THERE IS NO END IN US
Terceira Pessoa is an artistic creation structure founded in 2012 by Ana Gil and Nuno Leão
His work is based on three axes of action: Creation, Mediation and Programming, always starting from approaches that cross several artistic expressions, which usually results in performative objects with a hybrid identity.
It is in the performing arts – theater, dance, performance – that Terceira Pessoa develops most of its work, having also developed projects in the visual arts, literature and digital art.
MISSION
IN ITS PROJECTS, THE THIRD PERSON FAVORS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, INTEGRATING PROFESSIONALS FROM DIFFERENT ARTISTIC LANGUAGES.
Reaching audiences of various age groups and from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds, Terceira Pessoa is building a project to bring the community closer to the cultural territories of its area, as well as other places in the country, and to promote an exchange between local heritage and contemporary languages.
THUS FOCUSES ITS ACTION ON THREE MAIN AXES:
– production and creation of artistic objects with the signature of the structure and dissemination of its areas of action as places of artistic production and creation and community projects at national and international level; – development and bringing audiences closer to contemporary artistic languages, through regular participatory and collaborative methodologies; – organization of multidisciplinary artistic programming cycles that promote the circulation of contemporary creators and public access to proposals of an admittedly contemporary and experimental nature.
HISTORY
In 2012 they developed the KURT COBAIN project, which included a group of young people aged 13 to 18. In 2013, in the HEY YOU project, they involved a group of 70 people of all ages in the creation and interpretation of a performance-manifesto. In 2014, with the INSCRIÇÃO project, they created a three-part show based on the book “Portugal, Hoje: o medo de existir” by José Gil. That same year they premiered the creation MÃOS PENSANTES OU MANUAL DE PENSAR. In 2015 they created the show PRIMEIRA INFÂNCIA: UM FABULÁRIO, which was part of TNDM II’s Newborn Cycle. In the same year they developed the multidisciplinary project FILOSOFIA DA PAISAGEM. In 2016, they premiered THE OLD IMAGE OF BEING LOVED in London, and presented it at various international and national theaters and festivals. In 2017 they premiered the show HERE IS ALWAYS ANOTHER PLACE and in 2018 the international collaboration show KIF-KIF (co-production with Teatromosca and Théatre de La Tête Noire).
As well as creative projects, Terceira Pessoa also runs SERVIÇO PÚBLICO – a series of talks about contemporary art; HÁ FESTA NO CAMPO and ALDEIAS ARTÍSTICAS, a project to develop villages through artistic practices. More recently, they created the show SENSO COMUM – UMA VAGA LEMBRANÇA DE UM ESPETÁCULO and FROM MY VILLAGE I SEE HOW MUCH OF THE EARTH CAN BE SEEN IN THE UNIVERSE (2018). In 2019 they will create the multidisciplinary artistic journey A LINE IS A POINT THAT WALKS.
They have also carried out various projects in the field of disciplinary crossings, involving more and more creators from various artistic languages and other areas of knowledge such as philosophy and science.
TEAM
Artistic Direction
Óscar Silva
Coordination of educational services and participatory art
Ana Gil
Production Management
Tamara Cruz
Communications and Press Office
Rita Piteira
Design
Cátia Santos
Audiovisual recording
Marta Costa
Associated Artists
Nuno Leão, Tiago Moura, Diogo Martins and Rui Dias
Óscar Silva
Artistic direction
In 2010 she graduated in Theater (Acting) from ESTC. In 2012/2013 she attended the Postgraduate Performance program at ECA-USP. In 2016 she completed a Master’s degree in Performance and Practice at the University of the Arts London – Central Saint Martins, with a scholarship from the GDA Foundation. Between 2010 and 2014 she lived and worked in São Paulo where she was assistant director at SP Escola de Teatro and was responsible for various pedagogical and artistic projects. She attended the École des Maîtres 2017. He works mainly in the broad field of theater and performance as a creator, director, actor, having collaborated with numerous artists and structures from different disciplines and different countries. He is the founder of Mr. João, with whom he works regularly and is currently the artistic director of Terceira Pessoa.
