After a first residency in Prague (Czech Republic) in September 2024 in a school with teenagers, and a second residency in Lille (France) in October 2024, we organise one last residency in May 2025 in Porto (Portugal) with seven artists that will work in Sonoscopia’s neighbourhood.
Having a privileged and strategic position between the river and the sea, Porto is an historical town known as an industrial and trading center. In the past 20 years, however, tourism has become the main economical driving force, producing radical social and cultural changes, especially in the historical areas that were completely taken by gentrification, and where a standardisation of touristic habits and behaviors is rapidly replacing the individual identities of the spaces.
Located in a more peripheric working class area of the city, Sonoscopia has been highly aware of these changes. There is a daily pressure that has been pushing its inhabitants towards more distant areas from the center, making the daily life of each citizen more individualistic and less based on communal cooperation and a sense of belonging and sharing.
With this residency we will focus on how a collaborative creative effort can be used to increase a sense of community to provide better communication, understanding and caring between people that inhabit the same space, independently of their origins, age and functions in society. We will develop small individual actions with each of the participant artists in several local shops and public spaces in the street where Sonoscopia is located, and at the end of the residency a final public performance will take place, starting in the local café that acts as an important social hub, passing through a new electronic music studio and ending at Sonoscopia, a highly unusual and unknown space for many of our neighbors. We will finish the residency with a communal meal, free to all the local community of the street but also to everyone that will come to listen to the music created collectively during the residency.
To meet the challenges of Access, the artists will pay particular attention to the listening experience they will be offering to the audience, and will seek to exploit the different playing, movement and listening possibilities offered by the places they will be performing in. They will also focus on proposing a participating experience to the audience, in particular through various exchanges and convivial moments.
Apart from this, they are given complete freedom to experiment as they see wish, sharing their different experiences, approaches and inspirations to create together artistic proposals offering a more opened experience to the audience.
Final Presentation:
Sun. May 18th:
– 5 pm – short performances at Café Silva Porto & Atelier Modular
– 6 pm – final group performance at Sonoscopia
Individual actions in local shops from Tuesday to Friday at 2:30 pm (Grocery shop Doce Coração, Laundry, Corpo e Alma, Construction site, Dressmaker, Grocery shop, Drugstore
Discover the artistisc team:
