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CONDOMINIUM is the title of a series of reenactments of performances, events, and documentary materials belonging to the history of Rogério Nuno Costa’s Vou A Tua Casa, a performance art trilogy for domestic spaces that premiered in 2003. Each event of the series elaborates on the notion of meeting as performance, aiming at building a contextual relationship with its venues (stages, galleries, residency studios, etc.), and in collaboration with different guests for each iteration. As part of a broader retrospective project, CONDOMINIUM seeks to further elaborate and intensify the conceptual relationships between a performance-as-encounter (which Vou A Tua Casa had profusely addressed) and the various agents — artistic directors, producers, technicians, educators, spectators... — who (co-)inhabit and/or visit a given venue. Mixing a round table, a shared meal, a lecture and a celebration, CONDOMINIUM proposes the collective and collaborative writing of an epistolary narrative centered on the contingency of an artist’s erratic trajectory, drawing on a 20-year collection of private encounters and intimate one-to-one experiences. Whereas that exercise was intrinsically private in Vou A Tua Casa, it is now transposed into the public sphere: the stage as a site where ideas surrounding convention, history, and hegemony can be built, confronted and disrupted. Ultimately, the project ambitions the consolidation of a community that has, in more or less wandering and serendipitous ways, converged around Rogério Nuno Costa's itinerant body of work and the geo-emotional path suggested by his seminal work Vou A Tua Casa:

“I went to your house, you came to mine, and we met along the way; now the time has come for us to meet again on neutral territory and, in doing so, to question why we are here and what remains for us to say to one another. Do we still remember?”

This cycle (and the retrospective project that anchors it) aspires to offer one or more responses to an inevitable question: can Vou A Tua Casa (and, ultimately, its creator) reconcile with the formal space of the stage that it refused two decades ago?

Rogério Nuno Costa * 2024

First preview presentation of CONDOMINIUM within the frame of Festival END (New Dramaturgy Encounters), organised by Colectivo 84 in partnership with Centro Cultural Vila Flor and Teatro Académico Gil Vicente (PT). The meeting-as-performance & dinner took place in Teatro Oficina (Guimarães), featuring a double audience. At the table, Rogério Nuno Costa, the Festival's team and special guests: Mickaël de Oliveira, Beatriz Wellenkamp Carretas, Ana Mula, Nelson Guerreiro, Bruno dos Reis, Carlos Alves, Flora Miranda, Luís Araújo, Raquel S., Nuno Castro and Mafalda Banquart (guest artist).

Second presentation of CONDOMINIUM within the frame of RETROSPECTIVA, a 2-week residency at O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo (Portugal). The meeting-as-performance & lunch featured one audience comprised of the artistic, production and technical teams of the residency centre. At the table, Rogério Nuno Costa and the team of O Espaço do Tempo: Ana Carocinho, Catarina Parente, Francisca Tiago, Jéssica Pires, João Leonardo, Márcia d’Ávila, Pedro Barreiro, Sónia Cabecinhas and Susana Otero (guest artist).

Third presentation of CONDOMINIUM within the frame of a 1-week laboratory in collaboration with the participants of the 3rd edition of RECURSO, performing arts course organised by Estrutura. The meeting-as-performance happend around a table of shared snacks and refreshments and took place at Central Elétrica (Porto) in July 2024. At the table, Rogério Nuno Costa and the artists/students: Ana Mafalda Pereira, Catarina Borziak, Catarina Luís, Edmilson Có, João Luís Lopes, José Gregório Rojas, Nara António, Sara Bernardo, Tabea Sandmann, Tainah Dadda and Vida Oliveira.

Fourth presentation of CONDOMINIUM within the frame of "Hospitalité et voisinage : Théâtre en chantier", at Théâtre de Liège (Belgium). The meeting-as-performance & breakfast took place in the Salle de l'Œil Vert and featured a double audience. At the table, Rogério Nuno Costa and the technical and production teams of Théâtre de Liège: Gauthier Vaessen, Olivier Arnoldy, Virna Eliseo, Mylène Fraszczak, Loïck Ruffo and Nicolas Gilson. Guest artist: Dominique Roodthooft. Special guest: Eva Nunes.