Tabita Rezaire: Art + Tech x Cosmos =

Art + Tech x Cosmos =
Concerts, talks, exhibitions, and performances 2026
April 16, 2026 ● Ilídio Pinho Auditorium

On April 16 at 6:30 p.m., School of Arts welcomes Tabita Rezaire for a lecture titled Motherboard: The Technology of Repair.

The motherboard, in its technical structure, is the central circuit: a surface through which signals flow, where memory is housed, where all components connect. It is the invisible foundation that allows a system to function, yet bears the marks of exploitation—minerals extracted from the earth, forced labor imposed on bodies, colonial infrastructures embedded in its very design. In Tabita Rezaire’s work, technology is never neutral—it is part of systems of violence and oppression that must be made visible. 

Rezaire invites us to read the motherboard not merely as hardware, but as the primordial terrain of consciousness. A cosmic matrix, where spiritual memory circulates like an electric current, where every being is a node in a vast relational network. In this sense, the technology of repair is our collective responsibility to restore the connection to lineage, to the earth, to the spirit. An invitation to reactivate channels of care, transmission, and embodied knowledge. 

The motherboard, as an epistemological practice and sacred interface—allows the material and the immaterial to meet, evoking repair and memory. 

Just as a damaged motherboard disrupts communication between components, the disconnection from ancestral knowledge fragments our internal systems. Repair, then, becomes a form of re-mothering: a return to the original source code stored in the collective memory. It is an act of listening to frequencies long silenced, kept alive in defiance by the guardians of traditions and communities of resistance.

The program brings together artists, creative technologists, curators, writers, and thinkers with contributions spanning various thematic constellations: from the spiritual and the mythical, to socio-technological infrastructures and (de)colonial logics, to speculative futures. Through these contributions, the program explores the potential to reshape how we think about human and non-human creativity, how we experience the convergence of art and technology, and how their imaginative possibilities can inspire new cultural practices and worlds. Curated by Joasia Krysa, Nuno Crespo, Daniel Ribas, and José Alberto Gomes

More information about the guest here.