Before the existence of online newspapers or social networks, urban kiosks were places for transmitting information, meeting, collecting and gossiping, where the latest news and events were spread around the city. However, with the new ways of consuming information, many of these kiosks have become obsolete and have been left unoccupied. Throughout this digitisation process, which collections were forgotten in the drawers? What stories about the city of Braga were left untold?
In response to these questions, the Contra-Quiosque project invited five national and international artists – Emília Rigová, Hilda de Paulo, Maria Trabulo, Marta Machado and Miguel Teodoro – to explore the city’s lesser-known or conventional collections. The artistic research conducted by these five artists will take place over two residency periods (one in December 2024 and the other in March 2025), culminating in an art installation that will be exhibited in an unoccupied kiosk in the city, scheduled to open in March 2025, as part of Braga 25.
On 7 December, between 3pm and 5.30pm, project curators Fernando P. Ferreira and Daniel Pereira (Space Transcribers), together with the five artists in residence, will take part in a conversation open to the public in the conference room of the Braga District Archive.
Admission is free and the talk will be held in English and Portuguese.
Capacity: limited to capacity
The Contra-Quiosque project invites artists to occupy abandoned kiosks in the city by investigating Braga’s archives and personal or institutional collections in order to uncover and debate narratives that have been left out of prevailing discourses and representations, namely migrants, multicultural communities, LGBTQIA+ groups, and more-than-human species.