Working with the 'Encruzilhada' (the crossroad) as a space for non-linear thinking, divergent methods and entangled research (learning alongside texts such as 'Pedagogia das Encruzilhadas' by Luiz Rufino), this year’s Live Art Writers Network (LAWN) at DDD - Festival Dias da Dança responds to the 10 years of the festival's existance, contexts that let things grow, conditions for contradiction and what it means for cultural spaces to catalyse the creation of both centre and periphery.

Developed from and responding to a residency in the festival's archives and a programme of live conversations and events, this year LAWN has commissioned reflective articles and provocations by artists such as Claire Sivier, Dori Nigro, Hilda de Paulo, Odete, Teresa Fabião and Tiziano Cruz, which can be found at performingborders platform, all in both Portuguese and English, as well as a digital exhibition space bringing together all of this material in the form of an Encruzilhada [crossroads], developed by the artist and web designer Thiago Liberdade.