Paula Caspão (C91C-0524-8BC3)

Curriculum Vitae

Paula Caspão

Paula works internationally, at the intersection of artistic and theoretical research in the expanded fields of choreography, performance, experimental cinema and critical archival practices, borrowing methodologies from feminist science and technology studies, combined with anticolonial perspectives of infrastructure and environmental media studies. She is Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon, School of Arts and Humanities (FLUL), director of the Master in Theatre and Performance Studies. She is a researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies (CET), associated to the Institute for Contemporary History (IHC-UNL). She holds a PhD in Philosophy (epistemology and aesthetics) from the University of Paris Nanterre (2010) and was a visiting scholar at the Performance Studies / Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (2018). Paula is currently developing practices of collective cine-fabulation as a situated mode of inquiry, to address the kinds of (im)material labour, resource extraction and socio-environmental damage implicated in the very production of history, knowledge, and artificial intelligence, as well as in the maintenance of their institutions, technologies and political fictions. She has been presenting work in several artistic and academic research venues across Europe, the USA and Australia since 2005, intertwining choreographic with discursive practices, experimenting research formats that merge dissimilar kinds of (un)knowing, and enhancing the collective dimensions of reading, translating, and editing. To emphasize the forms of life (and death) implicated in any circumstances of research and/or composition, as well as the particular dramaturgies of study, research and theory-making, Paula has founded T-Fi (Theory-Fiction) Cabinet, an exploratory work-field of underground attachments between fictional and theoretical practices. With theoreticians and artists Ivana Müller, Bojana Bauer and Joachim Hamou, she co-founded INSTITUT, a Parisian platform for critical thought within artistic practices (2014). Since 2013 Paula is part of the collective baldio|Performance Studies with Lisbon peers, with whom she co-curated an Experimental Course in Performance Studies, Taking Position | The Political and Place (2016). She is the author of Relations On Paper (2013), editor of The Page As a Dancing Site (2014) and Pièces Assemblées (2017), and is currently editing the book Expanded Practices All Over: Studying-Working-Living With/Out Performance, which includes an audio-visual extension: With/Out the Museum (forthcoming 2027).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Paula Caspão

Citation names

Caspão, Paula

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: C91C-0524-8BC3
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.fr/scholar?lr=&q=paula+caspão&hl=fr&as_sdt=0,5

Websites

https://www.ceteatro.pt/node/210 (Professional)
baldiohabitado.wordpress.com/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities
Humanities - Arts - Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
German	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2016/01/01 - 2019/04/30 Concluded	Post-doctoral Research / Performance Studies. Centre for Theatre Studies, Lisbon University (Post-Doctorate) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2013/01/01 - 2015/12/31 Concluded	Post-doctoral Research / Performance Studies. Centre for Theatre Studies, Lisbon University (Post-Doctorate) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2004 - 2010 Concluded	PhD in Philosophy / Epistemology and Aesthetics, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense \| With Mention: Summa Cum Laude (Doctorate) Université Paris-Nanterre, France "Vis elastica de la sensation. Chorégraphies contemporaines" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Summa Cum Laude
2005 - 2005 Concluded	Practical Training: Analysing Dance / Body-Mind Centering / Hatha-yoga / Creative Process - Tanzquartier, Vienna, Austria (Others) Tanzquartier Wien GmbH, Austria
1997 - 1999 Concluded	Junior Research Fellow, Philosophy Department, Vienna University. Culture Department, Arts Academy of Vienna (Others) Universität Wien, Austria
1992 - 1998 Concluded	M.A. German Studies (Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language). Lisbon University (Master's Degree) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal "O Corpo do Anjo. Para uma reflexão estética sobre a linguagem" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	MUITO BOM
1995 - 1997 Concluded	Junior Research Fellow / Visiting Student in the frame of the M.A., Romanic Philology Department, Free University of Berlin (Others) Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
1987 - 1992 Concluded	B.A. in Germanic Culture, Linguistics, and Literature (5 years study with teaching training). (Licenciate Degree) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal "Heart of Darkness and The Heart of the Matter: The Works of Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15 valores
1991 - 1991 Concluded	Erasmus Fellowship / Undergraduate Student, one semester. Bielefeld University, Germany. Faculty of Linguistic and Literary Sciences (Others) Universität Bielefeld, Germany

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2014/01/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Associated researcher at Institute for Contemporary History, research cluster Economy and Society – State, Classes, Gender. , Portugal
	Faculty of Human and social sciences / Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2013/01/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Centre for Theatre Studies. Research cluster Discursive Practices in Performing Arts, Portugal
	Centre for Theatre Studies. Research cluster Discursive Practices in Performing Arts, Portugal
2019/05/01 - 2025/04/30	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

2013/01/01 - 2019/04/30	Postdoc (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2025/09/01 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	School of Arts and Humanities, Lisbon University, Portugal
	School of Arts and Humanities, Lisbon University, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/02/01 - 2018/06/30	Visiting Scholar / Performance Studies Department	New York University Tisch School of the Arts, United States

