Loulé Session

In an increasingly liquid society, where new forms of communion and dialogue between living forms and their ecosystems transpire, can museums foster these more fluid models? Can water as a living organism serve as backdrop to more sustainability-conscious and inclusive institutions, thus evoking new social and ecological and bodily reflections?

Andrea Lissoni, PhD, is since 2020 the Artistic Director of Haus der Kunst, Munich. Formerly Senior Curator, International Art (Film) at Tate Modern, London, and curator at HangarBicocca, Milan. At Tate he launched and co-curated new exhibition formats, as the 2017 and 2018 Live Exhibition, the collection display and the live programme at the opening of the new building in 2016, and curated Philippe Parreno’s Turbine Hall Commission 2016, and survey exhibitions of artists Joan Jonas and Bruce Nauman. His research concerns liveness, cinematic aspects in time-based artworks, the perception of time and forms of transmitting, sharing and engaging in contemporary arts. He explores these through trans-disciplinary approaches to exhibition-making, focusing on artistic contexts across non-dominant cultures and subcultures, among which, music and sound in particular.

Jorge Jácome (b. 1988) is a filmmaker and artist based in Lisbon. He was born in Viana do Castelo and grew up in Macau. He graduated in Direction and Edition at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema - Lisbon, and holds a post-graduation at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. In his works, which blurs the lines between documentary and fiction, he investigates relations between utopias, nature, disappearance and desire. His films have been shown in festivals and exhibition contexts — Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, San Sebastian, New York Film Festival, 25 FPS, Winterthur, IndieLisboa, Curtas – Vila do Conde, Palais de Tokyo, MoMa, Tabakalera, among others. His projects won several awards, such as: Critics FIPRESCI Prize (Forum) at the Berlinale with Super Natural (2022); Best Film Award in Hamburg Short Film Festival, Grand Prize at Indielisboa — with Past Perfect (2019); Grand Prix at 25 FPS, Best Film Award in Hamburg Short Film Festival, Punto de Vista, BIEFF, New Talent at IndieLisboa — with Flores (2017), among others.

Parallel to his work as a filmmaker he works as an editor of projects by other filmmakers and regularly collaborates in performing arts projects.