Rogério Nuno Costa

The project “Vou à tua Mesa” (“I’m going to your table”) comes in the context of the trilogy “Eu Vou a tua Casa” (“I’m going to your house”) (2003/2006), a the atrical performance that happened at the homes of viewers, in public spaces to the viewers choice and at the artist’s own home. During the third phase of the project “Eu Vou atua Casa” (generally sub-titled “Side C”, 2006) the project “Vou à tua Mesa” began to take its first steps. The performance was the creation of a relational and referential context that happened at the table for a meal prepared by the artist, while host, speaker, chef, master of ceremonies and moderator of a fictionalized working meeting. The food is in this context not only a powerful metaphor denouncing the concepts of intimacy and closeness (dear to the entire trilogy), but also the pluperfect pretext for the realization of an idea of the atrical performance as a “meeting” using the specificelement of food as a device for a sensitive/sensorial revelation and as macro-concept, at the same time performative, ritualistic, visual and relational.

Lives and works in Lisbon, as an artist, researcher and teacher. He graduated in Social Communication and attends the Master in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies. He worked with the Teatro Praga, Sónia Baptista, Lúcia Sigalho, AlainBéhar, Rosa Coutinho Cabral, Nelson Guerreiro, Teresa Prima, among others. Also collaborated with several companies and structures, such as: Alkantara, CCB, Centroem Movimento, Chão de Oliva, Sonda Festival, Quarta Parede, Transforma AC, APAP.