Extra muros

Saturday, 25 January 2025, 4:00 pm

Performance in the Shop window

Free admission, no booking required
Performance as part of the project Shop Windows in the City of the exhibition Fresh Window
PSP Swiss Property, Kirschgartenstrasse 12


Lara and Noa Castro Lema

(born in A Coruña, live in Basel)
Cunha Fosa a Cada Lado, 2025
Performance series

Lara and Noa Castro Lema’s research focuses on the history of oral tradition and shared systems of collective knowledge, and how it is expressed through intrahistory, memory, dreams, stories, and songs. Focusing on the stories of their homeland of Costa da Morte (Galicia, Spain), they investigate the performative acts of sharing through a voice that is not exclusively human. In Cunha Fosa a Cada Lado, they reimagine a series of performances featuring some of the characters that have been the backbone of their research. Two twin sea snails, a chorus of xurelos-choradeiras (mackerel-mourners), a sun-girl, a pair of soles, and fake fisherman pole-dancers generate pseudo-fables, musical and otherwise, that will be presented every Saturday.

Performances 18 January, 25 January, 1 February, 8 February, 15 February, 22 February, 1 March 2025, at 4pm

>> Learn more about the project Shop Windows in the City


Fresh Window. The Art of Display & Display of Art
4 December 2024 - 11 May 2025

Fresh Window. The Art of Display & Display of Art

For decades, there have been close links between the histories of art and shop window display. Besides Jean Tinguely, many other artists have designed pioneering window displays. Conversely, window displays frequently feature as a motif in artworks or serve as a stage for performances and actions. The exhibition will explore this eventful relationship from its beginnings to the present day, while artistic interventions in shop windows in Basel extend the show into public space.


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