Fernando Travassos (Coimbra, 1990) got a Postgraduate degree in Fine Arts at the Caldas da Rainha School of Arts and Design – Polytechnic of Leiria, in 2018. Since 2017, Travassos has been holding many individual and collective exhibitions, and, in 2024, his works joined the Collection Caixa Geral de Depósitos.
Gil Mac (Coimbra, 1975) is a designer and performer, with a degree in Multimedia Design at the Caldas da Rainha School of Arts and Design – Polytechnic of Leiria, and in Fashion Design at MODATEX – The Centre for the Professional Training of the Textile, Apparel, Clothing and Wool Industry (f.k.a. CITEX – Centro de Formação Profissional do Têxtil e do Vestuário). He also studied Graphic Arts at ARCA-EUAC – Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra, Photography at the Maumaus Association, and Theater at the CITAC – Círculo de Iniciação Teatral da Academia de Coimbra. Mac is an editor for Pandemonium ™, a contributor to CRL – Central Elétrica (f.k.a. Circolando) and Teatro do Frio, a member of the Coletivo LOA, and the director of the performances NKISI, Caos™ and Nix™. Also, he signs his projects as Whatever™, and his works have been showcased in cities such as London, Berlin, Warsaw, Lima, Goa, Macao, and Hong Kong.
Ricardo Seiça Salgado (Coimbra, 1973) is an anthropologist and performer, with a PhD in Anthropology (2012). Seiça works as a researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) and as a Theatre Anthropology professor in the Art Studies Master’s degree at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is also a co-founder of baldio — estudos de performance and the artistic director of projecto BUH!. Aside from this, Ricardo Seiça Salgado has had training in several theater methodologies, has acted and directed many productions since 2000, and has recently developed performance art projects such as Keep Walking Intently (2022) or Variações em António Menor (2017).
