BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2024: REGISTRATION ARE OPEN FOR THE WORKSHOPS

July saw the start of the 8th edition of the BoCA Summer School, a programme of workshops and meetings in the fields of performing arts, visual arts, music and other disciplinary intersections. This year’s guests are the indigenous collective Huni Kuin, Gabriel Chaile, Sofia Dias & Vitor Roríz and Niño del Elche.

Registrations are open for the next workshops. The first two workshops, with the Huni Kuin indigenous collective, took place in July at the MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, in Lisbon, with great success.

REGISTRATION FOR THE NEXT WORKSHOPS

GABRIEL CHAILE
Workshop: The Engineering of Necessity / 30 – 31 August, 11h–18h30 @ MNAC and the artist Studio

The prestigious Argentinian artist Gabriel Chaile, who represented Argentina at the Venice Biennale and was present at the last edition of the BoCA biennale, develops his visual and anthropological research based on the concepts of “engineering of necessity” and “genealogy of form”, which are present in his sculpture-furnaces and in his public programmes that bring together different communities.
In this two-day workshop, between MNAC (Chiado) and his Studio, Gabriel Chaile will share his artistic journey and practice, between the concepts of engineering of necessity, “social sculpture” and performance. Questions and actions will be proposed on how to act, through art, with the functionality of the precarious, co-operativism or decolonialism.

SOFIA DIAS & VÍTOR RORIZ
Workshop: Distortion / 18, 19, 20 September @ Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon)

In this workshop, choreographers and dancers Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz present a series of research and improvisation tools that work on the relationship between gesture and movement with the word and the voice – the word, assumed as malleable matter that exists beyond its meaning; and the voice, as the excess that “overflows” the bodies.

NIÑO DE ELCHE
Workshop: Sculpting Voices / 15, 16, 17 October, 18h-21h30 @ Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon)

A voice workshop is a space where voices are worked on, in other words, where the air and its soul are sculpted. Here, ex-flamenco musician Niño de Elche proposes that we understand voices as a vector for a wide variety of identities, as a facilitating lie rather than a pure, authentic truth.

Take a look below at some photographs of the first workshops and performances presented by the Huni Kuin collective, at MAAT, during the start of the BoCA Summer School 2024.