Maria João Guardão (Mozambique, 1965) is a journalist and a film-maker. She has worked as a cultural journalist since 1988 for newspapers, magazines and television. In 2010 she founded the production company DESMEDIDA filmes. Among other projects and documentary film work, she has directed the documentary series Eu Sou África, the short films Les États d’Anne and o povo é quem mais ordena (selected for Festival Cris du Monde, La Ciotat, 2013) and cinematógrafo alkantara, a series of portraits of artists working within Alkantara Festival (Lisboa).
Maria João has a degree in Communication Sciences by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and studied Documentary Film-making at Ateliers Varan in Paris.
Susana Mendes Silva (Lisboa, 1972) is a visual artist and a performer.
Her work incorporates elements of research and archival practice that
leads to the creation of works whose historical and political references
become visible as exhibitions, actions and performances that employ a
wide variety of media. Her universe considers and reframes different
social contexts without ever losing track of the individual's
uniqueness. Her psychological intimacy and her voice are often the means
for the diffusion and reception of poetic and political messages that
call upon them. Susana studied Sculpture at FBAUL (Lisbon, PT), and in
the MPhil/PhD Fine Art (Studio Based Research) at Goldsmiths College for
which she was awarded a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
She has a PhD based in her practice — "Performance as an Intimate
Encounter" — by the College of the Arts of the University of Coimbra.
Susana is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Évora, where
she lectures, since 1999, in the Landscape Architecture MA.
