The 2025 annual EoC gathering takes place in Porto and is hosted by Inês Moreira (Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo – Escola Superior Artística do Porto (CEAA–ESAP)) and the Extreme Sites project. (The EoC gatherings took place in Ljubljana in 2022, in Brussels in 2023, and in Athens in 2024.)

The programme in Porto includes collective learning on methods of working with(in) infrastructures and sites under pressure, learning about the colonial past of the Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (FBAU), a lecture entitled Feminist Infrastructural Critique followed by a discussion, fieldwork at the former refinery in Matosinhos, various activities at the Bikini Books and Casa da Imagem, and a feminist tour through Porto.

The Porto gathering welcomes EoC members and artists, architects, curators, and researchers based in Porto: Elke Krasny, Inês Moreira, Nicola Feiks, Daria Bocharnikova, Gabi Scardi, Sofia Boito, Yona Catrina Schreyer, Camilla Martino, Saskia Def, Denisa Tomkova, Cassandra Cozza, Joana Rafael, Beatriz Duarte, Lais Rabello de Andrade, Flora Paim, Inês Azevedo, Joana Mateus, Tiago Assis, Isabeli Santiago, Alicia Medeiros, Chloe Maddren, Nina Paim, Isabel Duarte, Karina Ramos, and Engy Aly e Mayar El Bakry.

May 15, 2025
Ecologies of Care Day [Porto]

14:00 – Welcome at CEAA–ESAP

14:30 – Collective Learning: internal presentations and exchange on recent projects by members of EoC and Extreme Sites. 

17:30 – Colonial Past: Visiting Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (FBAU) with Tiago Assis

18:30 – Feminist Infrastructural Critique: public lecture by Elke Krasny

May 16, 2025
Infrastructural Encounters: Staying with the Trouble [Matosinhos]

9:30 – Visit to Álvaro Siza Vieira’s Tea House Boa Nova (optional)

10:45 – Visit to Álvaro Siza Vieira’s Tidal Pool (optional)    

12:00 – Walk along the Atlantic shore towards the former refinery

15:30 – Refinery Board: playing and discussing the curatorial board game 

17:00 – Casa da Imagem: presentation of a venue for art and mediation by Inês Azevedo

May 17, 2025
Curating Otherwise [Porto]

10:30 – Moving Critically with Bikini Books (a feminist design publisher) and Parábola Crítica 

14:30–17:30 – Porto Feminist Tour guided by MAAD collective