Name: Mariana Passos

Position/Professional Category: PhD Candidate (FCT Scholarship)

Research project title: Afterperformance: Conserving the performance oeuvre of Julião Sarmento (1948-2021)

Supervisor: Hélia Marçal, IHA-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST Advisor: Mariana Viterbo Brandão (CIEBA), Joana Lia Ferreira (NOVA FCT; CIUHCT)

Thematic areas: Performance; Documentation; Conservation; Julião Sarmento; Contemporary art conservation; Time-based media

Position within IHA: RG Member [Museum Studies]

Contact: m.passos@campus.fct.unl.pt

CIÊNCIA ID: 461B-4043-495C

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7052-6831

Biography

Mariana Passos is graduated in Conservation and Restoration (2024, NOVA School of Science and Technology | FCT NOVA), her research develops from an interest in the behaviour of modern materials in contemporary art and comes to address artworks whose existence is negotiated through processes of activation and reactivation. With a particular focus on time-based media artworks, her research centres on the role of the conservator as an active manager of change and on documentation as a performative practice that shapes an artwork’s trajectory and transmission and informs its ongoing becoming. he is currently a PhD candidate in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at NOVA FCT, funded by a doctoral grant from FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., and developing the project “Afterperformance: Conserving the performance oeuvre of Julião Sarmento (1948–2021)” (2025.05733.BD). In this context, she is a member of the research project RESONANCE – Epistemologies for the Documentation of Affect and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969-1979).

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Mestre em Conservação e Restauro (2024, NOVA School of Science and Technology | FCT NOVA), a sua investigação desenvolve-se a partir de um interesse pelo comportamento dos materiais modernos na arte contemporânea, orientando-se para obras cuja existência é negociada através de processos de ativação e reativação. Com particular enfoque em obras de time-based media, o seu trabalho centra-se no papel do conservador enquanto gestor ativo da mudança e na documentação enquanto prática performativa que molda a trajetória e a transmissão das obras e informa o seu devir contínuo. É atualmente doutoranda em Conservação e Restauro do Património na NOVA FCT, com bolsa de doutoramento financiada pela FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., onde desenvolve o projeto “Afterperformance: Conserving the performance oeuvre of Julião Sarmento (1948-2021)” (2025.05733.BD). Neste contexto, integra o projeto de investigação RESONANCE – Epistemologias da Documentação de Formas de Afeto e Devir nas Manifestações Culturais em Performance (1969-1979).

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Abbreviations:
RG – Research Group