João Sousa Cardoso (b. 1977, Porto) is a Portuguese artist, essayist, and university professor. With a PhD in Social Sciences from the Paris Descartes University (Sorbonne), he became a member of the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur le Monde Lusophone at the Paris Nanterre University. He staged Sequências Narrativas Completas, based on Álvaro Lapa, which premiered at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II in 2019. He published the books Teatro Expandido! (2016), Sequências Narrativas Completas e A Espanha das Espanhas, both in 2020. In 2022, he premiered Agustina Bessa-Luís' The Night Watch at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He regularly writes essays for the magazines Contemporânea, Electra, Granta, and the newspaper Público. He is a professor at Lusófona University.
João Sousa Cardoso joins this edition of LEFFEST for a conversation with Clément Cogitore, who presents his project Ferdinandea.