No Endgame: Performance, Play, Recycling for Sustainable Futures

TRANSPER presents No Endgame: Performance, Play, Recycling for Sustainable Futures, a roundtable taking place next week, February 5, 2026.

It brings together perspectives from public policy, environmental action, and artistic practice to reflect on sustainability beyond linear models of production and consumption.

Chaired by Inês Marques, the discussion features Ana Rita Moreira (Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar), Ana Matos (Electrão), and Gustavo Ciríaco (artist). Together, the participants will explore performance and play as practices grounded in reuse, recycling, and continuity, challenging the notion of an “endgame” as a final or closed outcome.

Departing from performative strategies such as games, scores, repetition, and re-enactment, the roundtable examines how material, bodily, and conceptual reuse operates across artistic processes, civic responsibility, and recycling infrastructures. By foregrounding cyclical temporalities of return, transformation, and persistence, the conversation proposes alternative ways of imagining sustainable futures rooted in care, adaptability, and shared responsibility.