MUPI Gallery

Performative TV

Catarina Leitão

Inauguração:

Fri
04

.

09

.

2026

|

18:30

Until:

29

.

10

.

2026

Entrada Livre

Share event:

O projecto “Performative TV” de Beatriz Albuquerque teve início em 2014, em New York, e explora as

margens entre performance, media, corpo e género em ambientes televisivos construídos.

Conceptualmente, a obra inspira-se nas experiências televisivas de Andy Warhol e no legado da Pop

Art, particularmente na sua relação com a cultura de massas, a celebridade e a repetição.

Nesta série em desenvolvimento, Beatriz Albuquerque realiza breves performances em cenários de

televisão, transformando espaços ficcionais em lugares de intervenção artística e explorando este

limiar. Ao inserir o seu próprio corpo nestes contextos altamente codificados, questiona de que modo

os papéis e as identidades de género são produzidos, preformados e difundidos pela sociedade.

Cada acção é documentada através de fotografia e vídeo. Um elemento central do projecto emerge

no processo de impressão: as fotografias foram impressas com tinteiros parcialmente esgotados,

originando distorções cromáticas inesperadas. Estas alterações não resultam de manipulação digital,

mas de falhas mecânicas que se tornam parte integrante da obra. As imagens apresentadas são

fotografias dessas impressões com erro.

As três imagens exibidas em MUPIs resultam de performances realizadas nos cenários das séries The

Americans, Quântico e Gossip Girl, aprofundando a reflexão sobre ficção, identidade e realidade que

vive numa margem mediada.


The project “Performative TV” by Beatriz Albuquerque began in 2014 in New York and explores the

intersection of performance, media, body, and gender within constructed television environments.

Conceptually, the work draws inspiration from the television experiments of Andy Warhol and the

legacy of Pop Art, particularly their engagement with mass media, celebrity culture, and repetition.

In this ongoing series, Beatriz Albuquerque stages short performances inside television set spaces,

transforming fictional narrative scenarios into sites of embodied artistic intervention. By inserting

her own body into these highly coded environments, she questions how gender roles and identities

are produced, performed, and circulated through pop culture.

Each action is documented through photography and video. A key element of the project emerges

during the printing process: the photographs were printed with depleted ink cartridges, generating

unexpected color distortions and chromatic shifts. These altered tones are not digitally manipulated

but are mechanical accidents that become integral to the work. The exhibited images are

photographs of these misprinted prints.

The three MUPI images derive from performances staged on the sets of The Americans, Quântico,

and Gossip Girl, further blurring fiction, identity, and mediated reality.

Beatriz Albuquerque (Porto) é artista interdisciplinar, professor e investigador. Tem o Doutoramento pela Columbia University em Nova Iorque com uma Bolsa FCT e com uma Bolsa Fulbright/FLAD. Concluiu a Licenciatura na Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto e o Master of Fine Arts no The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Tem colaborado com centros de investigação, cátedras e institutos europeus e sul-americanos, integrando projetos, pronunciando conferências e publicando uma ensaística que coloca em diálogo as suas áreas de formação e interesse científico. Foi galardoada com vários prémios e menções como o Myers Art Award pela Columbia University, Nova Iorque assim como, o Prémio Revelação pela 17a Bienal de Cerveira em Portugal e o Prémio de Performance Ambient Series, PAC/edge Performance Festival, Chicago.Beatriz Albuquerque (Porto, Portugal) is an artist, performer, teacher and researcher (they/them). They hold a PhD from Columbia University in New York with a Foundation for Science and Technology Scholarship and a Fulbright/Luso-American Foundation Scholarship. They completed their degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and their Master of Fine Arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They have been awarded several prizes and mentions such as the Myers Art Award from Columbia University, New York, as well as the Revelation Award from the 17th Cerveira Biennial in Portugal and the Ambient Series Performance Award, PAC/edge Performance Festival, Chicago. They have collaborated with European and American research centers, chairs and institutes, integrating projects, giving lectures and publishing essays that bring into dialogue his areas of training and scientific interest as well as the interdisciplinary of the media used.

www.beatrizalbuquerque.com

@beatrizalbuquerqueart

v

MUPI Gallery

MUPI Gallery is a dedicated image gallery that was inaugurated in May 2015 in the foyer of the performance hall at Maus Hábitos. Since then, it has been hosting a diverse program of individual exhibitions by local and international artists in different states of emergence.


The primary objectives of Mupi Gallery are to support the creation of new works and visual experiences while promoting the artistic journey of the invited artists. It challenges them to present a new solo artwork that takes advantage of the unique characteristics and prominent display format. Additionally, it aims to showcase the national contemporary art scene by introducing the solid work of local artists as well as emerging names in the visual arts.

As a gallery dedicated to individual exhibitions, Mupi Gallery complements the artistic programming of Saco Azul/Maus Hábitos. It provides a contrast to the exhibition hall's program, which focuses on artistic encounters and dialogue through collective and crossover exhibitions.


Saco Azul invites one artist per month to occupy the backlit triptych, promoting the creation of works that utilize images as a means of contemporary artistic expression. Through production grants, it affirms or questions the role of images in the present day. Comprising three urban advertising communication Mupis provided by JcDecaux to Maus Hábitos, this gallery is not only interesting for its physical characteristics but also for its cultural impact and inherent commercial connotation. The artist is challenged to react or interact with this structure, embracing all its capabilities and connotations.

26.09.04 Performative TV

Related Events

See All →

26.09.04 Performative TV
26.09.04 Performative TV

SUBSCRIBE

Sign up for our newsletter for early access to tickets, giveaways, promotions, and a first-look at our weekly and monthly lineups

FIND US

Maus Hábitos

Rua Passos Manuel 178, 4th Floor

4000-382 Porto

HOURS

Monday
6:00 PM

12:00 PM

*

Tuesday & Wednesday
12:00 PM

12:00 AM

*

Thursday
12:00 PM

02:00 AM

*

Friday & Saturday
12:00 PM

06:00 AM

*

Sunday
CLOSED

*Kitchen service:

Daily until 11pm

Friday and saturday until 12am

MAP

Maus Hábitos

Rua Passos Manuel 178, 4º

4000-382 Porto

Parking available*

*Parking services at Garagem Passos Manuel are run independently from Maus Hábitos.

CONTACT

m

937 202 918

call to national mobile network

Vícios Maus

call to national mobile network

Vícios Bonfim

For restaurant reservations & info, please get in touch via the channels above. For questions or suggestions regarding the space, exhibitions or concerts, please refer to our office contacts or send us a message on our social media channels.

SACO AZUL

Saco Azul is the Cultural Association responsible for the arts programme in Maus Hábitos. For more detailed info, please visit www.sacoazul.org

Project co-funded by:

26.09.04 Performative TV

built by

Bondhabits

maushabitos.com desenvolvido por Bondhabits. Agência de marketing digital e desenvolvimento de websites e desenvolvimento de apps mobile