Ana Bigotte Vieira

Culture — Power, Mediations, and Arts
Contact:
anabigottevieira@gmail.com
Biography
Ana Bigote Vieira graduated in Modern and Contemporary History (ISCTE-IUL). She specialised in the fields of Contemporary Culture and Philosophy (NOVA FCSH), and in Theatre Studies (University of Lisbon). Between 2009 and 2012, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Performance Studies of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Her PhD thesis “NO ALEPH, para um olhar sobre o Serviço ACARTE da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian entre 1984 e 1989” received an Honorable Mention in Contemporary History from the Mário Soares Foundation. This research regards the performative role of Modern Art Museums, focusing on the cultural transformations that Portugal went through after entering the European Union – and the way in which they find, in the body, a particular ground of expression.
She is a member of the group Culture, Identities and Power of the Institute of Contemporary History, where she co-organised, with Luís Trindade and Giulia Bonali, the cycle “When Where the 80s?”. She is a co-founder, publisher, and curator of the platform baldio |Performance Studies, and a playwright in theatre and dance. She received a Dwight Conquergood Award at the Performance Studies International #17, Utrecht. She is a member of the BUALA Association. Along with Sandra Lang (CH), she has organised a series of discursive and performative events regarding the relationship between art and politics. Currently, she is developing, with choreographer João dos Santos Martins, a project of collective historicisation of dance in Portugal “Para uma timeline a haver”, that has the form of an installation/exhibition.
Research fields
- Theatre
- Performance and dance studies
- Cultural history
- Contemporary philosophy
- Frontier studies
Selected publications
- Vieira, Ana Bigotte & André Silveira, “Lourdes Castro and Manuel Zimbro | Un Autre Livre Rouge: un autre livre, un autre rouge, un autre autre,” in Art, Global Maoism, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, edited by Jacopo Galimberti, Noemi de Haro García and Victoria H. F. Scott. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. [link]
- Vieira, Ana Bigotte, “Turn, turtle! Uso [Use], Espaço [Space] and Falta [Lack/Missing],” in Turn Turtle, Turn! Reenacting The Institute, edited by Elke van Campenhout. Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2017. [link]
- Vieira, Ana Bigotte & Ricardo Seiça Salgado, “The 60s, TDR, and Performance Studies: from a 2009 interview by Ana Bigotte Vieira and Ricardo Seiça Salgado, revised in 2014 by Richard Schechner,” in Performed Imaginaries, by Richard Schechner. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. [link]
- Vieira, Ana Bigotte. “”I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet… but your kids are gonna love it”,” in L’Internationale Online – Decolonising Museums, 71-95. Ghent: L’Internationale Online, 2015. [link] 🔓
Main projects
- Co-coordinator, with Maria João Brilhante (CET — University of Lisbon), of the project “ARTHE — Archiving Theatre” — Hosted by the Centre for Theatre Studies and the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/ART-PER/1651/2021). [link]
- Co-coordinator, with João dos Santos Martins, of the project “A Timeline To Be: periodization and collective mapping concerning dance as an artistic practice in 20th century’s Portugal” — With the support of the Sá da Bandeira Theatre, Viriato Theatre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and the DGARTES. [link]
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Exhibition of Guinean teleplays made in Guinea-Bissau and its diaspora in Portugal, organised as part of the “African Modes of Self-Filming” project. Teleteatro de Bissau No âmbito do projecto “African
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Event Details
Exhibition of Guinean teleplays made in Guinea-Bissau and its diaspora in Portugal, organised as part of the “African Modes of Self-Filming” project.
Teleteatro de Bissau
No âmbito do projecto “African Modes of Self-Filming: Popular Films in Transnational Flow” (CEEC 2020, de Catarina Laranjeiro), vai ser realizada uma mostra de teleteatro guineense no Centro de Experimentação Artística do Vale da Amoreira. Esta actividade é financiada pela Direcção-Geral das Artes.
Teleteatro de Bissau é uma mostra de teleteatros guineenses, realizados na Guiné-Bissau e na sua diáspora em Portugal. Geradores de fluxos artísticos entre geografias, dão a conhecer, com humor, formas de invisibilidade social, nomeadamente os desafios de quem luta por uma vida melhor, emigrando ou dubriando ….
Calendarização
2 de Setembro
Barafunda (2006; 118’) de Mário de Oliveira
Sinopse: História de uma família de classe média baixa de Bissau, em que o pai não consegue mais ser o provedor da família, e a mãe tem de assumir esse papel, vingando na economia informal. Esta foi a história vivida à época por muitas famílias, para responder à crise económica e política que assolou o país, desencadeando transformações estruturais na sociedade.
9 de Setembro
Lixo de Europa (2022; 8’) de Nbana Kabra & Samba Tenen
Sinopse: Curta-metragem sobre emigrantes respigadores, nos contentores de lixo na zona de Queluz.
Fera di Bamdé (2018; 10’) de Nelka Lopes
Sinopse: História de uma mulher, que foi repatriada para a Guiné-Bissau. Retratando o quotidiano guineense, o filme foi realizado no Carregado, em Portugal.
A Lisboeta (2023; 28’) de Tcharlaça Comedy Bissau
Sinopse: Depois de viver muitos anos em Lisboa, uma mulher regressa à Guiné- Bissau, para tentar a sua sorte.
Poder di Tchom (2022; 22’) de Tcharlaça Comedy Bissau
Sinopse: As aventuras de um jovem guineense que deseja imigrar para a Europa.
4 de Outubro
Lixo de Europa (2022; 8’) de Nbana Kabra & Samba Tenen
Sinopse: Curta-metragem humorística sobre emigrantes respigadores, nos contentores de lixo na zona de Queluz.
Nunde Independência (2023; 4’) de Axy Demba
Sinopse: Reflexão crítica sobre as conquistas alcançadas pela independência.
Poder di Tchom (2022; 22’) de Tcharlaça Comedy Bissau
Sinopse: As aventuras de um jovem guineense que deseja imigrar para a Europa.
ENTRADA LIVRE
Time
(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Organizer
Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Moita Municipality
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