MARGEM DE ERRO is a transdisciplinary project that reflects on the future of the most ordinary human actions, setting the elementary biology we all share against the accelerated, artificial future towards which society is heading.
Eating, Thinking, Speaking and Walking are some of the actions that guide the project. Taking them as a starting point, Terceira Pessoa invited artists to create works, each independent of the others, that redefine these small gestures and the spaces we inhabit, and give them new meaning.
The works
Thinking Together
Darling Desperados & friends · Festival Alcains Conecta · 24 May 2025
An interactive artistic experience about the thinking human being. In a world where technology can read, interpret and perhaps even predict our thoughts, identity and freedom become decisive questions.
Presented at the Casa do Povo de Alcains (the town’s community centre), at the 1st edition of Festival Alcains Conecta, after a week-long residency at Fábrica da Criatividade in Castelo Branco.
created and performed by_ Darling Desperados: Ulrika Malmgren, Katta Pålsson, Tiffi Malmgren, Ester Ericsson, Leila El Harfaoui and Franco Veloz
photography_ Marta Costa
Darling Desperados is a Swedish non-profit organisation founded in 1987 by Ulrika Malmgren and Katta Pålsson, working across the performing arts, theatre, film, virtual reality and 360° film. It has produced more than 50 original works and 15 short films, and collaborated with Terceira Pessoa on A possibilidade de uma ilha (The possibility of an island), presented in Stockholm, Lisbon and Castelo Branco.
Burning Away That Witch No Longer Serves
Georg Bütow · Fábrica da Criatividade, Castelo Branco · 21 Feb 2026
An intense, provocative performance that combines theatre, special effects and pyrotechnics. A young wine seller faces her most grotesque customer: a racist witch. As the confrontation escalates, she discovers a disturbing truth — the witch is, in fact, a Nazi superweapon. Can the witch be defeated?
text, direction and costume design_ Georg Bütow
set design, pyrotechnics, visual and special effects, props_ Nils Pegel
performers_ Jade Cambournac and Georg Bütow
running time_ 40 min · for adult audiences
photography_ André Martins
Georg Bütow is a Berlin-born actor and film and theatre director. His plays cross genre boundaries and carry a strong political agenda. He has performed at the Volksbühne Berlin, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and Rua das Gaivotas 6, among others, and holds an MA in Performance Design and Practice from Central Saint Martins, London.
Poplisses
Silvana Ivaldi · CCL – Café com Leite, Castelo Branco · Festival Multiverso · 28 Feb 2026
One dwells in a frenzy, and hot I tongued her. Short sentences, yet compound ones, to do the poet justice. Inner speed soothed in the face of impassivity, and the grace of a tip left on the table. A storm of thoughts no one can bear: unfinished sentences and onomatopoeia to account for it. Blood, sweat and jokes. Of the statues, stories are told: stuffed in one hole and out behind, enchanting. Do the grand. Psst, he says, growing bored as he gazes into a shop window full of irrefutabilities with cream. There is a sense of plenitude before the obviousness of a cheese sandwich and a glass of wine that my gluten intolerance weeps for; the annals console me that cheese digests all but itself. A string of truisms, because some self-evident things pursue us for ever and ever. The flow of the language it is. The thoughts. Solemn.
This is an invitation: let us start from the axiom that an encounter is a spree. With eats and drinks it is more credible; the bare minimum is guaranteed in the face of the enormous cloud of indeterminacy that a performance proposes. We guarantee eats, drinks and compared links.
created and performed by_ Silvana Ivaldi
musical collaboration_ João Lopes, Mariana Loureiro and Rodrigo Silva
words in italics_ James Joyce, Ulysses
residencies_ Fábrica da Criatividade (Castelo Branco) and Cão Solteiro (Lisbon)
running time_ 60 min
photography_ André Martins
Silvana Ivaldi is an artist who draws on her varied background to think through, explore and create poetic forms through visual, performative and theatrical means. Since 2009 she has worked as a theatre-maker, performer, dramaturg and costume designer, as well as in film and graphic design. She is an associate artist of Cão Solteiro.
