Leo Perene
Artist Statement
Emerging Experimental Trans-disciplinary Artivist.
Leo's art-life is deeply informed and guided by the collective radical imagination of a symbiotic inter-espicies worlds were radical care and tenderness bloom, mutual aid flows abundantly, accessibility is fotosinthetised and sustainability is inherent to to everyday magic.
Interested in collabing with different people, collectives, organizations, structures, as well as materials, formats, places, networks, and processes.
Privileging horizontality and counter-hegemony, they wish to creat in interconnectedness.
Image's Description
Collage of self photo portrait.
At the front, Leo's selfie. Greens hairs crown the top of their head. Their oval face is covered by a pink seathrough plastic net. Eyes and mouth slighly open. Hanging from the neck, a tied up rope.
In the background, a photo of handcut pieces of newspaper (in yellow, black and white) with the words "we decide" and "eviction", partially overlapping on top of a white surface.
A performance?
Background
After studying Intercultural Psychology, getting in touch with their own inner creative and activist, Leo left the accademic world to collectively dream-experiment other ways of surviving and thriving.
With a focous on the intersections between the Cultural and the Social Sectors, they've been mostly involved in groups and projects on the fields of Performance Art, Audiodescription, Mutual Aid and Anti-fascist Resistance.
Artistic Training
& Participations
*and a bit-lot more
Performance Courses & Labs with Presentations
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LAB/Performance "Batucada", by Marcelo Evelin (at Casa da Dança de Almada and Transborda International Festival, 2023).
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Continuous participation (as both participant and coordinator) in the FLINTA group of Playback Theatre "Empactu", with theoretical and pratical training by the project "Dar palco à diferença" and public presentations in schools (ISPA & Clube Safo, 2022-2024).
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With Tita Maravilla, "Lil' Performance school" (PRO_CU•RAR•SE, 2023).
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With Raquel André, "Performance as action - Action as performance (2024)
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With Marina Barsy Janer X Isil Vil Sol, "The world of performance: theory and practice on the art of action" (with diploma from Escola Massana; ES, 2024-2025).
Workshops in Music & Sound Art
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Sound Art workshop "Um Bruto Enlace” with Pedro Alves Sousa (at BoCA, 2024).
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Mediterranean Singing workshop, at Olhares do Mediterrâneo Festival (2023).
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Music Improvisation workshop "Ritmo com sinais" with final presentation, by Santiago Vazquez (Bota, 2023).
Colective and Accessible arts & culture
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Experimental Audiodescriber as a member of the Escuta Plataforma audiodescription collective for contemporatry dance performances, produced by Associação Parasita ALKANTARA Festival, Culturgest and DDD Festival: "COOPERATIVA" (TBA, April 2025), "Sonhos Comuns" (Culturgest, October 2025), "Michel - Os animais que eu sou" (CAM Gulbenkian, November 2025) and Hornfuckers (Culturgest, March 2026; TMP Rivoli/DDD, April 2026).
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Training and Practice on Audiodescription for dance and performance with Parasita, supervised by Eliana Franco ("Ony", TBA, 2024).
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Training in Audiodescription for audiovisual with Sintagma, tought by Eliana Franco (2024).
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Course on artistic practices, participation and politics "Why participating?" with Hugo Cruz (2024) and on "Participative Artistic Processes", by Teatro D. Maria II (2025).
Other
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Collage Designer for cultural Calendars
(Valsa, 2023-2024, MusicBox, 2024). -
Introduction to Expressive Therapies with Instituto Poiesis (2023).
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Writing Workshop with Black Quantum Futurism, at Hangar (2023).
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Performing as Merfolk in an Ocean Rebellion performance (Marcha da Água, 2023).
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Participation in Dramaturgy in a Comunity Theatre Group (at Biblioteca de Alcântara, by Rastilho, 2022-2023).
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Translation (EN to PT) of the documentary Samos - The Faces
of our Border (2020). -
Acadamic Post Graduate Degree in Intercultural Psychology (ISCTE, 2022) and Bachelor's Degree in Psychology (ISCTE, 2020).
Workshops on Dance and performance
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Dance residency and performance "The Centre that Cannot Hold", by Oryx (Observatorio del placer, feb 2025).
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Workshop Cuiring Ecologies, by Dani D'Emilia (Cosmunidades Festival, Penhasco, 2024)
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Workshop "Body Knowledge" by Diana Niepce (Festival Eufémias 2023).
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Two Dance workshops with special guests, by Catarina Vieira (Projeto Matéria, 2023 and 2024).
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Workshop on Afrodance and movement, "From root to movement" by Marisa Paulo (Festival Eufémias 2023).
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Class on the "Coreografic Lab" at Forum Dança (2023).
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Performance workshop "INA INA MOJUBÁ" by Luan Okun, on the transformation potence of fire (TBA, 2023).
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Performance workshop "Geoerotics" by Ritó (Festival Alkantara, 2023).
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Workshop "The Archaeological Body" Workshops, on Autonomy, Nonbinary Bodies and Exploring the Erotic, with Ren Mauney, (Espeço Parasita, 2023).
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Dance-performance workshop on silence, love and opression, "A tensão - O alívio - O prazer", by Telmo Branco (2023).
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Drag, anticolonial movement workshop “DRAG as a estetic-political-sensible device”, with Lyn Diniz (c.e.m., 2023)
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Workshop in feminist theatre "Lab for unsubmissive people" at Labuta (2023).
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Workshop on the basis of Theatre (Oficinas de Teatro de Lisboa, 2022).
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Workshop Body awareness and creativity (Penhasco, 2022).
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Workshop on Acrobatic Dramaturgy, by Mente de cão (at c.e.m., 2022).