Fogo Island

Atlantic Code is a proposal for understanding the historic role of Portugal in the expansion of European sovereignty over the seas and coastal colonies, following near economic collapse throughout Southern Europe and asymmetrical models of exchange imposed by European powers on the coasts around the Atlantic Ocean. Fogo Island opens up their most extensive chapter, for a Lisbon in debt recovery, uncertain development and cultural transformation, to cohere common threads, story-lines, algorithms and ways of moving and making that connect the lives of billions of humans, across ages, cultures, races, languages and traditions. A two day symposium will take place in the portuguese capital.

This cycle was launched in 2013 and aims to focus on the local communities and the environment that sustains their current contemporary condition. After being presented in cities such as Chicago, New York, Berlin and Vienna, Fogo Island arrives in Lisbon to debate, with the participation of artists, architects, academics, economists and geographers, the importance of the Atlantic.

Programme:

Friday, 8 November
17:00
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Fabrizio Gallanti, Nicolaus Schafhausen (Strategic Director of Fogo Island Arts) and
Monika Szewczyk

17:30
Grada Kilomba (artist) & Gaëtane Verna (director of The Power Plant, Toronto)

Saturday, 9 November
Auditorium at Padrão dos Descobrimentos
10:00-12:30
Art Initiatives Worth Their Salt
Jürgen Bock (Maumaus/Lumiar Cité), Marina Fokidis (Kunsthalle Athena/South as a State of Mind),
Anniina Koivu (ECAL Lausanne) João Mourão & Luís Silva (Kunsthalle Lissabon), and Nicolaus
Schafhausen

15:00-17:30
The Science of Atlantic Storytelling
Leonor Antunes (artist), Manthia Diawara (film essayist) Angela Ferreira (artist), Laurent Gutierrez – MAP
Office (artist-architect), Ayeesha Hameed (theorist), João Laia (curator), Manuela Ribeiro Sanchez
(scholar), André Tavares (architect), take turns sharing experiences; with Walter Scott (artist) as principle
witness

Lumiar Café
19:00
Exhibition opening
Tonio Kröner: I’m gonna tell you a lovestory Halfway down the stairs