Lisbon · 2012 · public art / film record

CAFUKAURB.12

Two public-space interventions by São Toméan artists at Lisbon's Martim Moniz, reconstructed from the fragments that still survive online. The film is one of those fragments.

CAFUKA URB12 HDVimeo / 55572166

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Archive note

Public art in Martim Moniz.

Contemporary sources confirm that Plataforma CAFUKA carried out a project called Integração URB.12 at Praça do Martim Moniz and that artist Valdemar Dória participated in two separately numbered URB.12 interventions in 2012. What the surviving public record does not currently preserve is the exact day of each intervention, a complete participant list for each one, or the original Facebook photo albums. Those gaps are kept visible here.

Documented Strong inference Archive gap

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The two interventions

One project.
Two passes through public space.

URB.12 / 01

First intervention

2012 · exact day unresolved

Documented: Valdemar Dória's exhibition history lists “URB.12 - 1ª Intervenção - Urban Art - Cafuka intervem em espaço público.” A contemporary Mercado de Fusão programme identifies the larger Integração URB.12 project at Martim Moniz, where CAFUKA took over platforms made from recycled materials, adding colour and new work.

Reconstruction: the intervention belongs to the first year of the redesigned Martim Moniz / Mercado de Fusão. The square reopened in June 2012, which gives the project a useful temporal anchor, but no source recovered so far proves that URB.12 #1 happened on opening day.

Primary trace: Valdemar Dória CV

URB.12 / 02

Second intervention

2012 · exact day unresolved

Documented: the same CV separately lists “URB.12 - 2ª Intervenção - Urban Art.” By 1 February 2013, Martim Moniz programming described large bamboo structures planted in concrete rings with an artistic intervention by Plataforma Cafuka, alongside warm suspended fabrics that created shade.

Strong inference: this early-2013 installation is likely evidence of the late URB.12 layer or its immediate continuation, but the surviving article does not call it “intervention #2.” A 2015 CAFUKA notice later described that year's work as its fifth consecutive intervention in Martim Moniz since 2012. Two actions in 2012 followed by 2013, 2014 and 2015 is consistent with that count.

Surviving installation trace

23 JUL 2011

URB.11 precursor

Six artists intervene in Odivelas using recycled material. The project explicitly calls for drawings, photographs and video to document the full process.

2012

URB.12 × 2

Valdemar Dória's record preserves two separately numbered interventions. Martim Moniz programming preserves the project name and its recycled-material platforms.

01 FEB 2013

Work remains visible

CAFUKA-treated concrete rings, bamboo and suspended fabrics are described as part of the Mercado de Fusão environment.

31 OCT 2015

Fifth intervention

CAFUKA calls Martim Moniz a laboratory for its socio-artistic research since 2012 and returns for a fifth consecutive intervention.

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Artists

Artists and participants.

Confirmed in both numbered URB.12 entries

Valdemar Dória

Dória's own published exhibition history is the source that preserves URB.12 as two distinct 2012 interventions. A later CAFUKA-supplied biography identifies him as a founding member of the association.

Core CAFUKA / URB context · participation in both 2012 actions not individually proven

01Eduardo MaléURB.11 core artist

02Estanislau NetoURB.11 core · later Martim Moniz participant

03Ismaël SequeiraURB.11 core · CAFUKA coordinator / later participant

04Litos SilvaURB.11 core artist

05René TavaresURB.11 core artist

06Valdemar DóriaURB.11 core · URB.12 confirmed

The URB.11 artist group included Eduardo Malé, Estanislau Neto, Ismaël Sequeira, Litos Silva, René Tavares and Valdemar Dória. The surviving records specifically place Dória in both 2012 URB.12 interventions.

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The film

The camera became part of the archive.

Film credit

Film by
Kris Haamer

The surviving CAFUKA URB.12 film is credited to Kris Haamer. Its original detailed production credits have not yet been recovered.

CAFUKA URB12 HD survives as Vimeo video 55572166. Visit São Tomé also indexed the film in its Arts and Artists video catalogue, which means the piece escaped its original account and became part of the web's wider documentation of São Toméan art.

CAFUKA also appears in a later Haamer Ventures portfolio. The original call sheets and detailed film credits remain to be located.

Preserve the uncertainty too. It is part of the provenance.

Watch the surviving film
Visit São Tomé index trace

04 · Missing Facebook layer

Photographs and records.

The 2012 interventions were photographed, with material previously shared through Mercado de Fusão. The original photo albums are currently missing from the public archive.

Old Mercado de Fusão Facebook page

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Source trail

Sources and records.

01Valdemar Dória exhibition historyTwo URB.12 interventions · 2012 02Mercado de Fusão / Martim Moniz programmeIntegração URB.12 · recycled platforms 03Mercado de Fusão, February 2013Bamboo · concrete rings · CAFUKA intervention 04Téla Nón / CAFUKA, 2015Fifth consecutive Martim Moniz intervention since 2012 05Téla Nón, URB.11 precursorNamed six-artist group · documentation method 06Visit São Tomé video catalogueCAFUKA URB12HD survives in the art index 07CAFUKA URB12 HDSurviving film record