GUS VAN SANT

Film director Gus Van Sant ventures into his first stage creation with a Portuguese team, a musical theater show inspired by Andy Warhol and his overwhelming talent to elevate images to an icon, while scaling as a persona and artist to world celebrity status. A BoCA production touring now to La Villette, in Paris.

ORLAN

She shocked the world in the 1990s when he performed “The Reincarnation of Santa ORLAN”, a series of nine plastic surgeries that were broadcast via satellite to several museums and art galleries in Europe. ORLAN is one of the most important French artists, author of the manifesto “Carnal Art”. She runs a three-day workshop for the first time in Portugal.

GRADA KILOMBA

Grada Kilomba's first large-scale installation travels to London, at Somerset House. Consisting of 140 burnt wood blocks, it invites the audience to enter a garden of memory, in which poems rest on burnt wood blocks, recalling forgotten stories and identities. What stories are told? Where are they counted? How are they counted? And told by whom? These are questions that arise when entering this installation.

EL CONDE DE TORREFIEL

Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert are the directors of the Spanish theatre collective El Conde de Torrefiel, a company that has been touring the most important European festivals and theatres in recent years. They lead a 5-day theatre and performing arts workshop at Teatro Nacional D. Maria II.

MARIANA TENGNER BARROS, GUSTAVO CIRÍACO, PEDRO RAMOS

"Inside the forest, body and imagination" is the first artistic action to take place in the Monsanto Forest, where BoCA started a tree planting process. With a tripartite format, this performing arts workshop brings together three artists with a transdisciplinary practice, between dance, performance and the visual arts: Mariana Tengner Barros, Gustavo Ciríaco and Pedro Ramos.

Pilar Albarracín

A multidisciplinary artist, Pilar Albarracín is one of the most recognised contemporary Spanish artists. Her work questions, through parody or irony, artistic, religious and cultural traditions, especially that of the identity of women in Andalusian culture. She runs a 2-day performing arts and visual arts workshop at MAAT.

Jonathan Uliel Saldanha

On the border between sound and visual arts, composer and director Jonathan Uliel Saldanha investigates areas of intersection between these artistic territories, exploring tensions between the synthetic and the landscape. He runs a two-day music and sound arts workshop at CCB.

GUS VAN SANT

Film director Gus Van Sant ventures into his first stage creation with a Portuguese team, a musical theater show inspired by Andy Warhol and his overwhelming talent to elevate images to an icon, while scaling as a persona and artist to world celebrity status. A BoCA production touring now to our partner Kampnagel, in Hamburg.