Cidade Delirium

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This artwork includes visual references that may be considered sensitive.

Synopsis

'Cidade Delirium' proposes a fragmented and sensorial reading of the city of Porto, constructed through an interweaving of visual and temporal techniques. Using archive material from the 'Criptoporto' installation, animations constructed with collage, found footage from the RTP Archives and field recordings, the project trials an affective and distorted cartography of the urban fabric, where the past, present and future overlap in mobile and unpredictable layers.

The city is thought of not as a fixed space, but as a living organism — a body in constant mutation, memory and noise. Through the algorithmic manipulation of images and the juxtaposition of historical records with found fragments, a dreamlike experience is created that defies narrative linearity and documentary objectivity. Rather than representing Porto, this video attempts at decoding it: capturing its dissonant rhythms, its hidden voices, its technological ghosts and showing them as an anomalous transmission. The viewer is invited to inhabit the city for a few moments as if in a rêverie — confused, uncomfortable and inevitably delirious, through an altered lens — a kind of second skin, which observes, interprets and distorts.

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Biography

Ruca Bourbon a.k.a. Doutor Urânio, born in Póvoa de Varzim, is an artist based in Porto. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto, he explores fragments, waste and the obscure, recombining them in multiple formats such as photomontage, assemblage, installation and sound collage. He is a gallerist and curator at Atelier Logicofobista, administrator of the YouTube channel Bazar Esquisito and Visual Arts teacher at the Vale do Sousa Detention Centre in Paços de Ferreira.

Team

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How to get there

On Rua do Morgado de Mateus, next to the parklet, find the totem stand installed there.