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[EVENTO CANCELADO / CANCELLED] Aula Aberta / Open Class | UC SM | Vulnerability of the Moving Body. Lecture by Joel Valabrega

24th March 2025, Monday, from 10:30 to 12:00, at Room 12, South Pavilion, FBAUP

The session is cancelled until further notice.
Many thanks for understanding.

Vulnerability of the Moving Body is the title of this lecture that explores the challenges of establishing a performance program in a contemporary art museum. Drawing from exhibitions, performances, and new commissions from the past five years at MUDAM, it examines performance’s growing yet underrepresented role in institutions. Framing vulnerability as a central theme, the talk delves into the evolving relationship between artist, institution, and audience.

Organised by First Degree in Fine Arts [FBAUP]

BIO
Joel Valabrega is Head of Programme / Curator of Galeria Municipal do Porto. Previously Curator of Performance and Moving Image at Mudam—Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg (2020–24), in 2024 Valabrega curated the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th International Venice Biennale and the Present Future section of Artissima Art Fair (Nov 2024). Recent projects include the experimental exhibition Workers in Song by Billy Bultheel & James Richards (2024), the performative group exhibition After Laughter Comes Tears (2023) and the performance festival The Illusion of the End (2022). Valabrega has previously run the project space MEGA in Milan (2016–22), worked as a visiting curator at the V-A-C Foundation in Moscow and Venice (2018–19) and was part of the curatorial team of Triennale Milano (2020). Curatorial projects such as exhibitions, performance programmes and commissions include collaborations with artists such as Tarek Atoui, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Cecilia Bengolea, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Lara Favaretto, Trajal Harrell, Ligia Lewis, Eliane Radigue and Nora Turato, among others. She edited After Laughter Comes Tears (Lenz Press, 2023), Tarek Atoui: Waters’ Witness #02 (Mudam/Les presses du reel, 2022), the artist book form is void void is color (2020) and contributes regularly to exhibition catalogues and magazines.