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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/
11 April 2026
Condominium
(An Mirandés)
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.
June 2026
ATENÇÃO: A SUA RECEITA SERÁ TRANSMITIDA
A food performance and a podcast. A show for young audiences in co-creation with Joana Barrios, originally premiered and co-produced by Lu.Ca - Teatro Luís de Camões. Next iteration:
Teatro Municipal Constantino Nery
Matosinhos, Portugal
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September 2026
TRANSMISSION
After an introductory residency at O Espaço do Tempo (January 2026), TRANSMISSION wil have its first in-progress presentation in this year's Festival Paragem (Carvoeiro, Algarve, Portugal). With Daniela Morganiça, José Gregório Rojas and Mafalda Banquart.
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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
Apostasy (2028) • Transmission (2026-28) • Itinerary_geology of a homecoming (2025) • Multiversity: artistic research as an instrument of resistance (2025)
{with Susana Mendes Silva} • Condominium (An Mirandés) (2025-26) • Atenção: a sua receita será transmitida! (2025)
(with Joana Barrios) • Multiversity_Post-Production (2024) • SLURPS (2024)
(with Esitysteltta) • Condominium (2024-26) • FLOWERS! (2024)
(with Mafalda Banquart) • All alone ain't much fun so we're looking for the thrill (2023)
(with Susana Mendes Silva) • Performance Tent (2023)
(with Esitysteltta) • (Algumas) notas para a compreensão/desformatação da palestra-performance “Multiversidade” de Rogério Nuno Costa (2023)
(for UMBIGO) • [ ]
Nota (de rodapé) para a escrita de uma tese sobre “Multiversidade”, uma academia-enquanto-performance de Rogério Nuno Costa (2023)
(for Coreia) • Lamento Imenso_Helsinki (2023) • Retrospectiva (2023-26) • Lamento Imenso_PACTO (2022) • Vou A Tua Casa (de férias) (2022-24) • Lamento Imenso_Montemor-o-Velho (2022) • Le Cirque Catastrophique de Phia Ménard: contra-monumentalidade, anti-monumentalidade, para-monumentalidade" (2022)
(for Histórias da Dança) • Psychobiography of a Heroic Loser (2022) • Missed-en-Abîme (2021) • Multiversity (2021) • Sistema Infinitamente Imaterial (2020-25)
(for Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte) • A Terra do Não Retorno (2020)
(for Patrick Mendes) • Residência (Artística) (reenactment) (2020) • Consultório Turístico (2020)
(for prado) • Party (2019)
(with Estrutura) • Baile Brega + Lingua Franca (2019)
(for Forum Internacional de Gaia) • €UROTRA$H (2019)
(for Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte) • 1917 (2018) • LADO C (Performance e Intimidade) (2018) • The Academy As Performance (2018-20) • Røtten Aesth(Ethics) (2018)
(for ViCCA Journal) • UNFINISHED_Summer School (2018-19)
(for Armazém 22) • RECURSO (2018-24)
(for Estrutura) • F for Food (2018) • Aalto Multiversity (2018) • Maunula Looks (2017-18)
(with m-cult) • Para uma timeline a haver (2017)
(for Parasita) • Flanversa (2017)
(for Flanzine) • The Cookbook (2017) • NON-THINKING (2017) • GEOCIDE (2017)
(with Estrutura) • blindspot. (2017)
(with Neme Arranz Ruiz & Matti Tanskanen) • FATEBOOK, uma alucinação colectiva de Rogério Nuno Costa (2017)
(for Flanzine) • COPYWRONG (2016-18)
(with Daniel Pinheiro, Fátima São Simão & Teresa Nobre) • Nómadas no Baldio (2016)