Ana Gil
Coordination of educational services and participatory art
In 2012 she founded the Terceira Pessoa association with Nuno Leão, where she will be artistic director until 2023 and where she has carried out creative projects in theater and cross-disciplinary projects, educational services, audience development and programming. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with the Educational Service of the CTA in Castelo Branco and developed artistic expression workshops for various theaters, schools, museums and libraries. She coordinates and directs artistic and educational intervention projects in various communities: Há Festa no Campo (PARTIS – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation & La Caixa Foundation); Manifesta-te (Gulbenkian Academies of Knowledge); Espíritos Livres no Estabelecimento Prisional da Guarda (DgArtes); RádioATIVIDADE no Estabelecimento Prisional da Guarda (PARTIS – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation & La Caixa Foundation). In 2021 she will be a guest lecturer at the Castelo Branco School of Education.
Tamara Cruz
Executive production direction
Amparo – São Paulo, Brazil. She has a degree in Public Management from SENAC – São Paulo and an MBA in Project Management from FGV – São Paulo. In 2017/2018, she was Public Policy Manager and Advisor to the Secretary of Culture at the São Paulo Municipal Secretary of Culture. She participated in the Secretariat’s projects and programs, coordinated the process of parliamentary amendments and articulated the Secretariat’s affairs with public and private structures. Between 2021 and 2023, she worked as Executive Producer, Administrative and Financial Manager of the projects of Vlaanderen Produções Culturais – opera producer, director of the Amazonas Opera Festival and member of Opera Latinoamérica – Opera “The Telephone”, “A Gift for Christmas”, 23rd and 24th Amazonas Opera Festival and Opera Gianni Schicchi. In 2020, she produced the HomeArt project – part of SESC’s annual network action, entitled “Modos de Acessar Week”. Between 2020 and 2023, she collaborated as Executive Producer at the Vozes Diversas Museum – a virtual space for the exhibition and enjoyment of non-normative, collaboratively constructed art, occupied by artists, thinkers and educators who are silenced and considered to be “outside the norm”. Between 2021/2022, she was a Culture Councillor for the Municipality of Amparo. Since October 2023, she has been part of the team at Terceira Pessoa – Associação, in Castelo Branco, Portugal, as Executive Producer.
Rita Piteira
Communications department and press office
Rita Piteira has a degree in History with a specialization in Animation and Management of Cultural Facilities (ISCTE – IUL); a degree in Management and Production of the Performing Arts (Fórum Dança). Over the last twenty years, she has worked in curatorship, management, programming, production, communication and cultural mediation and has collaborated with various national and international artistic and cultural organizations on inclusive artistic and cultural projects, performing arts, art and community, participatory art, tourism and cultural heritage. Since 2015, she has been co-director of Capote Música, where she is responsible for initiatives such as Capote Fest, À Sombra, Musicálogos, among other productions, as well as the agency of Portuguese musical projects. She coordinated the artistic and community mediation project Portadores de Arte (Évora 2021) and is responsible for consulting, coordinating and managing national and European cultural projects, covering programs such as Creative Europe, Erasmus+, Gulbenkian, PARTIS and Dgartes. She currently works with the cultural association Terceira Pessoa, in Castelo Branco, in the areas of communication and press relations.
Cátia Santos
Graphic design
Immersed in the world of Design and Audiovisual, she graduated in Communication Design and Audiovisual Production from ESART (2012) and since then has worked in various roles linked to Directing, Post-Production and Creativity in production companies. Over the last 10 years she has crossed different techniques and mediums, exploring the organic and the technological, creating an aesthetic language that is broken down into multiple layers. She explores abstract universes in her work, continually challenging the distinction between the real and the imaginary. In 2019, she started a new project as Co-Founder of the Creative Video Agency FLESH512, with the aim of working in the field of digital advertising. Since 2014, she has collaborated regularly with TERCEIRA PESSOA, being responsible for the communication design and video editing of various projects, including “Há Festa no Campo / Aldeias Artísticas”, “Inscrição”, “Singular”, “Espíritos Livres” and “In Loco”.
