Festival Cumplicidades - Ideas for the Future

Date & Time: May 31st, 3pm
Venue: Champalimaud Foundation Auditorium
Language: English & Portuguese (with subtitles*)
Free entrance
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Programme will be available soon.

The Auditorium of the Champalimaud Foundation will be the stage for artists and scientists to share with the public their ideas for the future, in a sequence of lectures/performances anchored in reality or hand in hand with fiction. A unique event where the affinities of art and science are revealed in their curiosity for the unknown.

"Ideas for the Future" challenges artists and scientists to share projects and ideas for 10, 20 or 30 years from now. A long time frame, which means that any attempt to be faithful to reality has to be offset by a large dose of imagination and fiction. Within this unstable balance between reality and fiction, artists and scientists will meet and give rise to desires, utopias or dystopias, worldviews and ways of giving continuity to their own fields of research.
In a festival where excess has been declared a condition of existence, it is possible that some of these talks will overflow their conventional format and that both artists and scientists will be carried away by the “performative” in the 12 minutes they have available for their communication.

"Ideas for the Future" aims to displace us away for a few hours from a present that demands our attention with an almost obscene intensity and that stubbornly refuses to allow us to collectively imagine the future. More than a form of escapism, "Ideas for the Future" is an attempt to regain some critical distance from our present, showing how art and science are intrinsically linked by imagination, knowledge and experimentation.

* Subtitles will be provided by an AI model, with the help of Johannes Stelzer, from the Immersive AI Systems at the Champalimaud Foundation