Dialogues 24 Лютого 2022 Року

Tour with artists and round-table discussion

With Hugo Barata, José Bragança de Miranda, José Mateus, Júlio Alves, Iryna Shev, Sérgio Sousa Pinto, moderated by Maria Teresa Cruz.

Taking the 24 лютого 2022 року / 24th February 2022 project by Júlio Alves and Hugo Barata as a starting point, maat is presenting dialogues with several participants from different fields, trying to add multiple points of view on the theme of the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian territory.

The aim is to debate, question, and share perspectives on how artists reflect on war and how the notion of territory and border changes in a context of conflict. Are philosophy and art fundamental gestures for the denunciation of violence? How to get around the anaesthetising speed of the flow of images disseminated by the different media? We will try to understand the impact of watching the war live, which narratives balance between the trustworthy account and the contact with devastated life stories, and how politics comments on the practice of power, and how it outlines its nature and exercise in the light of the last decade.

17.00 – Guided tour with Hugo Barata and Júlio Alves.
18.00 – Round-table discussion featuring Hugo Barata, José Bragança de Miranda, José Mateus, Júlio Alves, Iryna Shev, Sérgio Sousa Pinto, moderated by Maria Teresa Cruz.

Maria Teresa Cruz has a PhD in Communication and Arts and is an associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH). Cruz teaches Image Theory and Media Aesthetics and is an investigator of the Media and Arts Culture Group at ICNOVA – Institute of Communication of NOVA FCSH. She founded and directed the magazine Interact – Art, Culture and Technology and has coordinated several projects in the culture, contemporary arts and heritage, emphasising digital media and participatory practices. Author of Aesthetic Modernity (2020), Media Theory and Cultural Technologies (org., 2017) and New Media – New Practices (org., 2011).

José Mateus is graduated in Architecture from FAUTL and founded the ARX Portugal studio with Nuno Mateus (1991), whose work has received several national and international distinctions, including awards, publications, and exhibitions. He is the associate and executive president of the board of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. He is a member of the Board of Centro Cultural de Belém. He is a member of the Board and associate of Instituto Lusíada de Cultura. He was vice president of the Southern Regional Board of the Association of Architects (2005–2007) and president of the Southern Regional Assembly (2008–2010). He has been a speaker and a member of juries in several countries, like the São Paulo Biennale Architecture Prize (2003), among others, and is a member of the Experts Board of the European Prize for Urban Public Space.

José A. Bragança de Miranda holds a doctorate in Communication Sciences from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with aggregation in Theory of Culture from the same University. He is currently a Full Professor at Universidade Lusófona, a researcher at Cicant and a collaborator at ICnova (UNL). He was director of ECATI – School of Communication Sciences. Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies of Universidade Lusófona. He has lectured in the areas of Theory of Culture and Contemporary Arts, Media Theory and Digital Aesthetics. Author of numerous essays and interventions in the most diverse areas of contemporary culture, the following books stand out Analítica da Actualidade, Política e Modernidade; Traços. Essays on Contemporary Culture; Theory of Culture, Synthesis; Albuquerque Mendes or the Ardor of Art; Endless Fall; Dispatches. A Philosophical Experimentation on Blogs, Body and Image; and Jorge Molder. His book Constellations: Essays on Technique and Culture in Contemporaneity is due to launch in February 2023. He’s now the Rector of the Universidade Lusófona.

Sérgio Sousa Pinto (Lisbon, 1972) He attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Lisbon. Later, he studied at the Institut Saint-Luc and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels (ENSAV), in Brussels. He was Secretary General of the Socialist Youth and a member of the National Council of the Socialist Party. He was a Member of the European Parliament and, within this framework, was head of the European Parliament delegation for relations with Mercosur. Currently, he chairs the Municipal Assembly of Sintra and has led, since 2014, the Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Communities Commission of the Portuguese Parliament. He was co-author, with Mário Soares, of the book Diálogo de Gerações (Dialogue of Generations), and more recently published the book of chronicles República à Deriva (Adrift at Republic). He has participated in several radio and television programs and is currently a resident commentator for CNN.

Iryna Shev has been a journalist at SIC for four years. Before that, she dedicated herself to journalism in the digital area, at Expresso. She graduated from the Catholic University of Portugal. Born in Ukraine, she volunteered to go into the field without a second thought, even before the full-scale war broke out, when the Russian troop movements near the Ukrainian borders became blatant. Over the past year she has spent three months covering the conflict, traveling the country from north to south and east to west.

Hugo Barata is a visual artist who has been exhibiting and working as an independent curator since 2000. He is a lecturer and cultural mediator, interweaving his work as an artist, curator and educator. He has a PhD in Media Art from Universidade Lusófona where he lectures on the BA courses on Communication Design and Applied Communication and the MA programmes on Visual Arts Education and Game Design and Playable Media. He also works as a researcher at the Centre of Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies (CICANT). His most notable recent projects comprise Constellations I, II and III (with Ana Rito, Museu Coleção Berardo, 2019–2021), Nella Cohorte di De Chirico (with António Olaio, Colégio das Artes, 2021) and Eating the Table (with Luís Alegre, Colégio das Artes, 2022).

Júlio Alves is a director whose work consists of 18 films divided between the fiction, documentary and experimental genres. His most prominent recent work includes Diálogo de Sombras [Dialogue of Shadows] (2021), Arte de Morrer Longe [The Art of Dying Faraway] (2020), Chantal + Pedro (2020) and Sacavém (2019). All of his films have had national and international premieres. He has also directed advertising films in different European markets. He has a PhD in Communication Sciences and an MA in Film Studies, and lectures at Universidade Lusófona on the BA courses on Film and Media Arts and Photography and the MA programme on Film Studies. He is also a member of the Centre of Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies (CICANT).