SARA VIERA MARQUES

[π–‹π–Žπ–“π–Žπ–˜Λˆπ–™Ι›π–—π–—π–†]

PRACTICES AND THEORIES FOR AN END OF THE WORLD 


ongoing research





[π–‹π–Žπ–“π–Žπ–˜Λˆπ–™Ι›π–—π–—π–†]  is the mythology of a place that evokes the end of the world. It's also the name I give to this research, which uses listening as a technology to imagine what exists beyond that end.

Believing in a future of inclusive narratives, where the human does not occupy the central narrative, and through a speculative, collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, this artistic research project summons practices and theories to enunciate a possible "future of the future". 

This is a research and artistic creation project undertaken within Expanded Performing Arts to confront or accelerate the β€˜end of this world’ (Krenak, Ferreira da Silva). Assuming that we are already living in the β€˜urgency of the end’ (T.J. Demos) and that we are already β€˜out of time’ (Karen Barad), the research elaborates on what will come next.

In the age of climate change and human decline, there is an urgent need to collectively imagine and create the conditions that make possible to co-inhabit the future in other ways.

What survival strategies do we need in this era of climate catastrophe? What conditions can we generate in order to regenerate our imaginations of the futures to come?


Through a speculative approach, this project has been exploring various practical and theoretical strategies aimed at imagining ways of surviving the present and building the future.

[π–‹π–Žπ–“π–Žπ–˜Λˆπ–™Ι›π–—π–—π–†] regularly mobilises a study group - Exploratory Group of Sound Practices - to investigate how aural, invisible and impalpable places and practices can contribute to recovering the means of imagining and producing common becomings.














Artistic Direction, Research and Performance
Sara Vieira Marques

'Exploratory Group for Sound Practice' study group
JoΓ£o Grilo; Ángela DΓ­az Quintela; InΓͺs Luzio; Santiago Tricot; Irina Pereira

Grant for Artistic Research β€œReclamar Tempo 2024” CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva

Institutional SupportCAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva / TMP (Porto-PT); Artists’Shelter - Sekoia (Porto-PT); ApalleirA (Sarria-ES); Gnration - Braga Media Arts (Braga-PT); Binaural Nodar (Vouzela-PT);  O EspaΓ§o do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo-PT); mala voadora (Porto-PT); INAE - Instituto Nacional de Arte EscΓ©nicas (Montevideo-UY); NAVE Centro de CreaciΓ³n y Residencia (Santiago-CH);Parque Cultural de ValparaΓ­so (ValparaΓ­so-CH)  





*this project was awarded: RECLAMAR TEMPO Artistic Research Grant 2024 - Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva (PT)






















2024 / 2026
Β©2025 Sara Vieira Marques