What is Colapso?
Colapso (Portuguese for Collapse) is a platform for artistic accompaniment created with the intention of generating critical and affective networks between artists, cultural agents and audiences. It aims to strengthen relationships among people from different contexts through creative processes, research, discussion and knowledge sharing that involves speculation, experimentation, fiction and poetics.
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We accompany the creative processes of contemporary artistic objects that go beyond hegemonic narratives.
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We support scientific knowledge sharing by organizing seminars, workshops, debates and by developing publishing activities.
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We create links that facilitate and strengthen connections between artists, curators, researchers or other critical thinkers and audiences.
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We promote the reimagining of working conditions in arts and culture, as well as the de-hierarchization of work modes through the implementation of good associative practices.
How do we Collapse
We provide support to artists from performing and visual arts fields and accompany them throughout diverse stages of the creative process. The help we provide consists of artistic mentorship, namely dramaturgical or curatorial guidance, project management or production services, including grant applications, project development or circulation.
Our Mission
Our mission is to reimagine reality by creating and producing a diverse range of artistic objects while fostering a vibrant network of artists, cultural agents and their audiences. We are committed to promoting contemporary artworks and artistic processes coming from diverse places of speech that go beyond hegemonic narratives as we believe that by challenging perspectives and encouraging dialogue we can ignite social change. We promote de-hierarchization of work modes in arts and culture through the implementation of good associative practices as we see it as a means to shape the reality we live in towards a more inclusive, shared future.
If we collapse, we will start over.
Who are we
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Lorena Tabares
VISUAL ARTS
Independent researcher, curator and writer, with a focus on contemporary art, archive and performance art. Recently she was the curator of Wellenschlagen - Expanding Waves in the Mexican Cultural Institute in Vienna. Co-editor of the 15 edition (Cuerpo Pólvora) of the Terremoto magazine. Researcher of the educative programme Mesas de diálogo: Performance en revisión 1990 - 2019. Memoria y archivo desde el arte acción, la performance y la documentación en México. MORE
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Marta Aksztin
PERFORMING ARTS
Theater artist, dramaturgist and cultural agent. Develops projects at disciplinary intersection of the spectrum of performativity and installation art. She graduated in Cultural Studies (Faculty of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw, 2014), Directing and Dramaturgy (Academy of Theatre Arts in Cracow, 2017) and in Management and Production of Performing Arts (Fórum Dança, Lisbon 2020). Her artistic research is based on memory and narrative construction. -
Nicole Chattin
COMMUNICATION
Graduated in Communication with a focus on corporate communication (Universidad del Pacífico, Chile, 2014) to which have been taken in practice in different areas of marketing in companies, in addition to her experience with advertising agencies. Representative of artists in Portugal (Paula Garrido, Ignacio Kenchiton, Gerar McCarey and Fabián Ciraolo), coordinator, attaché and producer of the projects Naturaleza 3D (2019) and Andes 3D (2023).
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Sylvia Jaimes
PROGRAMMES
Performing arts researcher with artistic practice in visual and performing arts, community and interdisciplinary collaborations. Member of Cosmos, artistic collective. PhD in Performing Arts (UL, Portugal). She was part of international artistic cooperation projects such as Sinfonía Trópico 2015, Share more 2016 and Working Voices 2013. She was an advisor in artistic pedagogy at the Instituto Distrital de las Artes (2016), Centro Ático (2015) and Secretaria de Educación (2015) in Bogotá (Colombia). MORE
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Valentina Bedoya
DESIGN
Graphic designer, graduated in design and visual communication (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, 2015 and Escuela Superior de Diseño de Barcelona, 2018). Works in web design, developing visual identities and creative concepts in corporate and creative contexts. In 2021-2022 participated in the social collective Urbem Forest (Lisbon).
Colapso is a brand of Circuloscópio, a non-profit cultural association that aims to carry out projects of an artistic, scientific, participative and collaborative nature. Initiated in 2021 by a multicultural team, Circuloscópio acts within the scope of transnationality and interculturalism, emphasizing the role of global interdependencies and aiming to respond to the need of bringing together people from different geographical, linguistic, cultural and social backgrounds.
Circuloscópio - Cultural Association
Our Articles (PT)
Our Regulations (PT)
Join us!
To be a Member of Circuloscópio is to be part of our community and to support us so we can keep developing activities.
The annual fee for Members is 12€ (for cultural and creative sector workers) or 24€ (others).
As a Member, you will receive a Digital Membership Card with the right to:
free entrance to seminars and knowledge sharing events organized by Colapso;
free or discounted admission to performance presentations, concerts, exhibitions and other events organized by Colapso.
To become a Circuloscópio's Member and receive your Digital Membership Card, just fill out the registration form or contact us through our email geral[at]colapso.pt
Collapse with us!
Do you have an artistic project in the visual or performing arts area that you would like to develop? We give a hand to artists and their projects in various stages of production from the very beginning (conceptualization of the project, grant applications) to the final presentation and circulation of the piece.
What can we offer?
dramaturgical or curatorial mentorship,
communication help,
promotion of your event,
project management advisory.
Fill in the contact form or contact us via email.