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Maria Manuela Restivo is a researcher and curator, working in the field of ¿¿vernacular and popular artistic practices. She holds a degree in Anthropology from the University of Coimbra, a Master's degree in Museology from the University of Porto and a PhD in Heritage Studies/Art History from the same university, with the support of FCT. Her PhD, completed in 2022, focused on the actors and narratives surrounding Portuguese folk arts. She has been working as a consultant for various public and private entities, developing texts, projects and exhibitions around vernacular artistic practices.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
MARIA MANUELA DE CASTRO RESTIVO

Citation names

  • Restivo, Maria
  • Restivo, Maria Manuela

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2D15-251D-F76B
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4879-8600

Websites

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/10/01 - 2022/06/21
Concluded
 PhD in Heritage Studies/ Art history (Doutoramento)
Major in História da arte
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Arte popular e artesanato em Portugal: atores, redes e narrativas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015
Concluded
 Master in Museology (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"A Coleção de Timor da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto: uma introdução às artes tradicionais timorenses" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2009
Concluded
 Master in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"A dança e o corpo no mundo: um ensaio etnográfico sobre dança contemporânea" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2007
Concluded
 Degree in Anthropology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"A licenciatura em Antropologia não exigia tese" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/10/01 - Current Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/07 - 2022/12 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Instituto da Habitação e Reabilitação Urbana, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023 - Current Curator Estúdio do alhures, Portugal
2017/10 - 2022/01 PhD researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016/02/01 - 2017/03/30 Gallerist and curator Galeria Cruzes Canhoto, Portugal
2014/01/01 - 2017/03/30 Cultural worker Casa do Vinhal - Associação Cultural, Portugal
2013/10/01 - 2014/09/30 Internship at Palácio Nacional da Pena Parques de Sintra Monte da Lua SA, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Restivo, Maria Manuela; Moreira, Luciano. "Recuperation and vice versa in Portuguese folk art". In Politics of Recuperation. Repair and Recovery in Post-crisis Portugal. Bloomsbury, 2020.
    10.4324/9781003086383-9
Conference paper
  1. Restivo, Maria. "Study of an ethnographic collection: characteristics of objects and study models". Paper presented in Seminario de Investigación Iberoamericana de Museologia, 2011.
  2. Restivo, Maria. "Towards a contemporary ethnographic museology". Paper presented in Ciência nos Trópicos: Olhares sobre o passado, perspetivas de futuro, 2011.
Edited book
  1. Restivo, Maria Manuela. Do popular ao pop. Carlos Barroco e o artesanato português. 2023.
  2. Restivo, Maria Manuela. From so much looking at the trees they don't see the forest. Portuguese folk sculpture. 2022.
Exhibition catalog
  1. Restivo, Maria Manuela. About the exhibition "As sereias existem, as sereias existem, as ser...". 2022.
  2. Restivo, Maria Manuela. Text for the exhibition Sol Parado, by Bruno Brito. 2022.
  3. Restivo, Maria. The folk art of the Ramalho family. Galeria Cruzes Canhoto, 2017.
Journal article
  1. Restivo, Maria Manuela. "In praise of the impurities in art historiography: Ernesto de Sousa and the study of folk sculpture". MODOS 4 3 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.24978/mod.v4i3.4619.
    10.24978/mod.v4i3.4619
  2. Restivo, Maria. "Dancing Forró and Lindy Hop in Oporto in pandemic times". Cadernos de Pandemia 2 (2020):
  3. Restivo, Maria. "From Carnival to lucha libre: Mexican masks and devotions (exhibition)". Revista Midas 10 (2019):
  4. Restivo, Maria. "Masks, memory and change in contemporary Portugal". Proa: Revista de Antropologia e Arte 9 (2019):
  5. Restivo, Maria. "Beyond history: about the exhibition "Strange objects: essays on proto-sculpture"". E-Cadernos CES 30 (2018):
  6. Restivo, Maria. "The East Timor collection from FLUP". Revsita Oriente 25 (2017):
  7. Restivo, Maria. "Têxteis do Sudeste Asiático da Coleção da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto". Ensaios e práticas em Museologia 5 (2016):
  8. Restivo, Maria. "Interview to Luís Raposo". Ensaios e práticas em museologia 5 (2016):
  9. Restivo, Maria. "Threads through images: a project about the jewelry from Gondomar". Revista Midas 6 (2016):
Journal issue
  1. "[Do Carnaval à Luta Livre: Máscaras e Devoções Mexicanas [exposição]]". Midas (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/midas.1498.
    10.4000/midas.1498
  2. Restivo, Maria. "Essays and practices in Museology". 5 (2016):
Magazine article
  1. Restivo, Maria Manuela. "The rural imaginary in contemporary artistic practices", Brotéria, 2022
Newsletter article
  1. Restivo, Maria Manuela. "The return of rurality. Abou the project Eira, by Nelson Miranda.", 2023
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Restivo, Maria. "The collection of East Timor from FLUP: an introduction to Timorese traditional arts". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, 2015.
  2. Restivo, Maria. "Dance and the body in the world: an ethnographic essay on contemporary dance". Master, 2009.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/07 A performative understanding of heritage and digital humanities: Reflections from a project on Portuguese vernacular arts Heritage for a Common Future
CHAM/Nova FCSH
2023/01 The moral dimension of Portuguese folk arts
CARMAH - Humboldt University
2022/09 The rural imaginary in Portuguese plastic arts: five artists from the north of Portugal Camp
2021/06 The impurities of Ernesto de Sousa and its contribution to Portuguese artistic historiography Colóquio do centenário de Ernesto de Sousa.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
2021 The heritagization of vernacular artefacts
ISUP
2019 Portuguese Folk Art From Ana to Zé: Vicissitudes of a documentation project VII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
FCSH-UNL
2019 The return to dancing: a project under construction Jornadas de investigação do Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto
FLUP
2018 Between colonialism and post colonialism in the exhibition Remains of an Empire Art, Materiality and Representation
Royal Anthropological Institute (United Kingdom)
2018 Towards an historiography of Portuguese folk arts Discursos expositivos: como, porquê, para quem?
FLUP
2017 Reflections on the project "The comunity Museum" VI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
2016 Traditional sculpture of Timor in the collection of the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto IJUP
UP