2014/08/01 - 2016/06/30	Lecturer and Advisor to the Head of Choreography	Danish National School of Performing Arts, Denmark

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2015/01/01 - Current	Member, collective ‘baldio \| Performance Studies’, Lisbon	Collective baldio / Performance Studies, Portugal

2011/01/01 - Current	Member, “Annuaire international des chercheurs en danse et performance du MUSEE DE LA DANSE”, Choreographic Centre of Rennes, in cooperation with ARCHIVES DE LA CRITIQUE D’ART.	Choreographic Centre of Rennes, France

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2016/01/01 - 2019/04/30	FCT Post-doctoral Fellowship. Research Project: Performances and Ecologies of the Museum /Archive: institution, history, preservation, curatorship, publication, as socio-choreographic practices. Centre for Theatre Studies, Lisbon University SFRH/BPD/88211/2012 Post-doc Fellow Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal	Concluded
2013/01/01 - 2015/12/31	FCT Post-doctoral fellowship. Research Project "Performance, Critique, Theory, Documentation, Archive: Exchanging Methodologies". Centre for Theatre Studies, Lisbon University SFRH/BPD/88211/2012 Post-doc Fellow Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2008/05/01 - 2008/05/10	Grant for scientific mobility, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Sense Lab, Laboratory Into the Folds, Concordia University, Montréal. no Other Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal	Concluded
2003/11/01 - 2007/10/31	FCT Doctoral Fellowship. Dissertation: "Vis elastica de la sensation. Chorégraphies contemporaines". Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia I.P. (Lisbon) SFRH/BD/13655/2003 PhD Student Fellow Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal	Concluded
2002/01/01 - 2002/08/31	Literary Creation Fellowship, IPLB / Fiction book: Anfi-biografias de Contágio no Other IPLB Portuguese Book and Libraries Institute, Lisbon. , Portugal
1997/09/01 - 1999/06/30	Austrian Science and Research Grant / ÖAD. Project: Contemporary art historiography and audio-visual culture no number Research Fellow ÖAD Austrian Science Fund, Austria Arts Academy, Vienna, Austria	Concluded
1995/09/01 - 1997/06/30	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Grant. Performative Reflection on Language / Research in the frame of the M.A. program no number Master Student Fellow Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal	Concluded
1991/02/15 - 1991/06/30	Erasmus Fellowship / Undergraduate Student, one semester. Bielefeld University, Germany. no number Other Bielefeld University, Germany. Faculty of Linguistic and Literary Sciences, Germany	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/02/01 - 2025/12/31	Institute of Rest(s): How to trouble productivity through dance and its spaces of communality R&D Research Fellow La Manufacture de Lausanne R&D , Switzerland HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Switzerland	IRMAS - HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland Ongoing
2022/01/14 - 2025/01/13	Archiving Theatre PTDC/ART-PER/1651/2021 10.54499/PTDC/ART-PER/1651/2021 Research Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Teatro, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2022/08/30	Noa & Snow - a choreographic social experiment between curating, writing and choreography AR 553 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Volkskundemuseum Wien – Wien Modern – Tanznacht Berlin – boîte de production – ICI-CCN de Montpellier – Occitanie supported by Le Farº Nyon – XING Bologna boîte de production is supported by The Creative Europe Programme of the European Union through, Austria	Austrian Science Fund (FWF) via PEEK Programme for Arts-based Research, project AR 553 Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2018/02/01 - 2018/06/30	Visiting Scholar at the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA. Research Project: "Gestures, Poetics, and Ecologies of the Museum / Archive" no Invited Scientist Fellow New York University Tisch School of the Arts, United States	Concluded
2016/09/15 - 2016/12/20	Experimental Course in Performance Studies The Political and Place. Co-curatorship with the collective baldio \| Performance Studies, Lisbon no Other Polo Cultural das Gaivotas, Lisbon , Portugal Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal	Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes Concluded
2014/04/01 - 2014/06/30	Artistic Research Editorial Project The Page As a Dancing Site no SSKS / KUV Copenhagen Artistic Research and Development Fund, Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen. , Denmark	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Caspão, Paula. Relations on paper. Lisbon: Ghost Editions.. Lisbon, Portugal: Ghost. 2013. Published
Book chapter	Caspão, Paula; Caspão, Paula. ""Reencontrar Miquelina e Miguel / Tornar-se DJ de Arquivos Visuais" in Teatro e Imagem - O Potencial Dramatúrgico da Fotografia no Teatro e na Performance. Coordenação Raquel M. Raimundo. Lisboa: Ed. Centro de Estudos de Teatro". Lisbon, Portugal, 2024. Accepted Caspão, Paula. ""Atlas de Remedeio Vocabular". In Cadernos Reenact Now. Coordenação de Carlos Costa. Porto: Edições Afrontamento.". 2024. Caspão, Paula; Oliveira, Carlos; Caspão, Paula. "Glossariar: ensaio permanente¿. In Dança Não Dança. Coordenação de Ana Dinger, João S. Martins, Carlos OLIVEIRA, Ana Bigotte Vieira, Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / Imprensa Nacional.". 2024. Accepted Caspão, Paula. ""Texturages: Vignettes Rassemblagées to Rehearse Re-fusal". In Noa & Snow: Poem#10 [a publication in the form of a thank you dance]. Edited by Alix Eynaudi and Goda Budvytyte, Berlin: Bom Dia Books, 2022. ISBN 978-3-96436-058-8". 2022. Caspão, Paula. "With Eynaudi, Alix; Pujol, Quim, "Institute of Rest(s). A Shady Dance". In Noa & Snow Snow: Poem#10 [a publication in the form of a thank you dance]. Edited by Alix Eynaudi and Goda Budvytyte, Berlin: Bom Dia Books, 2022.". 2022. Caspão, Paula. ""Fotonovela Replicante". In Artes Performativas e Cultura Digital. João Estevens, ed. Lisboa: Ed. Montanha & Rabbit Hole, 2021,188-197.". 2021. Caspão, Paula. "Dance's Posthumous Frequentations in Times of Compulsive Enlivenment". In Práticas de Arquivo em Artes Performativas. Editado por Cláudia Madeira, Fernando Matos Oliveira, Hélia Marçal. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.". 149-170. Portugal, 2020. Published Caspão, Paula. ""Hiena" e "Taxidermia". In Práticas performativas em torno d'O Animal. Editado por Daniel Tércio. Lisboa: polo INET-MD, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, 2019. E-book. pp. 226-228 e 259-262, respectivamente. ISBN 978-972-735-238-8.". 2019. Caspão, Paula. ""Moments of" (with Cogne, Ingrid). In For and By Six Formats. Edited by Cogne, Ingrid. Vienna: Academy of Fine Arts.". 2018. Caspão, Paula. "A sense of Place: Re-membering PEPCC". In My Background is now: memories and processes of a contemporary dance training program. Edited by Tonguz, S.; Canarim, C.; Salaroli, J.; Teles Grilo, V. Lisbon: (Re)union.". 2018. Caspão, Paula. ""Let's Walk Around Here and call it study: diaries of an outdoor-study-practice". In Calling Out of Context: Reading Manual. Edited by Joachim Hamou. Paris: Paraguay Press, 2017, pp. 95-120.". 95-120. Paris, France, 2017. Published Caspão, Paula; Fiadeiro, João. "O Fim dos Princípios: Correspondência entre João Fiadeiro e Paula Caspão". In Tubo de Ensaio: Composição [Intervenções + Intersecções]. Edited by Jussara Xavier, Sandra Meyer, and Vera Torres. Florianópolis: Fundação Cultural de Florianópolis.". 0-0. Brazil: Fundação Cultural de Florianópolis, 2016. Published Caspão, Paula. ""INVERTIR INCLINACIONES ¿hay vida en el hacer teórico?". In Ejercicios de Ocupacion: Afectos, Vida y Trabajo, edited by Ixiar Rozas and Quim Pujol. Barcelona: Mercat de les Flors, Institut del Teatre, Ediciones Polígrafa [Col. Cuerpo de Letra / #5 Danza y Pensamiento].". 124-150. Barcelona, Spain: Mercat de les Flors, 2015. Published Caspão, Paula. "A collection of Poems. In Let’s poem back, edited by Alice Chauchat (with: Alix Eynaudi, Valentina Desideri, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Keith Hennessy, Jennifer Lacey, Rasmus Olme, Angela Schubot), 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 29, 31, 41, 43, 46. Lisbon: Ghost editions, 2014". 2014. Caspão, Paula; Laermans, Rudi; De Baecque, Antoine; T'Jonck, Pieter; Peeters, Jeroen; Ploebst, Helmut; Vande Veire, Frank; Baudelot, Alexandra & Superamas; Van Campenhout, Elke. "“Big Bestiary of Blending”/ “Le Grand bestiaire des mélanges”. In SUPERAMAS: Big 3 episodes [art/discourse], edited by Superamas & Jeroen Peeters (bilingual), 9-12 ; 27-28 ; 47-49 ; 73-74 ; 111-113 ; 131-132 ; 153-154 ; 171-172 ; 191-193. Paris: Les Presses du Réel, 2010". 9-193. Dijon, France: Presses du Réel, 2010. Published Sloterdijk, Peter; Kwan, SanSan; Mitra, Royona; Joy, Jenn; Gil, José; Manning, Erin; Caspão, Paula; et al. "“Stroboscopic Stutter: On the Not-Yet-Captured Ontological Condition of Limit-Attractions”. In Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory and the Global, edited by André Lepecki & Jenn Joy, 123-159. London/New York/Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2009. Originally published in TDR n°194 (New York: MIT Press, 2007)". In Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory and the Global, 123-159. London / New York / Calcutta, United States: Seagull Books, 2009. Published Zabaleta, Idoia; Francisco, Filipa; Lepecki, André; Caspão, Paula; Lima, Dani; Conde-Salazar, Jaime; Rozas, Ixiar; Fabião, Eleonora. "“Foggy Silk Senses”. In Bicho eres un bicho, edited by Idoia Zabaleta & Filipa Francisco, 41-44. Costa da Caparica/Lasierra: Moare Danza, 2009". 41-44. Costa da Caparica & Lasierra, Portugal: Moare Danza, 2009. Published Lefebvre, Henri; Hewitt, Andrew; Caspão, Paula; Badiou, Alain; Virtanen, Akseli; Bel, Jérôme; Massumi, Brian; et al. "“Get High: On aerobic politics and other highly cinematic genres”. In The Swedish Dance History I, 134-139. Stockholm: Danshögskolan University College of Dance/Inpex/Konstnärsnämnden, 2009". 134-139. Stockholm, Sweden: Danshögskolan University College of Dance/Inpex/Konstnärsnämnden, 2009. Published
