Graça Silva e Mariana Americano
AzLab#91 Podcast | 31 January 2024 [PT]
Our guests are starting their doctoral theses and the AzLab podcast wanted to record the beginning of this journey, finding out what they are up to, what they aim to achieve, what they expect… Graça Silva is studying the Constância Ceramics Factory, based on a vast collection of materials collected after its closure in 2001, by a team from the National Azulejo Museum. Mariana Americano is researching the ornamental compositions known as albarradas, from the 17th and 18th centuries. Both work at the National Azulejo Museum and are doctoral candidates at Lisbon University's School of Arts and Humanities.
[available at blogue AzLab or at YouTube]
ChromAz project
AzLab#890Podcast | 13 December 2023 [PT]
The AzLab#90 Podcast was recorded at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences while we accompanied the ChromAz project team, coordinated by Susana Coentro, on a mission to analytically characterise the cloister's tiles.
[available at blogue AzLab or at YouTube]
Andreas Stöcklein
AzLab#89 Podcast | 8 November 2023 [PT]
Andreas Stöcklein, one of the most important artists currently working with azulejos in Portugal, is the protagonist of this AzLab Podcast, but we have also invited Ana Maria Viegas and Tiago Montepegado, from Ratton Gallery. Be sure to join this lively conversation, which will address many different subjects – including the artist’s work and the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of his career in Portugal, marked by the inauguration of an exhibition at Ratton Gallery, entitled “The Other Place. Inner Conversations”, and a second, anthological exhibition at the National Azulejo Museum, entitled “On the Horizon. Andreas Stöcklein in the Ratton Collection”.
After this podcast was recorded we learned that the SOS Azulejo “Life Work” Prize 2022 was awarded to Andreas Stöcklein. Congratulations!!!
[available at blogue AzLabor at YouTube]
Alexandre Pais
AzLab#88 Podcast | 19 October 2023 [PT]
Alexandre Pais is a leading name in the history of Portuguese azulejos! Linked for many years to the National Azulejo Museum, his multidisciplinary research is an important reference in the field of azulejo studies. He has been the director of the National Azulejo Museum since August 1st 2021 and this new role will be the starting point of AzLab #88, now in podcast version.
[ATTENTION: the first two sessions are on an experimental basis. The sound will be better after the first scenario!]
[available at blogue AzLab or at YouTube]
Vitor Serrão
AzLab#87 Podcast | 4 October 2023 [PT]
One of the most influential experts in Portuguese art history of the last decades, Vítor Serrão is Professor Emeritus at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, the institution he worked for throughout most of his academic life. His vast career and his actions on behalf of Portuguese heritage are well known. From 2009 to 2018, he was also the coordinator of Az – Azulejo Research Network, and that will be the starting point of AzLab’s 87th edition, in podcast version.
[available at blogue AzLab or at YouTube]
FROM CAMPO DAS CEBOLAS TO THE CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW, THROUGH THE CONTADOR-MOR SQUARE: 15TH AND 16TH CENTURY AZULEJOS FROM THREE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN LISBON
AzLab#86 | 21 June 2023 [session to be held in Portuguese]
Invited speaker:
Victor Filipe [Município de Torres Novas | UNIARQ – Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras]
Anabela Castro [ISCSP – Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade de Lisboa]
[+ info | blog AzLab]
[watch the video on YouTube]
MORE THAN TALAVERA: THE HISTORY AND ACCOUNT OF SOME (OR MANY) CHALLENGES FOR THE CONSERVATION OF THE MEXICAN TILE
AzLab#85 | 17 May 2023 [session to be held in Spanish]
Invited speaker:
Renata Schneider [Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia | México]
[+ info | blog AzLab]
[watch the video on YouTube]
From azulejos in cemeteries to funerary tile coverings
AzLab#84 | 19 Abril 2023 [session to be held in Portuguese]
Invited speaker:
Francisco Queiroz [Az – Rede de Investigação em Azulejo, ARTIS–IHA/FLUL]
[+ info | blog AzLab]
[watch the video on YouTube]
Ottoman Blue-And-White Tiles in the Fifteenth-Century Global Context
AzLab#83 | 15 March 2023 [session to be held in English]
Invited speaker:
Patricia Blessing [Princeton University]
[+ info | blog AzLab]
[watch the video on YouTube]
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]
