International Meeting on the City, Body and Sound

The full program and timetable can be found here

Registration for walks and performances will be made  at the secretariat

The pandemic and post-pandemic contexts have imposed on cities other dynamics, other sounds, other echoes, other routes, other human and non-human visitors. During the lockdown, the closure of theatrical and exhibition spaces - as well as, during lockdown unlocking, the limitations for their use - have had painful consequences in artistic programming and dramatic effects in the daily lives of its agents (artists, technicians, programmers, curators, etc.). At the same time, the slowing down of city life (traffic, the pace of the streets, the frenzy of production and consumption, etc.) has made a beneficial contribution to a reduction in CO2 emissions. In this context, the city - and more specifically its open-air public areas - emerge more clearly as spaces for circulation and interference (or suspension of interference) between people. 

What have we learned from the experience of national lockdown and unlocking? Firstly, that the city has a fluctuating density, insofar as population concentrations fade when we shut ourselves indoors. Secondly, the encounter with the other (one of the prerogatives of the city) can take place on other scales than the cultural dimension alone. Thirdly, fear can be a public sentiment capable of imploding cities themselves if it is not transformed into a force for life.

How, in this process, are artists organised and constituted as agents in the city? How did the city come to be represented? What kind of city do we want? This congress thus arises from the need to intensify the dialogue between the city and art, particularly the performing arts.

This international meeting is the culmination of two years of consistent and consolidated research within the TEPe (Technologically Expanded Performance) project. Throughout these two years, we have developed activities with the community to promote intercultural and transdisciplinary dialogue and provide an encounter with varied urban experiences. Through the different proposals of walks through the city, we have mapped events, today invisible, but still present: from "buried memories" to "sensorial walks", passing through intimate records of confinement.

The meeting aims to share the experiences carried out with the contribution of two teams: the Portuguese, in Lisbon, and the Brazilian, in Fortaleza. Besides presenting the conclusions of the researches carried out, we launch this call for presentations, especially addressed to artists and scholars of performance art, historians of cities, anthropologists, urban planners, geographers, scholars of listening and sound and to all those who are interested in thinking (and projecting) life in the city.

ON-SITE FORMAT

For health reasons, to access closed spaces we will follow the recommendations in force by the Portuguese Health Authority (DGS).

Registration

Fees

Author (50€)

Author - Early bird (30€) *

Student (20€)

Student - Early bird (10€) *

One day (student) (5€) ⁺

One day (normal) (10€) ⁺

+ Registration only at the secretariat, at the convent

* Early registration prices apply if registration form and payment are received before January 31st, 2022

Form

Registrations  online are closed. You can do it day by day on site, at the secretariat, depending on the capacity.

Formats of participation

= Public performances 

= Communications / Panel discussions

= Video-Poster sessions

= Walks

Themes

- Listening to the city.

All cities have sounds and each city has different sound profiles. What are the levels of harmony and noise and what are the criteria for distinguishing between them? Where is silence in cities?

- Urban maps.

From playful walks to demonstrations and protest "marches", from celebratory parades to exploratory wanderings. Systems of (re)mapping and recognition of spaces. Walking close to "being lost".

- Body and urban network. 

Histories and processes of inscription of urban networks in the bodies of their inhabitants and vice-versa. From Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Fourier's "phalanstery", passing through performances in public spaces.

- The sensitive layers of the city.

From the people's micro-stories to the hidden sensorial experiences (the city's smells, the available tastes, the textures, the colours, the light and the glows, etc.). 

- Performing the city.

From the construction of models to urban art interventions. Dancing (in) the city. City protagonists and antagonists. Public equipment for training and physical exercise.

- Citizenship and climate change.

From the history of citizenship to contemporary challenges. To what extent is it urgent to revise the social contract in order to introduce citizenship that is not limited to human rights, capable of reconciling cities with the planet? The proposals submitted must contribute to a deeper understanding of the city as a multidimensional fabric that affects us and allows itself to be affected. Thus, the proposals will be valued if they explicitly propose a positive change of experience in the city, specifying the level at which this change takes place and what it involves.

