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ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES OF THE MASTER’S PROGRAMME IN ARTS OF SOUND AND IMAGE_ESAD.CR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION OSSO_5TH EDITION_2026
PHOTOGRAPHY_ 27 April to 1 May
SOUND ARTS_ 4 to 8 May
FILM AND VIDEO_ 11 to 15 May
OSSO FACILITIES IN THE VILLAGE OF S. GREGÓRIO, CALDAS DA RAINHA
The artistic residencies of the Master in Arts of Sound and Image aim to be a way to stimulate the development of research projects in the areas of sound and image, through the collaboration between students and invited artists. They are a joint proposal of MASI_ESAD.CR and the Cultural Association Osso. Three residencies will be held at the OSSO facilities in the village of S. Gregório, in the municipality of Caldas da Rainha, in April and May 2026, involving students from the master in arts of sound and image, teachers, guest artists and participants from the local community.
With the participation of students, teachers
Emanuel Brás, Diogo Saldanha, Pedro Letria, Riccardo Wanke and Susana Duarte
and guest artists
ÂNGELA DA PONTE
ANTÓNIO JÚLIO DUARTE
TIAGO HESPANHA
WHAT AM I DOING HERE?
António Júlio Duarte
PHOTOGRAPHY
APRIL 27TH TO MAY 1ST OF 2026
OSSO FACILITIES IN THE VILLAGE OF S. GREGÓRIO, CALDAS DA RAINHA
To draw a collective photographic map of the territory in which the residency space is located.
Daily presentation and discussion of the images produced, as well as of works and texts by other authors.
Sequencing and structuring the collective work.
Screening of the final work.
ANTÓNIO JÚLIO DUARTE (Lisbon, 1965).
He has exhibited regularly in Portugal and abroad since 1990.
A selection of his most recent solo exhibitions includes “Rumble Fish” at Appleton Square, Lisbon, 2024; “Febre” at the Serralves Museum, Porto, 2023; “Guiné-Bissau 1990” at Galeria Bruno Múrias, Lisbon, 2023; “Eclipse” at Galeria Bruno Múrias, Lisbon, 2020; “White Noise” at the Quartel da Arte Contemporânea de Abrantes, 2017; “América” at Galeria Pedro Alfacinha, Lisbon, 2017; “Suspension of Disbelief” at the Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, 2016; “Mercúrio” at Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, 2015; and “Japão 1997” at Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, 2013.
He has published several photography books, among which the following stand out: “Guiné-Bissau 1990” (2023), “Against the Day” (2019), “Ensaio” (2018), “Japan Drug” (2014) and “White Noise” (2011), published by Pierre Von Kleist Editions; “Ph. António Júlio Duarte”, published by Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda in 2022; “W” (2021), published by Antumbra Publishing House; “Deviation of the Sun” (2013), published by Centro Cultural Vila Flor; and “The Candidate”, published by GHOST Editions in 2012.
What is an instrument?
Ângela da Ponte
SOUND ARTS
MAY 4TH TO 8TH OF 2026
OSSO FACILITIES IN THE VILLAGE OF S. GREGÓRIO, CALDAS DA RAINHA
Starting from the region’s traditional instruments (if possible, researching/finding instruments from the region or even traditional objects capable of producing sound), this proposal raises the question: “what is an instrument?”, and how an object bearing cultural identity can merge with other contexts or be reintegrated into a different environment. Does it lose its sonic identity?
Conceived as an installation-performance, it will take shape as a sensory and process-based space, where sound and the instrumental body or bodies engage in real time. The project may focus on recordings of traditional instruments/objects and their display, as well as on their use in a real-time composition, in which they are manipulated and transformed live, or on recordings that may be played simultaneously. The use of multimedia (video of traditional instruments and their exploration in the context of image processing) may also be included should participants wish to cross disciplines.
More than a final object, this proposal aims to be a living process of listening, composition and transformation, in which tradition and contemporaneity intertwine, projecting new ways of thinking about and inhabiting Portuguese cultural heritage.
ACCOUNTS OF THE END AND THE BEGINNING
Tiago Hespanha
FILM AND VIDEO
MAY 11TH TO 15TH OF 2026
OSSO FACILITIES IN THE VILLAGE OF S. GREGÓRIO, CALDAS DA RAINHA
“Many years later, standing before the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to see ice for the first time.” – from One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
Filming what cannot be seen. How much of what we see is imagined? In this residency, I propose working on the documentary gesture through imaginary elements.
Starting from myths, stories, fantastical accounts, memories and other small narratives, I propose a collective reflection on the ideas of ending and beginning: of the day, of life, of a house, of a relationship, of a piece of work, of a tree, of an object, of the world, etc. — the end and the beginning in intimacy, in everyday life, in nature… From this shared investigation, we will approach the everyday life of São Gregório, looking in the reality around us for echoes of this reflection. The creative process will unfold in a cyclical movement: we will devote ourselves successively to gathering and sharing stories, to writing, to sound and to image, returning then to writing, and so on, working with these elements separately.
Tiago Hespanha (1978) is a filmmaker and producer and has collaborated with various artists from different fields (film, dance, theatre, performance, music). He holds a degree in architecture. Since 2008, together with Leonor Noivo, Luisa Homem, João Matos, Pedro Pinho and Susana Nobre, he has been a founding partner of the production company Terratreme Filmes, where he produces his own films and works with various directors and producers. He has been a directing tutor on the international documentary master’s programme DocNomads since 2012. He has been a member of Ateliers Varan since 2014. He completed a master’s degree in Creative Documentary at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He completed the Ateliers Varan documentary directing course in 2006. He has coordinated several documentary filmmaking workshops. His notable films include: CRUZEIRO DO SUL (2025, doc. 27’), CAMPO (2019, doc. 100’), REVOLUÇÃO INDUSTRIAL (2014, doc. 72’), co-directed with Frederico Lobo, VISITA GUIADA (2009, doc. 56’), and O PRESENTE QUE VEIO DE LONGE (2008, doc. 5’).