VISUAL ARTS. ARTISTIC PRACTICES AND RESEARCH

Bachelor of Fine Arts / Painting by FBAUP (1981). PhD from the University of Vigo (Department of Sculpture, 2014), with the thesis "Art and Memory: Developments and derivations about the concept of memory and its contribution to artistic practice". He was a Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology (2009-2012). Since 1982, he has been teaching at ESAP's Higher Arts Courses, of which he was one of the founders, having held various positions. As a plastic artist, he began exhibiting in 1978: he held 5 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 150 collectives, in Portugal and abroad, being represented in some public and private collections. Between 1976 and 1981 he worked in Animation Cinema, including two films subsidized by the Portuguese Cinema Institute, produced by Cinematógrafo - collective of intervention, of which he was one of the founders. In 2015 Trindade re-started working in cinema, having produced two short films which were shown in some international film festivals. 

Studied photography at Arco - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual. He consolidated a path with relevant national and international exhibition projects, both individually and collectively. He is represented in prestigious institutional and private collections in Portugal and abroad. João Tabarra is currently developing his doctoral research, entitled 'Image and porosity', with Nicole Brenez as thesis director. He is professor of Moving Images at the Media Arts Department of HGK - Karlsruhe University for Arts and Design, where he founded, with professors Razvan Radulesco and Christine Reh, the platform to support the production and distribution of cinematographic work by students at the University (Zeitbild- L).

Researcher and curator in Contemporary Art. Living between Valencia, Spain and Porto, Portugal. PhD by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is an assistant professor at ESAP, Escola Superior Artística do Porto. He is an Integrated Researcher at the Arnaldo Araújo Research Center, in the group of Research in Art and Critical Studies. In the field of cultural production he has collaborated with different institutions such as the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Art and Architecture program of the European Capital of Culture, Guimarães 2012. Since 2004 he has been a member of several university research groups at the UPV in Valencia, and UFRGS in Porto Alegre, Brazil, for the development of international cooperation projects, based on the creation of nuclei of thought around new contemporary processes of artistic creation, as well as the investigation of new territories in production, criticism and diffusion of the plastic arts. He is the editor of the book, Infraestructuras emergentes, on the production, management and cultural diffusion. He has developed research on the relations between art, politics and society with an emphasis on spatial and performative arthritic practices. During 2017/18 was curator in residence of the Center of Contemporary Culture - Center del Carme and currently is associated curator in the Galeria Municipal do Porto. 

Mª Covadonga Barreiro, graduated in Belas Artes (Univesidade de Vigo, 2006) and Doutorada com Menção Internacional (Universidade de Vigo, 2012). Expôs em various national and international institutions, with the participation of the Correspondências e Hors-Série projects, curated by Eduarda Neves. Tem recebido prémios pela sua trajetória academica (Extraordinary Prize of Bachelor, Extraordinary Award and Award of Investigation in Humanities of Deputação de Pontevedra) and artistic (Prémio Novos Valores, Primeiro Prémio no Certame de Artes Plásticas da Deputação de Ourense ...). É researcher at Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo (Critical Studies and Art Group), professor at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto since 2014 and Professora Associada at the University of Vigo (Spain) since 2017. 

Maria de Fátima Alves Sales Varão. Degree in History - Archeology (University of Porto, 1986). PhD in Architecture, with Thesis Januário Godinho in Portuguese Architecture or the other face of modernity (Modern Architecture and Restauration program, University of Valladolid, 2001). Fellow of FCT, program PRAXIS XXI (1995-1999). Lecturer at ESAP (since 1987), currently teaching at the Integrated Master's Degree in Architecture and Visual Arts Licenciatura Photography, Intermediate Plastic Arts, Audiovisual Cinema, Multimedia Communication Design and Theater. Coordinator of the Autonomous Section of Theory and History (2010/2012). Researcher at CEAA (UI & D 4041 of FCT) and coordinator of the Modern Architecture theme - preservation and dissemination. IR of the Group of Theory, Critics, History and Practices of Contemporary Art of CEAA (2010/2012).

