A Oficina
A Oficina
Centro Cultural Vila Flor
Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães
1. Casa da Memória de Guimarães
Centro de Criação de Candoso
Teatro Oficina
Educação e Mediação Cultural
2. Loja Oficina

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CIAJG

SATURDAY MAY 3, 5:00 PM

A Queda da Baleia

(The Fall of the Whale)

Performance-Installation
Performance
Performance by Ece Canli and Hugo Canoilas Text by Eduarda Neves

The museum’s exhibition cycles create rituals of encounter with the public at each new opening moment. Between exhibitions, in these pauses and transitions, the museum’s machinery operates as a living organism. Rarely do we gain access to this in-between space. On May 3, during the setup and preparation phase for CIAJG’s next exhibition cycle — opening on May 17 — we enter that space.

Through a collaborative process between a visual artist, a performer, and a curator, the performance-installation explores zones of tension and contact between the dismantling time of an exhibition and the power of the exhibition space as a war machine — energy as transgression. A fixed space that is nomadic — without abstract distinctions. More connection and less opposition. As a becoming-event, this shared work — performance, installation — considers the various dimensions of experience, multiplying the symbiosis between productive forces. Organisms that meet and affect one another. An oceanic model, in sky and on earth. Without borders or subjugation, the absolute of the ocean is approached here simply, as poets do. Deterritorialized and reterritorialized through visual, sonic, material, and spatial intensities, the textual matter projects echoes of countless authorships and geographical dimensions, aiming for a relationship between artwork and audience built through mutual experience — heterogeneity and collective event.

This performance-installation is part of Atlantic, a project by Contemporânea, with artistic direction by Celina Brás, which throughout 2025 presents various proposals in the fields of creation, programming, and publishing, in collaboration with several institutions.

Contemporânea Project
Artistic Direction: Celina Brás
Supported by: Direção-Geral das Artes
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Ages 6 and up
Free entry, subject to space capacity limits

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