Nuno Silas is interested in listening to and experimenting with sound archives and other missing visual sonorous forms linked with the movement of resistance and Cold War migrations of Mozambican people to the GDR. The Listening Session delves into the histories of the everyday lives of the Mozambican and diaspora communities in postcolonial times.

Nuno Silas is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher focusing on curating performance art. He is a PhD candidate in History and Philosophy of Science, at the University of Évora, IHC (Institute for Contemporary History) hub and at the University of Leipzig. Silas attended the MA programme in African Verbal and Visual Arts at the University of Bayreuth (UB). At UB, he collaborated on research projects, such as ‘Black Atlantic Revisited – African and South American UNESCO – World Heritage Sites’ and ‘“Shadowed Spaces” of Performative Memory’ and ‘Multiple Artworks – Multiple Indian Ocean’. Currently, he is curator and artistic director of the project 'Black Skin, White Masks: The Black Body in Presence' at Galerias Municipais (EGEAC, Lisbon) and curator of the exhibition project Memórias Difíceis e Descolonização in Portugal (Difficult Memories and Decolonization in Portugal), organized by Plano Nacional das Artes (PNA), Lisbon in collaboration with Paulo Freire Institute Berlin, and Goethe Institute Lisbon.