Photography by Diogo Liberano
If research, production, and pedagogy are inseparable, Platô was born as proof of this and as a proposition: it is a project nourished by an interest in study and driven by the sharing of learning, aware that research opens up challenges to artistic creation, just as art expands the horizons that help us interpret and interact with our social and political reality.
Diogo Liberano
Platô – Research and Production
Platô is born from the intersection of practices that are inseparable in the career of artist, researcher and teacher Diogo Liberano: production, research and art pedagogy. Through the formation of classes to study different topics in art and philosophy, the aim is to deepen research and creation in these topics through a pedagogical plan that prioritises the autonomy of the participants and the improvement of their different ways of making.
From 2006 to 2011, Liberano graduated in Theatre Arts: Theatre Direction from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), from 2015 to 2017 he became a Master's graduate of the Postgraduate Programme in Performing Arts (PPGAC/UFRJ) and, from 2018 to 2022, he completed his PhD in Literature, Culture and Contemporaneity at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGLCC/PUC-Rio).
Simultaneously with his academic training, when he founded the Teatro Inominável company in 2008, whose activities continued until the end of 2021, Liberano investigated ways of creating theatre from philosophical materials and collaborative processes that valued diverse authorship, making artistic production and creation ways of questioning contemporary reality.
In 2014, after years of teaching study groups in theatre, philosophy and performance art, Liberano became a professor at the CAL Faculty of Performing Arts, where he taught acting, directing, theatre history and dramatic literature for almost a decade. In 2016, he gave talks at the Firjan SESI Drama Centre, which in 2017 he was invited to coordinate for four classes (2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020-2021), guiding the training of around 60 authors.
Since its inception in 2020, in addition to the classes (platôs), Platô has developed other activities such as the Artistics guidance with Liberano, the creation of plays and artistic performances as well as the publication of the artistic criticism magazine This text, in partnership with playwright Gustavo Colombini.
From 2020 to 2021, in a partnership between Liberano and playwright Cecilia Ripoll, Platô organised the free Brazils to be written project, which brought together authors from all regions of Brazil to study and create new dramaturgies that addressed issues of contemporary Brazilian reality.
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