Contemporânea #11

ON HYBRIDITY AND THE POETICS OF RESISTANCE

Publishing is a political act of resistance—and so is reading.

On Hybridity and The Poetics of Resistance, developed by Contemporânea across 2025 and 2026, operates within the realms of artistic creation, publishing, and programming. The project comprises two exhibitions, two performance series, two public programmes, listening sessions, screenings, and two print and digital editions. It is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary proposal that echoes the dynamics of contemporary artistic practices asserting themselves as interdisciplinary, global, and polysemic. As a whole, it seeks to celebrate hybrid worlds—hybridity being a process of negotiation and dialogue that enables new forms of knowledge. Exploring the relationship between moving image, performance, and sound, it focuses on artistic practices that problematise these very notions. Through an expanded process, the visual, the performative, the sonic, and the digital become instruments of interaction and contamination.

Artistas / Artists:
António Poppe; CATPC; Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley; Diana Policarpo; Emily Wardill; Jonathan Uliel Saldanha; Kássia Borges; Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela; Mariana Vilanova; Mattia Denisse; Sara Graça; Raquel Lima; SUPERFLEX; Territorial Agency; Tomoko Sauvage; Von Calhau.

Autores / Authors:
Alexandra Balona; Ana Salazar Herrera; AnaMary Bilbao; Eduarda Neves; Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro; Joana Pestana; Kitty Furtado; Margarida Mendes; Maria Kruglyak; Paula Ferreira; Raphael Fonseca; Rômulo Moraes; Sara Castelo Branco; Sara de Chiara; Shahd Wadi; Susana Ventura; Valerie Rath.

Imagem da capa / Cover image:
Jonathan Saldanha, The Law. Cortesia do artista / Courtesy of the artist.

Bilingue / Bilingual: PT / EN