Eleonora Fabião

Eleonora Fabião is a performance artist and theorist. She has been performing, lecturing, teaching and publishing internationally. Her performances have been enacted in several contexts – festivals, exhibitions, sociocultural projects – and, mainly, in the streets. Things That Must Be Done Series (Performa Biennial, NY 2015) is the title of a work and, also, a way of referring to her artistic practice. Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, School of Communication – Theater Directing Undergraduate Program and Arts of the Scene Graduate Program, where she coordinates the artistic experimentation wing – Fabião holds a PhD and an MA in Performance Studies (NYU) and an MA in Social History of Culture (PUC-Rio). In 2011 she received the Arts in the Streets’ Award from the Brazilian Foundation of the Arts and in 2014 the Rumos Itaú Grant that resulted in the publication of the book AÇÕES/ACTIONS (Tamanduá Arte, 2015). Institutions where she taught as visiting professor include: Department of Performance Studies NYU, UNA Buenos Aires, Norwegian Theatre Academy, Stockholm University of the Arts, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Amsterdam University of the Arts and Iceland University of the Arts. Fabião is a Researcher Level-2 of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). She is an invited artist of the 34ª São Paulo Biennial.