Talks

Poet, visual artist, performer, lives and works in Lisbon. He completed the advanced visual arts course at Ar.Co, in Lisbon, and studied drawing and sculpture at the Royal College of Arts, London. He completed a master’s degree in Performance Art and Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso American Development Foundation.

He is the author of a hybrid work between the visual arts, performance and poetry, which he has presented since 1996 in various cultural institutions and galleries such as the Serralves Museum, MAAT, Culturgest, Gulbenkian, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Soares dos Reis Museum, ZDB Gallery, 111 Gallery, Casa Fernando Pessoa, GIAJG, among others. He has published five books: Torre de Juan Abad (Assírio e Alvim), Livro da Luz (Documenta), Medicin (Douda Correria), Come Coral (Douda Correria), O Agitador e a Corrente (written with Mumtazz and published by Mariposa Azual).

Maria F. Scaroni (IT/DE) has been active in the Berlin scene since 2004, both interpreting and choreographing works and building community through teaching workshops and hosting events. She worked with Meg Stuart, Tino Sehgal, Jeremy Wade, Wilhelm Groener, Manuel Pelmus and several others. Between 2004 and 2014 in San Francisco she met, trained and collaborated with artists such as Sara Shelton Mann, Stephanie Maher, Keith Hennessy, Jess Curtis, a.o., these encounters deeply shaped her physical and performative practice, where dance is intertwined with healing, queer methodologies, social justice and radical play. Her workshops and curated events swell beyond the dance field and include dancers, queers, theater makers, visual artists, academics, social workers, ravers, activists.