International Colloquium: “Geographies of Time and Nature”

International Colloquium: “Geographies of Time and Nature”

Geografias do Tempo e da Natureza [Geographies of Time and Nature] proposes a space for listening and meeting around the ways in which time and nature intertwine in contemporary thought and creative practices. Far from fixed categories, time and nature emerge as subject matter in transformation, made of rhythms, layers, tensions, and coexistences that traverse artistic gestures, modes of perception, and forms of life. From philosophy, aesthetics, ecology, and artistic practices, these dialogues interrogate different ways of thinking about time and nature, opening up to other temporalities and other ways of inhabiting the world.

With the participation of Michael Marder, João Pedro Cachopo, and Giovambattista Tusa, different geographies of time are explored – from vegetal slowness to cultural memory, from sensitive duration to histories of knowledge – calling for renewed attention to the ways in which we understand, think about, and share the world we inhabit. The presence of the Landra Collective (Sara Rodrigues and Rodrigo Camacho) and Patrícia Geraldes introduces a practical and sensitive dimension through which this reflection extends into artistic processes attentive to the territory.

Date: 28th March 2026 | 5 p.m. | Free admission

Venue: ESAP Auditorium | Escola Superior Artística do Porto – Navegantes Street n. 51, 4000 357 Porto, Porto.

Organisation: Dária Salgado and Rui Lourosa | CEAA – Art and Critical Studies Group

PROGRAMME

Michael Marder – Reflections on Chronogenesis (after Aristotle)

João Pedro Cachopo – A Montanha Mágica: um romance para (e contra) o nosso tempo

Giovanni Battista Tusa – Geo-graphies: Futures Against the Apocalypse.

• Break (15 m)

Colectivo Landra (Sara Rodrigues e Rodrigo Camacho) – Camadas Legíveis

Patrícia Geraldes – Um gesto lento de resistência

• Roundtable (discussion)