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Biography

Paula works internationally, at the intersection of artistic and theoretical research in the expanded fields of choreography, performance, experimental cinema and critical archival practices, borrowing methodologies from feminist science and technology studies, combined with anticolonial perspectives of infrastructure and environmental media studies. She is integrated researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies (CET), associated to the Institute for Contemporary History (IHC-UNL) and guest lecturer in the PhD and MD Programme in Theatre Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL). She holds a PhD in Philosophy (epistemology and aesthetics) from the University of Paris Nanterre (2010) and was a visiting scholar at the Performance Studies / Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (2018). Paula is currently developing practices of collective cine-fabulation as a situated mode of inquiry, to address the kinds of (im)material labour, resource extraction and socio-environmental damage implicated in the very production of history, knowledge, and artificial intelligence, as well as in the maintenance of their institutions, technologies and political fictions. She has been presenting work in several artistic and academic research venues across Europe, the USA and Australia since 2005, intertwining choreographic with discursive practices, experimenting research formats that merge dissimilar kinds of (un)knowing, and enhancing the collective dimensions of reading, translating, and editing. To emphasize the forms of life (and death) implicated in any circumstances of research and/or composition, as well as the particular dramaturgies of study, research and theory-making, Paula has founded T-Fi (Theory-Fiction) Cabinet, an exploratory work-field of underground attachments between fictional and theoretical practices. With theoreticians and artists Ivana Müller, Bojana Bauer and Joachim Hamou, she co-founded INSTITUT, a Parisian platform for critical thought within artistic practices (2014). Since 2013 Paula is part of the collective baldio|Performance Studies with Lisbon peers, with whom she co-curated an Experimental Course in Performance Studies, Taking Position | The Political and Place (2016). She is the author of Relations On Paper (2013), editor of The Page As a Dancing Site (2014) and Pièces Assemblées (2017), and is currently editing the book Expanded Practices All Over: Studying-Working-Living With/Out Performance (forthcoming 2024), which includes an audio-visual extension: With/Out the Museum.

Activities

Employment (2)

University of Lisbon: Lisbon, PT

2017-01-01 to present | Integrated Researcher / Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Lecturer (Centre for Theatre Studies)
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New University of Lisbon IHC-UNL : Lisbon, Lisbon, PT

2014 to present | Associate Researcher (Institute for Contemporary History)
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Education and qualifications (2)

PhD in Philosophy (Aesthetics and Epistemology). Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. : Paris, Ile de France, FR

2004-11-15 to 2010-12-15 | Dissertation: "Vis elastica de la sensation: chorégraphies contemporaines". With Mention: Summa Cum Laude [Très honorable avec félicitations du jury]. PhD Director: Prof. Dr. Baldine Saint Girons.
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M.A. German Studies (Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language). Lisbon University.: Lisbon, Lisboa, PT

1992 to 1998 | Master Thesis on the sensorium of language. Thesis Director: Prof. Dr. José Miranda Justo
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Professional activities (6)

Literary Prize M. Amália V. Carvalho / CM de Loures e IPLB, Lisbon. Narrative fiction: Anfi-Biografias de contágio: Lisbon, PT

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Member, collective ‘baldio | Performance Studies’, Lisbon: Lisbon, PT

2014 to present
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Archives de la Critique d'Art. Member, “Annuaire international des chercheurs en danse et performance du MUSEE DE LA DANSE”, Choreographic Centre of Rennes, in cooperation with ARCHIVES DE LA CRITIQUE D’ART: Rennes, Bretagne, FR

2010 to present
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New York University Tisch School of the Arts: New York, NY, US

2018-02 to 2018-06 | Visiting Scholar
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Danish National School of Performing Arts: Copenhagen, DK

2014 to 2016 | Invited Lecturer and Advisor
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PhD Dissertation Nomination for the Award: Prix de la Chancellerie des universités de Paris: Paris, Paris, FR

2011
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Funding (9)

Dgartes (Portuguese Arts Council) Funding. Co-curatorship of 'Performance and Places' / Experimental Course in Performance Studies, with the collective baldio | Performance Studies’, Polo Cultural das Gaivotas, Lisbon (3 months)

2016-09 to 2016-12 | Grant
Dgartes (Lisbon, PT)
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Post-doctoral Fellowship. Research Project: “Performances and Ecologies of the Museum /Archive: institution, history, preservation, curatorship, publication, as socio-choreographic practices”. Centre for Theatre Studies, Lisbon University

