April 8–November 11, 2022
I’m wind, fire, leaf, and tree
I’m spirit, passion, and dream
I light, I heat, I spark
I power.
I’m matter and force
I’m actuality, instability, vitality
I’m mutation and movement
I change form, place, and meaning.
You can extract and exploit me but not destroy me
You can ignite and transfer me but not conceive me.
I’m anywhere and nowhere
Here and there, now and then
I’m Gallery Energy.
Together with artists, musicians, poets, scientists, and writers, I’ll appear and reappear, running, singing, flying, and dancing, across library halls and market stalls, movie theatres and recording studios, wastelands and romantic gardens.
I’m a year-long cycle of concerts, talks, and walks arranged in four threads:
Science is Art: Considering how science and art discover and interrogate the world, I bring researchers out of the lab, inviting them to share their knowledge about themes that matter for the present of art such as fear, reproduction, and modern alchemy.
April 8: Marta Moita
July 22: Patricia Saragüeta
November 11: Emanuele Coccia
Imaginaries: Understanding imaginaries as devices to conceive the present, desire change, and create the future, I invite germinal contemporary thinkers to present a source of imaginary key for the present.
April 29: Teresa Castro
June 22: Saidiya Hartman
October 21: Claudia Rankine
Commented Concerts: Conceiving the concert as a conversation, I invite musicians to discuss their stylistic choices, aesthetic influences and references through performance and dialogue. Notes will range from gong resonances to cultural exchanges, and the exploration of cosmic ancestral forces.
May 28: João Pais Filipe
June 19: Invernomuto
September 30: Nkisi
Grazes and Grazes: I’ll take you through pathways where nature and the city meet, guided by the attentive gaze of artists and botanists whose research traverses medicine, cuisine, and sustainability and whose perspectives challenges taxonomic and topological conventions.
July 9: A Recoletora
October 8: Landra
Marta Moita is Principal Researcher in Behavioral Neuroscience at the Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon. She studies the mechanisms of fear conditioning.
Patricia Saragüeta is a researcher at Buenos Aires’ Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine. She studies the hormonal regulation of the feminine reproductive tract.
Emanuele Coccia is Associate Professor at the EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on conceptions of life and the ontological status and normative power of images.
Teresa Castro is Professor of Cinema Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3. She investigates the relationship between cinema and animism, ecocriticism, and vegetal life.
Claudia Rankine is a poet, essayist, and playwright, author of six collections of poetry, three plays and numerous essays and collaborations. Rankine is Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University.
Saidiya Hartman is a writer and academic focusing on African American studies. She is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
João Pais Filipe is a percussionist and sound sculptor from Porto. He constructs percussive metal instruments, such as gongs or cymbals, exploring their sculptural and acoustic properties.
Invernomuto’s (Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi) work traverses moving images and sound, integrating sculpture, performance, and publishing. With their project Black Med, they intercept the sonic trajectories that cross the Mediterranean, tracing their movement and accommodating their narratives.
Nkisi (Melika Ngombe Kolongo) is an electronic musician, producer, and artist whose performances overlay African rhythms, hard European dance tropes, and synthesizer melodies to reorder the hierarchy of the senses and discover how the body and memory are affected by sounds and rhythms.
A Recoletora (Maria Ruivo and Alexandre Delmar with Fernanda Botelho) brings together botanists, nutritionists, chefs, artists, and designers in a collaborative, itinerant project to recover edible wild plants and reintegrate them into diets and eating habits.
Landra is Sara Rodrigues and Rodrigo Camacho’s land and practice. Paying tribute to acorns, called landras in the Iberian Northwest, the duo has committed to a practice of living and making attuned to the rhythms and matters of nature.
Conceived by Filipa Ramos with Juan Luis Toboso, Matilde Seabra, and Isabeli Santiago.
