Being alive is the opposite of being dead

Opening: October 5, 5pm 

Curated by
Guilherme Blanc
Luísa Saraiva 

Artists
Sophia Al-Maria / Cao Fei / Julia Gruner / HARTMANNMUELLER / Eva Meyer-Keller / Renato Leotta / Pedro Magalhães / Rita Nátálio & João dos Santos Martins / Mumtazz / Calixto Neto / Damián Ortega / Musa paradisiaca / Gabriel Rico / Gabriel Sierra / Karlheinz Stockhausen / Bergado/Terebentina / Pedro Tudela

Estar vivo é o contrário de estar morto stages a space for reflection about the urgent need to question different modes of action that constrain nature and the economic and cultural value that we attribute to multiple terrestrial balances.

Based on a collection of pictorial, filmic and performative works, the exhibition aims to explore, and parody, new forms of expression that break with the human/non-human dichotomy, processes of reinterpretation of subjectivities and situations that discuss the right to exist.

Between the absurd and the ordinary, the plausible and implausible, this exhibition places into perspective the need to revaluate the vulnerable and precarious status of the planet’s inhabitants, in the context of contemporary social and economic practices – without overlooking artistic practices and, paradoxically, the fact that such practises may be in collusion with consumption models that undermine a sense of natural well-being.

Performances featured in the exhibition

October 5, 6pm
In Freundschaft
Karlheinz Stockhausen 
by Pedro Silva

October 7, 7:30pm
DEATH IS CERTAIN 
Eva Meyer-Keller

October 19, 9:30pm
in noT
HARTMANNMUELLER

October 26, 4:30pm
In Freundschaft
Karlheinz Stockhausen 
by Pedro Silva

November 4, 7pm
oh!rage 
Calixto Neto
As part of Fórum do Futuro 2019 

November 14, 7:30pm
Antropocenas
Rita Natálio & João dos Santos Martins

November 16, 4:30pm
In Freundschaft
Karlheinz Stockhausen 
by Pedro Silva