23–25

October

2026

Materiais Adversos Weekend (MAw) is an intensive three-day gathering taking place from 23 to 25 October 2026, featuring public sharings from artistic residencies in Minde and Alcanena. It emerges from the desire to sustain an ongoing artistic presence in the region between editions of the materiais diversos festival, reinforcing the territory as a site for contemporary artistic creation beyond major urban centres.

The event positions itself as a temporary ecology of creation and encounter, where artistic research, practice and critical thought coexist, furthering Materiais Diversos’ commitment to decentralised, sustainable and collaborative cultural models.

Its first edition, in October 2026, proposes an artistic occupation of the village of Minde, where eleven artists working across a range of contemporary disciplines will develop their projects through a ten-day artistic and research residency. The event functions as a living platform for experimentation and artistic inquiry, inviting audiences into creative processes through open sharings, encounters, conversations and moments of conviviality. Over the course of the weekend, artists, local communities and national and international professionals come together to imagine new ways of creating, living together and engaging in critical reflection.

As part of the programme, the annual FUTURΛ Seminar takes place as a space for reflection on more ethical and sustainable ways of producing, supporting and disseminating contemporary artistic creation. Bringing together artists, programmers, curators and cultural practitioners, it fosters the exchange of practices and debate around cultural models that are more resilient, cooperative and committed to long-term thinking.

Artistas em residência de 14 a 25 de outubro 2026:

❦ Bibi Dória

❦ Connor Scott

❦ Grilo & Inês Campos

❦ Luísa Saraiva

❦ Marga Alfeirão

❦ Miguel Bonneville & Sofia Dinger

❦ Natacha Campos

❦ Pedro Barreiro

❦ Reina del Mar

Materiais Adversos Weekend is a free programme open to all audiences.

Programmers interested in attending fMA 2026 can get in touch via email at sofia.matos@materiaisdiversos.com.

Bibi Dória (Campo Grande, 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist with a degree in Dance from UNICAMP (Brazil) and an associate of the Rose Choreographic School (UK) 2024–26. She works at the intersection of dance, performance and cinema. Based in Lisbon (Portugal) since 2018, she develops her own artistic projects, including nome de filme (2021) and cão de sete patas (2024), and collaborates as a performer, assistant director and dramaturg with various artists. Among them is Bruno Brandolino (Uruguay), with whom she shares performance and creation of the work LA BURLA (2022). Her practice engages with themes related to memory, archives, fiction and imagination. gbidn.com

About the residency

The research to be developed is part of the creation of the performance Carnival in the Mud, the final solo within the Marginal Trilogy — a sequence of works exploring the interdisciplinarity between cinema, choreography and performance. It draws on the Brazilian Marginal Cinema movement of the 1970s, and in particular on the emblematic figure of actress and lead performer Helena Ignez.

Connor Scott is a dancer, performer and choreographer based in Lisbon, Portugal. His practice focuses on the forms of presence that emerge through the process of dancing, choreography and collaboration, often working with folk and social dance archives as materials to study and elaborate upon. Rooted in a practice of Ballroom and Latin social dances since the age of three, he trained in Ballet & Modern dance at Rambert School in London before studying on the PACAP(6) performance programme at Forum Dança in Lisbon, curated by Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz. As a performer he has worked with artists such as Theo Clinkard, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Thick & Tight, João Dos Santos Martins, Marcelo Evelin, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, Bruno Brandolino and Leah Morjević amongst others. Together with Ana Rita Teodoro, he co-hosts the experimental cabaret Primeira Vez at Espaço Parasita and is the author of the works POOF (2023) and Cat-Gut Jim (2025). connorscott.cargo.site

Inês Campos is an artist whose work spans dance, film, music and visual arts, exploring the relationship between the body and its symbolic place, and crossing the real and the unreal through a magical realist imaginary. With her latest creation fio ^, she received the SPA award for Best Dancer. Alongside her artistic creations and collaborations, she is a co-founder of the bands Sopa de Pedra and Tigre, and is currently focused on developing her work as an actress in the field of cinema. ines-campos.com

Grilo is a sound artist, performer, composer and poet, interested in utopia and hope as tools of resistance. He creates soundtracks for dance, theatre and film, has released more than a dozen albums, and performs live as an improviser, performer and singer-songwriter. He recently premiered ivu’kar, a multidisciplinary performance about invisibility and care, and published a book of the same name with Sr.teste publishing house. joaogrilo.com

About the residency

Fazer Ideia No. 3 is the sequel to a series of performances initiated by Inês Campos and João Grilo for non-conventional spaces. Exploring the relationship between the body and symbolic space through a poetic and pragmatic lens, the work brings forward questions around desire and collective purpose. In a continuous gesture where body, sound, text and action intertwine, they construct a practice of transformation, multiplicity and shared imagination that proposes a participatory experience.