Conference paper	Caspão, Paula. ""Letters to Imagine Some Ends to This World". In Artistic Research Lab: on the notion of practice [E-book]. Copenhagen: Dansehallerne.". 2019. Published
Edited book	Caspão, Paula, ed. Pièces Assemblées. Geneva, Bern & Bienne: HEAD & HEAB.. Geneva, Switzerland: HEAD. 2017. Caspão, Paula, ed. The Page as a Dancing Site. Lisbon: Ghost Editions.. Lisbon / Copenhagen, Portugal: Ghost. 2014.
Journal article	Caspão, Paula. ""Rassemblages Pre-Lúdicas para Ensaiar Recusar", Coreia #5 [projeto editorial de carácter artístico, crítico e discursivo, editado por João dos Santos Martins], Associação Parasita & Circular Associação Cultural, Setembro 2021, pp.12-13. ISSN 2184-4461". (2021): Caspão, Paula. ""Let's Walk Around Here and call it study". (republication of a book chapter from 2017) Interact, review of Art, Culture, and Technology. http://interact.com.pt/author/paula-caspao/". (2018): http://interact.com.pt/author/paula-caspao/. Caspão, Paula. "“Sticky Tales for Affect”. Maska: The Performing Arts Journal Vol. 29 / Issue 161-162 (2014): 26- 43". Maska: The Performing Arts Journal 29 161-162 (2014): 26-43. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=18088. Published Caspão, Paula. "“Dramaturgies of Transplantation: Brief Document Across a Long Term Practice”. Critical Dialogues / Dance Dramaturgies (ed. Jodie McNeilly) / Sydney: Critical Path (2014): 16- 19". (2014): Caspão, Paula. "Implausible connections: on the uses of an (in)certain choreographic. SCORES n°1 Touché / Wien: Tanzquartier (2011): 52-59.". SCORES n°1 – touché, Wien, Tanzquartier 1 (2011): 52-59. http://www.tqw.at/sites/default/files/Scores_1_Kern_Web_FINAL.pdf. Published Burt, Ramsay; Noeth, Sandra; Kalem, Aylin; Bleeker, Maaike; Solomon, Noémie; Caspão, Paula. "“On the difficulty of producing an egg (a title I could not have produced myself)”. Research in Dance and Performance Series / Istanbul: Bimeras (2009): 58-65". Research in Dance and Performance Studies, Bogazici University / Bimeras, 2009 01 (2009): 58-65. Published Caspão, Paula. "“Stroboscopic Stutter: On the Not-Yet-Captured Ontological Condition of Limit-Attractions”, The Drama Review n°194 (2007): 136-156". The Drama Review [TDR], 51 : 2 T194 (2007): 136-156. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tdr/summary/v051/51.2caspao.html. Published Caspão, Paula. "“De toekomst van het theater II” [original title: “50 years to go: sounding, asking – on the future of the theatre”]. Etcetera: Dans, Theatre, Futurologie nr. 109 (2007): 33-36". Etcetera: Dans, Theatre, Futurologie 109 (2007): 33-36. Published Caspão, Paula. "“Big2 et micro-perceptions”. Mission Impossible n°01 (2006): 60-79". MISSION IMPOSSIBLE hiver / printemps 2006 01 (2006): 60-79. http://www.lmda.net/din/tit_lmda.php?Id=52414. Published
Journal issue	Caspão, Paula. "Vicente, Gustavo (ed.), Dossier temático "A Prática como Investigação (Practice As Research)", Sinais de Cena. Série II n°4 2020, pp.9-61. ISSN 1646-0715/ e-ISSN 2184-9552.". (2020): Published
Magazine article	Caspão, Paula. "“Touch Tours: A short assemblage of homemade musicals”. In TO DO: Short Essays, edited by Johan Thelander, 16-26. Stockholm: möte09 c/o Hybris Konstproduktion, 2010", 2010, http://www.atelier-real.org/res/ImagensHOMEPAGE/jornal06_atelier_real.pdf. Caspão, Paula; Höller, Herwig G.. "Gehen bis nichts mehr geht: Bilder aus der österreichischen Protestbewegung gegen Schwarz-Blau, SPRINGERIN / Hefte für Gegenwartskunst", SPRINGERIN / Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, 2000, http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft.php?id=11&pos=0&textid=0&lang=de.
Online resource	Caspão, Paula; Caspão, Paula. "Conferência-Performance". In Condomínio: Um Léxico para as Artes Performativas em Portugal (1960-2020) [Website]. Cláudia Madeira (ICNOVA-NOVA/FCSH), Fernando Matos Oliveira (CEIS20-UC), Mickael de Oliveira (CET-INET), org.. 2022.
Preface / Postscript	Caspão, Paula. "Experimentações Prefatórias. In VIEIRA, Ana B. (ed.) - Histórias do Experimental. Lisboa: Sistema Solar.". 2024. Accepted
Translation	Van Imschoot, Myriam. Translation / Van Imschoot, Myriam. “Rests in Pieces: Sobre partituras, notações e traços em dança”. Jornal Atelier Real / Ciclo Restos, Rastos e Traços: Práticas de Documentação na Criação Contemporânea (2011). Lisboa, Portugal: Jornal Atelier Real. Ciclo Restos, Rastos e Traços. 2011. Grand Magasin. Several articles for the journal Cairon – Revista de estudios de danza n° 14 / To be continued. 10 textos en cadena y unas páginas en blanco (ed. Victoria Perez Royo & Cuqui Jerez). Universidad de Alcalá: Madrid, 2010. Madrid, Spain: CAIRON – Revista de estudios de danza (Victoria Perez Royo & Cuqui Jerez dir.), n° 14. 2010. Caspão, Paula. Several articles for the journal Cairon n°12 / Cuerpo y arquitectura (ed. Fernando Quesada & Amparo Ecija). Universidad de Alcalá: Madrid, 2009. 