LABECO Cooperative Laboratory for Artistic and Ecological Practices Public presentation: “Initiatives in Portugal for a Sustainable Art Practice”

LABECO Cooperative Laboratory for Artistic and Ecological Practices

Public presentation: “Initiatives in Portugal for a Sustainable Art Practice”

Friday 7 February 2025

16h30 – 18h30

Location: O Gabinete de Madame Thao, Rua Ferreira Borges, 191 (patio, atelier 2), 1350-131 Lisbon Campo de Ourique

Language: English

Free entry

16h30 Welcome Drink

17h Presentations

18h Q&A

OGMT is thrilled to invite all artists, art professionals, students, and curious people to learn more about initiatives in Portugal in the field of eco-responsible artistic expression.

Speakers:

. Annette Brinckerhoff, Founder of Tinctorium Studio in 2020, a natural dyeing atelier that aims to regenerate the connection between people and plants.

Founded in 2020, Tinctorium Studio is a natural dyeing atelier that aims to regenerate the connection between people and plants.

To raise collective awareness about the plants that surround us, the atelier offers natural dyeing services, teaches natural dyeing workshops, maintains a dyeing garden, and sells naturally dyed products under the label – Wear Tinctoria.

. Rita Thomaz, Visual Artist, co-manager of OSSO Cultural Association

OSSO Associação Cultural is a collective that includes artists and researchers from different areas. Since 2012, OSSO has developed transdisciplinary projects in collaboration with other artists and collectives, supported by partnerships with public and private institutions. Its experimental projects seek to explore artistic practices in conjunction with critical, aesthetic and political thinking that addresses the specificity of the contexts and territories in which it operates.

In 2018 OSSO moved to a new space in the village of São Gregório, Caldas da Rainha, where it has been developing a programme of Artistic Residencies. This program is the centre of a set of activities in the areas of creation, training, programming and artistic investigation, always attentive to its articulation with the rural community where it is inserted.

. Beatriz Manteigas, Visual artist. Co-founder and Director of Quinta das Relvas Association

Quinta das Relvas Association – Arts and Sustainability is based on an eco-farm in the center of Portugal, Aveiro ́s district. The NGO has been working in the fields of art and sustainability since 2016, through Erasmus+ projects, work camps, workshops, and residencies that follow the principles of non-formal education. Up until now the two main areas (Arts & Sustainability) have small intersections and it’s one of the main goals of this project to develop a systematic approach and tools to interconnect these two big fields of action. On one side, The NGO has a big sustainability department that focuses on Permaculture as the main working methodology to manage the venue and all its components and on the other side, the art department brings creativity, recognition, and human frame to the general equation. The Art department has been focusing on giving opportunities to young artists and valuing their works, through artist residencies, mentoring, exhibitions, and art festivals, with a strong social and educational component.

About LABECO

The Cooperative Laboratory for Artistic and Ecological Practices is an informal training framework for adults, artists, and art professionals designed to foster the acquisition of ecological knowledge applicable within the context of artistic practice workshops. These workshops are aimed at children and adults, with a particular focus on “priority” audiences. 

LABECO is supported by the European Union and carried out by DDA CONTEMPORARY ART, based in Marseille, in collaboration with O Gabinete de Madame Thao, based in Lisbon.

Partners: Métropole Aix-Marseille, A Base, Tinctorium studio, Quinta das Relvas, Largo Residências / Residências Refúgio, Osso colectivo, Jeanne Barret