INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CROSSED ARCHIVES
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Speakers
Elizabeth Azevedo
Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA) of the University of São Paulo (USP)
Elizabeth Ferreira Cardoso Ribeiro Azevedo is a senior professor at the School of Communications and Arts (ECA) at the University of São Paulo. Bachelor in History from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (1983), she obtained a Master of Arts degree from ECA/USP, in 1995, with the dissertation "A stage under the arcades". In 1997, she was awarded a Vitae Arts Scholarship. In 2002, she received his PhD in Arts from ECA/USP, with the thesis “Stylistic resources in the dramaturgy of Jorge Andrade”. The following year, she began researching the Sebastião Arruda Magazine Company in São Paulo in the first decades of the 20th century. Between 2003 and 2020, she was a professor of History of Brazilian Theater and History of Performing Arts at the Department of Performing Arts (CAC) at ECA/USP. She has been a supervisor in the Postgraduate Program in Performing Arts at ECA since 2004. In 2005, she participated as research coordinator in the “Traje em Cena project”(Costume on stage project), which organized the costume collection of the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, with support from Fundação Vitae. Between 2012 and 2014, she coordinated the research “Inventário da Cena Paulistana”, on the history of old theater buildings in São Paulo between 1850 and 1930, with support from FAPESP and Condephaat. In 2016, she completed a post-doctorate at the University of Lisbon with research on the 19th century French essayist Emílio Doux. In 2020, she obtained the title of Free Professor from ECA/ USP with the thesis “Emílio Doux, the journey of a French essayist towards the tropics”. She is currently working on the second stage of the research “Inventário da Cena Paulistana”, on the history of old theater buildings in São Paulo between 1930 and 1955, with support from FAPESP and CNPq. She is deputy coordinator of the Theater Documentation Center at ECA/USP (2021), where she was coordinator between 2004 and 2021.
Marco Baravalle
Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan
Marco Baravalle is a researcher, curator and activist. He is a member of Sale Docks, a collective and independent space for visual arts, activism, and experimental theater located in what had been an abandoned salt-storage facility in Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy. Founded in 2007, its programming includes activist-group meetings, formal exhibitions, and screenings.
Baravalle teaches Phenomenology of Contemporary Art at the MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies of NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan).
In 2022 he was awarded with a Fulbright grant for Visiting Student Researcher. He spent six months at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.
He is a member of IRI (Institute Of Radical Imagination), a collective inviting political scientists, economists, lawyers, architects, hackers, activists, artists and cultural producers to share knowledge on a continuous base with the aim of defining and implementing zones of post-capitalism in Europe’s South and the Mediterranean.
From 2018 to 2021 Baravalle was research fellow at "INCOMMON. In praise of community. Shared creativity in arts and politics in Italy (1959-1979)", a project hosted by IUAV, University of Venice.
Pía Gutiérrez Díaz
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile/Proyecto ARDE
Interdisciplinary academic at the Faculty of Letters and the School of Theater of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, since January 2017, member of CELICH-UC (Centro de Estudios de la Literatura Chilena). She is currently a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as a researcher with experience in the Chair of Romance Languages at the University of Passau from July 2022 to June 2024. She is also co-founder of the ARDE project (www.proyectoarde.org), a digital archive of memories and artistic processes and President of the INDEX Foundation to promote the creation, usability and visibility of archives of creative and cultural processes from a community perspective. She was part of the research team that carried out the First National Register of Performing Arts Archives.
Katharina Eitner
Sociologist and Cultural Manager (Catholic University of Chile), Master in Art in Context from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).
My experience in the arts field focuses on the design of collaborative artistic projects, the management of art archives, the creation of installations and the generation of content. My research focuses on exploring the convergence between the social sciences and the arts as a tool for exploring the social. Since 2017, I have been part of Arde, a collective formed by five women dedicated to creating archives and reflecting on their connection with the arts, culture and the digital.
Heike Roms
University of Exeter
Heike Roms is Professor in Theatre and Performance at the University of Exeter. Her research into the history and historiography of early performance art in Wales ("What's Welsh for Performance? Locating the early history of performance art in Wales 1965-1979") won the David Bradby TaPRA Award for Outstanding Research in 2011. She has published on performance archiving, documentation and historiography. Heike's current projects include: sound documents of performance art; the participation of children in performance work of the 1960s and 1970s; and the development of performance art in British art schools.