Né Barros, coreógrafa e investigadora no Instituto de Filosofia, Grupo Estética, Política e Conhecimento da Universidade do porto onde concluiu Pós-Doutoramento na área da Estética e Performances. Conclui doutoramento na Universidade de Lisboa, FMH, Master in dance, Laban Centre, City University, Londres, Curso Superior de Teatro, ESAP. Artisticamente, iniciou a sua formação em dança clássica e mais tarde trabalha dança contemporânea e composição coreográfica, nos Estados Unidos, Smith College. Coreografou para o Balleteatro, Companhia Nacional de Bailado, Ballet Gulbenkian e Aura Dance Company. Nos seus projetos artísticos, tem colaborado com diversos artistas, fotógrafos, músicos, realizadores, encenadores e arquitetos. Professora Auxiliar parcial na ESAP. Autora dos livros Performances e Pó-fenomenologia, Da Materialidade na Dança, Dança: o corpo e a casa, Coeditora Performances no Contemporâneo, Artes Performativas: Novos Discursos, Das Imagens Familiares, Deslocações da Intimidade, Unframing Archives. Tem diversos artigos publicados. Coeditora das Coleções “Estética, Política e Artes” e "Máquinas de Guerra” (FLUP).

Fundadora e codiretora do Balleteatro e do festival internacional de cinema de arquivo, memória e etnografia - Family Film Project.

NR graduated in Sculpture at FBAUP/School of Fine Arts, University of Porto (1999), and holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute (2008). In 2011 he began a PhD research in Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and completed it at FBAUP/School of Fine Arts, University of Porto. Since 1999 he has been developing his work in the field of visual arts, individually and in collaboration with other artists, in areas such as drawing, installation, sculpture, performance, sound, video and curatorial practices. He has held 17 solo exhibitions, 5 of which in collaboration with fellow artists, and participated in over 60 group shows in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, USA, Norway, UK, Russia and Germany. He was the curator of 7 exhibitions, and since 2016 he is the programmer of the Portuguese video art and moving image screening project Playlist, held in Porto, with 42 shows produced and presented so far. Together with Isabel Ribeiro and Susana Chiocca, he was responsible for the Recursos Humanos / Human Resources programme, a series of talks dedicated to the public presentation and discussion of works and creation processes by artists, architects, designers and others. His work is represented in institutional collections such as CAV - Centro de Artes Visuais and the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as in several private collections. In 2002 he was resident artist at Triangle France, Marseille, and in 2004 he was one of the nominees for the EDP Young Artists award in Portugal. Between 2006 and 2008 he was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, and the Louise Woods Memorial scholarship. He was also awarded a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Research grant between 2011 and 2015. From 2000 to 2005 he collaborated with the education program of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. He was teaching assistant in the New Genres course at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007, and in 2011 began teaching at the BFA in Photography program, ESAP - Porto Art School, where he leads a seminar on Portuguese video art since 2017. He lives and works in Porto and is represented by Graça Brandão gallery, Lisbon.

Rodrigo Paglieri, nasceu em Santiago do Chile, viveu e trabalhou no Brasil de 1988 a 2018 e desde setembro de 2019 reside em Porto/Portugal onde é Professor Auxiliar Convidado no curso de Artes Visuais da Escola de Arquitetura da Universidade do Minho – EAUM, onde também atua como investigador colaborador do Laboratório de Paisagens, Património e Território – Lab2PT. Desde 2019 Paglieri é Doutor em Artes Visuais pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação da Escola de Belas Artes da Universidade Federal do Rio de janeiro – PPGAV/EBA/UFRJ. Entre 2018 e 2019 Paglieri residiu em Barcelona onde desenvolveu sua pesquisa na Universitat de Barcelona como bolsista do PDSE da Capes. O artista/pesquisador tem desenvolvido seu trabalho em duas direções básicas; uma para fruição em galeria com produção de objetos acionados por mecanismos e video-instalações, e outra de intervenção urbana, voltada para espaços públicos. Foi fundador e integrante do coletivo Projeto de Arte Entorno, entre 2000 e 2004. Desde 1998, tem realizado exposições individuais; concebido, participado, colaborado e organizado, inúmeros eventos, tais como: Exposições Coletivas, Workshops, Cursos, Aulas Públicas ou Conferências. Recebeu prêmios e distinções estando representado em instituições e coleções privadas. Este ano teve sua obra “Compasso” incorporada ao acervo do Centro Cultural do Fórum da Maia.