The Extraterritoriality of Toxicity presents research on artificially generated toxicity and its effects on human and other–than–human bodies. This exhibition is intended to generate an understanding of the narratives that surround toxic landscapes, together with the regulatory and ownership regimes that enable them, as well as the fluidity of contamination and its effects on the surrounding landscapes, architectures, and ecologies. The exhibition uses the Douro as a case study. It presents the river as a fluid archive, a container of memories and living systems that mark post-natural relations.

With the support of Royal College of Art in London

Experts: Adriano Bordalo e Sá, Lúcia Guilhermino, Associação Portuguesa do Lixo Marinho (Carla Silva, Filipa Bessa, Joana Antunes, João Pequeno, Paula Sobral), LPN Liga para a Protecção da Natureza (Ana Sofia Ribeiro, Inês Machado, Rúben Oliveira), UTAD Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Joaquim José Barreira de Jesus, João Soares Carrola, Rui Manuel Vitor Cortes), Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Biologia & CESAM (Carla Leite, Marta Cunha, Rosa Freitas), GEOTA, Rios Livres Programme (Ana Catarina Miranda, Lígia Vaz de Figueiredo, Regina Falcão), IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature (Catherine Numa, Faye Weaver, Lourdes Lazaro Marin), Nacho Dean