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“I GUESS YOU GUYS AREN’T READY FOR THAT YET…” – ANA BIGOTTE VIEIRA To Extinguish In 2008, while I was researching on theatre, dance and performance art history in Portugal from the perspective of international exchanges and global aesthetic influences and contaminations, the ACARTE Department that had been closed down in 2002, stood as a fundamental reference. And yet it was almost unstudied and barely visible, present only indirectly embodied in the performing art repertoire, namely in the Portuguese New Dance scene, or in people’s memories. ACARTE 1985 Jazz em Agosto 1985, Sun Ra Arkestra. Foto: © Eduardo Gageiro. Courtesy: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation archive. ACARTE, Jazz em Agosto 1985, Sun Ra Arkestra. Foto: © Eduardo Gageiro. Courtesy: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation archive. L’INTERNATIONALE ONLINE – ANA BIGOTTE VIEIRA – 86
“I GUESS YOU GUYS AREN’T READY FOR THAT YET…” – ANA BIGOTTE VIEIRA The Department had not only hosted foundational artists from all over the world (with a focus on Europe, since the country was joining the EEC), but it had produced and presented hundreds of events in fields as different as dance, performance art, theatre, cartoon, literature, jazz, experimental and world music. It was one of the first institutions in the country to deal with multicultural issues. All this was occuring in the 1980s, at a time when Portuguese society faced major changes—such as the gradual ‘inclusion’ of half a million people coming from Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau (after 1975); or the European Community membership (in 1986). A close look at the almost untouched archives disclosed a scenario in which the ACARTE Department, especially in the first years when brand new and working through ‘curadoria da falta’, was the place for activities that could not be hosted anywhere else, among them a series of radical experiments in performance and performing arts, but also a series of initiatives concerning African countries for which a new kind of approach was needed. If often the discursive terms in which this approach was set were anything but radical, the ways in which the audience enthusiastically and polemically reacted to the Sun Ra Arkestra (USA), Sossabe and Os Tubarões (Cape Verde) points to the need to look at institutions (and to ACARTE in particular) as something that is practiced… to see in them emancipatory potentials that often go beyond their institutional discursive frame, allowing us to think of its common uses and how they (in)form the construction of subjectivities. Though extinct, ACARTE was an absent presence. Soon this also happened to the Ballet Gulbenkian after forty years of existence, as it was extinct in 2005. And who knows, it might even end up happening to state funding for the culture as the Ministry of Culture was also extinguished in 2011, now replaced by a Secretary of State, directly dependent on the Prime Minister’s office. As what it is aims at standing for what it was and for what could therefore be—archival and repertoire work seem the all more urgent. L’INTERNATIONALE ONLINE – ANA BIGOTTE VIEIRA – 87
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