The AND Lab Space

AND Lab Space has an office with 50m2 and a studio/multifunctional open space with 73,13m2. It is located in Cabo Ruivo, an industrial area of the city of Lisbon, in the Expresso, an once-refurbished building that, rehabilitated, constitutes itself as a new creative cluster of the city, gathering several artistic creation and training initiatives and structures.

Besides housing our regular and already consolidated programming, we wish that our new headquarters space can become a point of convergence open to the welcoming of difference and initiatives at risk of rarefaction for lack of space in a city plagued by real estate speculation, constituting itself as a place for encounter and re-union for the diversity of Portuguese and foreigners artists and cultural agents living in or passing through Lisbon.

A space-breach dedicated to collectivize the act of research-creation, making it coincident with the acts of living-dwelling and relating-performing.

A space for the in-between - the reciprocal sustainment of one another, in community - in which we can exercise, by frequenting, listening and sharing, ways of tuning in/with the difference and ways for collaboration that do not depend on identification or agreement, nurturing, together, possibilities for remaking sensibilities and worlds.

Throughout its trajectory of more than ten years of existence in Lisbon, the AND Lab has inhabited for a long time an office/warehouse of approximately 5m2, which did not allow us to unfold this dream of establishing community by sharing a territory, because it was too small even for our own activities, which had to be itinerant and hosted by other structures in the city. In this period, even facing precarious conditions, we managed to establish a network in other countries in Europe and South America and consolidate a solid work of artistic research on the politics of togetherness, which had already been accumulating experience and weaving networks for almost two decades, between Brazil and Portugal.

The conquest of our new space, inaugurated in May 2023, marks another fold in the living field of the political-affective struggles we have inhabited and in our trajectory of persistence, allowing us to establish our own territory in the landscape of the city of Lisbon and, thus, unfold our vocation to make common from the constitution of an interval space, based on the "in-between", which stands as an instance of experimentation and re-imagination of what we want and can as communities.

AND Lab Space

Av. Infante Dom Henrique 334, Expresso Building, 3rd floor, rooms 3.08-09-10, 1800-224 Lisboa, Portugal

References:

White building with blue windows facing the street. Enter the parking lot (gate with yellow pillars), turn left and follow it to the bottom. The door to the Expresso building is on the left.

Transportation:

Metro Red Line - Cabo Ruivo Station (5 min walk).

Buses 750 and 782

Oriente Station (10 min walk)

Free parking at the door

Accessibility:

The AND Lab Space will feature elevators, which are currently under construction, so it is not yet accessible to people in wheelchairs. We will do everything possible to overcome this situation as soon as possible.

Facilities:

The AND Lab Space has an office with 50m2, a studio with 73m2, a pantry equipped with a refrigerator, microwave, kettle, coffee pot and plates, glasses and cutlery.

Internet wi-fi

Bathrooms (in the access corridor)

Use of the space:

Staying in the space must stick to the times previously agreed upon with production.

The three keys (gate and door to the street and entrance door to the space) must be returned after use.

The space must be returned clean and in immediate useable condition by the following users.

Smoking is not permitted inside the building.

No street shoes are allowed to be worn in the studio.