2016-01 to 2018-12 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
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SSKS / KUV Copenhagen Artistic Research and Development Grant, Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen. Edition Project ‘The Page As a Dancing Site’

2014 to 2014 | Grant
SSKS / KUV (Copenhagen, DK)
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Post-doctoral fellowship. Research Project "Performance, Critique, Theory, Documentation, Archive: Exchanging Methodologies". Centre for Theatre Studies, Lisbon University

2013-01 to 2015-12 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia I.P. (Lisbon, PT)
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SFRH/BPD/88211/2012

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Doctoral Fellowship. Dissertation: "Vis elastica de la sensation. Chorégraphies contemporaines". Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

2003-11 to 2007-11 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia I.P. (Lisbon, PT)
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SFRH/BD/13655/2003

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Literary Creation Fellowship, Portuguese Book and Libraries Institute (IPLB), Lisbon. To write the fiction book: “Anfi-biografias de Contágio” (8 months)

2002-01 to 2002-08 | Grant
IPLB (Lisbon, PT)
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Junior Research Fellowship. Project: "Relations between linguistic discourse and visual arts". Ministry of Science and Research. University of Vienna and Arts Academy of Vienna (2 years)

1997 to 1999 | Grant
ÖAD (Vienna, AT)
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Junior Research Fellowship. MA dissertation: Aesthetic Reflection on Language. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Research in the frame of the M.A. program, at the Free University of Berlin (FU) (2 years)

1995-10 to 1997-06 | Grant
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisboa, Lisboa, PT)
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Erasmus Fellowship / Undergraduate Student, one semester. Bielefeld University, Germany. Faculty of Linguistic and Literary Sciences

1991-02 to 1991-06 | Grant
Erasmus (Bielefeld, DE)
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Works (50 of 61)

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Hiena

2019 | Book chapter
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Taxidermia

2019 | Book chapter
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Guest speaker / AFTER performance. International Seminar ‘ARCHIVING PERFORMANCE’. Org. Ana Dinger and Sophie Pinto. CECC / Universidade Católica & Espaço Alkantara, Lisboa.

2019-06 | Lecture
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“Letters to Imagine Some Ends to This World [All Together in Practice As Research As Improvisation]”. In: Artistic Research Lab: on the notion of practice [E-book]. Copenhagen: Dansehallerne.

2019-06 | Interactive resource
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“EXPANDED PRACTICES All Over”. Keynote speaker at the Artistic Research Lab and Conference: “On the notion of practice”. University of Copenhagen, Danish National School of Performing Arts, Forsøgsstationen, Dansehallerne, Copenhagen. Part of FUTURITIES: Artistic Research Seminars and Labs in the Nordic countries, bridging artistic practice and academic research in the field of choreography, 2018-2020.

2019-05 | Conference paper
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Organiser of the 1st edition of “EXPANDED PRACTICES All Over | re-tracing genealogies and critical zones in times of neoliberal performance”, cycle of international encounters in format ‘workshop-performance-conversation’, 2019-2020. With “Total Poetry and Contestation: workshop, performance and screening”, with guests Myriam Van Imschoot & Marcus Bergner

2019-04 | Other
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“Are you dancing now? (about pedestrian movements)”. Cycle of Conversations ‘Four Lectures around Paxton', in the frame of the exhibition Draftting Interior Techniques, curated by Romain Bigé and João Fiadeiro. Culturgest, Lisbon.

2019-03 | Lecture
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“All Together - Feedback Now - Total Access Inc. / Iconographic Critical Poem”. International Conference ‘What’s love got to do with it: Performance, Affectivity, Intimacy’. Culturgest, IHA, ICNOVA, CEIS20-UC, FLUC. Lisbon

2019-02 | Conference paper
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"A sense of Place: Re-membering PEPCC", in Tonguz, S.; Canarim, C.; Salaroli, J.; Teles Grilo, V. (eds), My Background is now: memories and processes of a contemporary dance training program. Lisbon: (Re)union, 2018.

2018 | Book chapter
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I. Cogne & P. Caspão. "Moments of", in Cogne, Ingrid (ed.), For and By Six Formats. Vienna: Academy of Fine Arts, 2018.

