EXHIBITION
The exhibition Gestures of Abundance unfolds across several “stations” on
the island, creating an expanded journey where themes, practices, and voices intersect. New commissions
are presented alongside works by other artists and Azorean art collections, weaving constellations that
connect different times and visions. Each station becomes 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
The program brings together some of the Biennial’s new commissions and
co-productions, 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 proposes experiences that move between celebration and contemplation, insurgency
and tenderness. Expanding on the Biennial’s spaces and locations, it affirms listening as a practice of
encounter and collective creation.
PERFORMANCE & MUSIC
The program brings together some of the Biennial’s new commissions and
co-productions, 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 proposes
experiences that move between celebration and contemplation, insurgency and tenderness. Expanding on the
Biennial’s spaces and locations, it affirms listening as a practice of encounter and collective
creation.
SINTONIZAR – Public Programs
SINTONIZAR – brings various initiatives to the Biennial — excursions,
visits, workshops, assemblies,
among others — inviting us 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, we will tune into places, experiences, artists, participants, knowledge, and inhabitants of
all kinds to question the scarcity present in public discourse and slay in encounters, partnerships, and
collective actions.
SYMPOSIUM
The Symposium is conceived as a moment of encounter between artists,
researchers, and thinkers whose
practices question and expand the ways we live, create, and learn together.
Taking on multiple formats and locations, the symposium offers 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 invites participants to explore
different ways of inhabiting the present and envisioning possible futures. Conceived as a polyphonic,
situated, and experimental space, the symposium unfolds through roundtables, workshops and performative
sessions — encounters that nurture thought through experience and practice, where listening, sharing,
and conviviality emerge as fundamental engines of knowledge.
