Counter Image International Conference 2026 The conference explores the relationships between territory, ecology, colonialism and representation, bringing together situated knowledges, methods of unnaming and artistic practices that challenge extractivist regimes. The programme includes presentations, artistic interventions and other formats for exchange and experimentation, with contributions from researchers, artists and activists.
Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI) Raio da Raia – una topia en curso is a five-day gathering jointly organised by Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI) and Pó de Vir a Ser (Po) with the collaboration of Sociedad Harmonia Eborense (SHE) in Évora. Conceived as part of an ongoing relationship, it seeks to create the conditions for a shared reading of the present from the specific, situated coordinates of this encounter: Évora, 2026, at a moment marked by accelerating political radicalisation and the rise of the far right, alongside the intensification of climate change.
The gathering proposes to interrogate this moment and these coordinates through four interconnected lines of inquiry: 1) ecology, culture and territory; 2) a time of transition, echoing the different experiences of the Portuguese Revolution and the Spanish Transition; 3) cross-border imagination for political-artistic alliances and 4) public space as commons: thinking sculpture and (non-)monumentality for social justice.
Throughout the week, cultural workers, activists and inhabitants from the territories of the border, will explore ways to organise themselves through art in these uncertain times. O Raio da Raia opens up an internationalist alliance, connecting across territories and proposing ways of acting collectively through radical imagination. With a real time self-structure, the practice follows a few scores for our collective inflections: assemblies and conversations, critical walks, screenings, workshops and moments of collective creation.
The title plays with several meanings in Portuguese: raia names the borderland, especially the Portuguese-Spanish border; raios is both an exclamation — roughly “damn!” or “for heaven’s sake!” — and the plural of “ray”; and, when heard together, a raia can slip into arraia, an older word for “the people” or “the common folk.” The gathering thus places itself at the border in order to move beyond it: to ask what, and whom, its productive logics serve, but above all to make room for other ways of sensing, fabulating and imagining the world beyond the divisions that borders produce.
The gathering proposes to interrogate this moment and these coordinates through four interconnected lines of inquiry: 1) ecology, culture and territory; 2) a time of transition, echoing the different experiences of the Portuguese Revolution and the Spanish Transition; 3) cross-border imagination for political-artistic alliances and 4) public space as commons: thinking sculpture and (non-)monumentality for social justice.
Throughout the week, cultural workers, activists and inhabitants from the territories of the border, will explore ways to organise themselves through art in these uncertain times. O Raio da Raia opens up an internationalist alliance, connecting across territories and proposing ways of acting collectively through radical imagination. With a real time self-structure, the practice follows a few scores for our collective inflections: assemblies and conversations, critical walks, screenings, workshops and moments of collective creation.
The title plays with several meanings in Portuguese: raia names the borderland, especially the Portuguese-Spanish border; raios is both an exclamation — roughly “damn!” or “for heaven’s sake!” — and the plural of “ray”; and, when heard together, a raia can slip into arraia, an older word for “the people” or “the common folk.” The gathering thus places itself at the border in order to move beyond it: to ask what, and whom, its productive logics serve, but above all to make room for other ways of sensing, fabulating and imagining the world beyond the divisions that borders produce.
AIR 351 INVASIVE SPECIES PROJECT 2025
Performing the Archive Show and artist talk at Ar.Co's photography department (June 2024), group show Corpo Manifestação at Performing the Archive, Porto, (September 2024)
Quadrum Arquivo Paralelo (parallel arquive) During 2011 the curators Catarina Rosendo and Lígia Afonso built an arquive of art work presented at Quadrum gallery starting in 1975.
Tudo foi captado (mesmo os movimentos do cabrito), catálogo, Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, Quadrum, 2011/2023 The catalogue was released in 2011 during the individual show curated by Catarina Rosendo. In 2023 the audio piece of this exhibition was selected for the 50th anniversary of Quadrum gallery, a show curated by Paulo Mendes.
