Maria Teresa Projecto studied Painting in Lisbon (earning an MA in 2014). She is a PhD candidate in Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa), with a dissertation on the representational relations between performative and fine arts through the concepts of time and the sublime, under the guidance of Professor Tomás Maia, and a co-orientation in the area of Musicology from Professor João Pedro Cachopo. She is also a Researcher at the Center for the Investigation and Studies of the Fine Arts (CIEBA), where she is a member of the Painting Cluster, and at the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM), where she collaborates regularly with the Critical Theory and Communication Cluster. Her research interests encompass the subjects of art and theory of art, musicology and philosophy, with focus on issues involving artistic representation, mimesis, language and the relations between art and politics; painting, image and visuality; the notion of voice, both in singing and in relation to language; and the various dialogues and interchanges between the arts and philosophy. As a visual artist, she has participated in several art shows (solo and group shows), displaying her artistic investigation and collaborating with other artists, also in the form of publications and artists editions. She is a founding member of the collective of artists humor líquido (together with Ana Mata, Anabela Mota, Catarina Domingues, Marta Castelo, Nádia Duvall and Sara Belo). As a singer, she has been a member of several choirs, and worked with different conductors (such as Michel Corboz, Paul MacCreesh, Paulo Lourenço, Peter Phillips, Owen Rees, Vasco Pearce de Azevedo, Clara Alcobia Coelho, Pedro Teixeira, João Barros), vocal coaches (Jill Feldman, Ana Paula Russo, João Lourenço, Joana Nascimento, Geert Berghs), and has performed a broad list of musical repertoire, sometimes as a soloist, in concert halls such as Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro Cultural de Belém, or Fundación Juan March. As a soloist lyrical singer, she is currently coached by Ariana Russo. She has collaborated with Espaço Llansol ¿ Associação de Estudos Llansolianos in the organization, listing and edition of the archives of Portuguese writer Maria Gabriela Llansol. She has translated into Portuguese Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Pascal Quignard, Georges Bataille, John Berger, Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Marie Pontévia. She has participated in several peer reviewed research seminars such as Homo Mimeticus - A Transdisciplinary Approach, organized by Nidesh Lawtoo at KU Leuven Institute of Philosphy, and peer reviewed journals and magazines.