(for Baldio, Seminário Nómada & ANDLAB) • The Tempest™, amusement park (2016) • A Seagull (2016)
(with Estrutura) • Myopia Is The New Utopia (2015)
(for Flanzine) • Super-Pop (2015)
(for Jo Castro) • MACHA (2015)
(for Mariana Tengner Barros) • Vernissage (2015)
(for António MV) • Thug Unicorn Anniversary Birthday Cake (2015)
(for Thug Unicorn) • A Guerra dos Mundos (2015) • Online Cooking (2015)
(for Daniel Pinheiro & Lisa Parra) • A Prison Without Walls (2015) • University_Yliopisto (2015-25) • Terceira Idade (2015) • A Dramaturgia Fora de Si (2015)
(with Ana Pais, Paula Caspão & Vera Mantero) • The Weather™ (2015)
(for Mariana Tengner Barros) • Finger Food (2015)
(for Retina) • La Mia Casa È La Tua Casa (2014)
(for velha-a-branca) • Why join the navy if we can be pirates? (2014)
(for E-Motional Re-thinking Dance) • EURODANCE (2014)
(for Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte) • Fome (2014)
(for Flanzine) • Perto... Tanto Quanto Possível (2014)
(for Jo Castro) • Looking Back To The Future (2014)
(with Joana von Mayer Trindade & Joclécio Azevedo) • SLEEPOVER (2014)
(for velha-a-branca) • #PiècedeRésistance (2014) • Eurø-Food (2014)
(for OGAE Portugal) • Ar do Tempo (2014)
(for Flanzine) • ® de Reunião (2014)
(for Baldio) • Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte (documentation projects) (2014-22) • Let It Rø (2013)
(for velha-a-branca) • Sleepwalkers (2013)
(for Patrick Mendes) • Cozinha Finna (2013)
(with Klaus Ittonen) • Fashion Food (2013)
(with Porto Fashion Makers & Jordann Santos) • Subterrâneos (2013)
(for NACO Oliveirinha) • Domínio Público (2013-14)
(for Fábrica de Movimentos) • €TRA$H (2013) • uma tarde (2013)
(with Susana Mendes Silva) • Hôte Cuisine (2013)
(for Baldio & Performance Studies International) • Terceira Via™ (2013) • Cuidados Intensivos (2013)
(for/with Joclécio Azevedo) • Dogma Kids (2013)
(with Cátia Pinheiro) • Tempestade [num copo d'água] (2013) • Consumo Obrigatório (2013)
(for G.A.T.A.) • F for Food (TEDx talk) (2013) • Post-Pop (2013)
(for Flávio Rodrigues) • Miku's Calaca (2012)
(for Jordann Santos) • ® [Marca Registada] (2012)
(for Circular Festival) • Azeitegeist (2012)
(for Teatro Praga) • Nem Carne Nem Peixe (2012)
(for G.A.T.A.) • Pop Rø (2012) • REALPOLITIK (2012)
(for CITAC) • Residência (Artística) (2012) • Let The 'Bite' Control Your Body (2012) • The Trap (2011)
(for Mariana Tengner Barros) • Chef Rø na Gralheira (2011) • As Bocas dos Mortos (2012)
(for Renata Portas) • Chef Rø de volta ao Minho (2011) • A generosidade na arte contemporânea (2010)
(with/for Nelson Guerreiro) • Nova Criação™ (2010)
(with/for Estrutura) • Chef Rø goes Alentejo (2010) • WTF? (2010)
(with Estrutura) • Noites Ruminantes (A Colecção Privada de Chef Rø + Food Must Be Beautiful + A Volta Ao Mundo Em 80 Minutos) (2010)
(for prado) • Do sensual absoluto e outras estéticas tecno-emocionais (2010)
(with Nuno Miguel) • Belo Cirúrgico (2010)
(with/for BELA TV) • Big Curator Is Watching YOU! (2010) • Buffet Micro-Biológico (2010)
(with prado) • Summer Love Liqueur (2010)
(for Teatro Praga) • Amigos Coloridos (2010)
(for prado) • Auto Rádio Alkantara (2010)
(for prado) • Arte Da Mangiare (2010) • Selecção Nacional (2010)
(for Académico de Torres Vedras) • Restos, Rastos & Traços (2010)
