo; Madelon Vriesendorp; Thomas Thwaites
9h30-10h00 Warm Up
10h00-13h00 Workshop: Moving – Sensing Bodies in Space, by Jasmine Pajdak and Olmo Hidalgo
15h00-18h00 Workshop: Making – Milking it, by Madelon Vriesendorp
Venue: INSTITUTO
Public Session
19h00-20h30 Sludge and Rocks, by Thomas Thwaites and Frances Edgerley (Assemble)
Venue: Passos Manuel
06.12.2019
Andrés Saenz De Sicilia; Richard Wentworth; Madelon Vriesendorp
9h30-10h00 Introductory Conversation
10h00-13h00 Workshop: Listening – Field Recording Walk, by Andrés Saenz de Sicilia
15h00-18h00 Masterclass: Pulling Threads, by Richard Wentworth
Venue: INSTITUTO
Public Session
19h00-20h30 On Drawing and Doing, por Richard Wentworth e Madelon Vriesendorp
Venue: Passos Manuel
07.12.2019
Madelon Vriesendorp; Rainer Hehl; Andrés Saenz de Sicilia; Jasmine Pajdak and Olmo Hidalgo
9h30-10h00 Introductory Conversation
10h00-13h00 Workshop: Making - Ready, Steady, Stick!, by Madelon Vriesendorp
15h00-18h00 Workshop: Moving - Ceremonies for the Empathic Encounters, by Rainer Hehl
Venue: INSTITUTO
Public Session
21h30-22h30 Live sound performance, by Andrés Saenz de Sicilia with Jasmine Pajdak, Olmo Hidalgo and Rainer Hehl
Venue: Passos Manuel
08.12.2019
Jerszy Seymour; Assemble
9h30-10h00 Introductory Conversation
10h00-13h00 Workshop: Ballet for a New Planet, by Jerszy Seymour
Venue: INSTITUTO
15h00-17h00 Workshop / Performance: Open Session, por Assemble e convidados com a moderação de Jerszy Seymour
Venue: Galeria Municipal do Porto
Photos:
Renato Cruz Santos, Alex Kirschstein