Interdisciplinary artist and researcher
Born in 1992
Lives and works from Porto, Portugal
> 2025
- premier & exhibitions
at Mala Voadora (Porto, Portugal): UNDOING LISTENING
- exhibitions
at Binaural Nodar (Vouzela, Portugal): UNDOING LISTENING
- exhibition & workshop
at FIDCU (Montevideo, Uruguai): UNDOING LISTENING
> 2024
- technical residency
at CAMPUS PCS/Teatro Municipal Campo Alegre (Portugal): UNDOING LISTENING
- residency & exhibition
at NAVE - Centro de Creación y Residencia (Chile): UNDOING LISTENING
- residency & exhibition
at Parque Cultural Valparaíso (Chile): UNDOING LISTENING
- residency & exhibition
at INAE - Instituto Nacional de Arte Escénica (Uruguai): UNDOING LISTENING
- residêncy & exibition
at Mala Voadora (Porto, Portugal): UNDOING LISTENING
- residêncy & exibition
at Binaural Nodar (Vouzela, Portugal): [𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖘ˈ𝖙ɛ𝖗𝖗𝖆]
- artistic research residency “Reclamar Tempo”
at CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (Porto, Portugal): [𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖘ˈ𝖙ɛ𝖗𝖗𝖆]
- residêncy & exibition
at Gnration - Braga Media arts (Braga, Portugal): [𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖘ˈ𝖙ɛ𝖗𝖗𝖆]
- residêncy & exibition
at ApalleirA (Sarria, Galiza - Spain): [𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖘ˈ𝖙ɛ𝖗𝖗𝖆]
- residency “Artist’Shelter”
at Sekoia (Porto, Portugal): [𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖘ˈ𝖙ɛ𝖗𝖗𝖆]
- artistic research residency “fAUNA”
at Teatro da Didascália (Joane, Portugal): [𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖘ˈ𝖙ɛ𝖗𝖗𝖆]
> 2023
-grant Shuttle - Pláka Internationalization Grant
(Ágora Cultura e Desporto do Porto - PT)
-residency at CAMPUS PCS (Oporto-PT)
to develop [𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖘ˈ𝖙ɛ𝖗𝖗𝖆]
- residency & exhibition at Arquipélago Contemporary Arts Center (Azores -PT)
to develop and premier RESONATING ISLANDS
-residency at VAGA (Azores-PT)
to develop RESONATING ISLANDS
-residency at DeViRCAPa (Faro-PT)
to develop RESONATING ISLANDS
-grant Artistic Creation Grant - Dance
(Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - PT) for RESONATING ISLANDS
-residency at Forum Dança (Lisbon-PT)
to develop RESONATING ISLANDS
> 2021
-grant ESTRUME-Artistic Support Grant
(Fogo Lento Cultural Association-PT) to develop AURORA
-residency at Fogo Lento Cultural Association
(ESTRUME-Artistic Support Grant-PT) to develop AURORA
-artist invited by Culturgest- CGD Foundation (PT) to participate
in the Summer Lab Zagreb /ACT - Art, Climate, Transition
(Perforations Festival, Zagreb- HR)
-Master Thesis Dissertation Defense:
Visual Cultures - Anthropology
at FCSH - Universidade Nova (Lisbon- Portugal)
-residency in the expanded curatorship project “Curadura”,
promoted by Parasita Association (TBA, Lisbon-PT)
> 2020
-residency & exhibition at Espaço Alkantara (Lisbon-PT)
to develop and premier AURORA
-residency at Forum Dança (Lisbon-PT)
+ Forum Dança (Lisbon-PT) to develop AURORA
-residency at Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo-PT)
+ Forum Dança (Lisbon-PT) to develop AURORA
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Sara Vieira Marques is an interdisciplinary artist whose work unfolds a variety of mediums. Develops a practice of expanded nature that articulates scenic installation, performance and research.
In the past years has been collaborating as scenic designer, performer and researcher in several projects between Performing and Visual Arts.
Her practice explores the material relations of time-space to generate environments and situations that allow other forms of relationship between human and non-human bodies. Such practice is driven by an urge for more inclusive and ecologically sustainable futures, often approached speculatively and critically.
The key elements of her practice are the investigation of relational architectures and the performative aspects of listening, seeing, imagining and documenting.
She has been using mostly time based mediums, weather performance, film or spatial/sound installation to address Radical Futurisms and Material Ecologies of Collapse, through a non-human-centred approach.
#Acoustics, #Matter-Material, #Dark Ecology,#Beyond-Human and #Deep Listening are keywords to her practice.
Her work has been presented in several institutional frameworks, such as Arquipélago - Centro de Artes Contemporâneas (Ribeira Grande -Azores); Alkantara (Lisbon, PT); TBA -Teatro do Bairro Alto (Lisbon, PT); CAMPO- Fogo Lento (Gaia, PT); vaga - espaço de arte e conhecimento (Ponta Delgada, Azores); Walk&Talk (Azores); CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (Porto, PT); Mala Voadora (Porto, PT); TNSJ - Teatro Nacional S.João (Porto, PT); TNDMII - Teatro Nacional D.Maria II (Lisbon, PT); INAE - Instituto Nacional de Artes Escénicas (Montevideo, UY); Parque Cultural Valparaíso (Valparaíso, CH); NAVE (Santiago, CH); JUNTA - Dance Festival (Teresina, BR); Campinas Dance Biennial (Campinas, BR); among others.
Her projects include: AURORA (Espaço Alkantara, 2020) - a performance that explores the choreographic relationships between architecture, sound and geology; OSSU (Pegada, 2020) - a performative ethnographic diary; HEADLESSMEN (FCSH/Doc, 2021) - a documentary film on material and sound ecologies; and RESONATING ISLANDS_A SONOROUS ARCHIPELAGO (Arquipélago Contemporary Arts Center, 2023) - an artistic research project, premiered as a listening session based on seismic data (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2022/2023 award).
Sara was part of the expanded curatorial project Curadura (2021 - TBA, Lisbon); was granted "Estrume" (2020 - Fogo Lento); was artist invited by the Culturgest Foundation to represent Portugal at the "Summer Lab Zagreb" (2020 - ACT-Art, Climate, Transition); and was commissioned by the Suttle-Pláka Grant (2023 - ÁGORA, Porto) for touring UNDOING LISTENING in Chile and Uruguay, with the high support of Instituto Camões (UY-PT) and Arte Institute (USA-PT).
Currently, Sara is working on [𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖘ˈ𝖙ɛ𝖗𝖗𝖆] Practices and Theories for an End of the World researching strategies to address an ‘end of the world’ in order to imagine and enunciate other becomings, deepening her relation with sound, resonant architectures and aural placemaking.
