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Starting in 1999, my work has already been shown in Portugal, France, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, Finland, Romania, USA and Canada, with the support of the following cultural and academic institutions and performing arts festivals:


PORTUGAL

A Sala . Académico de Torres Vedras . Alkantara Festival . Armazém 22 . Armazém do Ferro . Atelier Real . Auditório Municipal de Vila do Conde . Baldio . Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte . Binaural . CAAA . Câmara Municipal de Lisboa . CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva . Cão Solteiro . Casa Conveniente . Casa da Memória . Casa dos Dias da Água . Censura Prévia . Centro em Movimento . Centro Cultural de Belém . Centro Cultural Vila Flor . Chão de Oliva . Cineteatro António Lamoso . Circular - Festival de Artes Performativas de Vila do Conde . CITAC . Companhia de Dança Contemporânea de Évora . Companhia de Teatro de Braga . Companhia de Teatro Sensurround . Contagiarte . Culturgest . desNORTE . DeVIR/CAPa . EIRA . Escola de Artes Performativas da Jobra . Escola de Hotelaria de Coimbra . Escola Superior de Artes e Design (Caldas da Rainha) . Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema . ESMAE . Estrutura . Fábrica de Movimentos . Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra . Festival A8 . Festival Citemor . Festival Contradança . Festival Encontrarte . Festival END . Festival LUPA . Festival Periferias . Festival Política . Festival Sonda . Festival Temps d'Images . Festival X . Festival Y . Flanzine . Fórum Dança . Fórum Internacional de Gaia . Future Places . Fórum Municipal Romeu Correia . gnration . Goethe Institut (Lissabon) . Incubadora de Moda & Design (Fábrica de Santo Thyrso) . mala voadora . Maus Hábitos . MUDAS - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira . Museu Coleção Berardo . Museu dos Biscainhos . Museu Nogueira da Silva . Núcleo de Experimentação Coreográfica . O Espaço do Tempo . O Rumo do Fumo . OLHO . Parasita . Pavilhão da Ciência . Porta33 . prado . Quarta Parede . Reservatório da Patriarcal . Retina . Revista UMBIGO . Rua das Gaivotas 6 . Serralves Museu de Arte Contemporânea . Solar - Galeria de Arte Cinemática . Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras . Teatro Académico Gil Vicente . Teatro das Figuras . Teatro Feiticeiro do Norte . Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde . Teatro Municipal do Porto . Rivoli . Campo Alegre . Teatro da Barraca . Teatro da Comuna . Teatro Jordão . Teatro Municipal Maria Matos . Teatro Nacional D. Maria II . Teatro Nacional de São João . Teatro Oficina . Teatro Praga . Teatro Sá da Bandeira . Teatro Taborda . Teatro Universitário do Minho . Teatro Viriato . TEDx Guimarães . Theatro Circo . Transforma . Universidade de Coimbra . Universidade do Minho . UPTEC - Pólo das Indústrias Criativas . velha-a-branca


FINLAND

Aalto University . Kaapelitehdas . Là-Bas . m-cult . Museum of Impossible Forms . Otaniemi Free Space . Partizaning Artist Group . Ravintolapäivä . Stop Deportations


FRANCE

Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris . Festival Latitudes Contemporaines . Parfums de Lisbonne . Université Paris Nanterre


ROMANIA

Gabriela Tudor Foundation . ODD Gallery . Modulab . ZonaD Dancelabs


UK

[msdm] . Blue Elephant Theatre . Festival Welcome Goodbye . New Territories Festival . Postscript Festival


GERMANY

Dance Kiosk . Kampnagel . Tanzfabrik


THE NETHERLANDS

ArtEZ - University of the Arts (Arnhem)


BELGIUM

Fresh Festival/Kunstencentrum BUDA, WP Zimmer


CANADA

Creative Commons Global Summit (Toronto)


CROATIA

Zagreb's Dance Week Festival


USA

Grace Exhibition Space


MULTINATIONAL

Advancing Performing Arts Project . E-Motional | Re-thinking Dance . Nomad Dance Academy . International Young Makers in Transit . STAGES - Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift . Transart


Bio

Rogério Nuno Costa


PT . FI


I'm a Portuguese performance artist, theatre director, actor, dramaturgist, researcher, teacher, curator and writer based in Helsinki, Finland. My work revolves around the tensions between Art and Communication, Literature and Journalism, Performance and Documentation. My main artistic interests lie on the by-products of art making rather than Art as such, suggesting performative/ephemeral actions that are made available through archival and other documental operations. My performances, lectures, installations and publications explore the fields of theatre, dance, visual arts and literature, taking place (and time) in both public and private contexts, interconnecting popular and erudite culture, autobiographical discourses, science (and pseudo-science) fiction, and post-communicational strategies (guerrilla advertising, conceptual propaganda, piracy).