Exhibition Earthkeeping Earthshaking, Lisbon 2020 Curators Giulia Lamoni e Vanessa Badagliacca
Group show with Alexandra do Carmo, Alicia Barney, Ana Mendieta, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Cecilia Vicuña, Clara Menéres, Emilia Nadal, Faith Wilding, Gabriela Albergaria, Gioconda Belli, Graça Pereira Coutinho, Irene Buarque, Laura Grisi, Lourdes Castro, Maren Hassinger, Maria José Oliveira, Mónica de Miranda, Rui Horta Pereira, Teresinha Soares, Uriel Orlow
Group show with Alexandra do Carmo, Alicia Barney, Ana Mendieta, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Cecilia Vicuña, Clara Menéres, Emilia Nadal, Faith Wilding, Gabriela Albergaria, Gioconda Belli, Graça Pereira Coutinho, Irene Buarque, Laura Grisi, Lourdes Castro, Maren Hassinger, Maria José Oliveira, Mónica de Miranda, Rui Horta Pereira, Teresinha Soares, Uriel Orlow
Campos de Colaboração, Culturgest, Lisboa, 2019 I presented a reflection on Not an Alternative's work and theory
O que é o arquivo? Laboratório 3 Cidade-Arquivo, Biblioteca Municipal de Marvila, 2019 http://arquivomunicipal.cm-lisboa.pt/pt/eventos/o-que-e-o-arquivo/laboratorio-3/
O que é o Arquivo? Laboratório 3: cidade / arquivo
Espaço expectante
Mesa de trabalho TERRITÓRIO para discutir o modo como o planeamento territorial (o nível do mapa) afecta os trajectos e a habitação (nível do chão)
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Eduardo Ascensão, antropólogo e investigador, tem trabalhado sobre informalidade urbana e políticas de cidade;
Alexandra do Carmo, artista e investigadora, um dos seus trabalhos mais recentes é O Atelier Verde no IC19;
Joana Braga, arquitecta e investigadora, dirigiu o projecto Topias Urbanas, em Marvila, e está agora a trabalhar sobre a "quinta-parede" (o território invisível das coberturas);
Paulo Catrica, fotógrafo, investigador, tem exposto regularmente desde 1997, e de diferentes maneiras tem trabalhado sobre a relação entre fotografia e cidade.
4ª feira, dia 15
às 15h00 na Biblioteca de Marvila
O que é o Arquivo? Laboratório 3: cidade / arquivo
Espaço expectante
Mesa de trabalho TERRITÓRIO para discutir o modo como o planeamento territorial (o nível do mapa) afecta os trajectos e a habitação (nível do chão)
com
Eduardo Ascensão, antropólogo e investigador, tem trabalhado sobre informalidade urbana e políticas de cidade;
Alexandra do Carmo, artista e investigadora, um dos seus trabalhos mais recentes é O Atelier Verde no IC19;
Joana Braga, arquitecta e investigadora, dirigiu o projecto Topias Urbanas, em Marvila, e está agora a trabalhar sobre a "quinta-parede" (o território invisível das coberturas);
Paulo Catrica, fotógrafo, investigador, tem exposto regularmente desde 1997, e de diferentes maneiras tem trabalhado sobre a relação entre fotografia e cidade.
4ª feira, dia 15
às 15h00 na Biblioteca de Marvila
Seminário O direito à cidade, 2018, organização Gestual, Ciaud, Faul Hortas Urbanas e Direito à Cidade
Discussão em torno da obra O Ateliê Verde no IC 19 de Alexandra do Carmo, debate moderado por Júlia Carolino, debate lançado por Godelieve Meersschaert e Vanessa Badagliacca
Discussão em torno da obra O Ateliê Verde no IC 19 de Alexandra do Carmo, debate moderado por Júlia Carolino, debate lançado por Godelieve Meersschaert e Vanessa Badagliacca
Exhibition at Sismografo, Porto Portugal, project The Green Studio at IC19 Exhibition until the 27th of October at Sismografo, Porto Portugal
INTERACT Online magazine, text by Alexandra do Carmo on The Green Studio at IC19 Published text by Alexandra do Carmo
RU Event 2013: Alexandra do Carmo – Studio Socialis, in discussion with Luisa Especial and Maud Jacquin. Fri Feb 1st, 2013 6-8pm Residency Unlimited is pleased to announce a public discussion that will examine the project Studio Socialis by New York-based Portuguese artist Alexandra do Carmo. Comprised of videos, drawings and documentation, this work reflects do Carmo’s interest in social studies and takes further her investigation of the artist’s role and of his or her relationship with the audience.
Studio Socialis presentation ISSUE description of project
Talk at RU (Residency Unlimited) New York, 2013 Images of the talk at RU, with the curators Maud Jaquim and Luísa Especial about the project Studio Socialis
TUDO FOI CAPTADO(MESMO OS MOVIMENTOS DO CABRITO), GALERIA QUADRUM TEXT BY CATARINA ROSENDO TO THE CATALOGUE
Parallel Archive This site was built at the time of the exhibition All was captured (even the movements of the goat), Quadrum Gallery, Lisbon, 2011, by the curators Catarina Rosendo and Ligia Afonso
Presentation of artistic and theoretical work at International Symposium at CCB Lisbon Curated by Cláudia Madeira, Performance Portuguese Art, 2 cycles for 1 arquive--International Symposium at Belém Cultural Center in 2016.
anamnese, Portuguese Contemporary Art Critics texts, Images
Location One Residency, New York Interview with Robert Knafo- video
Steam Shop Project Blog of the 2006 project
Fundação Ilidio Pinho Collection
Live Box Gallery (Chicago) Group show
John Hawke Collaborator in Steam Shop Project (2006); OFFICE COMMERCIAL (2007)
Apex Art (NY) Panel discussion at Apex Art
October 25, 2007
October 25, 2007
Temple Bar Gallery (Dublin) The Square Root of Drawing (2006 group show)
Maus Hábitos-viarco express project Group show
Arte Capital News 2006-The Steam Shop project
Review of exhibition (Lá Fora) Group show
Bread Matters Group show
Roggenbrot, video 2005 West Cork Arts Center
