Renata Gaspar is an artist and performance studies researcher. Her work focuses on the socio-political construction of place in/through art-making, particularly on mobility in relation to language and belonging. Both her artistic practice and writings are concerned with the advancement of socio-spatial justice through collaborative and pluralistic approaches to knowledge making. Initially trained as dancer in Lisbon and London, she holds a Master of Arts in Performance from Goldsmiths, University of London (studentship Gulbenkian Foundation/PT) and a PhD in Performance Studies from University of Roehampton, London (studentship FCT/PT) with the thesis ‘Spatial practices: a politics of place-making for performance studies’. She recently concluded a postgraduate specialisation in Epistemologies of the South coordinated by CES (Centro de Estudos Sociais, PT) and CLACSO (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina). Renata is a researcher at i2ADS (Instituto de Investigação em Arte, Design e Sociedade, Universidade do Porto) and collaborates with the Artistic Creation, Cultural Practices and Policies group at IS-UP (Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto). Renata is invited adjunct professor at the Theatre Department at ESMAE (Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, Porto).

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