2018 | Interactive resource
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Studio Work: "Paper Pieces / Paper Rhythms / Puzzle Poems". Master exerce / Études Chorégraphiques 2018/2019, Institut Chorégraphique International / Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, 15-18 October

2018-10 | Research protocol or technique
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“The personal is/as Historical”. Lecture at “Danish Dance Histories” Symposium and Residency (May 5-June 15), Copenhagen University and Ringkobing West-Jutlands Folk High School, Danemark

2018-06 | Conference paper
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Open doors studio work: "Writing-Reading Institute (In Performance)" / As a visiting scholar, Department of Performance Studies, New York University, 2-4 May.

2018-05 | Research protocol or technique
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“Diagramming censorship(s) across research-in-writing”. Paper given in card-play format (#2) with Ingrid Cogne, Intersections Conference, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK

2018-01 | Conference paper
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Pièces Assemblées

Geneva, Bern & Bienne: HEAD & HEAB
2017 | Edited book
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“Let’s Walk Around Here and call it ‘study’: diaries of an outdoor-study-practice”

Calling Out of Context: Reading Manual, edited by Joachim Hamou, 95-120. Paris: Paraguay Press
2017 | Book chapter
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“Pequeno diagrama de performatividade(s) galopante(s) no pensamento do arquivo em dança”. Lecture, International Conference “Práticas de Arquivo nas Artes Performativas”. Coimbra University, TNSJ, Coimbra and Porto

2017-11 | Conference paper
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“Petit Glossaire de Performativités Galopantes / morceaux choisis”. Walking- Talking Performance, Seminar series “Performer la Recherche”, curated by Laurent Pichaud for the MA and PhD in Dance (Centre National Chorégraphique de Montpellier, University Paul Valéry, Départment Danse Université Paris-8), Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris

2017-11 | Conference paper
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“Six Formats – format Lecture-performance: Meeting an audience – Practical (dramaturgical?) knowledge at play”. Public presentation in the form of a card-play (#1) with Ingrid Cogne, Julia Hölzl, and Tobias Pilz. Centre for Theatre Studies (CET), Lisbon University

2017-09 | Other
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Keynote speaker at the International seminar “Artists at Work”. In the frame of the artistic project “SELECTION-REDO: Remote Sensing/Cinematic Montage”, by Sara Gebran & Rodrigo Sobarzo, with Paula Caspão & Rebecka Stillman. Dansehallerne, Copenhagen

2017-05 | Conference paper
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“On the Lecture-performance as a format of communication of art-related knowledge”. Lecture Performance with Ingrid Cogne, Noémie Solomon and K.G. Gutmann. In the frame of the Artistic Research Project FWF | PEEK Project “6 FORMATS OF MEETING. SITUATION, PRESENCE, AND PERFORMATIVITY”, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein & Ingrid Cogne, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Artexte / Arts Organization, Montreal, Quebec

2017-01 | Conference paper
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“O Fim dos Princípios: Correspondência entre João Fiadeiro e Paula Caspão”

Tubo de Ensaio: Composição [Intervenções + Intersecções], edited by Jussara Xavier, Sandra Meyer, and Vera Torres. Florianópolis: Fundação Cultural de Florianópolis
2016 | Book chapter
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“Fiction / Reality: Aesthetic Practice and the Sense of Common Sense”, Round Table, Symposium. Dansehallerne, Copenhagen

2016-10 | Conference abstract
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“Inter(in)animated Archives”. Performative Reading. Opening Event of Taking Position | The Political and Place, Experimental Course in Performance Studies, curated by baldio | Performance Studies. Polo Cultural das Gaivotas, Lisbon, Portugal

2016-09 | Conference paper
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Keynote speaker (with Bojana Bauer). “CARD READING: across (self)choreographies of remediation”. International Conference “Choreographing the self”, Cultural Studies / Leuven University & Art Centre STUK House for Dance, Image & Sound, Leuven, Belgium

2016-05 | Conference paper
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“Horizontal Speculations: across Archival In(trans)formations”. Sound Object. Festival Dias Da Dança, A.D. / Dancing Archive, Teatro Rivoli, Porto, Portugal.

2016-05 | Conference paper
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“INVERTIR INCLINACIONES ¿hay vida en ‘el hacer teórico’”?

