TÂNIA CARVALHO

After presenting in 2017 a drawing exhibit in BoCA, “Toledo”, we now know another of her artistic expressions, Tânia in concert. This is where she can explore the creative possibilities of the instrument, in a concert where for the first she will also be composing with another performer, André Santos, who joins her in piano. The lyrics are either the artist’s very own or texts from Fernando Pessoa.

INSTITUTE OF BLACK WOMEN FROM PORTUGAL - INMUNE

The Institute of Black Women in Portugal - INMUNE answers to BoCA’s invitation to create a spoken word performance around the themes that involve the creation of this intersectional and anti-racist feminist entity, made up entirely of black women. This performance, “Gestuário II” leads intact in the fight against the silencing of black women, African and afro-descendant in past and today’s History.

VASYA RUN

Vasya Run is a Russian anonymous collective, composed of boys between ages 16 to 27 from the Moscow periphery, mixing contemporary art, theatre, street subcultures and spiritual emancipation rituals. Throughout rehearsals, movement research, group work and spiritual practices based on “Fourth Way” by George Gurdiief, Vasya Run arrive for the first time in Portugal with the premiere of a new creation. "If you want to continue" has as its main concept the hero figure.

MARIA TRABULO

This work presents itself as an installation composed of several elements that local performers will activate in specific moments, inviting the audience to join in on the process. This work presents a reflection around the possibility of being able to still make revolutions facing the changes the digital revolution has introduced to society and communication, and facing the isolationism practiced by the states.

CATERINA BARBIERI

Caterina Barbieri’s music has its origins on the meditation over primary waves and the polyrhythmic dance of harmonics. Her algorithmic approach to composition rooted in minimalism and Indian tradition, as well as her pragmatic attitude towards sequencing, unfolds in audible images that are surprisingly organic and almost tangible, to which she refers as “ecstatic computation”.

VASYA RUN

Vasya Run is a Russian anonymous collective, composed of boys between ages 16 to 27 from the Moscow periphery, mixing contemporary art, theatre, street subcultures and spiritual emancipation rituals. Throughout rehearsals, movement research, group work and spiritual practices based on “Fourth Way” by George Gurdiief, Vasya Run arrive for the first time in Portugal with the premiere of a new creation. "If you want to continue" has as its main concept the hero figure.

CATERINA BARBIERI

Caterina Barbieri’s music has its origins on the meditation over primary waves and the polyrhythmic dance of harmonics. Her algorithmic approach to composition rooted in minimalism and Indian tradition, as well as her pragmatic attitude towards sequencing, unfolds in audible images that are surprisingly organic and almost tangible, to which she refers as “ecstatic computation”.

THE OTOLITH GROUP

"The Third Part of the Third Measure” creates an encounter with the militant minimalism of African-American avant-garde composer, pianist and singer Julius Eastman. The film invites spectators to watch the ecstatic artistry of black radicalism that Eastman himself once described as "full of honor, integrity and unlimited courage".

GONÇALO M. TAVARES & OS ESPACIALISTAS

“Laboratory of Ways to Feel Above Average”. This is the proposal of Gonçalo M. Tavares (writer) & Os Espacialistas (collective of architects working on performance art) for BoCA 2019. These are three exclusive performances presented in theatre spaces, originating from the theme “Animals and Money", introducing an ephemeral space for Direct Art, of conscientialization and practical revelation of the artistic potential of the human daily life.

HORÁCIO FRUTUOSO

“Biblioteca” [Library] is the visual artist Horácio Frutuoso’s answer to the proposal of creating an installation having its starting point the video “A Experiência do Lugar II” by Helena Almeida. Horácio Frutuoso conceives three objects in acrylic, with three colors: transparent crystal, opaque black and translucent gray, presented in Lisbon Green House, a deposit of species, of shapes, as well as an archive.

YOLANDA NORTON

"Beyoncé Mass" is a special interdisiciplinary event, a celebration of womanist worship that uses the music and personal life of Beyoncé as a tool to foster an empowering conversation about the maginalized and forgotten, in particular Black women - their lives, their bodies, and their voices.

PROJECTO TEATRAL

Colective Projecto Teatral is, at the moment, constituted by João Rodrigues, Maria Duarte, Helena Tavares, André Maranha and Gonçalo Ferreira de Almeida. In this BoCA's edition they present a new creation, "São Simeão da Montanha Admirável" [Saint Simeon of the Admirable Mountain], for the church of the São Pedro de Alcântara Convent, located in the heart of Lisbon.