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2017 - 2018 Co-supervision of the master thesis "Ensino Online da Olaria de Roda Baixa: Um estudo das representações sociais".
Co-supervisor
 Master degree in Digital Media
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/10 - Current Curation of the exhibition From looking at trees they don’t see the forest. Portuguese folk sculpture. (2022 - 2022)
2018 - Current Curation of the exhibition Remains of an Empire: the photography of Luís de Almeida (with Vera Carmo). (2018 - 2018)
2023/02 - 2023/06 Curation of the exhibition "Do popular ao pop: Carlos Barroco e o artesanato português" (2023/02 - 2023/06)
2022/05 - 2022/08 Curation of the exhibition "Quando olham as árvores não veem a floresta" (2022/05 - 2022/08)
2020 - 2020 Curation of the exhibition Amulets and their unlikely origins, CRU Co-work gallery (with Luciano Moreira and Vera Carmo). (2020 - 2020)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/03/31 - Current Project presentation at the Program Cenários Passados, Odisseia
Round table
 Odisseia
Teatro Nacional D Maria II EPE, Portugal
2022/10 - Current Participation in a Round Table about outsider arts in the seminar "Parallel Cultures"
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/11/19 Olhares Criativos: Uma investigação sobre a inovação no artesanato tradicional no contexto das Indústrias Criativas Ana Vasco (Master)

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2021/03 - 2021/07 Member of the scientific comittee of the conferences of Porto Design Biennale 2021
2018 - 2018 Member of the organizing comittee of the Seminar: Exhibition discourses: who, why and for whom? Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Member of the committee for the organization of the seminar "The future of university Museums in perspective"

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/10 - Current Consultancy for the project Porto Think thanks: Designing futures to Porto wash houses
2021/07 - 2021/10 Consultancy for the application of the city of Viana do Castelo to European capital of culture 2027
2020 - 2020 Consultancy for the project "Seven wonders of popular culture"

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/05/01 - 2033/06/30 Introduction to Portuguese Folk Art Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/11/03 - Current Jury of the PhD project of Joana Camacho, entitled "ESTUDO, CATALOGAÇÃO E DOCUMENTAÇÃO DA COLEÇÃO DE CERÂMICA UTILITÁRIA DO MUSEU DE ARTE POPULAR"
Distinctions

Award

2022 Monetary prize for the project "Arte Popular de Ana a Zé", one of the finalist projects for the promotion of crafts
Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Portugal