Live Art Writers Network x Citemor 2026 – Dori Nigro, Paulo Pinto, Keissy Carvelli & Ángela Lopez Ramos
18th July 2026
Live Art Writers Network, curated by Xavier de Sousa and Anahí Saravia Herrera, is dedicated to fostering practices of critical writing and reflection that engage in dialogue with performance and live art, and which are interwoven with transnational critical thinking on creative processes, digital publishing and political action.
For its fourth edition at Citemor Festival, Montemor-o-Velho (Portugal), we have invited artists Dori Nigro, Paulo Pinto, Ángela Lopez Ramos and Keissy Carvelli to accompany the festival and its’ participating artists and respond, through their own artistic languages, to the creative processes, discourses and performances featured in the festival.
Throughout the next month, we will publish interviews, reflections and texts in response to their time spent at festival. You can access them at Citemor’s website: https://www.citemor.com/performingborders
For more information on Live Art Writers Network project, visit the project’s dedicated section on our website HERE.
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Dori Nigro is a creator, performer, art educator and researcher who studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and the College of Arts at the University of Coimbra. Since 2007, he has been dedicated to artistic practices that bridge different disciplines. He holds a PhD, a master’s degree and a specialisation in the fields of contemporary art, artistic practices and art education; as well as a degree in pedagogy and a bachelor’s degree in media studies and photography. He lives and works between Portugal and Brazil, facilitating collaborative activities with artists and local communities. Together with Paulo Pinto, she runs LARoyé, a home and studio dedicated to sharing emotional, creative and ancestral experiences, carrying out research and creative work in the fields of artistic practice, art and education, and art therapy. She is a member of the União Negra das Artes (UNA) and a visiting assistant lecturer at the University of Porto.
Keissy Carvelli is a Brazilian cultural mediator, researcher and artist. Born in the interior of São Paulo, she has spent much of her professional and academic career in Paraná, the state of São Paulo and Portugal. She currently lives in Coimbra, where she develops most of her creative work and public performances, standing out on the local cultural scene for her ability to blend the theoretical rigour of academic research with the irreverence of performance and music.
Ángela López Ramos (Córdoba, 1984) holds a degree in Dramatic Arts, specialising in Set Design (ESAD, Seville); she subsequently completed a Master’s degree in Contemporary Culture: Literature, Artistic Institutions and Cultural Communication (UCM, Madrid). Her work brings together various disciplines linked to contemporary performance, ranging from the creation of stage productions and the conception of exhibition contexts to the design of spaces and lighting. She was a member of the Vértebro collective from 2007 to 2024, presenting her work at the Condeduque Centre for Contemporary Culture (Madrid), the Sâlmon Festival (Barcelona) and Reims Scènes d’Europe (France), amongst others. Together with Vértebro, she curated ‘Beautiful Movers’ (Córdoba), a miraculous gathering for the Andalusian performing arts scene that has featured artists such as Rodrigo García, El Conde de Torrefiel and Societat Doctor Alonso. She has worked as a set designer with the choreographer Quim Bigas, the trapero artist Dellafuente and the choreographer Natalia Jiménez. She has also provided lighting design for Helena Martos’s work and carried out technical production duties at the 2020 Cumplicidades Festival (Lisbon). She is currently collaborating with visual artist Álvaro Albaladejo on the creation of spaces and situations in which they explore the relationship between perception and its internal mechanisms, triggering a whole range of emotional responses. Furthermore, in 2026 she was part of Archivo al Corro, a research project curated by Natalia Jiménez and Irene Cantero, focusing on the documentation and archiving of artistic processes. She combines her professional work in performance and design with teaching at the Higher School of Dramatic Art in Córdoba.
