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Missed-en-Abîme


Lighting and projection design, technical direction.



From Rogério Nuno Costa's website:
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).

Residencies (Research and Creation): Rua das Gaivotas 6 (Lisbon), Là-Bas Studio/Kaapelitehdas (Helsinki), Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Espoo), Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris – Maison du Portugal (Paris). In-progress presentations: Museum of Impossible Forms (Helsinki), Parfums de Lisbonne (Paris).

Tour: Serralves Contemporary Art Museum (Porto, premiere), 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), MUDAS (Madeira island).

With the support of: A Bela Associação (Almada), Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva (Porto), Estrutura (Porto), Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte (Sta. Maria da Feira), Teatro Feiticeiro do Norte (Funchal).


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

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