Paula Braga
Documentation Centre of the Teatro Nacional São João in Porto
Paula Braga is responsible for the Documentation Centre of the Teatro Nacional São João in Porto since 2000. Has a degree in Art History and a Specialization Course in Documentation Sciences.
Speakers
André Murraças
André Murraças is a director, playwright, set designer and performer. His career includes several theatre shows presented in various national and international theatres. In the field of archives and memory, he has been researching Portugal's LGBTQ past, having created Queerquivo - a Portuguese LGBT Archive online and in book form, and recently Queering the Museum PT. He has worked as an advertising copywriter and was a television scriptwriter, and was even nominated for a TV Emmy. He is the screenwriter and director of the first Portuguese gay web series, Barba Rija, and adapted the short story O Berloque Vermelho into a short film.
Carlota Castro
Graduating in History from the University of Porto and earning a Master's in Artistic Studies from the University of Coimbra, she was awarded a merit scholarship for her academic achievements. As a playwright, she has collaborated with Companhia de Teatro Os Quatro Ventos, Varazim Teatro and Cem Palcos. The former commissioned her to write the text for their production, "Terror e Miséria na Queda da Democracia", an epic theatre creation based on collaborative methodologies. The second, as part of the URGE Glookall Fest, gave him the opportunity to write "Quem tem medo das mulheres sem medo?", an assembly piece to be performed in a public space. The third, in the context of the NOVe project, allowed her to write "ÁGAPE-APÓFASI", a show-banquet for nine spectators. She was part of the Visões Úteis structure between January 2022 and July 2023, as Assistant Artistic Director and responsible for the first edition of the research and knowledge transfer projects, respectively "REENACT NOW" - a creation based on the archive of the International Festival of Theatre of Iberian Expression - and "Fogo de Campo". During the same period, she also ensured the structure's communication. In January 2023, she founded BALA - Núcleo Dramatúrgico, a collective of emerging artists of which she is Artistic Director.
Jo Scott
Jo Scott is an artist-researcher and educator, who has recently moved to central Portugal. Jo has spent the past 12 years in UK Higher Education, teaching and researching intermedial and digital performance practices, following the award of her PhD from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London in 2014. She has published widely in the field of performance and new technologies and is currently writing for and editing a collection exploring new modes of extended reality (XR) performance. Jo also researches through creative practices, mixing sound, image, text and song to make performances, installations, online works and sound walks, and she received an honourable mention for her sound walk ‘Wanders in the (wild) smart city’ at the Sound Walk September Awards in 2022. Her most recent project is also using sound walk practices to explore felt connections with changing and damaged landscapes, particularly through the lens of ‘solastalgia’ (Albrecht 2019) – the homesickness you feel for a place that is changing around you. Jo sits on the editorial board of the journal, Body Space Technology and is associate editor of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media.
Carlos Costa
Carlos Costa (Porto, 1969) is the Artistic Director of Visões Úteis, which he founded in 1994. He has worked as a playwright, dramaturg, director and actor, and has co-authored numerous original creative processes for both theatre and Performance in the Landscape and Community, many of which have been the subject of video readings and international partnerships. His work for theatre has been successively published by leading publishers in Portugal. Since 2018, he has also dedicated himself to fiction, with the Teodolito publishing house. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, where he is responsible for the subjects History of Theatre and Performance II and Dramaturgy and Theatre Writing, respectively in the BA and MA in Artistic Studies. He is also an Integrated Researcher at CEIS20 - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Coimbra, where his areas of interest are: Professionalisation, identity, inscription, memory and archive. He is a member of the governing bodies of PLATEIA - Association of Performing Arts Professionals and GDA - Artists' Rights, and an active participant in IETM - International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts. He has a degree in Law and a postgraduate degree in European Studies (Economics) from the University of Coimbra, a Master's degree in Dramatic Text from the University of Porto and a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Coimbra.
Vicki Ann Cremona
Vicki Ann Cremona is professor at the School of Performing Arts at the University of Malta, and lectures within the Theatre Studies Department. She was appointed Ambassador of Malta to France between 2005-2009, and to Tunisia between 2009-2013. She is a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR). Her research interests focus particularly on the relationship between theatre and power, especially in relation to colonisation. She has published internationally about theatrical events, protest and resistance, theatre anthropology, Maltese Theatre, and public celebration, particularly her monograph: Carnival and Power. Play and Politics in a Crown Colony (Palgrave Macmillan 2018, 304 pp). Her recent publication is: ‘Empowering Civil Society. The Theatricality of Protest in Malta’, New Theatre Quarterly, 2022, 38 (2), pp. 125-138). She is currently working on nineteenth and early twentieth century theatre and scenography as expressions of colonial power and resistance.
Marco Galea
Marco Galea is associate professor and Head of Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Malta. His main area of specialisation is theatre in Malta in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and he is particularly interested in issues of language, identity, and representation. He has published articles and book chapters in this area and has edited a number of books. His recent projects have focused on theatre and community and migration in theatre. In recent years he has been co-ordinating, on behalf of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Malta, the efforts to create a digital archive for the performing arts in Malta.
Andi Johnson
Andi Johnson is a first year PhD student at De Montfort University, working on a collaborative doctoral project with a UK based dance organisation investigating archival creation and curation. They have a Masters in Library Sciences from Queens College, CUNY and a second Masters in Dance Philosophy and History from Roehampton University. Their research primarily focuses on Dance and Archives, with a specific concentration on digital archives and ephemerality. Their most recent publication can be found in the Istanbul Journal of Women’s Studies entitled ‘Black Women of The Cakewalk: Reclaiming the Performance Through Corporeal Orature’. Andi is also one of the main organisers of Dancing with Decolonisation, a yearly conference that investigates links between de/coloniality and dance from international perspectives. Andi has over 10 years of experience working in Libraries in a variety of different positions, most recently working at London Studio Centre, a private dance school focusing on dance and musical theatre performance. Within that position, they focused primarily on issues of institutional copyright as well as student education and research.
Juliana Coelho
Juliana Coelho is a director, researcher and teacher. She has a degree in Performing Arts from the School of Fine Arts at UFMG, a PhD and a master's degree from the University of Paris 8. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo and a visiting researcher at the University of Leiden, with funding from FAPESP - São Paulo Research Foundation. In this project, she is working on Balinese participation in the 1931 Colonial Exhibition and the event's mise en scène devices. In 2019, she carried out a post-doctoral residency at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (PNPD / CAPES) on the performativity and theatricality of contemporary Brazilian politics. She has taught at the University of Rennes 2, the School of Fine Arts at UFMG, the University of São Paulo and in various pedagogical processes. On the subject, she published her first article 'To the Extremes of Asian Sensibility': Balinese Performances at the 1931 International Colonial Exhibition, in the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, in the issue dedicated to Universal Exhibitions. She also directed the documentary film Sofia, about a model maternity hospital set up on the outskirts of the city of Belo Horizonte (Brazil), which uses the audiovisual collection of the institution and the families of the community.
Filipa Magalhães
Filipa Magalhães is a musicologist and researcher at the Center for the Study of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics (CESEM), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA FCSH). She has a PhD in Musicology from NOVA University Lisbon since 2020. In 2022 she completed a postgraduate course in Historical Archivistics at NOVA FCSH. Her research work focuses on the study, documentation and dissemination of the performance genre musical theater in Portugal, which is currently at risk of loss, through the intersection of approaches from musicology, historical archivistics and digital humanities. Her academic activity has been reflected in the dissemination of music theater through the publication of several articles in international peer-reviewed journals and book chapters on the composer Constança Capdeville (the great promoter of the genre in Portugal), her creative processes and her connections to cinema and theater. Since April 2023, she has been a contract researcher at NOVA FCSH under the CEEC - Stimulus to Scientific Employment (Individual Support, 5th ed.) call, with the project entitled 'Music theatre preservation: a bridge between musicology and archival science', funded by the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology.
