Xavier de Sousa

Performance Maker, Curator, Culture Worker

performingborders 2021
Throughout 2021, the performingborders team spent a big part of our time reflecting and changing how we work, what the intentions of the work are and what we, as curators and culture workers want to explore.
Internationalism,...
We Need Queer Liberation Now
On-going digital project
We Need Queer Liberation Now, an international residency and artist support project from East Street Arts and Theatre In The Mill, and facilitated by Leeds-based artist Sayang.
The project gathers...
Residency at East Street ArtsPart of REGNANT project and Season for Change programme, ‘The Space Between’.
Throughout this long residency (6weeks,) Xavier learned from scratch how to throw pottery on the wheel and created 398 clay pots and 125...
REGNANT
Premiéred at HOME, Manchester, 27 November 2021, 3pm-9pm
“Homesickness is never going away because you miss your childhood, not necessarily your country”.
REGNANT is an ever growing performance installation, a dinner party with the guests...
Pós-
Em colaboração com Fado Bicha, Puta da Silva e Gabriela Gomes
Premiere no Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisboa, 23 a 26 de Setembro, 2021
Quem somos “nós”, hoje?
Esta é a pergunta no centro do novo espetáculo de Xavier de Sousa. De Montemor-o-Velho a...
NEW QUEERS ON THE BLOCKNew Queers on the Block is the Marlborough Productions’ artist and community development programme.
Throughout the pandemic, we commissioned and supported the following projects:
COMMUCRACY NOW! a short film and manifesto by...
performingborders e-Journal #1 Fragments for Borderless Futures
October 2021 (LINK)
performingborders proudly present our very first e-Journal, bringing together commissioned multimedia research and reflections on borderless futures.
We want these...