Open studio: Paula Diogo / Má-Criação at Espaço Alkantara
Aurora
- 30.01 2026
- Espaço Alkantara
- 19H00
Aurora is a performance that is partly experienced with eyes closed. We do not know exactly where it takes place, whether in someone’s living room, in a black box, or in the streets of a city. There is a line that stretches between reality and fiction. A line that begins at the tip of a finger and extends into space.
Aurora is also the moment between night and day, the period of light before the sun has risen, when everything is illuminated in a diffuse way, in a tension between darkness, shadow, and light. It is the moment that is not yet. It is a promise, a desire, and an expectation of what is to come.
In this work, the group of artists creates a habitat for the body, thinking of it as a tactile and reactive matter which, when deprived of sight, activates other ways of reading the world and relating to reality.
Paula Diogo has a practice that explores transversal perspectives on artistic creation, questioning languages and formats. The artist departs from studio experimentation to build dramaturgy through processes in which practice and theory feed into one another.
From 19 January to 1 February, Paula Diogo will be in residence at Espaço Alkantara. On 30 January, at 7:00 pm, there will be a sharing session open to the public.
Credits
Text, Creation and Direction Paula Diogo Performers and Co-Creators João Lopes Pereira, Paula Diogo (rotating with Márcia Lança), Renato Linhares Dramaturgical Support Mariana Ricardo External Eye Joana Gomes, Márcia Lança Lighting Design Wilma Moutinho Sound Design Suse Ribeiro Original Music João Lopes Pereira in dialogue with Mariana Ricardo and Yaw Tembe Video Recording and Styling Masako Hattori Photography João Tuna Project Management Paula Diogo and Daniela Ribeiro Executive Production Ricardo Arenga and Má-Criação Co-Production Má-Criação and Teatro Viriato Residencies Alkantara, Teatro Viriato, Teatro-Cine Torres Vedras, Centro de Experimentação Artística do Vale da Amoreira / Moita and TAGV Development Support Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Dançando com a Diferença and apap – FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme Funding Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sports / Directorate-General for the Arts
Acknowledgements Ângela Rocha, Silke Bake and Jacopo Lantieri, Henrique Amoedo, Ricardo Meireles, Maria João Machado, Silvia Iroldi, Valentina Garcia, Sara Lourenço, Manuela Silva, Zé Luís, Olga Magalhães, Inês Oliveira, Celsa Santos, Diogo Peres, João Estrela, GADV (Torres Vedras)
Má-Criação is an organisation supported by CML and hosted by Alkantara
Born and raised in the suburbs of Lisbon, with no family connection to the arts, Paula Diogo was encouraged from an early age by her family to read in order to keep herself occupied. Her interest in books and stories led her to study Literature and later Theatre. Her work is strongly influenced by her education and family background and addresses themes such as legacy, memory, autobiography and belonging. Her creations can take different forms, including performance, stage works, video/audio pieces and publications. In recent years, she has worked across the broad...
Má-Criação is an organisation based in Lisbon, founded by an informal group of artists and established as a Cultural Association in 2015. The organisation currently hosts and produces the work of Paula Diogo and Alex Cassal, maintaining close relationships with a core group of regular artists. It also positions itself as a production platform for artists interested in building connections with projects and creators from other cultural, artistic, and geographical contexts, with a strong emphasis on authorship and processes rooted in research and...
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