{"id":10896,"date":"2018-04-10T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?p=10896"},"modified":"2025-07-13T15:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T14:13:05","slug":"demythologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/demythologize\/","title":{"rendered":"Demythologize That History and Put It to Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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26 de Maio,\u00a04pm,\u00a0Estatua Dom Carlos I, Palacio da Ajuda, Lisboa<\/strong>
\nPerformance Kiluanji Kia Henda (Angola)
\nPerformance Lavoisier (Portugal)<\/p>\n

2 de Junho, 4pm,\u00a0Estatua Dom Carlos I, Palacio da Ajuda, Lisboa<\/strong>
\nAngela Ferreira \u2013 (Mozambique\/Portugal)
\nMarcio Carvalho – (Portugal\/Alemanha)<\/p>\n

3 de Junho, 6pm,\u00a0Hangar \u2013 Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Artistica, Lisboa<\/strong>
\nConversa com Marcio Carvalho e Elsa Peralta<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Demythologize That History and Put it to Rest<\/i> aims to challenge the idea of remembrance formed by statues, monuments, street names and other Eurocentric colonial memorials and sites of remembrance in Lisbon and Berlin’s public spaces. Lacking a present contextualization the objects continue to overshadow the perspective and histories of African communities and their epistemological systems and commemorate a romanticized Eurocentric history. The expense thereof being the oppression of Black Africans. The project is involved in creating and presenting artistic interventions in Lisbon and Berlin’s public spaces. The aim, to demythologize the narratives around these monuments and their influence on the various aspects of public remembering and forgetting, and to counter the ways they have been shaping our present thinking, experience and imagination.<\/p>\n

Inspired by Edouard Glissant’s assertion that history and its formation should not be left to historians alone, the artist Marcio Carvalho invited fellow artists from Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Iraq, Mozambique and Portugal to present live performances and public discussions to counter-monumentalize these crystalized objects, to demythologize their hegemonic, western narratives and to search for other memories and other narratives. The 9 artists will focus on the monuments of two historical personalities who exerted huge influences on the colonization of Africa by the European powers during the so-called Congo Conference (1884\/85) in Berlin: Otto von Bismarck (Tiergarten, Berlin) and King Charles I (Palacio da Ajuda, Lisbon).<\/p>\n

Demythologize that History and Put it to Rest <\/i>is an art project by Marcio Carvalho in collaboration with the art space SAVVY Contemporary and its archive project Colonial Neighbours, Hangar \u2013 Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Art\u00edstica and the Gabinete de Estudos Olisiponenses.<\/p>\n

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Full Program<\/h3>\n

APRIL, 2018<\/strong>
\n18th April, Berlin
\nPerformance Christian Etongo (Cameroon)
\n5pm
\nMemorial Otto Von Bismarck, Tiergarten, Berlin<\/p>\n

5th May, Berlin
\nUrnamo (Ali Al-Fatlawi and Wathiq Al-Ameri) – (Iraq\/Switzerland)
\nMarcio Carvalho (Portugal\/DE)
\n5pm
\nMemorial Otto Von Bismarck, Tiergarten, Berlin<\/p>\n

MAY, 2018<\/strong>
\n18th May, Berlin
\nExhibition \/ opening (Chapter 1 – Berlin) \u2013 Inside Berlin Biennial Program
\n7pm
\nSavvy Contemporary<\/p>\n

26th May, Lisbon
\nPerformance Kiluanji Kia Henda (Angola)
\nPerformance Lavoisier (Portugal)
\n4pm
\nStatue Dom Carlos I, Palacio da Ajuda, Lisbon<\/p>\n

JUNE, 2018<\/strong>
\n2nd June, Lisbon
\nAngela Ferreira \u2013 (Mozambique\/Portugal)
\nMarcio Carvalho – (Portugal\/DE)
\n4pm
\nStatue Dom Carlos I, Palacio da Ajuda, Lisboa<\/p>\n

3rd June, Lisbon
\nSeminar with Marcio Carvalho e Elsa Peralta
\n6pm
\nHangar \u2013 Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Artistica, Lisbon<\/p>\n

17th June, Berlin
\nPerformance Nathalie Bikoro (Gabon\/DE)
\n5pm
\nMemorial Otto Von Bismarck, Tiergarten, Berlin<\/p>\n

SEPTEMBER, 2018<\/strong>
\n13th September, Berlin
\nExhibition opening (Capitulo 2 – Lisboa) \u2013 inside Geographies of Imagination exhibition
\n7pm
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