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 growth of online content, these urban devices have slowly been dismantled due to their progressive disuse. But how can we reactivate these devices as new ways of transmitting knowledge about the representation of today’s city?
In today’s rapid process of digitisation and information consumption, which collections have been forgotten in drawers? What multiple stories about the city of Braga remain untold?
The Contra-Quiosque project invites artists to occupy abandoned kiosks in the city through archival research and personal or institutional collections in Braga in order to uncover and debate narratives that have been left out of the predominant discourses and representations, namely migrants, multicultural communities, LGBTQIA+ groups, and more-than-human species.
Curated by Space Transcribers
