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AzLab#100 Podcast | 31 December 2024 [PT]

For this AzLab#100, we've decided to look back on 10 years of achieving our goal of holding a tile seminar every month, with very different themes and an impressive number of guests who all share our passion for azulejos.
[available at blog AzLab or at YouTube]

Manuel Cargaleiro

AzLab#99 Podcast | 13 November 2024 [PT]

On the occasion of Viúva Lamego's 175th anniversary, and in tribute to its "oldest worker" who died this year, we've recovered a 2018 conversation (audio only) between Master Manuel Cargaleiro and researchers Patrícia Nóbrega and Inês Leitão.
[available at blog AzLab or at YouTube]

Monforte Sacro

AzLab#98 Podcast  |  23 October 2024  [PT]

In this AzLab, we return to Monforte Sacro to learn more about the iconographic programme of the church of the former convent of Bom Jesus de Monforte, in conversation with Maria de Lurdes Cidraes, researcher of this interdisciplinary project.
[available at blog AzLab or at YouTube]

 

Monforte Sacro

AzLab#97 Podcast  |  31 June 2024  [PT]

Azulejos applied between 1748 and 1749 with an iconographic programme dedicated to Queen Isabel.  A church demolished between 1945 and 1946, but whose tiles have been boxed up and stored ever since. A project to inventory, assemble and install the tiles began in 2012. In this AzLab podcast we'll learn about the different phases leading up to the opening of the Monforte Sacro space to the public in 2023.
[available at blog AzLab or at YouTube]

Centro de Estudos Querubim Lapa

AzLab#96 Podcast  |  26 June 2024  [PT]
With Madalena Leaper, Rafaela Fonseca, Suzana Barros and Pedro Lapa

This month we gave interns Madalena Leaper and Rafaela Fonseca a free hand to design and produce AzLab#96. The only thing we asked was that the episode should reflect the work they have been doing at the Querubim Lapa Study Centre since February, under the supervision of Suzana Lapa and Rosário Salema de Carvalho.
[available at blog AzLab or at YouTube]

Manuela Pimentel

AzLab#95 Podcast  |  29 May 2024  [PT]

Manuela Pimentel is an artist who develops her work by collecting posters from the streets, which she then separates, organises and transforms, painting and writing on them while leaving some parts visible, in the process recreating or simulating tiles from different periods. We met Manuela during the preparation of the exhibition Poéticas Revolucionárias (Revolutionary Poetics) at the Museu Nacional do Azulejo (National Museum of Tiles).
[available at blog AzLab oor at YouTube]

Miguel Januário

AzLab#94 Podcast  |  24 April 2024  [PT]

Artist Miguel Januário shares his experience of designing and coordinating the two tile murals on the theme of Fulfilling April, which have been painted in collaborative workshops from September 2023, and will be installed in Lisbon and Porto, as part of the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April.
[available at blog AzLab or at YouTube]

Alfonso Pleguezuelo

AzLab#93 Podcast  |  27 March 2024  [ES]

Alfonso Pleguezuelo, a professor at the University of Seville, is one of the most influential Spanish art historians in the field of ceramics and tiles. In this AzLab we're going to find out more about his career, his ideas, the work he's done, and many other aspects of his life.
[available at blog AzLab or at YouTube]

Françoise Schein

AzLab#92 Podcast  |  28 February 2024  [EN]

Françoise Schein is an important contemporary artist working with azulejos on a global scale. She has devoted a significant part of her work to the promotion of Human Rights, by means of large-scale artistic creations in which azulejos play a crucial role. Since 1997 (nineteen ninety-seven), her projects have been devéloped in collaboration with the Inscrire Association, an NGO founded by the artist and committed to promoting different issues related to citizenship and Human Rights through participatory art works.

We met Françoise Schein at the international conference GlazeArt and asked her to talk to us about her artistic career, her future projects and the paper she presented at the conference.
[available at blog AzLab or at YouTube]

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Organized in partnership with the National Azulejo Museum, the AzLab’s goal is to uncover new analytical perspectives on issues related to azulejos, and particularly to the study, inventory, collecting, safeguard, creation and dissemination of azulejos

Throughout more than 10 years, AzLab has taken on different forms. Starting with in-person sessions at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, we switched to Zoom sessions during the pandemic and to hybrid sessions afterwards. In the upcoming season (2023-2024), the seminar will take the form of a podcast. Our goal is to discuss azulejos and various related issues, through interviews that promote the dialogue between different protagonists.
[+ info | blogue AzLab or YouTube]