“Para Além da Memória Conhecida” is a curatorial project that intended to provide co-authorial work between artists and architects with the intention of boosting experimentation, collaboration and sharing of ideas – to make them step outside of their comfort zone.
The premise was simple: a small warehouse, traditional, in need of renovation, in the poorest part of the city, at a small street densely populated by precarious workers’ homes from the turn of the last century, and three groups of Artist (s) / Architect (s) unknown to one other. We have invited young people born after 1980 and working on the context of a widespread professional crisis, as they embody the emerging and possible alternative voices. It was important that they knew, inhabited and worked in the city as well as represented different perspectives of their own professions.
It was not about tracing a specific methodological map or cartography of each profession but to open up dialogues. In that sense the project had three stages. It took the shape of an artistic residency in order to keep track of the collaborative work; followed by an exhibition in order to give shape to the projects and include the reaction and contribution of the public; finally, a talk, to register, first hand, the experience and feedback from each group.