The programme supports the contemporary artistic creation, stimulating its research and development by hosting two residencies for EMERGING ARTISTS. It provides to the selected projects conditions for its development during one month. O Rumo do Fumo offers: financial support, rehearsal studio, artistic counselling and organization of a work-in-progress presentation at Espaço da Penha.

Selected projects:

KDEIRAZ by Natália Mendonça and Dani Barra

*Free, requires booking https://forms.gle/2Zu4Jhww4hDe1T5y9

KDEIRAZ enters the children's universe where it seeks to investigate the deprogramming of the monotonous choreography that this object proposes to us in our daily life. Between the everyday and the fantastic, between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the chair is the protagonist in this journey and the propeller of endless experimentation!

Apocalypse Among Friends or Simply the Day by Julián Pacomio

For a long time we’ve been going to bed early. We are people of the day, night is someone else’s business. We wait for the apocalypse together, all of us, here. At some point the familiar, the intimate, will become unsettling, and the end will come peacefully, so kind.

Something dark will emerge to the surface incriminating life, and nothing will be the same; memories, those of passed times, will no longer matter; only the strongest ones will, that is, those of now. We will never be contemporary again and only daylight will remain, as simple as that.

or

[…] this doesn’t make sense but the rest doesn’t make sense but the rest is death.

O Rumo do Fumo - Residency Programme is supported by Câmara Municipal de Lisboa / Divisão de Acção Cultural / Direcção Municipal de Cultura