Resiências da Matinha, conjured up by Miragem, propose a transposition of the creative gesture to the collective,
to the environment and to the community. In a prolonged encounter between an artist and a group of people from the
island, what intersections, deepenings and questions may emerge? How do the various cultural manifestations relate,
formally and conceptually? What places are opened up in this dialogue and what is created?
Between 2024 and 2025, Residências da Matinha will welcome Sílvia das Fadas, Ivo Lopes, Miguel Abras, Marinho Pina,
Rita Morais and Sara Chang Yan to work together with local artists and craftspeople, as well as with specific groups from
various communities on the island of Pico, to conjure up forms of collective creation. Each residency brings together
an artist with a group of people from Pico, in an encounter where contemporary practices are formally or methodologically
relatable to specific cultural manifestations of the island and its communities.
THE FINE THREAD OF DEVIATION
(offering of bread)
It invites the women of Pico to collectively deepen the various histories of sabotage, with itsuses and concrete experiences, as a mode of counter-productivity, a refusal to let ourselves be consumed by work, a figuration of dissent.
What kind of famine has passed through here, what's still going on? What do we sow, reap, grind, ferment, knead, strain, charm, cook and eat?
Through meetings and sharing of know-how, populated by seeds and propitiatory rites, texts, sounds and moving images, together we will research what needs to be sabotaged, co-creating an inventive process to live in a different(s) way(s), in a place different from the one assigned to us.
Organised by Miragem with Sílvia das Fadas
THE FINE THREAD OF DEVIATION
(offering of bread)
It invites the women of Pico to collectively deepen the various histories of sabotage, with itsuses and concrete experiences, as a mode of counter-productivity, a refusal to let ourselves be consumed by work, a figuration of dissent.
What kind of famine has passed through here, what's still going on? What do we sow, reap, grind, ferment, knead, strain, charm, cook and eat?
Through meetings and sharing of know-how, populated by seeds and propitiatory rites, texts, sounds and moving images, together we will research what needs to be sabotaged, co-creating an inventive process to live in a different(s) way(s), in a place different from the one assigned to us.
Organised by Miragem with Sílvia das Fadas
HANDS ON
An invitation to restlessness, creative minds and desiring bodies! This is an invitation for anyone looking to get closer to the practice of audiovisual creation. The idea is to make a moving image work in a collaborative way, capable of embracing and enhancing the desires and manual skills of each participant. Our starting point comes from the traditional manual practices found on the island of Pico - from stone construction to handicrafts, from fishing to music - and the challenge is to find a way to unite and strengthen the individual knowledge that each participant brings to the conversation in a single collective work. In the movement to turn what is particular to us into a common good, how is individual experience woven into a fabric of diverse knowledge? How can we learn from and enhance each other's experiences in order to strengthen the community? Co-labouring and learning in the gira. Hands on!
Organised by Miragem with Ivo Lopes Araújo
BETWEEN VOICES AND STRINGS
What is music? How can music be a tool for everyday life? Countless cultures use music to carry out daily tasks, giving their activities a musical content through the repetition of sound patterns.
In this residency we will explore how a text, thought or poem can be organised so that it becomes a song. Working from the musical complicity proposed by the traditional universe of the island of Pico, which connects instruments, voice and improvisation, we will use poetry as a fundamental resource for musical creation and analyse syllables as rhythmic cells in musical discourse.
Organised by Miragem with Miguel Abras,
Jean-Daniel Senesi and Marcos Fernandez
Presentation of the results of the singing, writing and instrumentation residency based on themes from the traditional Azorean repertoire, jazz by Gershwin and chamarrita in the Auditorium of the Whalers Museum on 1 June 2025 at 6pm.