João Garcia Miguel

Performative Artist, Programmer and Researcher | Lisbon 1961 | His artistic practices are characterized by performative experimentalism and concern about the role of the artist as researcher and social intervener. Creation, research and training are the permanent basis of his activities. He also works as a professor at universities in Portugal and abroad. He writes performative works and essays about the creative act and the body. Participates in seminars about performance and the unconscious. Exhibits regularly. | Founder of the collectives: Canibalismo Cósmico, Zé dos Bois Gallery and OLHO - Theater Group. In 2003, he founded the JGM Company and opened in Lisbon the “Espaço do Urso e dos Anjos” dedicated to formation and dissemination of the performing arts. In 2008 he was appointed as Artistic Director of the Theater-Cinema of Torres Vedras. In 2016 he takes over the management of Associação Teatro Ibérico in Lisbon. He is an associate of the international advanced training center Actor's Center in Italy and an associate member of the IETM - Informal European Theater Meeting. He holds a PhD from FBAUL in 2017 with the thesis PERFORMANCE BODY AND UNCONSCIOUS. In 2008 he receives the FAD Sebastià Gasch Award in Spain. In 2014 he receives a prize for the best theatrical performance with the show Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca by SPA - Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores.