Missed-en-Abîme

Lighting and projection design, technical direction

Premiered at Serralves Contemporary Art Museum in Porto, Portugal, September 2022

Tour: Festival Contradança (Covilhã), Festival Temps d’Images/Museu Coleção Berardo (Lisbon), Festival END (Coimbra, Viseu and Guimarães, book launch), Teatro Viriato (Viseu), Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras (Torres Vedras), Chão de Oliva/Festival Periferias (Sintra)

Subtitled “Psychobiography of a Losing Hero (1917-1921)”, MISSED-EN-ABÎME consists in a three-part display (performance, book and film) meant to be installed/performed in the space of the contemporary art museum, thus concluding a durational research project (2017-2021) on Art, History and Solitude, conducted by by Rogério Nuno Costa in collaboration with artists and thinkers from Portugal and Finland: Luís Lázaro Matos, Kristian Palmu, Niko Skorpio, Colectivo FACA, Jani Nummela, Pie Kär, Miguel Refresco and Inês Carvalho e Lemos.

Written, directed, edited and performed by Rogério Nuno Costa. In collaboration with Luís Lázaro Matos, Kristian Palmu, Niko Skorpio, Colectivo FACA (Andreia Coutinho & Maribel Mendes Sobreira), Jani Nummela, Pie Kär, Miguel Refresco and Inês Carvalho e Lemos.

Financial support: Governo de Portugal – Direção-Geral das Artes.


Co-production: Teatro Viriato (Viseu) and MUDAS. Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira (Funchal).

My work was additionally supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike). #taiketukee

More info here