2009. Caspão, Paula. Several articles for the journal Cairon n°11 / Cuerpo y cinematografía (ed. José A. Sanchez, Isabel de Naverán). Universidad de Alcalá: Madrid, 2008. 2008. Nancy, Jean-Luc; Fabbri, Veronique. With Petra Sabisch: Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Ich weiss sehr wohl, dass ich nie gut getanzt habe: Ein Gespräch mit Véronique Fabbri” [original title: “Entretien avec Jean-Luc Nancy, par Véronique Fabbri”, Rue Descartes / Penser la danse contemporaine, n° 44 / Collège International de philosophie/PUF (2004): 62-78]; CORPUS Internet Magazin für Tanz, Choregrafie, Performance, 2006. Austria, Austria: CORPUS Internet Magazin für Tanz, Choregrafie, Performance, 2006. 2006.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic performance	2017. Guest Artist [research and dramaturgy], with DD Dorvillier. “We Are Dancers”, a Concert, by Fanclub dance collective, Copenhagen. Inspiration Room at Bora Bora, Aarhus; Dansehallerne / Koncertkirken, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2017. Co-writing and Installation. “Notes” [on the Gestures of Reading and Writing], by Ivana Müller. With Bojana Kunst, Paz Rojo, David Weber-Krebs, Ant Hampton, Jonas Rutgeerts. Freiburg City Theatre / Heritage Depot Project, Freiburg, Germany. 2017. Guest Artist from a distance (with Rebecka Stillman). “SELECTION-REDO: Remote Sensing/Cinematic Montage”, by Sara Gebran & Rodrigo Sobarzo. Dansehallerne, Copenhagen. 2016. Inter(in)animated Archives. Performative Reading. Opening Event of Taking Position \| The Political and Place, Experimental Course in Performance Studies, curated by baldio \| Performance Studies. Polo Cultural das Gaivotas, Lisbon.. 2016. Dramaturgical support. “TUTUGURI”, by Flora Detraz. Alkantara Studios and Festival Materiais Diversos, Minde, Portugal. 2014. The Page as a Dancing Site. Book Launch Performance. The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation / Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen, Danemark.. 2014. PRÁCTICAS FANTASMAGÓRICAS. La Fuller como espacio de especulación. At the Exhibition Intermitencias del Asombro / Escenarios del cuerpo. Las metamorfosis de Loïe Fuller, curated by Ana Buitrago. La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.. 2012. “T-Fi (Théorie-Fiction). Objet sonore sur les aspects ficcionnels de la connaissance et vice-versa”. Festival CRITIQUES / Centre Chorégraphique d’Angers / CNDC, Angers, France.
Audio recording	Caspão, Paula. 2016. "Horizontal Speculations: across Archival In(trans)formations. Sound Object. Festival Dias Da Dança, A.D. / Dancing Archive, Teatro Rivoli, Porto, Portugal.". Caspão, Paula. 2015. "Inter(in)animated Docu-Speculations. Sound Lecture in the frame of Studio Practice: The Personal is Political, by Valentina Desideri. Skogen / Performing Arts, Göteborg, Sweden.". Caspão, Paula. 2014. "Co-writing and voicing. “From Afar. By the River, ERREKAN – a sound book”, with June Crespo, Elena Aitzkoa, Isabel de Navera´n, Itziar Okariz, Marion Cruza Le Bihan, Miren Jaio, Cristina Redondo, Idoia Zabaleta, Ixiar Rozas. Recording and Design web: Rafael Marti´nez del Pozo. Azala, Lasierra, Spain".
Choreography	2010. Drama (De)vices” (with Valentina Desideri). Artistic Documentation Cycle: “Leftovers, Tracks and Traces”, curated by David-Alexandre Guéniot, Atelier Real, Lisbon, Portugal. 2010. IT HAPPENED IN THE ISLES OF SCILLY AT EXACTLY 6 - Cycle Scores #1 - Touché. Tanzquartier Wien, Austria. 2010. IT HAPPENED IN PRAIRIE DU CHIEN AT EXACTLY 7 (#2). Journeys on Performance “La utilidad de lo inútil”, ARTIUM / Basque Contemporary Art Museum, Vitoria, Spain. 2009. IT HAPPENED IN PRAIRIE DU CHIEN AT EXACTLY 7 (#1). Dance Festival La porta, Barcelona, Spain.
Video recording	Caspão, Paula. 2020. Iconographic Critical Poem. Volkskundemuseum, Vienna. Showcased by Noa&Snow “Poem#1”. Artistic Research Project / Alix Eynaudi. PEEK Austrian Science Fund..
Visual artwork	Caspão, Paula; Caspão, Paula. MOUTHS FULL, unaccomplished cine-fabulations. Programme SECUENCIA#2 About the Performative, Fabra i Coats Contemporary Art Centre Barcelona. 2023.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/11/25	Keynote "In Terms of (Un)Freedom" / Wording Performance	Curated by Christa Spatt, Tanzquartier, Vienna.
2022/02/25	Keynote: Ecologies of Reading in Artistic Research.	XVI Jornadas CIAC - Practice-based Research in the Arts and Communication Algarve University (Faro, Portugal)
2021/06	Essay film presentation: MUTE POEM for Entangled Reading.	Journées Etudes 'En lisant, en dansant: formes et pratiques de la lecture en danse (enseignement, création et représentation)'. IHNA - Institut National dHistoire de lArt, Paris. Centre National de la Danse. Org. Centre National de la Danse; CRAL - Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage EHESS/CNRS. (Paris, France)
2019	Keynote: All Together in Practice As Research As Improvisation: 3 Letters to Imagine Some Ends to This World. Lecture Performance.	Summer School UNFINISHED: Practice as Research / Transdisciplinary Knowledge. Armazém 22, Vila Nova de Gaia