Submit your proposal here 

Location 

Convento de São Pedro de Alcântara, Lisbon

R. de São Pedro de Alcântara 85, 1200-089 Lisboa

(38.715339349415586, -9.144923473020206)

Recommended Hotels

Rossio Boutique

Flores Guest House

The Independente

Anjo Azul

Lisbon Apartments 

Conference Chairs

Daniel Tércio

INET-md : Instituto de Etnomusicologia - Centro de Estudo em Música e Dança 

Leonel Brum

Instituto de Cultura e Arte - Cursos de Dança (Universidade Federal do Ceará)

International Scientific and Art Committee

André Guedes

Artist / Faculdade de Belas Artes, Faculdade de Arquitectura (Universidade de Lisboa)

Beatriz Cantinho

Choreographer / CHAIA (Universidade de Évora), CIAC (Universidade do Algarve)

Beatriz Cerbino 

Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF/Brasil, INCT Proprietas, dança em foco

Bill Psarras

Artist / Faculty of Fine Arts (University of Peloponnese)

Cecília de Lima

Choreographer / INET-md FMH (Universidade de Lisboa) 

Filippo Baraldi 

INET-md (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) /  CREM-LESC: Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (Université Paris Nanterre)

Iñigo Sanchez

Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit) / Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) 

Ivani Santana

Dance artist / Universidade Federal da Bahia /UFBA Brasil

Joana Braga

Architect and Artist, DINAMIA'CET (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)

Jonas Runa

Artist / Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa

Luca Aprea

Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa)

Luís Cláudio Ribeiro

Universidade Lusófona

Maria João Alves 

INET-md FMH (Universidade de Lisboa) 

Paula Varanda

Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Paulo Caldas

  Dança Course and Midiadança Lab (Universidade Federal do Ceará)

Renata Araújo 

Universidade do Algarve / CHAM, Centro de Humanidades, FCSH-UNL

Rui Filipe Antunes  

INET-md FMH (Universidade de Lisboa) 

Sérgio Bordalo e Sá  

INET-md FMH (Universidade de Lisboa) 

Silvia Pinto Coelho

NOVA Institute of Communication, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)

Thaís Gonçalves

  Dance course and Midiadança Lab (Universidade Federal do Ceará)

TEPe Steering Comitee

Daniel Tércio

INET-md : Instituto de Etnomusicologia - Centro de Estudo em Música e Dança 

Leonel Brum

Instituto de Cultura e Arte - Cursos de Dança (Universidade Federal do Ceará)

Jonas Runa

Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa

Rui Filipe Antunes

 INET-md / FMH Universidade de Lisboa  

Curatorship of Artworks and Performances

Andréa Bergallo Snizek

Departamento de Artes e Humanidades, Universidade Federal de Viçosa (MG)

Adriana Gehres

Universidade de Pernambuco

César Baio

Visual Artist / UNICAMP -  Universidade de Campinas

Daniel Tércio

Instituto de Etnomusicologia - Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança

Elisabete Monteiro

Instituto de Etnomusicologia - Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, FMH, Universidade de Lisboa

Filipa Malva

Choreographer/ INET-md  INET-md, Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, FMH-UL

Ivani Santana

Dance artist / Universidade Federal da Bahia /UFBA Brasil

Joana Craveiro

Artist - Directora do Teatro do Vestido

Leonel Brum

Curso de Dança e Midiadança Lab - Universidade Federal do Ceará

Luca Aprea

Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema - Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa

Lúcia Matos

Escola de Dança da Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)

Silvia Pinto Coelho

NOVA Institute of Communication, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)

Manager/Producer

Missanga

Per form ativa - Associação cultural

Meeting Executive Production

Catarina Canelas

Michele Luceac

Rui Filipe Antunes

Sérgio Bordalo e Sá

Sofia Soromenho

Sophie Coquelin

Local Organization

Faculdade de Motricidade Humana / Universidade de Lisboa

Per form ativa – Associação cultural 

Facilities

Convento de São Pedro de Alcântara – Misericórdia de Lisboa

Sponsors

Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa

Câmara Municipal de Lisboa

FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

FUNCAP - Fundação Cearence de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento  Cíentífico e Tecnológico

Instituto de Cultura e Arte - Universidade Federal do Ceará

INET-md - Instituto de Etnomusicologia - Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança

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