Programme

AND Lab | Centre for Research in Art-Thought & Politics of Coexistence is a practical research platform dedicated to the continuous development, transmission, sharing and application of the AND Modus Operandi (MO_AND). MO_AND, a methodology for ethical-aesthetic, somatic-political and experiential research into relationships and reciprocity, based on a radical commitment to ‘repairing the irreparable,’ created by anthropologist and artist Fernanda Eugenio, is a non-competitive game designed for practising the challenges of coexistence.

Gaya de Medeiros is a dancer, actress, and director. She has worked with several choreographers and directors in Portugal. In film, she starred in the short film Um Caroço de Abacate, by Ary Zara, which won awards at several festivals. She created the shows Atlas da Boca (2021), BAqUE (2022), Pai ípara Jantar (2023), Cafezinho (2024) and Corre Bebé (2025), which have travelled to more than 16 countries and 28 cities. She founded BRABA, a platform that aims to support, enable and finance initiatives led by/aimed at the trans and non-binary community.

Maria João Faustino holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Auckland. She has conducted research on sexual violence and developed the theme of sexual consent from a critical perspective in scientific publications and the media. She is a researcher on the project UnCover: Violência Sexual nas Paisagens Mediáticas Portuguesas (Sexual Violence in Portuguese Media Landscapes), at CES-UC. She has collaborated with feminist associations and associations supporting victims and survivors of sexual violence. She has collaborated on projects on image-based sexual violence (VSBI) and intimate partner violence. She is co-author of the book #MeToo. Um segredo muito público. Assédio sexual em Portugal (Roque, Santos, Faustino e Garraio, 2024).

Marta Dziewańska is curator at KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels. Between 2019 and 2023 she was curator at Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland and between 2007 and 2018 - curator and head of research at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In 2017, she was a curatorial advisor for documenta 14, Athens and Kassel.  She curated and co-curated several exhibition projects: “Anecdotes of Destiny” (Kunstmuseum Bern; 2023), “miriam cahn: MA PENSÉE SERIELLE” (Palais de Tokyo, 2023), “Feliza Bursztyn: Welding Madness” (Muzeum Susch; 2021), “Things Fall Apart” (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2020), “MIRIAM CAHN: I AS HUMAN” (MoMA Warsaw, 2019), “Alina Szapocznikow: Human Landscapes” (The Hepworth Wakefield, 2017), and others.  

Selma Uamusse (1981, Maputo, Moçambique) is a singer, author, composer, performer, sometimes actress, She has been based in Portugal since 1988. A Mozambican emigrant woman who left her engineering studies to emerge in music, through its various aspects, in the country she has chosen to embrace, Portugal. A vocal advocate for social issues that concern her, she is a woman driven by faith and compassion for others and who views society as a whole, a kind of global village that becomes troubled when one of its parts is not functioning properly. This is the inspiration behind the songs of this ordinary citizen who has chosen music as a vehicle for social change.

Joana Barrios (b.1985) splits her time between theatre, television, internet, cookery and radio.  Having trained as an actor at ESTC, she also has a post-graduate qualification in Film and Pop Music Criticism. She has been a member of Teatro Praga since 2008. In addition to theatre, she is interested in gastronomy and fashion, and is a regular contributor to the television channels RTP2 and 24Kitchen, with original formats of her own design and related to the themes already mentioned.  She has published five recipe books and presents a weekly radio programme featuring gastronomic interviews on Antena 1.  

Tatiana Salem Levy is a writer, a researcher at the NOVA University Lisbon, and a columnist for the newspaper Valor Econômico. She has published the novels A Chave de Casa (The House in Smyrna, São Paulo Literature Prize), Dois Rios (Two Rivers), Paraíso (Paradise), Vista Chinesa and Melhor não contar (Better not to tell). She is also the author of two children’s books, Curupira Pirapora (FNLIJ Prize) and Tanto Mar (So Much Sea, ABL Prize), the essay A experiência do fora: Blanchot, Foucault e Deleuze (The View from Outside: Blanchot, Foucault and Deleuze) and the book O Mundo Não Vai Acabar (It’s Not the End of the World), a compilation of articles published since 2014. Selected by the British magazine Granta as one of its 20 Best Young Brazilian Novelists, her books have been published in 16 countries. 

Guadalupe Amaro is a 29-year-old ex-pat of the Ribatejo region, reborn as a Lisbonite. She is a veterinary doctor by trade, a writer by nature, a socio-political analyst by defect and an activist out of obligation. She works at the General Directorate for Food and Veterinary and is a member of the Anémona association, the Vida Justa movement and the Portuguese President’s Reflection Group ‘O Futuro Já Começou’ (The Future has already begun). She writes for anyone who wants to read her and talks to anyone who will listen. Arguably influential, but not an influencer, she is moved by the promise of progress and the fight for freedom that cannot exist without justice. Unyielding, rebellious and, at times, insolent. 

Nicola Graham-Kevan:For the past twenty-five years, she has devoted her career to understanding the hidden dynamics of aggression, abuse, and recovery. As a professor of criminal justice psychology, she studies violence in general, domestic violence, harassment, victimisation, trauma, and what helps people move forward. Her early work investigated how controlling behaviors and physical aggression operate in intimate relationships. Over time, she questioned simple assumptions—for example, that only men control women—and developed more nuanced ways to see abuse, recognising that coercive control takes many forms, that victims can be male or female, and that each situation has its own complexities. In practice, she has led evaluations and designed intervention programmes and training for criminal justice settings and community services. One example is the “Inner Strength” programme, designed to support people who use domestic violence to change harmful behaviors. She also runs TRAC Psychological Limited, where they deliver training, therapy design, and assessments rooted in evidence. Her goal has been to bridge the gap between research and real life: to help services, courts, therapists, and communities recognise abuse in all its shapes and to build support and bring change that truly works.  

Ana Dinger | Co-Research-Creation and Curation; Coordination of the ‘AND Todes’ Program: Ana Dinger studied dance and visual arts, art history, and art theory. From an early age, she oscillated between theory and practice and undermined, with varying degrees of subtlety, disciplinary constraints. Her academic career includes stints at ESD, FBAUP, FBAUL (degree in Sculpture) and UCP (postgraduate degree in Contemporary Art and PhD in Cultural Studies). She writes about visual and performing arts, about what archives and bodies and body-archives can do, about ways of continuing artistic work, about ghosts as metonymic manifestations. An associate researcher at AND Lab since 2015, she regularly accompanies schools and labs, collaborating more intensively between 2015 and 2019 in the process of continuously reformulating the AND Operating Mode, namely in the project "Do Irreparável: What Can an Ethics of Repair Do?", and in the organization, coordination, and editorial design of the AND Book Box.