Luísa Saraiva is a choreographer born in Porto, currently based between Porto and Berlin. Her choreographic work explores the language of the body and voice, situated at the intersection between movement and musical composition. She has developed extensive research into Portuguese oral heritage, approached through a critical perspective on the relationships between tradition, gender and power. In recent years, she has led workshops and participated in discussions on mental health in dance. She is co-director of the MULA festival with Cristina Planas Leitão. luisasaraiva.com

About the residency

This new research seeks to consider processes of sound production as models for dynamic relationships between body, circulation, reverberation and transmission. Taking the Leslie speaker and the Hammond organ as choreographic metaphors, this residency initiates an itinerant investigation into the relationships between different musical practices and associated forms of physicality.

Miguel Bonneville is a transdisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, writing, film and visual arts. Since the beginning of his career, he has worked through long-term cycles and projects in which conceptual research and formal experimentation are interwoven with a deep biographical engagement. In 2025, he was awarded the VS Literary Prize – Ernesto Sampaio. miguelbonneville.com

Sofia Dinger has been working for several years as a performer while creating her own artistic projects along the way. She completed the Das Arts Master’s programme in Amsterdam as a scholarship holder of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She writes every day. She is deeply interested in ghosts. But there are so many, so many people (which is why no names are mentioned; all have been important). She travels through the world. instagram

About the residency

With friends I learned that what hurts birds

is not being struck,

but that, once struck,

the hunter does not notice their fall.

— Daniel Faria

When the light goes out, what remains is listening and the attempt to continue seeing in the dark. With Reparar na Queda, we seek to deepen a research into what it means to resist — chaos, time, disappearance — and to continue creating from what fails. To give space to falling, not as defeat, but as a possibility for transformation.

Pedro Barreiro is an artist whose extensive practice spans work as a director, actor, stage-maker, dramaturg, producer, programmer and curator. In recent years, he has been particularly interested in thinking about performative acts as generators of poetic meaning, in experimenting with the conventions that constitute theatrical forms, and in strategies for dismantling hegemonic systems within contemporary art. Since 2020, he has been continuously creating and presenting the performance an artist is always working. He was artistic director of Teatro Sá da Bandeira in Santarém (2015–2017) and collaborated with Teatro Praga as programmer of Rua das Gaivotas 6 in Lisbon (2019–2022). He has been an associated artist of Cão Solteiro since 2020. He is also a founding member of the collectives Sr. João (2010) and Activo Tóxico (2017). He is artistic director of O Espaço do Tempo and of the Portuguese Platform for Performing Arts, and a member of the Board of Directors of the European Dance Development Network (EDN). instagram

About the residency

In this residency, Pedro Barreiro will be working on Escultura, one of the first pieces in the series The Art Working Series. The Art Working Series is a set of performative, contextual and site-specific works governed by the operative concepts of framing and naming, exploring various aesthetic variations in the relationship between art and labour, while also operating economically and politically at the intersection of these two fields.

Escultura is a piece that takes place in marble, limestone or granite quarries, where the cutting and extraction of a large stone block can be observed. The cutting and extraction of this block becomes the performance witnessed by audiences on site, enacted by quarry workers as part of their everyday labour.

Reina Del Mar, born in Serra d’Aire, is the alter ego of a curator working across programming, cultural production, artistic creation and sound. Her practice investigates the possibilities of listening as a feminist practice for composing archives, mutual support systems, tools and affects. She creates “broken instruction manuals” that navigate between the fog of hyper-stimulation and the fluidity of attention. She is part of the artistic collective and warehouse space Pedreira in Porto and a member of the curatorial team of Festival Tremor in the Azores. reina-del-mar.com

About the residency

Serra Juntas is a metal tool that, after heavy use, may appear broken yet still works: two steel rods that tighten against each other, struck so often they bend. Growing up in the Serra is like a Serra Juntas: you are struck, you appear broken, you become bent — yet you continue to function.

Vamos Juntes – Serras Juntas is intended as (perhaps) a continuation of the vade-mécum (vamos juntes), broken instruction manuals that, through text and sound, sediment maps of meaning through moments of remix, listening and sharing. The research continues to question the limits of formats of creation, curation and programming, starting from the myth of the cave and the rocky limestone imagination of the Serra landscape.

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