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Following an interest in continuing to address in art the only matter that should interest art, that is, art itself, I hereby announce the curatorial project that will occupy the next three years of my impracticable practice. All the performative works that I have written/inscribed/disinvested since 1999, in particular their conceptual operations, para-artistic formalisations, and documental ramifications, will be transferred to other artists, under a regime of unconditional and irreversible donation. With them, and not from them or about them, the new bearers will do as they please.

The new program aims to develop, albeit in a detour, the material previously imploded in Retrospective (2023-26), coinciding with a critical and post-disciplinary analysis of my artistic trajectory while risking the reinvention of its history and, in confronting a resigning dogma, also the prediction of its future sustainment. Invoking the infinite unfolding of ontologies from the analysis of an anthology, Transmission (2026-28) configures a dismantling by intensification of agencies, authorships, and becomings, but without promising any resumptions or reparations. A legacy that survives in its deterioration. If it were (really) about Rogério Nuno Costa, it would be called Apostasy (2028-).

17 January, 16h00

Blackbox view map

[REHEARSAL-TALK]

Approx. 60 minutes

Free entry upon reservation via text to [+351] 913 699 891 or to info[a]oespacodotempo.pt.

Credits

Artistic director and curator
Rogério Nuno Costa

Guest artists (2026)
Daniela Morganiça, José Gregorio Rojas, Mafalda Banquart

Coproduction in residence
O Espaço do Tempo

© Jani Nummela

Rogério Nuno Costa (1978) is an artist, writer, researcher, educator and curator based in Portugal and Finland who has been developing para-artistic and documental work of a hybrid and cross-disciplinary nature since 1999. His pieces problematize the fields of performing arts and literature at their intersections with philosophy, art theory, pop culture, and communication sciences. He often works with other artists, taking the roles of dramaturgist, editor, co-director and performer. Regular collaborator of companies Teatro Praga, Estrutura, and Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte. He also teaches, lectures and conducts workshops at independent art schools and academic institutions.

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