BoCA 2017 — Next Performances
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MASTERCLASS
13 March 2017Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Portoread moreWITH HÉCTOR ZAMORA
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DEAD DROPS
17 March 2017 — 30 April 2017Lisboa / Portoread moreARAM BARTHOLL
“Dead Drops” is an anonymous, offline network for archiving and sharing digital files, located in public spaces in the cities of Lisbon and Oporto. USB pen drives are cemented into walls and buildings accessible to anyone in the public space.
MAP OF PEN DRIVES AVAILABLE
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PINBALL BOSCH – come to play with God and devil
17 March 2017 — 30 April 2017Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga - Lisboaread moreRODRIGO GARCÍA
Bosch’s triptych “The Temptations of Saint Anthony” is a masterpiece of Western art and a highlight of the collection at Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga. Inspired on it, the Argentine playwright and theatre director Rodrigo García creates an installation with a flipper machine, to offer us a pop, demonic and hallucinated dimension of the painting.
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CONCERT-PERFORMANCE
17 March 2017LUX/Frágil - Lisboaread moreTIANZHUO CHEN & AISHA DEVI & ASIAN DOPE BOYS
At the forefront of new Chinese contemporary art, Tianzhuo Chen uses colourful, grotesque, and kitsch images dominated by references to Chinese religion, Japanese Butoh, voguing, and the world of fashion. The electronic-pop mantras of Napalese-Tibetan artist Aïsha Devi create a musical landscape that is intense and visceral, industrial and dance-able.
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TAU TAU
17 March 2017 — 18 March 2017Teatro da Politécnica - Lisboaread moreVON CALHAU!
Guardians of an archive of the obscure, the artistic duo Van Calhau! create work generated by the mystery of the obvious (blatancy). The Von Calhau! are carried away by a deep connection, sometimes almost primitive, to the world they inhabit.
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TOLEDO
18 March 2017 — 29 April 2017Teatro da Politécnica - Lisboa + Palacete Viscondes de Balsemão - Portoread moreTÂNIA CARVALHO
“Toledo” is an exhibition of drawings by choreographer Tânia Carvalho. An extension of her choreographic work, the drawings represent places of Carvalho’s imagination that would be impossible to stage with dancers.
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PARTY
18 March 2017Passos Manuel - Portoread moreRAMZI / OBALSKI / CVLT
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CASA-ANIMAL
19 March 2017 — 07 April 2017Complexo do Corucheús – Lisboaread moreMUSA PARADISIACA
Built from a hybrid notion of scale, between man and animal, "Casa-animal" (Animal-house) is a sculpture-monument-stage for the public space and which houses a set of different daily actions (installations, films, conferences, performances, etc.), selected from an open call.
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TALK
20 March 2017Faculdade de Belas Artes - Lisbonread moreWITH ARAM BARTHOLL & ESPACIALISTAS
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Videoteca BoCA
21 March 2017 — 30 April 2017Teatro Nacional D. Maria II - Lisbonread moreThe BoCA Video Library is a centre of documentation and visual history, open to the public, presenting the little known and scarcely documented recent past of the artists that are part of the BoCA programme.
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ORDEM E PROGRESSO
22 March 2017 — 22 April 2017MAAT - Lisboaread moreHÉCTOR ZAMORA
On March 22nd, 30 workers will destroy several traditional Portuguese fishing boats in what will become a visual and aural sound installation for the Oval Gallery at MAAT.
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TALK
23 March 2017Faculdade de Belas Artes - Lisbonread moreWITH RUI HORTA
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QUEERIZANDOS ESPAÇOS DEBATE
23 March 2017Maus Hábitos - Portoread moreWITH GROOVE BALL & RABBIT HOLE & THUG UNICORN
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CYCLE OF FILMS
23 March 2017 — 30 March 2017CASA-ANIMAL / Complexo do Corucheús – Lisboaread moreIVAN ARGOTE + ÓLAFUR DARRI ÓLAFSSON & LIBIA CASTRO + MARION INGLESSI
Cycle of films curated by Jean-François Rettig and Nathalie Hénon (Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin).
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MUSEUM OF SKATEBOARDING
24 March 2017 — 25 March 2017Casa da Música / Fachada exterior - Oportoread moreKIRILL SAVCHENKOV
Rather than examining skateboarding as a subculture, “The Museum of Skateboarding” addresses the impact skateboarding has on consciousness and the body.
