PAR(S) 2

“Jung says that over the course of our life we come across archetypes. The Emperor walking up a steep street ahead of us. The Hermit sitting next to us by himself in a movie theatre. The female Pope handing us a book that will deeply change us. I watched you from afar, and I asked myself: The Hanged man? The Mad man?”
A correspondence between two strangers based on the importance of the symbolic in their lives: both retrieved that ancestral relation in the hope that they would better accommodate their grief or love.
At a time of symbolic misery, such representations seem ways to expand our perception of not only what surrounds us, but also of who we are after all: also representations, ready to deeply influence those crossing our paths.
"A New New Age is necessary".


In an increasingly digital and fast-moving world, there is a need to slow down and develop new presentation formats and, above all, new creation formats and working modes that will allow us to continue to consolidate artistic works, in the current reality. In a hybrid season between classroom and digital, the Teatro Municipal do Porto invites 8 artists for a special collaboration, designed specifically for online platforms, where a film director and a performing artist, in pairs, in an equal relationship , are invited to create a new digital object that crosses their universes and discourses. The moving image intersects with the areas of dance, contemporary circus, literature, theatre and animated forms, thus also allowing various audiences, even the most distant, to access these works.


TERESA COUTINHO (1988, Porto). She is an actress, creator and playwright. She has a degree in theatre – performance from ESMAE (Higher School of Music and Performing Arts) and completed her studies at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. She created Solo (2021), O Eterno Debate [The Eternal Debate] (2020), E comparar-te a um Dia de Verão? [Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day] (2018), a performance for children based on William Shakespeare with Maria Bayley and Joana Bagulho, Ways of Looking (2017), based on John Berger with Guilherme Gomes, Agora era Eu [It Was My Turn] (2017), a performance for children with Pedro Moura, Indicação para se perder [Directions to Get Lost] (2014), based on Marguerite Duras, with Constança Carvalho Homem, and the micro performance Amanhã à Mesma Hora [Tomorrow at the Same Time] (2012). Her works place particular emphasis on gender, identity, and power issues, and on the boundaries between reality and fiction. She worked with Tiago Rodrigues, Faustin Linyekula, Natália Luiza and Beatriz Batarda as assistant director. She worked as dramaturgy assistant in the performance Aurora Negra (2020) [Black Dawn], at Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II (TNDMII). She curated the on-line children programme “Apanhar o Sol” [Catching the Sun] at the invitation of LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões in 2020. She coordinates the poetry series “Clube dos Poetas Vivos” [Living Poets Society] at TNDM II. She is often invited to take part in poetry-related festivals as an actress, programmer and moderator.

PEDRO NEVES MARQUES were born in Lisbon and are a visual artist, director and writer. They have presented their films and works at art institutions such as Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries and Gasworks in London; High Line, Anthology Film Archives, SculptureCenter and e-flux in New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Jeu de Paume and Kadist Foundation in Paris; Castello di Rivoli, V-A-C Foundation and PAV in Italy; Botín Foundation and Matadero Madrid in Spain; Guangdong Times Museum, Yinchuan Biennale and Guangzhou Image Triennial in China; Museu Coleção Berardo and MAAT in Portugal; Gwangju Biennale and Liverpool Biennial, as well as at film festivals such as Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, IndieLisboa, Doclisboa and Mix Brasil, among many others. They co-founded the poetry publishing house livros do pântano, in which they published the poetry book Sex as Care and Other Viral Poems (2020). They have published articles in e-flux journal, The Baffler and Art Agenda, as well as in books by publishers and museums such as MIT Press, Sternberg Press, Archive Books, HKW and SESC São Paulo. They co-founded the online video channel inhabitants with artist Mariana Silva. They received the Present Future Prize at the Artissima art fair in 2018 and were shortlisted for the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize 2021. [text written in non-binary language at the request of Pedro Neves Marques]