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MALACATE is a multidisciplinary project for artistic intervention, created specifically for the São Domingos Mine. It aims to become a biennial event, which is embodied in a wide range of artistic creation and cultural programming initiatives, supported by a large community mediation process. Against the backdrop of a place with a striking past of mining, as evidenced by the industrial building of impressive aesthetic value that still exists, MALACATE will be the vector of contemporary and innovative artistic work, which will emerge from the contact between locals and a community of national and international artists. It is intended that the former industrial space of the S. Domingos Mine becomes an open-air performative gallery that, like its malacate - an industrial lifting equipment from the interior of deep explorations - creates links between the mine and the exterior, between the past and the present, between the real and the fiction.