ENDLESS SUN : Symposium 

Endless Sun symposium

is organized and moderated by Hugo de Almeida Pinho

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with

Giovanbattista Tusa

Imre Szeman
Jorge Leandro Rosa

Michael Marder

Oxana Timofeeva

Ricardo Gafeira

Susana Martinho Lopes

Vanina Saracino

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in collaboration with the Institute for Global Reconstitution c/o Bard College Berlin, A Liberal Arts University

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The sun is a medial element in the collective imagination, as a cultural form, a spiritual force, and with an important ideological and biopolitical power. Its energy keeps the planet functioning, regulates the metabolic rhythms of plants and animals, and is part of a contemporary global capital of technological and economic power. As one of the most pressing issues in the current context of international geopolitics, energy can be used as a mechanism to promote certain forms of authoritarianism, neo-colonialism, autocratic systems and climate crises.

Unfolding in two exhibitions - The Cinematic Sunrise (at gnration, in Braga) and Capital Blindness (at Carpintarias de São Lázaro, in Lisbon) - Endless Sun is an artistic research project on the relationship between technology and geological materiality and contemporary energy policies. Considering various links between the sun, the earth, energy and technology, this project reflects on the idea of solar capitalism, the constructive and destructive force of the sun that has shaped ideologies linked to capitalism, imperialism and productivism.