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I am a live artist, performer, theatre director, choreographer, writer, researcher, pedagogue and curator. I live and work between Portugal and Finland, developing para-artistic work of a hybrid and cross-disciplinary nature. My pieces explore and problematize the fields of performing arts, documentary practices and literature at their intersections with philosophy, art theory, pop culture and communication sciences. With an academic background in the fields of Social Sciences, Journalism, Contemporary Art History, Visual Culture and New Media, my artistic practice-as-research is that of a "participant observer", investigating Art making and its various operations through an experimental, autoethnographic and queer lens. I do research in collaboration with the Performance Studies Research Group at the Centre for Humanistic Studies (University of Minho, Portugal) and the Spaces of Artist Education (Society for Artistic Research). I am currently an associated artist at O Espaço do Tempo (Portugal) and a member of Globe Art Point (Finland). Guest artist-researcher at STAGES - Sustainable Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift. Apart from my own work, I have been writing and directing theatre/dance/live art performances for other artists and companies, also playing the roles of dramaturgist, artistic consultant and editor. Starting in 1999, my work has already been shown in Portugal, France, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, Finland, Romania, Sweden, Brazil, USA and Canada. More:
UPCOMING/
10-15 September 2024
Vou A Tua Casa (de férias)
I go yo your (holiday) house
Special (summer vacation) version of Vou A Tua Casa for Festival Paragem (Carvoeiro, Algarve, Portugal) in collaboration with Jani Nummela. Domestic performance written and performed by Rogério Nuno Costa in collaboration with guest artists and audience. Intervention included in the macro-project RETROSPECTIVA. Real-time documentation in the blog:
September 2024
MULTIVERSITY
YearFour _ Post-Production
Meta-academic project coordinated and curated by Rogério Nuno Costa, comprising experimental laboratories, lecture-performances, publications and the building of a temporary, precarious and peripatetic multi/versity. The project's final #YearFour_Post-Production initiated in two residencies at O Espaço do Tempo (2023-24) and will resume within the 10th edition of Circular - Festival de Artes Performativas de Vila do Conde (co-producer) with two interventions taking place at Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design:
I.
For the writing of an academy as performance
Experimental laboratory
25-26-27 September, 14:00-19:00
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Multiversity
Lecture-performance
28 September, 16:00-17:15
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MULTIVERSITY™
2025
BILINGUE | KAKSIKIELINEN
New multidisciplinary theatre/performance piece to be devised in collaboration with
Recover Laboratory (FI) with José Maria Vieira Mendes' play "Bilingue" as a starting point. Start-off residency at
O Espaço do Tempo in January/February 2025. Premiere dates to be announced...
ONGOING//
2023-2025
RETROSPECTIVA
Three-year project that marks, in a more critical than celebratory manner, the 20th anniversary since the premiere of Rogério Nuno Costa's tryptic of performances for domestic spaces
Vou A Tua Casa (2003), as well as the educational, curatorial, academic and gastronomic projects that followed. The program includes reenactments, experimental laboratories, artist talks, the publication of two books and a new series of 3 performance pieces, created and presented on/for the theatre's stage.
2023 - 2025
STAGES - Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift
EU-funded collaborative project on the intersections of art, science, technology and environment, aimed to germinate ideas for a sustainable future within the performing arts field. Guest artist Rogério Nuno Costa (invited by Portugal's partner Teatro Nacional D. Maria II) teamed with researchers Aida Castro, Manuel Bogalheiro, Alexandra Polido and Sara Moreno Pires for the production of an experimental lecture-performance titled "Theatre, Place and Ubiquity". Two public presentations (open labs) took place in Teatro Jordão (April 2023) and Centro de Artes de Águeda (January 2024). The project will conclude in 2025 with a performance production to be premiered in Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisbon, PT).
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Multiversity™
Since 2021,
Multiversity™ has been serving as the accompanying lecture-performance of the meta-academic project
University|Yliopisto (2015-2025). Starting next year, Multiversity™ will mutate into a broader cross-disciplinary research platform which will exist alongside an experimental publication. More soon!
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2021-2022
Psicobiografia de um Herói Perdedor (Psychobiography of a Heroic Loser)
Concept book that accompanies the performance/installation Missed-en-Abîme. Experimental essays, poems, short stories and visual works by Ana Rito & Hugo Barata, António Olaio, Colectivo FACA, David Pissarra, Eduarda Neves, Graça dos Santos, João Pedro Azul and Rogério Nuno Costa. Photos by Miguel Refresco and Alípio Padilha. Design & Illustration by Jani Nummela. Cover by Luís Lázaro Matos.
The book is currently for sale only at Serralves Museum bookstore (Porto, PT).
Chef Rø
Cooking, eating and sharing food is forever! Chef Rø is preparing a special project for 2025/26. Stay tuned, well fed and hydrated. It's gonna be huge! In the meantime:
Punchlines
Aesth(Ethics)
The text "All alone ain't much fun so you're looking for the thrill", co-written with Susana Mendes Silva, has been published in the book "Artes Performativas e Intimidade" by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra (Coleção Olhares). (2023)
My text "(Some) notes to understand/unpick the lecture-performance Multiversity by Rogério Nuno Costa" is published in the issue #84 of art magazine UMBIGO. Illustrated by Jani Nummela. (2023)
My experimental essay "[ ] (Foot)notes for the writing of thesis about Multiversity, an academy-as-performance by Rogério Nuno Costa" is published in the 8th edition of Coreia newspaper. (2023)
A conversation with artist Susana Mendes Silva around my work "Lamento Imenso" is featured in the exhibition catalogue "Pacto", published by Câmara Municipal de Almada. (2022)
My text "Phia Ménard's Le Cirque Catastrophique: Counter-monumentality, anti-monumentality, para-monumentality" is bilingually published in Teatro Municipal do Porto's "Cadernos do Rivoli 10". (2022)
Missed-en-Abîme's (hyper-)text has been fully published in the book "Festival END, Festival de Novas Dramaturgias (5.ª Edição)", produced by Colectivo 84. (2021)jfjfjfjfgjfjfjf
Interview for Flanzine, conducted by João Pedro Azul. Photographed by Luísa Cativo. (2017) Paragraph
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