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/01/01 - Current	Anne Juren (FR/A), "Choreotherapy" - postdoctoral project. Supervisor at the Centre for Theatre Studies Teatro (FLUL): Paula Caspão; Supervisor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: Eleonora Fabião. Project funded by the Swedish Research Council. Co-supervisor	Postdoctoral (Other) Centre for Theatre Studies FLUL, Portugal Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2023/12/01 - Current	Francisca Meleiro, “A memória do trabalho de uma artista: Lúcia Sigalho”, Dissertação de Mestrado, Programa em Estudos de Teatro, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Supervision: Paula Caspão. [ONGOING]. Supervisor of Francisca Meleiro	Centre for Theatre Studies FLUL, Portugal
2023/02/01 - Current	Soledad Rodriguez, "Re-vocalizar a ECO: construcción de narrativas feministas corpo-vocales a partir del pensamiento y la práctica pos humanista". Supervision Paula Caspão. Co-supervision: José Maria Vieira Mendes. FCT Fellowship, Ref. 2023.00720.BD. [ONGOING] Supervisor of Soledad Figueroa Rodríguez	Centre for Theatre Studies FLUL, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/06/01 - Current	Joana Oliveira, "Sem Raízes", Tese de Doutoramento, Programa em Artes Performativas e da Imagem em Movimento, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. Orientação de Paula Caspão. [ONGOING]. Supervisor	Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa., Portugal
2022/06/01 - Current	Lida Bonakdar, "Backfiring Female Bodies /Performances of the Iranian Revolution" (título provisório), Tese de Doutoramento, Programa em Estudos de Teatro, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Orientação de Paula Caspão. FCT Fellowship, Ref. 2023.03524.BD [ONGOING]. Supervisor of Lida Bonakdar	Centre for Theatre Studies FLUL, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/04/01 - Current	Joana Santos "Inhabiting damaged ecologies: Artistic practices for livable futures", Tese de Doutoramento, Programa em Artes Performativas e da Imagem em Movimento, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. Supervision: Paula Caspão. FCT Fellowship, Ref. 2022.09575.BD [ONGOING]. Supervisor	Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa., Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal Centre for Theatre Studies FLUL, Portugal
2022/01/01 - Current	Dárida Rodrigues, “Oráculo: Onírico-partituras e Insurgência ”, Tese de Doutoramento, Programa em Artes Performativas e da Imagem em Movimento, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. Supervision: Paula Caspão; co-supervision: Gustavo Vicente. FCT Fellowship, Ref. 2023.04522.BD [ONGOING]. Supervisor	Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa., Portugal Centre for Theatre Studies FLUL, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/01/01 - Current	Raquel André, “Encontrar Pessoas: Práticas de Encontro, Práticas de Investigação, Investigação como Prática”, Tese de Doutoramento, Programa em Estudos de Teatro, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Orientação de Paula Caspão. FCT Fellowship, Ref. UI/BD/150814/2021 [ONGOING]. Supervisor	Centre for Theatre Studies FLUL, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/04/01 - 2023/03/08	Laura Rozas, "Formas Coreográficas de Reflexão Histórica: 'Para uma Timeline a Haver. Genealogias da dança enquanto prática artística em Portugal'”, Dissertação de Mestrado, Programa em Estudos de Teatro, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Orientação de Paula Caspão. [CONCLUDED, 8 March 2023]. Supervisor	Centre for Theatre Studies FLUL, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/01/22 - 2024/01/26	RAIA residency at Espaço Alkantara, PhD candidates in Artistic research present and discuss their current theoretical and artistic experimentations. (2024/01/22 - 2024/01/26) Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)	Centre for Theatre Studies. Research cluster Discursive Practices in Performing Arts, Portugal Espaço Alkantara, Portugal
2023/10/03 - 2023/10/06	Artistic Research Lab Poetry without Poets #2 \| Choreo-somatics of Resting Dissidence at Forum Dança, Lisbon. A collaboration and partnership between Expanded Practices All Over (Paula Caspão) and R&D project Institut of Rest(s) (Alix Eynaudi) (2023/10/03 - 2023/10/06) Workshop (Co-organiser)	Forum Dança, Portugal La Manufacture de Lausanne R&D , Switzerland Centre for Theatre Studies. Research cluster Discursive Practices in Performing Arts, Portugal
2023/03/27 - 2023/03/27	Co-curator. Public seminar: "Conversing with leaves and listening to ghosts" by Uriel Orlow, in the frame of a collaboration with the cycle (Un)safe Conversations (org. Gustavo Vicente & Maíra Santos). Espaço Alkantara, Lisbon. (2023/03/27 - 2023/03/27) Seminar (Co-organiser)	Espaço Alkantara, Portugal Centre for Theatre Studies. Research cluster Discursive Practices in Performing Arts, Portugal
2022/04/13 - 2022/04/13	Curator. EXPANDED PRACTICES All Over with Shannon Jackson (UC Berkeley). Lecture at TBA: Pandemic Aesthetics and Post Pandemic Infrastructures. Workshop at C.E.M. (2022/04/13 - 2022/04/13) Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Teatro, Portugal University of California Berkeley, United States C.E.M, Portugal
2021/10/25 - 2021/10/31	Organização da Primeira Residência da RAIA – Rede de Apoio à Investigação Artística (rede lançada em 12 de Janeiro por cinco investigadores do CET). Apresentação pública de cinco processos de investigação, de estudantes a desenvolver Doutoramento e Mestrado no Programa de Estudos de Teatro ou associados ao Centro de Estudos de Teatro via Perphoto Lab [URL]. Produção: Paula Caspão / CET-FLUL e Espaço Alkantara, Lisboa. (2021) Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)	Centre for Theatre Studies. Research cluster Discursive Practices in Performing Arts, Portugal
2021/07/07 - 2021/07/07	Curator. EXPANDED PRACTICES All Over with Fred Moten (NYU, EUA). Lecture Online: A Defense of Two-Dimensionality. Scientific Committee: Paula Caspão & Valentina Desideri (University of British Columbia, CA). (2021/07/07) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	Centre for Theatre Studies. Research cluster Discursive Practices in Performing Arts, Portugal TBA Theatre, Portugal New York University Tisch School of the Arts, United States
2020/04 - 2020/04	Curator. EXPANDED PRACTICES All Over with Fred Moten (NYU, USA) & Alix Eynaudi (PEEK/FWF Austria). International Encounter in format Residency-Workshop-Talk. POSTPONED due to pandemia. (2020)	Centre for Theatre Studies. Research cluster Discursive Practices in Performing Arts, Portugal TBA Theatre, Portugal Espaço Alkantara, Portugal Casa Atelier Vieira da Silva, Portugal
2019/11 - 2019/11	Curator. EXPANDED PRACTICES All Over with Shannon Jackson (UC Berkeley, USA). Workshop at Polo das Gaivotas: Public Service and Public (Re)Assembly. Lecture at TBA: Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good. Performing Publics in the Age of Neo-liberalism (2019) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	Centre for Theatre Studies. Research cluster Discursive Practices in Performing Arts, Portugal TBA Theatre, Portugal Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal Casa Atelier Vieira da Silva, Portugal Polo Cultural das Gaivotas, Lisbon , Portugal
2019/04 - 2019/04	Curator. EXPANDED PRACTICES All Over \| re-practicing multispecies story-telling and story-sounding in times of neoliberal performance. International Encounter in format Residency-Workshop-Talk, with guests Myriam van Imschoot & Marcus Bergner (B / AU) (2019 - 2019) Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)	Centre for Theatre Studies. Research cluster Discursive Practices in Performing Arts, Portugal Espaço Alkantara, Portugal Casa Atelier Vieira da Silva, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/11/01 - 2023/04/05	“Practices of Translation”, organized by Mette Edvardsen (with guests Olivia Fairweather, Kate Briggs, Pascal Poyet, Laia Argüelles, Quim Pujol, Victoria Perez Royo, Léa Poiré), Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers Paris, 2022 and 2023.	Pratiques de traductrice Laboratoires d¿Aubervilliers Paris, France
2023/02/07 - 2023/02/11	Artistic Research Lab “Poetry without Poets #1 \| Choreo-somatics of Resting Dissidence” Tanzquartier Vienna, in the frame of the R&D project Institute of Rest(s) (PI Alix Eynaudi, Manufacture de Lausanne). Workshop	Choreo-somatics of Resting Dissidence Tanzquartier Vienna, Austria La Manufacture de Lausanne R&D , Switzerland

