Artistic Migrations In and Beyond Lisbon | Artist Talks | 5th session

5th Session | Talk with the artist Euridice Kala (Maputo, 1987)

Artistic Migrations In and Beyond Lisbon, organized by Ana Balona de Oliveira in a partnership between the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEC-FLUL/CITCOM/Dislocating Europe/Visual Culture, Migration and Globalization), the Institute for Art History (IHA-FCSH-UNL) and Hangar in Lisbon, is a series of conversations with artists, some of whom in residence at Hangar in the context of the artist residencies programme ‘180º Artistas ao Sul’, and other invited speakers. Through several media, the artists in question examine and problematize notions of identity and difference, not only national and diasporic, but also cultural, racial, class-based, gendered and sexual, as well as the notion of artistic production as a means for the investigation of history and memory. In 2015, one year after the celebrations of the fortieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, the fortieth anniversary of the independence of Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola (forty-second in the case of Guinea-Bissau) was celebrated. This series is also envisaged as an open and diverse forum for the discussion of the historical legacies of the independencies, the utopias and realities produced by the anti-colonial struggles and post-independence nation-building, while not forgetting the civil wars that ensued, in a broad geopolitical context, their endings, the more recent decades of economic liberalization and globalization, and the way these histories and memories, their celebrations and problematizations are examined by contemporary artistic practice.