OSSO Associação Cultural

OSSO Associação Cultural is a collective that includes artists and researchers from various disciplines (Music, Dance, Fine Arts, Literature, Performance and Cinema). Since 2012, OSSO has developed transdisciplinary projects in collaboration with other artists and collectives, supported by partnerships with public and private institutions. Its experimental projects seek to explore artistic practices in conjunction with critical, aesthetic and political thinking that addresses the specificity of the contexts and territories in which it operates. OSSO is currently developing a project of Artistic Residences in the village of São Gregório, in the municipality of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. This program comprises a range of artistic projects, research and programming activities in conjunction with local, national and international partners. This project aims to be a meeting point between artists and the public, actively dialoguing with the community through workshops, film screenings, concerts, performances, exhibitions, readings and any form of reflexive dialogue that involves, besides a creative community, a critical community. OSSO and its collective reinforce the interest in welcoming artists, national or international, whose practices are articulated with the notion of territory. The concept of territory is multifaceted and ambiguous. It relates to notions such as space and place, identity and community, dominion and control. It may refer to areas of land, but also areas of knowledge, activity or experience. In addition, territories inform identities, conditioning or generating values ​​between communities. They are in constant transformation, expansion and contraction, and thus generate new dimensions of convergence, conversion or conflict. Borders are places of tension and its movements are expressed by presenting the territory as a dynamic entity. Territories are also social constructs, products of agency that encompass physical, virtual, social, political, experiential and affective spaces.