Four vessels, four rivers and countless possibilities for culture. The European Pavilion's Liquid Becomings year-long art project has reached its end in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, but poses fresh questions about how we could live better together.
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00:00We are all small, artist-led structures.
00:27I don't think any of us has permanent members of staff, and we have sailed four boats on
00:33four rivers of Europe, giving residencies to 32 different artists, commissions to many
00:38more, and we've all arrived safely, nothing's gone wrong, and we're now sharing that experience
00:44with the public here in Lisbon.
00:57We wanted that all these moments could be like shared time with not only all these artists
01:06that participate in the project and curators, but also with local artists that we invite
01:11to be part of this project, and local communities.
01:15So we try to create all this flow, to bring people together, so we can in the end discuss
01:24what all together we can do for the future, what spaces can we create of togetherness.
01:31We want to do this with creativity, with humour, with, you know, connectivity, bringing people
02:01together, practicality, but also conceptual thinking, and all of this is now here in Lisbon
02:11with the European pavilion, and I think this is the way forward, and not sitting back and
02:18you know, doomsday.