Multiplex: Nan Goldin

In an initiative of the Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Nan Goldin, North American photographer and filmmaker, is the guest of the twelfth edition of Multiplex, within the scope of the award of the Doctor Honoris Causa. After Agnès Varda, Victor Erice, Manoel de Oliveira, José Luis Guerín, Pedro Costa, Boris Lehman, Renato Berta, Bette Gordon and Julio Bressane among the guests of the previous editions, photographer Nan Goldin gives a masterclass on November 29th at 15:00pm at Universidade Lusófona do Porto and follows a retrospective cycle of her work organized in partnership with TMP between the 29th and 30th of November. The entire programme has free entry.

Nan Goldin (Washington, D.C, 1953) is an American photographer. She lives and works in New York. Educated in Boston from a culturally privileged Jewish family, Nan Goldin graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University in 1978 before moving to New York. Nan Goldin's work is autobiographical, documenting her social surroundings, in the post-punk new-wave scene, the gay subculture and the LGBTQI+ community, the HIV crisis in big cities and the relationship with heroin and opiate consumption. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1980-1986), her best-known work, was first shown at the Whitney Biennal in 1985. Human rights activist Nan Goldin values ​​intimacy with the people she photographs, captured herself and to friends in moments of physical, emotional and sexual vulnerability, defending photography as a political instrument of witness and social transformation. Nan Goldin is represented in the collections of the most important museums: the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum, both in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Getty Museum, both in Los Angeles, the Art Institut in Chicago, the National Gallery in Canberra (Australia), the Tate Modern in London (United Kingdom) and the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris (France), among others. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Government of France in 2006. She received the Centenary Medal of the Royal Photographic Society (London) in 2018 and the title of Honorary Member.

PROGRAMME

28/11 mon
17:00 – Doctor Honoris Causa Ceremony > Universidade Lusófona do Porto (subject to invitation)

29/11 ter
15:00 – Masterclass > Teatro Nacional São João (free entry subject to room capacity)
18:00 – Fire Leap (2011, 9’17) + The Ballad of Sexual Dependence (1985, 41’38) > Teatro Rivoli

30/11 qua
18:00 – Sirens (2019-2020, 15’12) + The Other Side (1994-2019, 16’46) + Memory Lost (2019-2021, 24’20) > Teatro Rivoli

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