DocumentaryBangkok (Video installation)
Bangkok (Video installation)
place
"A Paragem" building
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Max 0
Target Audience: Adults
November 02 2024
From 10:00 to 18:00
From 10:00 to 18:00
Bangkok is a video installation that recovers the history and memory of how colonels José Castelo Glória Alves and Carlos Leal Branco working at the military training centre for drivers (CICA 5), were assigned with the Armed Forces Movement’s (MFA) only mission in the Algarve, namely the occupation of the radio transmitters and repeaters installed at the top of Fóia, Monchique and which broadcasted throughout the Algarve. The two former colonels, now retired and residing in the municipality of Portimão, in conversation with each other, recall the key moments of the days before and after their mission to occupy Fóia, whose code name was “Bangkok”. As we follow the account of how the revolution came to Lagos, the video shows images of Fóia, treated in negative, as if it were a reverse of the positive, of an image or event, thus intending to invite reflection on the consequences of this important moment in Portuguese history.
NOTE: The video installation will be on show throughout the day. It lasts around 20 minutes.
How to get there
From the Cultural Center (550m): On foot, exiting from the event’s reception (Cultural Center), go downwards (south) along the road “Estrada da Mata Nacional” for about 300 meters. Turn left “Jacques Favre Castelo Branco” street, passing by the Municipal Market, following the road until its end (150m), reaching the street “Capitão Francisco da Silva Rijo”. Turn right and walk 100m. The building is white and yellow and is located just opposite the bus stop near the church.
From Lagos: Arriving in the city of Lagos, at the Municipal Stadium roundabout, head towards Bensafrim. At the exit of Portelas, take the EM 531 on the left, towards Barão de São João, passing by Monte Judeu. Keep going straight ahead, towards Barão de S. João. Once within Barão de São João, keep straight, bearing right towards “Bensafrim”, going around the Church. You can park at the exit to the village, in a parking lot on the right, behind the church and cemetery, and walk the rest of the way. The building is white and yellow and is located just opposite the bus stop near the church.
Dates for this activity
| Activity | Dates | Meeting site | Theme |
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November 02 2024 at 10:00 |
"A Paragem" building |
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DocumentaryBangkok (Video installation) |
November 03 2024 at 10:00 |
"A Paragem" building |
Artists
Patrícia Leal
Patrícia was born in Germany in 1972. She is an artist, filmmaker, researcher, curator and trainer.
She attended the independent study programme in Visual Arts at the Maumaus School, the post-production course at Etic and also studied photography at Richmond College London. In 2010 she obtained a Masters Degree in Documentary Film at Goldsmiths College. She is a PhD student in Artistic Studies at FCSH / Universidade Nova de Lisboa and was awarded a grant by FCT to develop a research on the landscape of colonial post-memory in contemporary Portuguese art.
Since 2010 she works in the field of editing television documentaries dedicated to contemporary art. Since 2014 she is a trainer in the area of Photography and Video at Etic - Escola de Tecnologias, Inovação e Criação (Lisbon and Faro). In 2021 she was artistic curator of the exhibition The Silence of the Earth, which combines the Diamang photographic archive with works of contemporary art. A project in collaboration with the research unit LABPT of the University of Minho and the Nogueira da Silva Museum in Braga. https://fb.watch/axGjxDh_c0/
Her artistic work falls within the domain of environmental aesthetics, reflecting on how we position ourselves in relation to nature, animal, plant and organic species. In 2020, a landmark year for humanity, and after many years living abroad and more recently in Lisbon, he returns to his origins, to the city of Lagos where he attended high school. Currently she is resident artist in LAC, returning, also here, to photography and photographic processes. In parallel she develops within the AVONDE Cultural Association, of which she is a founding partner, documentary film projects on memory and tradition.
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