TOO LATE - Supersudaca

don’t forget, it’s
TOO LATE !
The international architect collective Supersudaca is looking for art and architecture students from 05-22 July in Culturgest Porto to collaborate on an exhibition and book
project called :
TOO LATE !
100 places from Porto you will miss (because they already disappeared)
Feel free to join us : from 05 >14 July or from 15>22 July (or both sessions) !
More info about the project on the back. Only 15 candidates will be selected.
Please send CV + short motivation (5 lines) to [email protected]
Spoken and written languages : english, spanish, spanglish, portuguese, portuñol
www.supersudaca.org
Project residency in Culturgest Porto
Part of ‘When guests become host’ : artistic strategies in the public domain of Porto
a project curated by Danielle van Zuijlen (NL)
www.culturgest.pt
TOO LATE !
www.supersudaca.org
Invited by artist-curator Danielle van Zuijlen in Culturgest Porto, Supersudaca will collaborate on a project
called ‘When guests become host: artistic strategies in the public domain of Porto’ during July 2010. With
their proposal for Porto’s public space, Supersudaca will focus on the memory of the city.
The project’s objective is to create – in collaboration with the Dutch graphic designer Hans Gremmen – a
city guide of Porto which does not present ‘The 100 places you have to see before you die’ nor ‘The 100 best
spots in Porto 2010‘ nor ‘What you definitely should not miss’, but instead a non-coherent and non-exhaustive catalogue of ‘100 places of Porto you will not see anymore, because they already disappeared’.
The project will result in a publication called ‘Too late!’ that will bring together photographs, collages,
drawings, histories, models, clippings of 100 places, events and rituals that have already disappeared from
the (visible) city of Porto. The proposal is to ‘take a break’ and to resist, in a poetic way, the way cities are
branded, sold and consumed as merely touristic products.
The usual ‘must have seen’ lists include all the ‘official’ best places in the world named each year by Unesco,
Tourist Councils, gigantic travel agencies, etc. If you don’t visit them you are a loser. The cityguide Supersudaca will be working on has a totally different thought behind it. Since all the places and/or events presented
in the guide already disappeared (it’s too late, you missed it!), there is no hurry anymore, no tickets to rush
and buy. So you can visit the city of Porto this summer, or next one or even just reading the guide. Do it in
a relaxed way.
The guide is not intended for foreigners only; it is also an opportunity for locals to discover their own city
through other eyes. We are interested in hearing an abundance of small stories, the stories which make a
city real. The guidebook can be read as a novel, an art book, a sociological work, a compilation of bed-timestories.
This project will be realized with local art and/or architecture students, which will help to ‘collect’ and narrate in a personal way the history (or small stories) about Porto’s past. Supersudaca will define a canvas, a
layout for each ‘disappeared’ spot or moment. Students or participants will work within that format.
All the collaborators will propose some place(s) to be shown in the guide. Since the format of the city guide
is open to present photographs, drawings, collages, models, texts, comics, it allows a lot of creative freedom
to the collaborators of this project.
Project residency in Culturgest Porto
Part of ‘When guests become host’ : artistic strategies in the public domain of Porto
a project curated by Danielle van Zuijlen (NL)
www.culturgest.pt