MEMORY(S)
\nLOOKING FOR A PLACE
\nRua de Oliven\u00e7a 54, Porto | April 4 to May 2, 2026<\/p>\n
Synopsis<\/strong> Descriptive Memory<\/strong> Date and Place<\/strong> Team<\/strong> Partners<\/strong> MEMORY(S) LOOKING FOR A PLACE Rua de Oliven\u00e7a 54, Porto | April 4 to May 2, 2026 Synopsis Mem\u00f3ria(s) \u00e0 procura de lugar is an exhibition that portrays the Difficult Heritage (Macdonald, 2009) of Portugal’s fascist and colonialist past, based on work carried out with ten witnesses of the anti-fascist resistance in Porto. The project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[516],"ano-noticia":[529],"class_list":["post-23773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-exposicao-en","ano-noticia-529"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23776,"href":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23773\/revisions\/23776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23773"},{"taxonomy":"ano-noticia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ano-noticia?post=23773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMem\u00f3ria(s) \u00e0 procura de lugar is an exhibition that portrays the Difficult Heritage (Macdonald, 2009) of Portugal’s fascist and colonialist past, based on work carried out with ten witnesses of the anti-fascist resistance in Porto. The project proposes a holistic vision between the role of oral testimony and the treatment of the material culture of this collective memory, in which each of the anti-fascist resistants recounts an episode of their struggle against the dictatorship using an object chosen by them. The presentation of this participatory collection acts as a mediator between their experiences and younger audiences. From the presentation of these objects-memory, the aim is to challenge new intergenerational dialogues that find in a space like the Museum a disobedient workshop of activism in defense of Freedom, Democracy and the rights won with the Revolution of April 25, 1974.
\nThis exhibition is part of the doctoral work entitled “Memory and Project: subsidies for an activist museum of anti-fascism in Porto”, of the 3rd cycle in Heritage Studies, Museology, of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, by Lu\u00eds Monteiro.<\/p>\n
\nThis research is based on the objective of drawing up a proposal for the patrimonialization of the collective memory of anti-fascism in Porto, taking as its object of study the difficult legacies of former political prisoners at the PIDE\/DGS headquarters. The research is organized around these memories as a tool for defending democratic values and as testimonies that constitute a project for an idea of an activist museum. The methodological design is based on a transdisciplinary perspective that combines the areas of Museology, Historiography – particularly Oral History – and the most recent critical theory on Memory Policies. The objectives are: to collect testimonies from former political prisoners and work on them as oral history records; to build up a documentary and material collection for a possible Resistance Museum in the city, through a participatory process with former political prisoners and non-governmental organizations dedicated to the subject; to propose an exhibition that simultaneously explores the concepts of “difficult legacies” and “activist museum”.
\nIn order to build up a material and documentary collection that constructs a discourse on the difficult legacies of the resistance to fascism in the city of Porto, a collaboration with the community is the motto for this project. For this operation, the Civic Movement “Don’t Erase the Memory” (NAM) and the Union of Portuguese Anti-Fascist Resistants (URAP) were chosen as associations representing former political prisoners. In this sense, this task will serve to build a possible collection for the museum, accessing “objects with memory” of former political prisoners, selecting archive documents that, as a whole, build a discourse that preserves the difficult legacies of the Estado Novo period.
\nThrough the oral history testimonies gathered and the collection assembled, it becomes possible and desirable to organize a public event that materializes in the production of a temporary exhibition in the city of Porto. Its conception and implementation will be based on a community model that extends from the constitution of the collection to the assembly of the exhibition. The realization of this objective assumes a museological praxis that understands its craft not only “with”, but above all “for” the community, in this case, the community carrying the aforementioned difficult heritages, which also allows us to activate the notion of the museum as a contact zone (Clifford, 1997) and a workshop for activism.<\/p>\n
\nApril 4 to May 2, 2025 | Rua de Oliven\u00e7a, 54. 4000-369 Porto<\/p>\n
\nCurator: Lu\u00eds Monteiro
\nScientific Committee: Alice Duarte
\nExhibition project: EASR students, Nuno Sanches and Tiago Ramos
\nGraphics: Rafael Medeiros
\nVideo Catarina David
\nSound Design and Multimedia: Gon\u00e7alo Ferreira and Hugo Guia
\nParticipating with memory objects in this exhibition are: Alexandre Alves Costa; Cristina Cartaxo; Jorge Carvalho (Pisco); Jos\u00e9 Machado Castro; Jos\u00e9 Pacheco Pereira; J\u00falio Gago; Manuel Matos Fernandes; Manuela Juncal; Manuela Monteiro; Milice Ribeiro dos Santos; S\u00e9rgio Valente.
\nAcknowledgments: Alice Semedo; Ana Isabel Augusto; Andr\u00e9 Almeida; Carlos Maia; Frederico de Moura e S\u00e1; In\u00eas Homem de Melo; In\u00eas Marinho; Lu\u00eds Filipe Fernandes
\nParticipated Collection: List of Memory Objects
\nJorge Carvalho – prison matchbox (15x4x2 cm)
\nManuela Juncal – Clandestine fake ID card (Size a6)
\nJos\u00e9 Machado de Castro – PIDE file (Size a4)
\nS\u00e9rgio Valente – May 1st photo (Size a2)
\nMilice Ribeiro Santos – May ’68 vinyl (Size of a 6″ postcard)
\nManuela Monteiro – Gestetner 230 press release duplicator (machine 70 cm wide x 80 cm high x 65 cm long)
\nAlexandre Alves Costa – Photography of the Alentejo peasantry in the 1960s (Size a4)
\nJ\u00falio Gago – Documents from Teatro Experimental do Porto in the late 1960s (size a3 poster)
\nManuel Matos Fernandes – Pamphlet from the 1973 student protests in Porto (Size a5 and a4)
\nJos\u00e9 Pacheco Pereira – Hand-drawn map for a clandestine meeting (size a3)<\/p>\n
\nFoundation for Science and Technology, IP
\nCenter for Transdisciplinary Research on Culture, Space and Memory
\nCommemorative Committee for the 50th Anniversary of April 25
\nLino Cultural Space<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"