The Cumplicidades Festival ends with an event to imagine futures on May 31st at 3pm. The Auditorium of the Champalimaud Foundation will be the stage for artists and scientists to share with the public their ideas for the future, in a sequence of lectures/performances anchored in reality or hand in hand with fiction. A unique event where the affinities of art and science are revealed in their curiosity for the unknown.
"Ideas for the Future" challenges artists and scientists to share projects and ideas for 10, 20 or 30 years from now. A long time frame, which means that any attempt to be faithful to reality has to be offset by a large dose of imagination and fiction. Within this unstable balance between reality and fiction, artists and scientists will meet and give rise to desires, utopias or dystopias, worldviews and ways of giving continuity to their own fields of research.
In a festival where excess has been declared a condition of existence, it is possible that some of these talks will overflow their conventional format and that both artists and scientists will be carried away by the “performative” in the 12 minutes they have available for their communication.
This event aims to displace us away for a few hours from a present that demands our attention with an almost obscene intensity and that stubbornly refuses to allow us to collectively imagine the future. More than a form of escapism, "Ideas for the Future" is an attempt to regain some critical distance from our present, showing how art and science are intrinsically linked by imagination, knowledge and experimentation.
Confirmed speakers:
ARTISTS: Ana Borralho & João Galante, Gustavo Ciríaco, Piny, Tiago Cadete
SCIENTISTS: John Krakauer, Rita Fior, Memming Park, Ana Maia, Tiago Marques
Program
14:30: Doors open
15:00: Intro
15:15-16:15: Ana Borralho & João Galante, Memming Park, Tiago Cadete and Rita Fior
16:15-17:00: Roundtable
17:00-17:30: Break
17:30-18:45: Tiago Marques, Piny (with DJ), John Krakauer, Ana Maia and Gustavo Ciríaco
18:45-19:15: Roundtable
19:15-20:00: Bar & Music
Date & Time: May 31st, 3pm
Venue: Champalimaud Foundation Auditorium
Language: Mainly English, with some presentations in Portuguese
More information available here:
https://fchampalimaud.org/cumplicidades-festival-ideas-future
