What separates a concrete patio from an abundant agrofo-

restry garden? In order to enter the land, you first have to 

realise that one can become the other. Fundo na Paisagem was a project in which Landra (Sara Rodrigues and Rodrigo Camacho) transformed a concrete patio at the CCOP (Catholic Workers’ Circle of Porto) into a community agroforestry garden. In August 2022, the first hammer was heard against the hard ground, which had no choice but to break. 

Now, at MIRA | performing arts, four videos, but also concrete testimonies in the form of traces of the work in the garden, tell us the story of this transformation. In Break slabs are lifted and the tarmac is chopped up and gravel is sifted. In Cure, organic matter is added, compost is made, the missing micro-organisms are returned. In Grow, tomorrow is sown and 

witnessed. In Dreaming, pasts and imagined futures touch on the actions we decide to take in the present.

Project developed in partnership with Galeria Municipal do Porto and Galeria do Sol; supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

This programme is being held as part of the In Freedom project supported by DGARTES/RPAC | Rede Portuguesa de Arte Contemporânea (Portuguese Contemporary Art Network) and which, in addition to MIRA FORUM, involves three institutions from other parts of the country: Colégio das Artes (Coimbra), AiR 351 (Cascais) and Lugar do Desenho (Gondomar). 

Landra is the name Sara Rodrigues and Rodrigo Camacho give to the land where they live and it is also how they are known as an artistic duo. Through landras (the fruit of oak trees), the duo pays homage to a culture of autonomy, sovereignty and self-

sufficiency that they seek to recover. As well as being an agrofo-rest in development, Landra is also a space for experimentation with agroecological food production methods and life-art forms.

Sara and Rodrigo started working together in 2015 from Goldsmiths University, London. Their projects take the form of vi-

deo and audiovisual composition, performance, installation and performance, installation and intervention in public space