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“MINA” PARTY
24 March 2017Fontória Club Bar & Disco - Lisbonread moreRABBIT HOLE
"Mina" is a party organized by Rabbit Hole and Rádio Quântica that aim to bring together ravers and DJs in an experience of underground clubbing, sexual liberation and gender.
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ETHICA. NATURA E ORIGINE DELLA MENTE
25 March 2017 — 27 March 2017Teatro Nacional D. Maria II - Lisbonread moreROMEO CASTELLUCCI
“Natura” is a short theatrical action by Italian dramaturge and director Romeo Castellucci based on “On the Nature and Origin of the Mind,” the second volume of Spinoza’s “Ethics.”
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GROOVE BALL PARTY
25 March 2017Maus Hábitos - Portoread moreGROOVE BALL
As a recreation of the 90s New York's Ballrooms, frequented by LGBTQ communities subculture, Groove BALL blooms in the emerging Oporto's night panorama where we assist to small but yet very relevant cultural and artistic intervention.
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MASTERCLASS
28 March 2017Mosteiro São Bento da Vitória / Teatro Nacional São João - Portoread moreWITH ROMEO CASTELLUCCI
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TALK
28 March 2017Teatro Nacional D. Maria II - Lisbonread moreWITH ROMEO CASTELLUCCI
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MASTERCLASS
29 March 2017Faculdade de Belas Artes - Lisbonread moreWITH SALOMÉ LAMAS
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MUSE
30 March 2017 — 31 March 2017ZDB/Negócio - Lisbonread moreFLORENTINA HOLZINGER & RENÉE COPRAIJ
“Muse” consolidates the collaboration between Austrian performer and choreographer Florentina Holzinger and performer Renée Copraij. In their investigation between the master and servant, the teacher and the student, the inspiration muse of the creative gesture, they explore themes of alienation and individual identity in relation to beauty and perfection.
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JÚLIO CÉSAR – PEÇAS SOLTAS
30 March 2017 — 31 March 2017Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória / Teatro Nacional São João - Oportoread moreROMEO CASTELLUCCI
“Julius Cesar. Spared Parts” features two mysterious characters: “…Vski,” a sort of Stanislavski who films the vibrations of his vocal chords with an endoscope, and Marc Antony, played by an actor without vocal chords, who addresses the audience directly from his oesophagus. Combining sculpture, technology, and the animal world, Castellucci once again challenges the conventions and limits of disciplines.
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TALK
30 March 2017MAAT - Lisbonread moreWIHT HÉCTOR ZAMORA AND INÊS GROSSO
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PALHAÇO RICO FODE PALHAÇO POBRE
31 March 2017 — 08 April 2017Museu de Lisboa / Palácio Pimenta - Lisboa + Praça D. João I - Portoread moreJOÃO PEDRO VALE & NUNO ALEXANDRE FERREIRA
João Pedro Vale & Nuno Alexandre Ferreira’s visual arts practice includes a series of collaborations with other artists resulting in films, installations, fanzines, performances, set designs, and curatorial projects.
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AVANTESMA FANTASMA
31 March 2017 — 02 April 2017Teatro Nacional D. Maria II - Lisbonread moreJOÃO MARIA GUSMÃO & PEDRO PAIVA
João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva have worked together since 2001, producing films, sculptures, photographs, installations, and anthologies of what they describe as “poetico-philosophical fiction.”
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KLEIN
31 March 2017Galeria ZDB - Lisbonread moreKLEIN
At 19, Klein is already one of the most intriguing and unclassifiable contemporary producers. Her music is fluid yet uncompromising.
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VAN AYRES
31 March 2017Galeria ZDB - Lisbonread moreVAN AYRES
In Van Ayres’s first record “Sorry Stars” we hear dream-like, exalted electronic music that maps the now with playful IDM, incandescent of 90s trance echoing in the music of Rustie or Lorenzo Senni, game soundtracks, and James Farraro’s consumerist hyper-reality post “Far Side Virtual” – all of this with dedication and sincerity worth celebrating.
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TALK
31 March 2017ZDB/Negócio - Lisboaread moreWITH FLORENTINA HOLZINGER
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MÚSICA POBRE – LISBOA
01 April 2017 — 02 April 2017Teatro Nacional D. Maria II - Lisboaread moreFILIPA FRANCISCO, FILIPE REIS, JOSÉ LUÍS BENTO COELHO, PAULO RAPOSO, PEDRO TUDELA, VERA MANTERO
Students from three music schools in Portugal will participate in a 6-month training and creation project entitled “Poor Music,” directed by Filipa Francisco (choreographer), Pedro Tudela (visual and sound artist), Paulo Raposo and Filipe Reis (anthropologists), José Luís Bento Coelho (acoustic engineer), and Vera Mantero (choreographer).
