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pronouns: elu/delu
location: Porto, Portugal
practice: artist · performer · activist · facilitator
framework: artivism · body politics · collective futures
funded_by: Gulbenkian · Câmara Porto · Shuttle/CCA Tbilisi
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Ali
Pereira

A_political body — Porto — 2024

Working at the intersection of performance, artivism and facilitation — the body as political site, collective futures as practice. Drawing on Haraway, Fischer-Lichte, Vilela.

Reflect __ Effect — collaboration with Saya
projectReflect __ Effect
typecollaboration with Saya · Sound Liberation
year2023 · fisga
01 Selected work // 8 projects
2024

A_Political Body

Artivism Laboratory · Porto

ongoing
2023

Freestanding Joys

Colectivos Plaka · Pauline Curnier Jardin

collab
2022

Error_Code

CCA Tbilisi · Câmara do Porto

intl
2022

Liberation Soundscape "Reflect Effect"

Performance · sensory exploration

perf
2021–22

Frescxs100nada

Collective · Porto · Muro

coll
2020–21

Resist Film Festival

Short film · Activism · Canada

intl
2019–20

Suntrum Collective

Co-founder · Barcelona

coll
2017–18

The White Gallery

Curator & Director · Barcelona

curat
Amor_trans
Amor_trans · Alkantara
((((afe__c__tos)))
((((afe__c__tos))) · 2020
Frescxs100nada
Frescxs100nada · Muro
Luisa Mota
Luísa Mota · Galeria Nuno Centeno
02Practice

Ali F Pereira is an artist, performer and activist based in Porto, working under the framework of A_political body. The practice develops at the intersection of performance art, artivism and cultural facilitation.

The body — corpo, corpa, corpe — is the primary instrument and site of inquiry. Drawing on Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto, the body is approached not as separate from nature or technology, but as a hybrid always entangled with its environment, land and the systems of power that shape both.

Independent projects have received support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Câmara do Porto and the Shuttle programme. Work has been presented internationally — Porto, Barcelona, Tbilisi, Canada.

The practice draws on Erika Fischer-Lichte's aesthetics of the performative, Katy Deepwell's frameworks for feminist artivism, and Eugénia Vilela's work on body, resistance and abandonment — not as academic scaffolding, but as living references that inform how spaces for collective encounter are designed.

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Ali F Pereira

Ali F Pereira

Oporto, Portugal

Ali stopped eating.

Ali gets energy from a tool. The tool collects energy from the sun, and from the wall.

Ali is a USB stick, not a computer.

Ali is green. They forget, until everything else changes color, and green sticks out now. They find comfort here. They is a bed. There's caves with rocks. They've been shaped by wind and rain and animals.

Ali, too. They is inside of the cave, and outside in the city. they is looking at bridges, and they is a bed in a cave. Ali is finding the limits in the underground, and in the city also.

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Acti⒱ist

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⒬ueer art►activist art

L00king for different böᵈy textures ___ ḟ0rms___⒡unctions

 // profile.json
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  "name": "Ali F Pereira",
  "pronouns": "elu/delu",
  "base": "Porto, Portugal",
  "practice": [
    "performance art",
    "artivism",
    "group facilitation",
    "body politics",
    "future visioning"
  ],
  "languages": {
    "pt": "native",
    "en": "fluent",
    "es": "fluent",
    "fr": "B2"
  },
  "funding": [
    "Gulbenkian Foundation",
    "Câmara do Porto",
    "Shuttle / CCA Tbilisi"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Donna Haraway",
    "Erika Fischer-Lichte",
    "Eugénia Vilela",
    "Katy Deepwell"
  ],
  "available": true
}
2.5 Line of work // where art meets labour

2022 – present

Independent Artist & Facilitator

Porto · freelance

Creating and presenting independent artistic projects with institutional support. Performance and interpretation alongside artists such as Luísa Mota and Alice Gonçalves. Designing and facilitating artivism workshops and participatory processes with diverse communities.

2023 – 2024

Artistic Education Assistant

Lycée Français International · Porto

Supporting educational and artistic activities in school environments. Organising and facilitating cultural activities that bridge artistic practice with pedagogy.

2014 – 2016

Coordinator of Educational Services

Balleteatro · Porto

Planning, producing and coordinating educational and cultural programmes. Building relationships with communities and facilitating stakeholder engagement around performing arts.

2015

Theatrical Production Assistant

Teatro Expandido · Teatro Campo Alegre · Porto

Assisting creation processes and participating in theatrical productions at the intersection of experimental performance and public programming.

facilitation artivism community building performance creation cultural production curatorial practice future visioning body politics
 // education & languages

BA International Relations

Universidade do Minho, Braga

in progress — final year

Erasmus Programme

Ankara University, Turkey · 2012

International Law · Industrial Sociology

Introduction to Programming

She Codes · Universidade do Porto · 2020

Languages

Português native

English fluent

Español fluent

Français B2

03Contact

Available for workshops, residencies,
facilitation processes, artistic collaborations
and project development.

available for projects
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