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Catarina Vieira

About the artist

Born in 1983, Aveiro, Portugal, Catarina is a theatre maker and a performer based in Lisbon whose work articulates different artistic fields, such as Theatre, Performance, Cinema and Video.

Graduated as a performer and theatre maker at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon, 2007). Degree DAS Master of Theatre (DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, 2018), with the support of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian’s Grant.

Between 2015 and 2007, she worked mostly in partnership with performer and theatre maker Solange Freitas and, since 2007, they created together the following theatre works: Go Tell Fire To The Mountain (2015); Ex Machina (2014); Bugs (2013); O Festim, in partnership with the performer and theatre maker Tiago Cadete (2012); Fora de Jogo (2011); Temporária (2010); Lá e Cá (2007).

As a performer, she worked with Rimini Protokoll; Ricci/Forte; El Conde de Torrefiel; Jérome Bel, Edit Kaldor, Henrique Furtado, Raquel André. Presented her first solo work Chego sempre tarde aos funerais importantes, at Teatro Maria Matos (Lisboa), in 2018.

Between 2019 and 2020, she created Matéria, an open studio for sharing artistic practices, with monthly encounters in Lisbon, which included also a podcast with interviews. She is currently working on the piece The songs we sing against the walls we clean, in collaboration with Josefa Pereira and Aixa Figini, which is a participatory work with women.

Her practice consists of creating encounters as situations in between commonality and performativity. Her work proposes often an invitation to participation, exploring different modes of engagement, in order to generate a reflection about collective gestures, agency, autonomy, shared responsibility, conflict and dissent.