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I am a post-disciplinary live artist, performer, theatre director, choreographer, writer, researcher, educator, and curator. I live and work between Portugal and Finland, developing hybrid, anti-retinal, and auto-fictional work based on para-artistic and documentary practices. My pieces explore and problematize the fields of performing arts, visual arts, and literature at their intersections with philosophy, art theory, queer studies, pop culture, and communication sciences, with a particular interest in creating text-based live acts that intertwine performativity, conviviality, affiliation, and speculation. With an academic background in the fields of Social Sciences, Journalism, Contemporary Art History, and Visual Culture & New Media, my "artistically-engaged art" is that of a participant observer, one who investigates Art, its conceptual operations, and its various agents and agencies, through an immersive, experimental, and auto-ethnographic lens. I work with various artists as a performer, co-creator, dramaturg, and editorial coordinator. In Portugal, I am a regular collaborator of the companies Estrutura, Teatro Praga, and Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte. In Finland, I have presented new work within the frames of New Theatre Helsinki (Svenska Teatern), m-cult, Museum of Impossible Forms, Aalto University, Kolibrì festivaali, Recover Laboratory, and SLURPS - näyttämö. I have curated a range of artistic and educational projects, both in Portugal and Finland, the latest one being a 10-year research-based endeavour for the speculation of a (queer) Multiversity, comprising workshops, summer schools, publications, guerrilla art happenings, essays and a namesake lecture-performance. I have provided training at independent art schools and taught at academic institutions including the Escola Superior de Artes e Design (Caldas da Rainha, PT), ArtEZ University of the Arts (Arnhem, NED), the University of Minho (Guimarães, PT), Université Paris Nanterre (FR), and Scuola di Teatro Luca Ronconi (Milan, IT). Currently, I do research as an associate member of the Research Group in Performance Studies (Centre for Humanistic Studies, University of Minho, PT), and as an independent researcher with the interest group 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). A considerable part of my practice consists on the publishing (and self-publishing) of experimental essays and other performative writings, alongside writing for various editorial projects, both independent and academic. Recently, I was a guest artist-researcher within the EU-funded network STAGES - Sustainable Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift, working closely with Portugal's National Theatre. 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, The Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, Finland, Romania, Sweden, Brazil, USA, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania and Italy. More:


AESTH(ETHICS) AUTO, BIO & GRAPHIC PORTFOLIO NEWS

UPCOMING/

20+26 September 2026

CONDOMINIUM

(workshop)


What if a language could be a home we all share? CONDOMINIUM invites families into a playful multidisciplinary (and multilinguistic) 1-hour workshop where a short story is read, sung, whispered, and imagined together in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English. Arranged in a circle, children and caregivers become a living, polyphonic community, discovering that even across different languages, we can speak to each other beautifully.


Kolibrí Festivaali


¯ September 20, 2026, 11am

CAISA, Helsinki (Finland)


¯ September 26, 2026, 3pm

Pessi Children's Culture Center, Vantaa (Finland)



1-12 September 2026

ITINERARY:

Geology of a homecoming


Following its debut in the form of a theatre performance (Teatro Nacional D. Maria II + STAGES, 2025), ITINERARY continues this year and through the end of 2028 as a platform for researching, inquiring, and speculating creative modes and procedures attuned to ideas of radical mobility and relationality. Within the frame of this year's edition of RE=Iniciar Performing Arts Encounter, an initiative produced by Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte in coproduction with Imaginarius Centro de Criação (Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal), ITINERARY will have an introductory retrospective/prospective residency and public showcase, featuring three main activities:


¯ CONDOMINIUM: dinner-lecture-performance with the collaboration, observation and transmission of Daniela Morganiça, José Gregório Rojas and Mafalda Banquart.


¯ THE QUEER ART OF NOT EVEN TRYING: daily breakfast practices of silence, contemplation and performative writing.


¯ A_ONT(H)OLOGY: livejournal.



COMPLETE PROGRAMME



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.


FULL PROGRAMME

2024 - 2028

CONDOMINIUM

Series of reenactments of performances, events, and documentary materials belonging to the history of Vou A Tua Casa (2003). Each event takes the form of a meeting-as-performance, aimed at 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.


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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 2027. Stay tuned, well fed and hydrated. It's gonna be huge! In the meantime:

Punchlines

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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)