Marta Costa
Audiovisual recording
Born in Porto, she studied Audiovisual with an emphasis on image, from illustration to photography. She attended the Soares dos Reis Art School, where she did an internship with the OFM – Orquestra de Famílias de Matosinhos. In higher education, she took part in the Erasmus+ program, where she completed a semester in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has recorded various events such as the 2023 “Festa do Sol” on Terceira Island, Azores and has taken part in workshops such as the Lighting Workshop taught by Andreia Santos at DeM Week’23. She is also interested in a wide range of areas other than in-depth studies, taking part in the Representation Techniques for Television and Advertising Workshop with Rui Santos in Aveiro in July 2023 and volunteering for the APN – Portuguese Neuromuscular Association, also in 2023. She is currently working with Terceira Pessoa, developing audiovisual recordings of the association’s various projects.
ASSOCIATED ARTISTS
Diogo Martins
Research and artistic investigation
Diogo Martins (b. 1986) has a degree in Portuguese Studies, in the teaching branch. As an FCT Fellow, he obtained his PhD in Literary Theory, with a thesis entitled ‘The greener grass: self-representation in Alanis Morissette’. Between 2017 and 2023, he developed the post-doctoral project ‘Daring to corrupt: (o)retratistic case in Rui Nunes’, also funded by FCT. With Terceira Pessoa, he developed reading workshops as part of the show ‘Inscrição’ (2014) and has been running several editions of the ‘Serviço Público’ project since 2021. He is the co-author of the essay and photography books ‘Inside/Ouside’, ‘Dizer adeus às coisas’ (with Nuno Leão) and ‘Na imprecisa visão do vento’ (with Susana Paiva). In 2020, he joined the transdisciplinary collective ‘Rastro, Margem, Clarão’, a project by Terceira Pessoa dedicated to the writing of Rui Nunes. She has written articles and essays in scattered publications on poetry, literature and the performing arts. He is a contributor to Vila Nova Online magazine.
Tiago Moura
Content production and audiovisual documentary
He is dedicated to film and photography. In 2009, he began his studies at ESART (Castelo Branco Higher School of Applied Arts) with a degree in Communication Design and Audiovisual Production, and finished in 2013. With Terceira Pessoa he was responsible for the video and photography of various creations such as “Kurt Cobain”, “Hey You”, “Inscrição”, “Senso Comum – uma vaga lembrança de um espetáculo”, among others. She made the documentary “Where olive trees grow, men don’t die”, about the Há Festa no Campo/Aldeias Artísticas project. She created “Para que servem poetas em tempos de indigência?”, a video-poem based on “A Terceira Miséria” by Hélia Correia; and co-created the multidisciplinary walk and installation “Uma linha é um ponto que passeia”. She also made a documentary short film in partnership with the Warehouse Collective, with support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She is currently developing video and photography for Terceira Pessoa’s “Manifesta-te” and “Rastro, Margem, Clarão” projects.
Nuno Leão
Artistic consultancy
He has a degree in Theater from the Lisbon School of Theater and Cinema. He has been developing his artistic work since 2004, having developed various projects that cross the fields of creation, training, mediation, research and programming. She has collaborated with various theaters and artistic structures such as Artistas Unidos, Teatro Praga, Kobalt Works, Teatro Nacional São Carlos, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Cooperativa Comunicação e Cultura, Ajidanha, Cães à Solta, Comédias do Minho, among others. In 2012 he founded Terceira Pessoa – Associação with Ana Gil. There he took on the role of artistic director, having developed various artistic creation projects in theater, performance and visual arts, artistic training and mediation projects, research, publishing and programming in the most varied contexts and geographies. Since 2019, he has been an Adjunct Guest Professor at the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute’s School of Theater and Cinema, where he teaches Acting.
Rui Dias
Audiovisual research and investigation
He regularly presents artistic work as a composer, performer and programmer, focusing on electroacoustic music, improvisation and the creation of interactive musical and multimedia systems. Among the events and concerts he has participated in are the Música Viva Festival (Lisbon), the “Synthèse” Festival (Bourges, France), Electroacoustic Music Days, Unicer Laboratório Criativo, Tom de Vídeo Festival (Tondela), Future Places Festival (Porto), Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, Manobras in Porto, Suoni Inauditi (Livorno, Italy), Sonoscopia (Porto), Janeiro dos Grandes Espetáculos (Recife, Brazil), Serralves em Festa (Porto), Noite Branca (Braga), CARA Ano Zero (Matosinhos); Semibreve Festival (Braga), Phonambient Braga (GNRation), Som Riscado (Loulé).