BACKGROUND→ The ill‑fated episode took place on 3 August 1968, during a routine pedicure session, on a sunny holiday morning in Estoril. The accident would bring the dictator ailments from which he would never recover; he was replaced by Marcelo Caetano, and in 1974 the regime finally collapsed with the Carnation Revolution. ¶ However, in memory of such a noble resting place, we should take one lesson: stop waiting for chairs to fall on their own. We invite you to reflect on the obstacles that stand in the way of the dream of a free and tolerant Portugal; to define the fear that most threatens you; to get rid of it; to sit it on a chair, and then to throw it to the ground.

YOUR CHAIR→ Bring your chair. Or make your chair. ¶ Personalise, paint, build the chair in which you would like that fear to sit. It can be any kind of chair: meta‑chair, hyper‑chair, post‑chair, non‑chair, and of course, proper-chair. Or represent your chair: on paper, or multimedia, or in a performative way, or in any other form. ¶ We intend to put on an exhibition to mark this unusual anniversary, and we would like you to take part.

THE PROCESSION/CHAIR DANCE→ Furthermore, in the contemporary world, so marked by unfair competition, by the humiliating servitude we pay to the illusion of life imposed upon us — is not the way we relate socially akin to a game of musical chairs, where he‑who‑goes‑up‑in‑the‑air‑loses‑his‑place, and solidarity, understanding and tolerance we‑shall‑see‑about‑that? ¶ We want to create a choreography, a performance, a moving image that translates this idea. Perhaps then we might discover how to escape it, or how to resolve the game of chairs: there is room for all of us! Chairs for everyone now!