WHO DISCOVERED WHO? DECOLONIAL ZINESWith Inês Costa & Margo

In this workshop, Amargo and Inês Costa invite the general public, families, and children to dive into the universe of independent publications, more specifically fanzines, to critically and artistically reflect on the repercussions of colonialism in Portugal and the world. Through collage, drawing, writing, and graphic experimentation, each participant can contribute to the construction of a decolonial fanzine, where we will question the idea of "discoveries" and provoke discussion about the colonial past, speaking also of some figures of resistance and events that will help us to expand the narratives we grow up with. The result will be a collaborative fanzine that you can take home at the end, and that will later be added to the Anticolonial Children’s Travelling Library developed by Sismógrafo, following the FIU prototype of the Santa Mònica Art Center.

This session is part of the parallel programme of the exhibition Prototypes of insituting desire. Santa Mònica to Sismógrafo, curated by Clara Laguillo.

This proposal gathers inspiration from the prototype Comunicació interna by the communication guild of Santa Mònica (Lara Martínez, Ángela Palacios and Anna Vilamú Bosch). Las Mòniques, artists-in-residence at the Santa Mònica Art Centre who experiment in the relational or participatory sphere in a collective and transdisciplinary way, organized into seven guilds: communication, digitalization, editing, education, spaces, gastronomy and participation. Selected annually by public call, they develop prototypes of artistic mediation devices to open up the centre’s content, discourses and questions to diverse audiences.

Inês Costa (Viseu, 1998) is a designer, researcher, and multidisciplinary artist. Graduated in Communication Design (2020) and with a master’s degree in Image Design (2022) from FBAUP, she mainly focuses on the role of the image in building narratives that make up the Portuguese collective memory, through cinema and sound, problematizing the image as a tool for language and socio-political action. Since 2021, her short films have been part of the official selection of national festivals such as Entre-Olhares, Curtas Vila do Conde, Cinanima, Vista Curta, Porto/Post/Doc and IndieLisboa. She works in the cross-disciplinary and artistic exploration of various themes, mixing techniques and materials. To create new narratives, she always strats from the image, where documentary and fiction intersect through graphic and audiovisual experimentation.

Amargo (Coimbra, 1997) is Margarida Ferreira, an illustrator and designer based in Porto. Bachelor in Communication Design at FBAUP (2019) and Master in Visual Communication at Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts, and Design in Stockholm (2021). Amargo tells stories with the tools she has at hand, ranging from drawing to word, from frame-by-frame animation to self-publishing. Highlights include the exhibitions Passeio no Parque, GrETUA, Aveiro (2021); Careful Hands, Apaixonarte, Lisboa (2022); and Arqueologia Sentimental with João Lince, at Senhora Presidente, Porto (2024). She is part of the comic book collective Goteira, which in 2024 edited the anthology QEQTPQE??, and that organizes and facilitates moments of encounter between readers and BD, such as the first edition of Miragem - Encontros de BD e Publicação Independente, and the BD Book Club (Bedeteca do Porto).

Original prototype's webpage

In collaboration with