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2022/06/06	Vanessa Montesi. PhD: Moving Across Page, Stage, Canvas: Theatrical Dance as a Form of Intermedial Translation. Literature and Culture / Comparatist Studies, Lisbon University. (Thesis) Arguer	Vanessa Montesi (PhD) Comparatist Studies, FLUL, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/05/10	Rita Maria Neves Baeta Neves. MD: O Corpo como Arquivo da Guerra Colonial. Investigação artística. Espectáculo Corpo Suspenso. Programa em Estudos de Teatro, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa. President of the jury	Rita Maria Neves Baeta Neves (Master) Centre for Theatre Studies FLUL, Portugal
2021/11/29	Ignacio de Antonio Antón. PhD: Fugitive Dancers. Supervision: José A. Sanchéz, co-supervision: André Lepecki. Programa de Doctorado em Investigación em Humanidades, Artes y Educación, Universidad de Castilla-la-Mancha, Cuenca, Espanha. (Thesis) Arguer	Ignacio de Antonio Antón (PhD) Universidad de Castilla-la-Mancha, Cuenca, Espanha, Spain
2021/11/26	Anne Juren. PhD: Studies On Fantasmical Anatomies. Supervision: André Lepecki (NYU, USA); co-supervision: Sandra Noeth (Inter-University Centre for Dance, Berlin HZT). Programme Performative and Media-Based Practices. Stockholm University of the Arts (Thesis) Arguer	Anne Juren (PhD) Stockholms konstnärliga högskola, Sweden
2019/12/06	Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt. PhD: Everybody Counts. Aesthetics of Production in Higher Artistic Education and Performance Art Collectives. Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University. (Thesis) Main arguer	Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt (PhD) Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2023/12/11 - 2023/12/12	Archiving Theatre	Teatro Nacional S. João.

