Coproductions
37.25 – Núcleo de Artes Performativas & Daniela Cruz
Performance
SINTONIZAR — Public Programs
Closing
Coproductions
Installations
Curatorial Team
New commissions
Music & Sound
Exhibitions
Symposium
EXHIBITION
The exhibition Gestures of Abundance unfolded across several “stations”
on the island, creating an expanded journey where themes, practices, and voices intersected. New
commissions were presented alongside works by other artists and Azorean art collections, weaving
constellations that connected different times and visions. Each station became a point of contact,
opening ways to explore the Biennial’s themes: the sea as a living and political archive; the land as a
relational, vibratory body; the pedagogical gesture as an insurgent practice; care, orality, and
resistance as embodied knowledges; the invisible as poetic and spiritual language; the body as a site of
listening and inscription.
PROJECTS
Beyond the exhibition stations, the program extended to projects that
took place in markets, greenhouses, squares, ports, and neighborhoods, as well as through workshops and
training activities. These initiatives brought art into direct dialogue with everyday life and the
community, affirming the Biennial as a living platform where knowledge circulated and was shared.
Together, they formed an expanded constellation of practices in which pedagogy, commensality, ecology,
and collective imagination became central to the experience.
PERFORMANCE & MUSIC
This program brought together new commissions and co-productions of the
Biennial, as well as other projects in the fields of music, sound, and performance, curated by Rubén
Monfort and Filipa André. Ranging from electronic music and clubbing to spoken word and immersive sound
explorations, it proposed experiences that moved between celebration and contemplation, insurgency and
tenderness. By expanding the Biennial’s spaces and locations, it affirmed listening as a practice of
encounter and collective creation.
SINTONIZAR – Public Programs
SINTONIZAR brought various initiatives to the Biennial — excursions,
visits, workshops, assemblies, among others — inviting participants to put Gestures of Abundance into
practice and to (re)approach São Miguel island with curiosity. Throughout the Biennial, and departing
from its artistic projects and creative processes, the program tuned into places, experiences, artists,
participants, knowledges, and inhabitants of all kinds in order to question the scarcity present in
public discourse and to unfold encounters, partnerships, and collective actions.
SYMPOSIUM
The Symposium was conceived as a moment of encounter between artists,
researchers, and thinkers whose practices questioned and expanded the ways we live, create, and learn
together. Taking on multiple formats and locations, the symposium offered a moment of critical
reflection, practice-sharing, and collective imagination around the theme Gestures of Abundance.
Bringing together voices from diverse geographies and disciplinary fields, the program invited
participants to explore different ways of inhabiting the present and envisioning possible futures.
Conceived as a polyphonic, situated, and experimental space, the symposium unfolded through roundtables,
workshops, and performative sessions — encounters that nurtured thought through experience and practice,
where listening, sharing, and conviviality emerged as fundamental engines of knowledge.