InResidence programme awards eight artistic residency grants

Get to know the eight artistic residency grants awarded by the 2020 edition of the InResidence programme awards eight artistic residency grants in Porto.  

Circolando, School of Arts of the Catholic University, mala voadora, Maus Hábitos, Rua do Sol and Sonoscopia - are the institutions that have already welcomed residencies in the scope of this programme. To these, there are now A Turma and the Instituto that will receive a grant as well, with artists from several areas.

mala voadora welcomes the New Zealander artist Julia Croft, creator of dance and theatre performances. This will be the theatre company's fourth residency supported by the municipal programme InResidence. The residency will take the performance "TERRAPOLIS" to the stage.

In September, five of the eight awarded residencies will kick off; Nina Amat will be hosted by A Turma, to create "INTERIORS", a research project that is also a community cooperation project with dwellers in Porto.

The Arts School invites Ben Russel to develop "The Invisible Mountain", a project that connects several artists and performers and that culminates in the "A Montanha Invisível" at the UCP - Universidade Católica do Porto.

Nelsa Guambe, self-taught artist that uses visual arts as a way of boosting critical thought, will develop a set of dialogues with local artists and other cultural performers at the Instituto.

Alexandre Vogler, who works on public contexts and communication systems, and Ronald Duarte, who develops his work in Brazil and at international level will create the "Ateliê Encantado" at Maus Hábitos.

The Rua do Sol welcomes the visual artists and researcher Cinthia Mendonça, whose work focuses on the aesthetics of the post-industrial rural universe, the relationship between people and technical objects and on topics as animism and resilience, memory and the environmental imagination of present time.

In October, the residencies by Circolando, with Alejandro Ahmed, and by Sonoscopia, with Ignaz Schick will kick off.

Ahmed, choreographer and artistic director of Cena 11 Cia. de Dança (Santa Catarina - Brasil), will develop the "Condução Óssea" project on transduction and alterity.

Schick, one of the most important musicians in the experimental music panorama in Berlin will bring a proxy approach proposal to avant-garde music from Porto, and to jazz and classic music tradition as well.

The InResidence programme awards grants for the creation of artistic residency projects in non-municipal cultural spaces, whit funding values between 4 and 6 thousand euros.

So far, seventeen artistic residency were supported by this programme. All information regarding the programme and supported projects can be consulted at Pláka.