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2019 - 2019	S2: “Practice As Research” (30-hour PhD Seminar). Centre for Theatre Studies, Lisbon University
2019 - 2019	S2: “Archive and Memory of Performance” (45-hour M.A. Seminar), Centre for Theatre Studies, Lisbon University
2019 - 2019	'Expanded Choreography’. Lecture in the M.A. Seminar 'Dança em Contexto’. Org. Sílvia Pinto Coelho / FCSH-UNL

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2022/06/01 - 2033/01/01	Expert Member / Evaluation committee Direção Geral das Artes, Programa de Apoio Sustentado \| Bienal e Quadrienal \| 2023-2026, in the field of Dance. Evaluator	Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal	Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes
2022/04/01 - 2022/06/07	Expert Member / Fellowships for Training in the Arts Abroad 2022, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in the field of Theatre. Evaluator		Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
2022/04/01 - 2022/04/30	Expert Member, Admission Committee / PhD at the Centre for Theatre Studies, FLUL. With Maria João Brilhante and Rui Pina Coelho.		Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras

Distinctions

Award

2005	Literary Prize M. Amália V. Carvalho / CM de Loures e IPLB, Instituto Português do Livro e das Bibliotecas, Lisbon. Narrative fiction: Anfi-Biografias de contágio IPLB - Instituto português do Livro e das Bibliotecas / Câmara Municipal de Loures, Portugal

Title

2012	Maître de Conférences en Arts du spectacle [French Certificate: University Lecturer in Performing Arts]. Conseil National des Université -CNU [French National University Council].

Other distinction

2011	PhD Dissertation Nomination for the Award Prix de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris. Chancellerie des Universités de Paris La Sorbonne, France