From a temporary library that is intended to be permanent and diverse, we will seek to understand the concept of Blackout Poetry and its uses in the resignification of a historical date and national identities. Through works of art, news, the dictionary, social networks and books by authors recognized for their experimental and disruptive poetry, create thought, poetry and processes for a more intersectional and anti-racist life

Material: newspapers, cell phone, pc, books, pens, cardboard, A4 paper, markers, projector, Wi-Fi.

This workshop is part of Lysis, a transdisciplinary visual arts project, centered on the plastic creation of Diana Policarpo and Odete, who propose the (re)figuration of feminist science fiction in Portugal, in its relationship with disciplines such as Bioethics and Paleontology, exploring dynamics between art, science, power structures and regimes of truth. This is a research project that the artists have developed through their readings of speculative fiction, history of science and feminist movements. As a method of research and sharing, they propose to learn and transform their practices from the relationship with other artists and thinkers, thus opening part of the process of creation and discussion with a public program. From its various phases (research, production, presentation and circulation), an unpublished creation will result that will be presented in exhibition format at the LEHMANN+SILVA gallery in the summer of 2023.

Diana Policarpo is a visual artist and composer working in visual and musical media including drawing, video, sculpture, text, performance, and multi-channel sound installation. Policarpo investigates gender politics, economic structures, health, and interspecies relations through speculative transdisciplinary research. She creates performances and installations to examine experiences of vulnerability and empowerment associated with acts of exposing oneself to the capitalist world. Her work has been exhibited worldwide including solo presentations at Kunsthall Aarhus (DK) – upcoming, Helsinki Biennial (FI) – upcoming, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (IT), RADIUS CCA (NL), CRAC Occitanie (FR), Ocean Space, Venice (IT), Kunsthall Trondheim, Galeria Municipal Porto (PT), MAAT (PT), CAV – Centro de Artes Visuais (PT), Nottingham Contemporary (UK), GNRation (PT), Kunsthall Oslo (NO), Galeria Lehmann+ Silva (PT), Kunstverein Leipzig (DE), Galeria Francisco Fino (PT), Kunsthall Baden-Baden (DE), Whitechapel Gallery, Xero, Kline & Coma  ICA and LUX – Moving Image in London (UK).  Policarpo was the winner of Prémio Novos Artistas Fundação EDP 2019 and illy Present Future Prize 2021.

Multidisciplinary artist, Odete (b. 1995, Oporto) develops a work that operates in the domain of music, visual arts, performance and theatre. Her work is mainly an “eroto-historiographical” and paranoid archaeology (a method she develops with her performances). She has presented her creations in different spaces and contexts such as Teatro Sao Luiz (Lisbon), Teatro Municipal do Porto, malavoadora.porto, TNDMII , CAPC – Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Festival Iminente, Rua das Gaivotas 6, among others. Recently she won the ReXform award for performing arts, presenting the project “On Revelations and Muddy Becomings” at MAAT and in collaboration with the biennial BoCA. In the area of music, he has edited EPs and albums by Genome (China), New Scenery (UK), Rotten:Fresh or Naivety (PT). She was part of the “SHAPE platform” 2021-2022. She presented her first solo exhibition at O Bardo and, more recently, the exhibition LYSIS, with Diana Policarpo at Quéréla (Lisbon). She launched her first poetry book “The Elder Femme and other Stone Writings” by Pântano Books. Between 2022 and 2024 she integrates the Future Laboratory, a European project of performative research, from CAMPUS (Porto).