Rafaella Uhiara
She is the researcher responsible for the project "Theater sound archives", developed at the Center for Theater Documentation at the University of São Paulo in partnership with the French laboratory THALIM (CNRS/ENS/University Sorbonne Nouvelle) and a grant from the São Paulo State Research Foundation (Young Researcher Aid). Her doctoral thesis, entitled "Le métathéâtre contemporain: la quête paradoxale d'une société perdue", was carried out with a Full Doctorate Abroad scholarship from the Brazilian government (CAPES) at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, the same institution where she attended her master's degree. Both research projects were supervised by emeritus CNRS researcher Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux. She holds a bachelor's degree in Theater Directing from the University of São Paulo and works on artistic projects in different languages (theater, circus, virtual reality, literature) and in various roles (directing, scriptwriting, research, advisory). She has published texts in academic journals (Sala Preta, Urdimento, Théâtre/Public, Double Jeu), books (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015; L'Harmattan, 2016; Éditions Orizons, 2017), as well as translations by authors such as Bernard Dort, Jean-Pierre Sarrazac and Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux. She is currently a member of the editorial team of the Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença. She is in the process of being accredited as a collaborator in the Postgraduate Program in Performing Arts at the University of São Paulo as a lecturer, advisor and researcher.
Moderators
Ana Bigotte Vieira
Ana Bigotte Vieira (1980, Lisbon) is Co-IR of the FCT Archiving Theatre project and an integrated researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History. She has published Uma Curadoria da Falta, about the ACARTE service of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1984-1989, based on her doctoral research. Between 2018 and 2023 she was part of the curating team at Teatro do Bairro Alto. Together with João dos Santos Martins, she started the project For a Timeline to Be – genealogies of dance as an artistic practice in Portugal, of which dance not dance – archaeologies of new dance in Portugal is the 7th edition.
Hélia Marçal
Hélia Marçal is Lecturer in History of Art, Materials and Technology. She was the Fellow in Contemporary Art Conservation and Research of the research project 'Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum', at Tate, London (2018-2020) and is the Coordinator of the Working Group on Theory, History and Ethics of Conservation of the Committee for Conservation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CC) since 2016. Her current research interests are positioned in feminist new materialisms, material histories of activist artworks, ethics and performativity of cultural heritage, the conservation of time-based media and performance art, and both the materiality of contemporary art and the ways it is positioned and negotiated by museum, heritage, and conservation practices.
Laura Rozas Letelier
Laura Rozas Letelier has a degree in History and a postgraduate degree in Semiotics of Art and Culture. She came to Portugal in 2019 to do her Master's in Theatre Studies at the University of Lisbon, focusing her dissertation research on the project Para Uma Timeline a Haver: genealogies of dance as an artistic practice in Portugal. She has worked as a researcher on archive projects in the Performing Arts in conjunction with the Centro de Memoria de las Artes Escénicas (CIM a/e) and the NAVE Residency Center (Santiago de Chile). She currently has a grant from the FCT project "ARTHE. Archiving the Theater" by the Center for Theater Studies (Faculty of Letters. University of Lisbon) , where she is pursuing a PhD in Theater Studies.
Maria João Brilhante
She is a retired Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon where she taught and directed the Master's and PhD courses in Theater Studies. She is a researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies, which she also directed. She develops the ARTHE-Arquivar o Teatro project, financed by FCT. She was president of the Administrative Board of Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (2008-2011). She has published essays and books on literature, translation, iconography and the history of theatre and performance. She translates drama for theatre companies and co-directed the collection of Biographies of Portuguese Theatre published by National Print House. She belongs to the Editorial Boards of the Journal Sinais de Cena and the Journal of EASTAP (European Association for the Study of Theater and Performing arts).
Pedro Cerejo
Pedro Cerejo has a degree in Anthropology (ISCTE, 2001) and a postgraduate qualification in Documentary Sciences - Library (FLUL, 2007). He has been a journalist, bookseller and librarian. For the last 15 years, he has been a translator and proofreader. He is a PhD candidate in Theatre Studies and a researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies (FLUL), working on the various forms of representation of the then emerging Portuguese independent theatre movement in the press of the 1970s. As part of the ARTHE project, he has been working on the archives of some of these precursor companies.
Paula Caspão
Paula Caspão lives and works between Lisbon and Paris, in critical indeterminacy between forms of theoretical research, artistic expanded practices and socio-political thinking. She is currently developing practices of collective cine-fabulation to interrogate the forms of extractivism and socioenvironmental devastation implicated in the production of knowledge and History, as well as in the maintenance of their institutions, technologies and political fictions. Paula is a researcher affiliated to the Centre for Theatre Studies (CET-FLUL), associated with the Institute for Contemporary History (IHC-UNL), and a guest lecturer in the PhD and MD Programme in Theatre Studies at the University of Lisbon. She holds a PhD in philosophy (epistemology and aesthetics) from the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre (2010), and was an invited scholar in Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (2018).
