SUPER-DIVAS #12 | João Silveira
7 Março 2026 17h30
SUPER-DIVAS #12 | João Silveira
7 March, 2026, 5:30
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Entry 3,5€ [monthly member fee]
Dinis Lapa and Nuno Palma—those two gentlemen of the word—hurl lightning into the air, and instantly a divine, highly selective witticism pierces them with the names of Portugal’s most sexões poets. A list that would make original sins blush. Each of them is, in one way or another, connected to music. Naturally. They are nothing short of super-diva prima donnas. He or she, it’s all the same. Prima donnas. Primo donnas. Gender becomes irrelevant when talent is everything.
Sexões are, therefore, sessions of sung sex with super-diva sexões poets. It is art rolling around in the bed of the tongue. It is language breaking a sweat. It is rhyme begging for more. The banquet is served. Now, eat. Delight yourselves. But with class, darlings. With class.
With João Silveira, the sexion won’t just be declaimed—it will be sculpted in air with the razor of verse, while poetry, legs crossed and gaze sleek, pretends it doesn’t want it but is already begging for music.
To mark this occasion, we launch the memories, arts, and artifacts from three sexões of the previous cycle: the notebooks where the echoes of Manuel Seatra & Jorge Barata, Paola D'Agostino & Luís San Payo, and Carla Badillo Coronado in the guise of Durga Black still resonate.
About the Artist:
JOÃO SILVEIRA | Lisbon, 1983. He is the author of eight books: Bestiário Um (Corpos Editora, 2006), Dever/Haver (Artefacto, 2011), GKJMA (Artefacto, 2013), SAMO (A Tua Mãe*, 2015), Motores Gerais (Douda Correria, 2019), Pomba-Peste (Douda Correria, 2020), Ciclomania (Nervosa, 2021), and Néon (Flan de Tal, 2023). He is involved in musical projects (Moloch and Guida on Valium) and performance art (Burgueses Famintos). In 2012, alongside Marta Navarro, he created Nicotina Zine, and was also one of the founders of the cultural association A Tua Mãe*. He is a co-founder of Nervosa.
DESIGN | Joana Souza
SUPPORT | Zaratan is a structure supported by República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção-Geral das Artes