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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/
26-27 June 2025
Condominium
(Podcast)
Mirandese edition of the meeting-as-performance series Condominium, the first to delve into notions of isolation, affiliation and hospitality within the context of cross-border regions where minority/endangered languages are spoken. In collaboration with Rota do Sentir/Rota Clandestina, AEPGA, Município de Miranda do Douro and Agrupamento de Escolas de Miranda do Douro. The project comprises a podcast and a community theatre performance, set to premiere in November 2025.
4 July 2025
MULTIVERSITY: Artistic research as an instrument of resistance
(with Susana Mendes Silva)
Paper and lecture-performance for the international conference
States Of The Art '25 - Where is it (going)?,
art-based research encounters organised by University of Coimbra's Colégio das Artes.
October/November 2025
ITINERARY: geology of a homecoming
Final phase of the art/science project initiated in 2023 within
STAGES - Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift. The performance will have its first premiere in Sala Estúdio Valentim de Barros in Lisbon (PT). Coproduction: Teatro Nacional D. Maria II.
ONGOING//
2023-2026
Retrospectiva
Four-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).
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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
Greatest Hits
Itinerary_geology of a homecoming (2025) • Multiversity: artistic research as an instrument of resistance (2025) • Condominium_An Mirandés (2025) • Atenção: a sua receita será transmitida! (2025) • Multiversity_Post-Production (2024) • SLURPS (2024) • Condominium (2024-26) • FLOWERS! (2024) • All alone ain't much fun so we're looking for the thrill (2023) • Performance Tent (2023) • UMBIGO (2023) • Coreia (2013) • Lamento Imenso_Helsinki (2023) • Retrospectiva (2023-26) • STAGES (2023-25) • Lamento Imenso_PACTO (2022) • Vou A Tua Casa (de férias) (2022-24) • Lamento Imenso_Montemor-o-Velho (2022) • Le Cirque Catastrophique (2022) • Psychobiography of a Heroic Loser (2022) • Missed-en-Abîme (2021) • Multiversity (2021) • Sistema Infinitamente Imaterial (2020-25) • A Terra do Não Retorno (2020) • Residência (Artística) (reenactment) (2020) • Consultório Turístico (2020) • Party (2019) • Baile Brega + Lingua Franca (2019) • €UROTRA$H (2019) • 1917 (2018) • LADO C (Performance e Intimidade) (2018) • The Academy As Performance (2018-20) • Røtten Aesth(Ethics) (2018) • UNFINISHED_Summer School (2018-19) • RECURSO (2018-24) • F for Food (2018) • Aalto Multiversity (2018) • Maunula Looks (2017-18) • Para uma timeline a haver (2017) • Flanversa (2017) • The Cookbook (2017) • NON-THINKING (2017) • GEOCIDE (2017) • blindspot. (2017) • FATEBOOK, uma alucinação colectiva de Rogério Nuno Costa (2017) • COPYWRONG (2016-18) • Nómadas no Baldio (2016) • The Tempest™, amusement park (2016) • A Seagull (2016) • Myopia Is The New Utopia (2015) • Super-Pop (2015) • MACHA (2015) • Vernissage (2015) • Thug Unicorn (2015) • A Guerra dos Mundos (2015) • Online Cooking (2015) • A Prison Without Walls (2015) • University_Yliopisto (2015-25) • Terceira Idade (2015) • A Dramaturgia Fora de Si (2015) • The Weather™ (2015) • Finger Food (2015) • La Mia Casa È La Tua Casa (2014) • Why join the navy if we can be pirates? (2014) • EURODANCE (2014) • Fome (2014) • Perto... Tanto Quanto Possível (2014) • Looking Back To The Future (2014) • SLEEPOVER (2014) • #PiècedeRésistance (2014) • Eurø-Food (2014) • Ar do Tempo (2014) • ® de Reunião (2014) • Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte (documentation projects) (2014-22) • Let It Rø (2013) • Sleepwalkers (2013) • Cozinha Finna (2013) • Fashion Food (2013) • Subterrâneos (2013) • Domínio Público (2013-14) • €TRA$H (2013) • uma tarde (2013) • Hôte Cuisine (2013) • Terceira Via™ (2013) • Cuidados Intensivos (2013) • Dogma Kids (2013) • Tempestade [num copo d'água] (2013) • Consumo Obrigatório (2013) • F for Food (TEDx talk) (2013) • Post-Pop (2013) • Miku's Calaca (2012) • ® [Marca Registada] (2012) • Azeitegeist (2012) • Nem Carne Nem Peixe (2012) • Pop Rø (2012) • REALPOLITIK (2012) • Residência (Artística) (2012) • Let The 'Bite' Control Your Body (2012) • The Trap (2011) • Chef Rø na Gralheira (2011) • As Bocas dos Mortos (2012) • Chef Rø de volta ao Minho (2011) • A generosidade na arte contemporânea (2010) • Nova Criação™ (2010) • Chef Rø goes Alentejo (2010) • WTF? (2010) • Noites Ruminantes (A Colecção Privada de Chef Rø + Food Must Be Beautiful + A Volta Ao Mundo Em 80 Minutos) (2010) • Do sensual absoluto e outras estéticas tecno-emocionais (2010) • Belo Cirúrgico (2010) • Big Curator Is Watching YOU! (2010) • Buffet Micro-Biológico (2010) • Summer Love Liqueur (2010) • Amigos Coloridos (2010) • Auto Rádio Alkantara (2010) • Arte Da Mangiare (2010) • Selecção Nacional (2010) • Restos, Rastos & Traços (2010) • Bollyfood (2010) • To Have And Not To Hold (2009) • Educação Artística (2009) • Um Capucho, Um Lobo E Um Porco Vezes Três (2009) • MASHUP (2009) • Vice-Royale. Vain-Royale. Vile-Royale (2009) • The Curator's School (2008) • Espectáculo de Teatro (2008) • The Curator's House (2008) • Turbo-Folk (2008) • Hamlet Sou Eu (2008) • Cha Cha Cha (2007) • A Última Ceia (2007) • The Curator's Office (2007) • Final Presentation (2007) • O Avarento, ou a última festa (2007) • It (2007) • Vou À Tua Mesa (2007-11) • Sonho de uma Noite de Inverno (2007) • Casa Cena (2006) • Vou A Tua Casa: Outside Home Version (2006) • Showcase/Avaliação Final (2006) • A Oportunidade do Espectador (2006-10) • Life-Zone (2006) • Vou A Tua Casa - Projecto de Documentação (2006-07) • Vou A Tua Casa - LADO C (2006) • Subwoofer (2006) • As Parasitas em Kortrijk (2006) • FUI, esboço plástico (2006) • Documented (2006) • FUI, sketch #6 (+ #4, + #5) (2005-06) • FUI, versão torres vedras (2005) • Eurovision (2005) • Dogma 2005 (2005) • FUI, sketch #7 (2005) • FUI, sketch #3 (2005) • Vaivém, a história verdadeira de um projecto transdisciplinar (2005) • A 26 de Abril (2005) • No Caminho/Final Cut (2005) • FUI, sketch #2 (2005) • FUI, sketch #1 (2005) • Objecto Sensível (em 9 partes) (2004) • No Caminho (2004) • Copo d'Água (2004) • Pictures At An Exhibition (2004) • ACTOR (2004) • Vou A Tua Casa/Director's Cut (2004) • The Final Countdown (2004) • Vou A Tua Casa (blog) (2004-14) • Utopia (2004) • God Knows What! (2003) • Cash & Carry (2003) • A8/Artes em Curso (2003) • Saudades Do Tempo Em Que Se Dizia Texto (2003) • Vou A Tua Casa (2003) • Capriiiiicho! (2003) • O Cerejal – materiais de trabalho (2003) • Azul, o som da noite (2003) • Carne (2003) • OPHELIA (2002) • A Leitura Encenada É Um Género Que Não Faz O Meu Género (2002) • Sérénité des Impasses (26 sorties du sens atteint) (2002) • Optimus Boomerang (2002) • O Jardim das Delícias (2002) • Barthes & Mandrake (2001) • Viagem À Grécia (fragmentos e Antígona) (2001) • A Cabeça do Escritor (2001) • Dedicatórias (2000) • Eu-Mesmo (2000) • Megastore (2000) • O Fatalista (1999) • Tranglomanglo (1999)