Extemporânea

Extemporânea is a collaborative curatorial project, which consists in the development of a programme of performances and/or performative installations, taking place over two days and on an annual basis, in which artists are called upon to articulate their artistic practices with the social, economic and political context inherent to the location of each edition. The conceptualisation of the Extemporânea programme proposes an expansion of the notions of choreography and performativity to different social and geographical contexts in the city of Porto. With a critical and discursive thought, we invite artists to experiment with different presentation formats and audience reception modes, regarding the space-time experience and the spectrum of possibilities between participation and contemplation of the audience itself.

The first edition of Extemporânea takes place in Jardim Botânico do Porto and focuses on domesticities in these urban public spaces that evoke tangentially bucolic moments and constitute different temporalities of being in the world. Here, the metric of time has no place for efficiency and is volatile to the uncontrollable variables that compromise the linearity of time. From the specificity of the botanical garden, an artificial and public space that is inhabited by a diversity of endemic and non-endemic species. In an ecosystem that reveals diverse geographies and serves here as a subterfuge to raise questions about displacement and migration, domesticity and the exotic, memory and speculation, the inter-species relationship.