Holding a BA in Communication Sciences, I have expanded my studies within the fields of Contemporary Art History and Contemporary Culture & New Technologies at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). Currently I'm doing inter-disciplinary research within the frame of Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art at Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Finland), developing a series of meta-pedagogical activities concerning my cross-disciplinary project Multiversity. (lecture-performance, seminar and publication). Additionally, I'm a member of the Performance Studies Research Group at CEHUM (University of Minho, Portugal).


Active collaborator of Estrutura, theatre company directed by Cátia Pinheiro and José Nunes (Porto), where I often take the roles of artistic consultant, dramaturgist, co-director and performer. Since 2015, I have been leading the documentation management (archival and editorial direction) at Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, Portuguese contemporary dance company where I am also an Associated Artist. I have been curating educational and performing art programs for Armazém 22 and Forum Internacional de Gaia (Portugal), as well as the annual dance program €UROTRA$H and the book Sistema Infinitamente Imaterial for Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte.


I often write for art publications and participate in lectures and talks, mainly about the politics of intimacy and autobiographical narratives in performance art. Various publications and other editorial projects include the catalogues Documentation Project and Big Curator Is Watching You!, both about my own artistic and research practices. My work has also been featured in the following publications: Artinsite, Flanzine, Cadernos da Dança, Intermagazine, Retina, A Sala, Gerador and Sinais de Cena; as well as the catalogues Garbage Pin Project (Ana Cardim), Cuidados Intensivos (Joclécio Azevedo) and Re-Thinking Dance (E-motional). Recently, I have contributed with the essay "Le Cirque Catastrophique: counter-, anti-, para-monumentality in the work of Phia Ménard" for the project Histories of Dance (Teatro Municipal do Porto . Rivoli . Campo Alegre).


I have been teaching, lecturing and directing workshops, seminars and masterclasses in academic institutions such as Escola Superior de Artes e Design (Caldas da Rainha), Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon), Faculdade de Belas Artes (Lisbon), ArtEZ University of the Arts (Arnhem, The Netherlands) and Faculdade de Letras (Coimbra), as well as independent art schools: Centro em Movimento (Lisbon) and Recurso (Porto). Currently teaching a Performance Art course within the BA in Theatre at Universidade do Minho (Guimarães, Portugal). I am also one of the Advisors for the ongoing Major and Doctoral projects at Transart Institute (Berlin & New York).


Apart from my own performance work, I have been writing and directing theatre and dance performances for other artists and companies, also playing the roles of dramaturgist, artistic consultant and editor. I have worked as performer, actor and dancer in various theatre, dance, film and performance art projects directed by Lúcia Sigalho, Teatro Praga, Rosa Coutinho Cabral, Teresa Prima, Mariana Tengner Barros, Susana Mendes Silva, João Cabral, Cão Solteiro, Alain Béhar, Nelson Guerreiro, Miguel Bonneville, Marina Nabais, Hugo Amaro, Casa Conveniente, Estrutura, Daniel Pinheiro, Patrícia Portela, Sónia Baptista, Sofia Neuparth, among others.


Under the alias Chef Rø, I have been developing a series of projects where Gastronomy, Art, Science, Anthropology and Philosophy merge: underground dining, audio/visual cooking shows, video-installations, “conceptual” food writing and food performances, collaborating with fashion and culinary blogs and magazines, chefs/restauranteurs and numerous performing and visual artists interested in the poetics of cooking/eating. A textual/visual compilation of those projects have been documented and published in the book “Food and other practices in the Arthouse”, edited by Ali Akbar Mehta and Vidha Saumya (Finland).


Current projects (2022-23) include the conclusion of an 8-year series of meta-pedagogical activities titled “The Academy As Performance", comprising lectures, experimental laboratories and publications curated by Rogério Nuno Costa and guest scholars and artists from Portugal and Finland; the performance, installation and book Missed-en-Abîme; and the reenactment of the performance art trilogy Vou A Tua Casa, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2023 with the publication of a book.


Over the years, my projects have been funded or received working grants from the following institutions: Direção-Geral das Artes (Government of Portugal - Cultura), Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (EGEAC), Advancing Performing Arts Project, Gulbenkian Foundation, Instituto Camões, Atelier Real, Aalto University (Arts Grants), Reclamar Tempo (Teatro Municipal do Porto), Garantir Cultura, TelepART (Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia), among others.


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