- A Mini Living Museum of Memories of Recent Portugal
- Teatro do Vestido
- Conception, text, scenic space and direction Joana Craveiro
- Interpretation Dúnia Semedo, Joana Craveiro
- CCB . February 28th to March 3rd. Small Auditorium
- Wednesday to Friday at 10:30 am. Saturday and Sunday at 4pm
- Session on Thursday, February 29th, with interpretation in Portuguese Sign Language
- 1h45 (show) + 45 min. (conversation)
Artistic Information:
- Conception, text, scenic space and direction Joana Craveiro
- Interpretation Dúnia Semedo, Joana Craveiro
- Creative collaboration Estêvão Antunes, Tânia Guerreiro, Henrique Antunes, Igor de Brito, João Pedro Leitão, Alaíde Costa, João Cachulo – and Rosinda Costa (in the 2017 version)
- Costumes Tânia Guerreiro
- Light design João Cachulo
- Light assistance and operation João Pedro Leitão
- Igor de Brito sound operation
- Henrique Antunes video operation
- Production direction Alaíde Costa
- FXRoadLights support
- Co-production Centro Cultural de Belém/Fábrica das Artes, Teatro do Vestido
A Mini Living Museum was created at the invitation of CCB/Fábrica das Artes, in 2017, as part of the Memories of Political Intention cycle.
Documentary project, son of the emblematic Um Museu Vivo de Memórias Pequenas e Esquecidas, this Mini Museum opens the trunks and archives of Teatro do Vestido in the year in which the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April is celebrated, the «initial day, entire and clean.” What better time to unearth and invoke memories? To recite them like a litany, to revive them and thus inscribe them, which is much of what memory demands: inscription, transmission. Memories with a future, these. Here we visit stories that we did not cover in the main show; we focus on other details in the photographs, we play other songs, and we ask other questions. We start with the first, essential one: how much time does it take to talk about this? We ended up healing the wounds of our now flooded and almost lost archive, which reminded us how fragile, after all, the memory of events is, and the artefacts we surround ourselves with to tell and explain it to future generations.
Built in response to an invitation from CCB/Fábrica das Artes, in 2017, and included in the cycle Memórias de Intenção Política, the 2024 version delves deeper into a part of Portuguese colonial history and the liberation of these territories, thus inviting the stage a new archivist, Dúnia Semedo, here living and excavating memories of Cape Verde side by side with Joana Craveiro.
In this Mini Museum, we find stories of ordinary people that were not recorded in history manuals as they are taught in schools. Small objects, family photographs, an old book from a personal library, a newspaper clipping kept between the pages of a diary – witnesses to other possible ways of remembering and telling these stories. A chronological journey through the history of the 20th century in Portugal begins with the discovery of a box full of pamphlets and evidence of a set of utopias that have now fallen into disuse.
Fifty years after the 25th of April, it is April’s children and grandchildren who pass on the memories they heard told, to others for whom this past is already a distant country. And yet, as this show shows, this past makes up a lot of what our present is. Not knowing it, not knowing how we got here, is like lacking a map to the future. We therefore put on our archivist’s gloves and carry out the autopsy of these memories like someone going on an expedition.
We hope that, in this dialogue that we build here, we are also building an idea of community that comes close to the best of the participatory processes of the Portuguese revolutionary process – that original and unique moment of a people looking to know what to do with freedom and the power to decide and act.
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