Photo: Aleksandrija Ajdukovic
LIQUID BECOMINGS
Liquid Becomings — the European Pavilion 2024 — is a travelling pavilion and radically networked stage. It’s not a traditional Pavilion or building, neither is it a space to be filled. It’s a time-based liquid pavilion, a flow of journeys.
In 2024 it took the form of four creative journeys by small boats along four of Europe’s greatest rivers: the Danube, the Rhine, the Tagus, and the Vistula. The four journeys crossed 11 countries, travelling a combined distance of 1.394 kilometres.
After sailing on the four European rivers, the artistic crews came together in Lisbon for a three-day festival on 7-9th November 2024, in a rich series of performances, art exhibitions, debates, concerts, literature, get-togethers, and parties.
An artistic celebration imagining Europe’s future brought together Gonçalo M. Tavares, Valete, Paula Diogo, Báyò Akómoláfé, and Elizabeth Povinelli, a Silent Disco, and other programming which took place in east and north Lisbon.
This multidisciplinary programme placed artistic creation and reflection at the heart of the debate on Europe’s future, promoting meaningful dialogues between artists and local communities.
Read more about it on it’s official webpage.
Photo: Manuel Casanova
Curators: Bojan Djordjev, Laura Kalauz, Maria Magdalena Kozłowska, Siniša Ilić, Alfredo Martins, Annette Mees, Naomi Russell and Olga Uzikaeva, with Agnieszka Brzezanska and Ewa Ciepielewska.
The European Pavilion 2024 is commissioned by the European Cultural Foundation.
Participating artists: Alicja Wysocka, Bogdan Djukanović, Carola Uehlken, Elodie Olson-Coons, Elina Rodriguez, Flavia Barbosa Pinheiro, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Gosia Kepa, Isabel Soany, Jaka Škapin, Keli Freitas, Katarina Popović, Leila Chakroun, Małgorzata Kuciewicz, Małgorzata Markiewicz, Marija Balubdžić, Marta Niedbal, Martin Schick, Mette Sterre, Neda Kovinić, Niel de Vries, Paula Diogo, Pio Sebastian Torroja, Patryk Zakrocki, Romuald Krezel, Sophie Thun, Valete and Viktor Vejvoda
Production and technical team: Lucy Atkinson, Ricardo Costa, Dragana Jovović, Aleksander Rakezić, Mariana Rolim, Ana Raquel Rodrigues, Ana Paula Teixiera and Hannah Tully
Boats and Captains
MS-Fusion: Rainer Prohaska, Hanna Priemetzhofer, Florian Sorgo
FLOW: Piotr Jedynasiak
Content Marketing: Mandy Martinez
Marketing + Social Media Manager: Flávia Ruas
Films: Dušan Čavić and Dušan Šaponja / Marka Žvaka
Podcasts: Donald Hyslop for Resonance FM
Press representative: Heidi Vandamme
Belgrade Press representative: Monika Husar / KomunikArt
Lisbon Press representative: Cláudia Duarte / This is Ground Control
Danube
Rhine
Tejo
Vistula
Liquid Becomings is commissioned by the European Cultural Foundation. It receives additional support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, DGArtes and the Portuguese Republic, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade, Founding Friends of espaço agora now, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute with co-funding from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, the Chamber of Deputies of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Quinta Alegre, Resonance FM, Antena 3, Antena 2, Rádio Futura, Canal 180, Delta and this is ground control.