DUSK is a contemporary art festival in Iberian Peninsula’s ancestral stone sites. The inaugural edition will be taking place amidst the unique geological surroundings of Portugal with visual artists from (Portugal and Spain), Alba (Scotland), Ísland (Iceland) and Naija (Nigeria). Exhibiting as a band of merry solstice pranksters through the hinterland of the Alentejo and Algarve regions, in Portugal. From the night of the 18th of June to culminate in the Summer solstice on the 21st of June, 2023, this festival will be a uniquely curated programme by Nuno Sacramento and Inês Valle, where contemporary art will be articulated with archaeological, geological, astronomical and local community knowledge.
Dusk brings artists of different generations and geopolitical contexts who will participate, but all coming from cultures with close links to stones and geology. Motivated by these, they will present performances, film screenings, debates, night walks and projects over two nights, in the middle of the Alentejo and Algarve countryside.
about
DUSK Contemporary Art Festival takes place for 2 nights.
The first evening, 18 June in Alentejo at Montado do Freixo do Meio
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a unique ecosystem just one hour from Lisbon, with more than 500 Hectares of Protected Area, beholding an Autochthonous forest, an open-air Neolithic museum created by the Portuguese archaeologist Manuel Calado, as an archaeological survey project to better understand the passage of mankind in this region, but also many other projects as Abel Family Honey, Carlos and Catarina's Orchard, Mark's agroforestry, Afonso's agroforestry, Raquel's Healing Forest Nursery, and Ella Bocara technological innovation project.
Herdade do Freixo do Meio
7050-704 Foros de Vale Figueira
(close to Montemor-o-Novo)
GPS 38.703667 / -8.325385
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freixodomeio.pt
Fonte da Lagoa da Nave
Caminho Agrícola da
Várzea da Nave do Barão
GPS 37.2195053885733 / -8.049680775321187
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The second evening is during the Summer Solstice, 21 June
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in the Algarve at Lagoa da Nave do Barão, a poldje-type karst formation located about 9km from Loulé, near the village of the same name, where an old fountain stands sheltered between two hills, as a community water monument – as the local village has only access to piped water after the end of Portuguese dictatorship at 25th of April 1974.
project
team
Nuno Sacramento
Co-director | Curator
Manuel Calado
Archeologist
Inês Valle
Co-director | Curator
Sofia Oliveira Sacramento
Architect
Johnny Páscoa
Producer
Maria Rodrigues
Producer Assistant
Filipe Silva + Luís Branca (Stills Photography)
Photography team
José Orpinelli + Camila Lin
Video & Sound team
Paulo Arraiano +
the Cera Project
Graphic Design