Ejercicios de Ocupacion: Afectos, Vida y Trabajo, edited by Ixiar Rozas and Quim Pujol, 124-150. Barcelona: Mercat de les Flors, Institut del Teatre, Ediciones Polígrafa [Col. Cuerpo de Letra / #5 Danza y Pensamiento]
2015 | Book chapter
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Organiser of “Expanded Practices: Choreography | Archive | Publication”, International Encounter. CET / Centre for Theatre Studies, Lisbon University

2015-11 | Other
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“Art-Making Affects: interdependencies, (in)adequate confrontations, (trans)local implications”. Lecture Performance, Opening of Urban Lab 4: Art, Big Data and Activism, Urban Heat Opening, Munich, Germany

2015-10 | Conference paper
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“Inter(in)animated Docu-Speculations”. Studio Practice: “The Personal is Political”, by Valentina Desideri. Skogen / Performing Arts, Göteborg, Sweden

2015-10 | Conference paper
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“Research Affects: an inter-choreographic perspective”. Paper, AFFECT THEORY CONFERENCE / Wordlings, Tensions, Futures / Panel #8 – Affect Theory and Arts-Based Research: The Event of Poïesis. Millersville University, Lancaster USA

2015-10 | Conference paper
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“Performances e Ecologias da Teoria, da Documentação e do Arquivo”. Annual FCT Post-doc Researchers Seminar, ESPI/IHC, Contemporary History Institute, FCSH/UNL, Lisbon

2015-09 | Conference paper
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“Choreographic Practices: on the affirmation of choreography practices and procedures”. Talk with Bojana Kunst. Gibanica Dance Biennal, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2015-02 | Conference paper
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“Movimentos Afectivos do Pensamento”. Lecture Performance, Ciclo O Poder dos Afectos, Curated by Ana Pais. Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal

2015-02 | Conference paper
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“Um workshop – Um plano de composição para agir e pensar a partir do ‘meio’”. Sinais de Cena 21 (2014): 61-66

2014 | Magazine article
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The Page As a Dancing Site

Lisbon: Ghost Editions
2014-10 | Edited book
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“ORALITY, ARTICULATION, ACTIVATION”. Talk with Marcus Steinberg, DANSBAREN, Curated by Ingrid Cogne. Valand Academy, Gothenburg University (Performance / Performativity – Cross Faculty Group), Sweden

2014-09 | Lecture
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Curator. “Cine-choreographic perspectives from and through Loïe Fuller” / “INTERMITENCIAS DEL ASOMBRO”, in the frame of the exhibition “Escenarios del cuerpo. Las metamorfosis de Loïe Fuller / INTERMITENCIA HACIA LA INTERMEDIALIDAD. ENTRE EFECTO Y AFECTO”. La Casa Encendida, Madrid.

2014-03 | Other
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Sticky Tales for Affect

Maska: The Performing Arts Journal
2014-03 | Journal article
DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/maska.29.161-162.26_1

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“Speculating with Improbability”. Talk, with Bojana Cvejic, “SCORES N°8 / Lures of Speculation. Artistic-Theoretical Parcours about the Choreographies of the Speculative”, Tanzquartier, Vienna, Austria

2014-03 | Lecture
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Dramaturgies of Transplantation

Critical Dialogues / Dance Dramaturgies
2014-01 | Interactive resource
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Relations on paper

2013 | Book
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ISBN 978-989-98298-0-0

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“The Way Things Take Place: Situating our practices again and again”. Lecture Performance, International Symposium SEAM 2013 / “Authorship, Audience, Curation”. Critical Path / Centre for Choreographic Research, Sydney, Australia

2013-11 | Conference paper
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“T-Fi (Théorie-Fiction). Objet sonore sur les aspects ficcionnels de la connaissance et vice- versa”. Festival CRITIQUES / Centre Chorégraphique d’Angers / CNDC, Angers, France

2012-12 | Conference paper
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”Audio Tales for Choreography: 3 Episodes of Situated Thought” – Outbreak / Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen, Danmark

2012-08 | Conference paper
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Implausible connections: on the uses of an (un)certain choreographic

SCORES n°1 – touché, Wien, Tanzquartier
2011 | Journal article
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“In Other Words / Lecture Performance with soundtrack”. “Glossary / Forms of informal knowledge”, BULEGOA Z/B. Office for Art and Knowledge, Bilbao, Spain

2011-10 | Conference paper
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Big Bestiary of Blending, in SUPERAMAS: Big 3 episodes [art/discourse]

2010 | Book chapter
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“Drama (De)vices” (with Valentina Desideri). Artistic Documentation Cycle: “Leftovers, Tracks and Traces”, curated by David-Alexandre Guéniot, Atelier Real, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-11 | Artistic output or performance
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“It Happened in Prairie du Chien at exactly 7”. Journeys on Performance “La utilidad de lo inútil”, ARTIUM / Basque Contemporary Art Museum, Vitoria, Spain

2010-10 | Artistic output or performance
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