SEVERAL SPACES

CAM | CCB | CINEMATECA PORTUGUESA| CULTURGEST | ESPAÇO ALKANTARA | EIRA | MARIA MATOS TEATRO MUNICIPAL | MAR ADENTRO CAFÉ |  MNAC - MUSEU DO CHIADO | MUSEU COLECÇÃO BERARDO | NEGÓCIO | #24-RENTAGALLERY | SÃO LUIZ TEATRO MUNICIPAL

The Already in its 7th edition, the Temps d'Images Festival Portugal keeps on putting in the limelight the images’ movement and in its enduring reinvention. Always based upon the intersections between diverse artistic fields, the use of the image – while technical and aesthetic resource – is disclosed this year by nearly twenty projects quite diversified, but all characterised by a strong inquiring nature. It gathers a set of artistic works that, apart from its immediate outlines, appropriate assuredly the impressions left on the audience.

This way, it is the art that intervenes, participates, and stirs reflection, revealing a knowledge-generating potential. The boundaries between the artistic fields, understood as unsustainable conventions, are materialised in artistic substance, establishing open dialogues. In the performances by Lucia Sigalho, Michel Schweizer and Raquel Freire with Marta Mateus (OqueStrada’s vocals), as well as in Just Jesper and Patricia Portela’s installations, the contemporary society is directly addressed, confronting and assuming ideological commitments and points of view.

The multiple sides of youth are registered and recreated in “Sometimes the Lights Go Off" by Claudia Varejão with Pedro Gil, as well as in the video by Dina Campos Lopes "For All, departing from the Projecto Respira by Aldara Bizarro. Intimate experiences are revealed in Isabella Soupart, Rafael Alvarez and Tânia Carvalho with Vera Suchánková’s performances and in Luciana Fina’s installation.

Purposes and artistic procedures are recreated in Inês Jacques, Gustavo Ciríaco and Elsa Aleluia’s performances. Renewed meanings in collective references of the past are sought in Kotomi Nishiwaki with Teresa Furtado’s peformance, the same happening both in the performances by Sónia Baptista and antóniopedro with Ana Araújo and Filipe Rocha, addressed to the youngster audience. It is also the moment to revisit Steve Reich’s minimalist anxiety.

The Temps d' Images Portugal 2009 programming presents about twenty independent initiatives. The festival – installations, projections and performances – draws a unique journey that spans to twelve different cultural spaces during approximately one month: Centro Cultural de Belém, Museu Colecção Berardo, Culturgest, Teatro Maria Matos, Cinemateca, Museu do Chiado, CAM Fundação Gulbenkian, #24-Rentagallery, eira33, Negócio, Espaço Alkantara and Teatro São Luiz. Ten national creations will premiere, consolidating the importance of Temps d'Images within the Portuguese artistic scene.

Creators are challenged to integrate the "chantiers", rehearsing meetings between video creators with other artistic fields. Regarding film projections, three initiatives arise settled in a common principle, built from footage of the artistic universe: in addition to Temps d'Images Movie Award for films about art, one of the few existing movie Awards around the world concerning the subject of artistic production, with direction and programming by Rajele Jain, a movie cycle will be held at Cinemateca, organised by Teresa Garcia and Pierre Marie Goulet, and an exhibition of video/dance works – FRAME research/1st Edition.

Workshops conceived for the youngest will also take place – like in the previous years, two performances will be featured - and six foreign productions, according to the international goal which is in the origin of the Festival.

Finally, and after some of the performances, the journalist Monica Guerreiro will enliven chats with the audience around diversified themes, counting also with the participation of several guests. Four of these meetings will take place in the Festival Meeting Point - the bar/ lounge and restaurant Mar Adentro, welcoming artists and audience in a relaxed atmosphere.

ANTÓNIO PEDRO + ANA ARAÚJO + FILIPE ROCHA | CLÁUDIA VAREJÃO + PEDRO GIL | DAVID CLAERBOUT | DINA CAMPOS LOPES | ELSA ALELUIA | GUSTAVO CIRÍACO | INÊS JACQUES | ISABELLA SOUPART| JESPER JUST | JORGE ANDRADE  | KOTOMI NISHIWAKI + TERESA FURTADO | LÚCIA SIGALHO  | LUCIANA FINA | MARTA MATEUS + RAQUEL FREIRE | MICHEL SCHWEIZER | PATRICIA PORTELA | RAFAEL ALVAREZ | SÓNIA BAPTISTA | STEVE REICH AND BANG ON A CAN | TÂNIA CARVALHO + VERA SUCHÁNKOVÁ