Menu
The first IN2PAST Field Trip will take place on September 28 and 29 in Guimarães, with the ‘Problems of Primitivism – from Portugal’ Meetings, on the 28th in the afternoon, at the José de Guimarães International Arts Centre (Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães – CIAJG), and a visit to Lab2PT – Laboratory of Landscapes, Heritage and Territory, on the 29th in the morning, for our researchers.
The Meetings, an initiative of CIAJG in partnership with IN2PAST and BUALA, take place between 2 pm and 7.30 pm. Open to the public, with the purpose of creating a community of reflection regarding the museum, the event invites you to take a guided tour of the exhibition ‘Problems of Primitivism – From Portugal’ and to discuss the problems it raises and the transdisciplinary approach to the concept of ‘primitivism’ from Portugal.
Curated by IHA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST researcher Mariana Pinto dos Santos and CIAJG’s artistic director Marta Mestre, the exhibition, on show until November 17th, 2024, at CIAJG, reveals that ‘primitivism’, usually confined to the debates of art history and art criticism, allows us to broaden the discussion about modernity, coloniality and art when viewed in relation to other disciplines and knowledge.
‘This exhibit questions the concept of ‘primitivism’ by crossing disciplines such as anthropology, art history, economic, political and colonial history, and by drawing upon non-academic knowledge and contemporary art, in dialogue with the collection of African objects bequeathed to CIAJG by artist José de Guimarães,’ explains Mariana Pinto dos Santos.
With more than 400 documents, works of art and quotations, the exhibition, in the words of the IHA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST researcher, ‘creates short circuits between images and texts by different authors, often with contradictory positions, in a montage that shows how the production of visual culture intersects the history of modernity with colonial history’.
‘Its intra- and transdisciplinary character and the use of the museum as a space for questioning the past and its persistence in the present makes it an exhibition to be debated in the context of IN2PAST, and a practical example of its vocation to reflect about difficult heritages and the role of the museum in this reflection,’ concludes Mariana.
The Field Trips programme that IN2PAST is preparing for 2024-2025 aims to take researchers and other interested audiences out into the field, beyond the walls of the university, namely to the non-academic places where we spend an important part of our working time, be they museums, archives or archaeological sites, among many other territories and landscapes that we co-inhabit.
For the afternoon of September 28, we have the confirmed participation of curators Mariana Pinto dos Santos and Marta Mestre, researchers Elisabete Pereira (IHC – University of Évora / IN2PAST), Nélia Dias (CRIA – Iscte / IN2PAST), and Jean-Yves Durand (CRIA – University of Minho / IN2PAST), Françoise Vergès (political scientist, author of A Programme of Absolute Disorder. Decolonizing the Museum), Nuno Porto (Museum of Anthropology, British Columbia University), and also researchers Afonso Dias Ramos (IHA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), Joana Cunha Leal (IHA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), Sónia Vespeira de Almeida (CRIA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), Carla Cruz (Lab2PT – University of Minho / IN2PAST) and Francisco Mendes (Lab2PT – University of Minho / IN2PAST).
On Sunday, September 29th, IN2PAST is also promoting a visit to the laboratories of its research unit Lab2PT on the Azurém campus of the University of Minho, between 10am and 1pm, with a working meeting/discussion on how space, the profession and the discipline of architecture mobilise the research agendas of the different units of the Associate Laboratory. This activity is not open to the public and is only aimed at IN2PAST researchers.
The final programme of activities for this weekend, including information about the dinner being prepared for Saturday 28th, will be announced shortly. Participation in the Meetings is free and CIAJG asks that those interested register using this form. IN2PAST researchers wishing to take part in the two-day Field Trip are asked to register here given the logistics involved in travelling arrangements.
2024 © IN2PAST. All rights reserved.
IN2PAST – Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory is funded by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I. P. under reference LA/P/0132/2020 (DOI 10.54499/LA/P/0132/2020)