(for/with Atelier Real) • Bollyfood (2010)
(for Teatro Praga) • To Have And Not To Hold (2009)
(for Ana Cardim) • Educação Artística (2009) • Um Capucho, Um Lobo E Um Porco Vezes Três (2009)
(with Sónia Baptista) • MASHUP (2009)
(for Académico de Torres Vedras) • Vice-Royale. Vain-Royale. Vile-Royale (2009)
(with Sónia Baptista) • The Curator's School (2008) • Espectáculo de Teatro (2008) • The Curator's House (2008) • Turbo-Folk (2008)
(for Teatro Praga) • Hamlet Sou Eu (2008)
(with Teatro Praga) • Cha Cha Cha (2007)
(for Cão Solteiro) • A Última Ceia (2007)
(with Mónica Calle) • The Curator's Office (2007) • Final Presentation (2007) • O Avarento, ou a última festa (2007)
(with Teatro Praga) • It (2007)
(with Teresa Prima & Maria Lemos) • Vou À Tua Mesa (2007-11) • Sonho de uma Noite de Inverno (2007)
(for Toque de Saída) • Casa Cena (2006)
(for Cão Solteiro) • Vou A Tua Casa: Outside Home Version (2006) • Showcase/Avaliação Final (2006) • A Oportunidade do Espectador (2006-10) • Life-Zone (2006)
(with Teresa Prima & Maria Lemos) • Vou A Tua Casa - Projecto de Documentação (2006-07) • Vou A Tua Casa - LADO C (2006) • Subwoofer (2006)
(with Sónia Baptista) • As Parasitas em Kortrijk (2006)
(with Patrícia Portela & Sónia Baptista) • FUI, esboço plástico (2006) • Documented (2006)
(with Miguel Bonneville) • FUI, sketch #6 (+ #4, + #5) (2005-06) • FUI, versão torres vedras (2005) • Eurovision (2005)
(for Teatro Praga) • Dogma 2005 (2005) • FUI, sketch #7 (2005) • FUI, sketch #3 (2005) • Vaivém, a história verdadeira de um projecto transdisciplinar (2005)
(with Nelson Guerreiro & CITEC) • A 26 de Abril (2005)
(for Animares) • No Caminho/Final Cut (2005) • FUI, sketch #2 (2005) • FUI, sketch #1 (2005) • Objecto Sensível (em 9 partes) (2004)
(for Artinsite) • No Caminho (2004) • Copo d'Água (2004)
(with João Garcia Miguel & Nelson Guerreiro) • Pictures At An Exhibition (2004)
(with Teatro Universitário do Minho) • ACTOR (2004) • Vou A Tua Casa/Director's Cut (2004) • The Final Countdown (2004) • Vou A Tua Casa (blog) (2004-14) • Utopia (2004)
(for centro em movimento) • God Knows What! (2003)
(with Marina Nabais) • Cash & Carry (2003)
(for DIF) • A8/Artes em Curso (2003)
(for Transforma AC) • Saudades Do Tempo Em Que Se Dizia Texto (2003) • Vou A Tua Casa (2003) • Capriiiiicho! (2003)
(with Lúcia Sigalho/Sensurround) • O Cerejal – materiais de trabalho (2003)
(with Lúcia Sigalho/Sensurround) • Azul, o som da noite (2003)
(with Sofia Neuparth/centro em movimento) • Carne (2003)
(for John Romão) • OPHELIA (2002)
(with Marina Nabais) • A Leitura Encenada É Um Género Que Não Faz O Meu Género (2002) • Sérénité des Impasses (26 sorties du sens atteint) (2002)
(with Alain Béhar) • Boomerang Sound (2002)
(for Optimus) • O Jardim das Delícias (2002)
(with Marina Nabais, for Teatro Universitário do Minho) • Barthes & Mandrake (2001)
(with Rosa Coutinho Cabral) • Viagem À Grécia (fragmentos e Antígona) (2001)
(with Lúcia Sigalho/Sensurround) • A Cabeça do Escritor (2001)
(with Hugo Mestre Amaro) • Dedicatórias (2000)
(with Lúcia Sigalho/Sensurround) • Eu-Mesmo (2000)
(with João Cabral/Grupo de Teatro do ISCSP) • Megastore (2000)
(with João Cabral & Rosa Coutinho Cabral) • O Fatalista (1999)
(with Rosa Coutinho Cabral) • Tranglomanglo (1999)
(with João Cabral/Grupo de Teatro do ISCSP)