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Shirtology (Film installation)
04 April 2017 — 05 April 2017Teatro da Politécnica - Lisbonread moreJERÔME BEL
Film installation based on the performance Shirtology (1997), created for the opening of Centre Pompidou in Malaga in 2015.
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DIE STRAßE + SHADOWPLAY
04 April 2017CASA-ANIMAL / Complexo dos Coruchéus - Lisbonread moreULLA VON BRANDEBURG
"Die Straße" shows a man entering a strange community where he confronts rituals and conventions he does not know. On a continuous plane, the camera follows the performances of the actors, staged by Brandenburg, in a ephemeral village Potemkin made of white scenarios in the open air. In "Shadowplay", a woman and two men meet in a theater dressing room, wear costumes, put on their make-up, enter a character and engage in a duel.
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Disabled Theater (Film)
06 April 2017Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto - Oportoread moreJÉRÔME BEL
Jérôme Bel works with non professional dancers to explore questions which go beyond representation. In “Disabled Theater” he researches with 11 mentally disabled actors from the Swiss based company Theater HORA.
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Yves Tumor
06 April 2017LUX/Frágil - Lisbonread moreYVES TUMOR
“Serpent Music” is a sphinx-like, synesthetic album that is undoubtedly a reflection of its time. It remains uncommitted to specific aesthetics or images, grounded in global thinking, without limitations.
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BUSS DEM HEAD
06 April 2017LUX/Frágil - Lisbonread moreCECILIA BENGOLEA & NIGGA FOX
In "Buss dem head", Cecilia Bengolea and Damion BG Dancerz explore the complexity and virtuosity of styles that carry bits of history (Reggae Old School, Dancehall Gangsta). In this unique collaboration with DJ Nigga Fox, an explosion of rhythms and references is guaranteed.
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MEETING
06 April 2017 — 08 April 2017Teatro da Politécnica - Lisbonread moreANTONY HAMILTON & ALISDAIR MACINDOE
This is a fascinating recital composed of bodies and electronic programming. In a circle of 64 robotic percussion instruments, Australian dancers Antony Hamilton and Alisdair Macindoe perform synchronised, symmetrical, minimalist, coordinated movements.
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IT HAS A GOLDEN SUN AND AN ELDERLY GREY MOON
06 April 2017 — 08 April 2017Teatro da Politécnica - Lisbonread moreULLA VON BRANDEBURG
“It has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon” is Ulla von Brandenburg’s first film dedicated to colour. Filmed on the main stage at Théâtre de Nanterre-Amandiers in a single take with no editing, this is “a film that dances.”
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PERIFÉRICO
07 April 2017 — 08 April 2017Centro Cultural de Belém - Lisbonread moreALEXANDRE FARTO / VHILS
“Periférico” is visual/urban artist Alexandre Farto/Vhils’s first work for the stage. In this piece, he considers urban evolution, the emergence of urban subcultures, and their impact in Portugal during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
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THUG ARTSY UNICORN PARTY
07 April 2017Gare do Porto - Oportoread moreTHUG UNICORN
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MÚSICA POBRE – PORTO
08 April 2017Teatro Nacional São João - Portoread moreFILIPA FRANCISCO, FILIPE REIS, JOSÉ LUÍS BENTO COELHO, PAULO RAPOSO, PEDRO TUDELA, VERA MANTERO
Students from three music schools in Portugal will participate in a 6-month training and creation project entitled “Poor Music,” directed by Filipa Francisco (choreographer), Pedro Tudela (visual and sound artist), Paulo Raposo and Filipe Reis (anthropologists), José Luís Bento Coelho (acoustic engineer), and Vera Mantero (choreographer).
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PARTY
08 April 2017EKA Palace - Lisbonread moreTROPA MACACA / DJ DEALY / JUST JAECKIN / CVLT
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NOWHERE
09 April 2017 — 29 April 2017Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Lisbonread moreMARINO FORMENTI
IN COLLABORATION WITH RICARDO JACINTO"Nowhere" is "a kind of pagan chapel where life and music become one." In a house conceived by visual artist Ricardo Jacinto, it will be installed in the Gulbenkian Foundation amphitheater. Marino Formenti lives there for 20 consecutive days, where he plays the piano from 10am until 8pm (saturdays until 10pm), sleeps, eats, lives, breathes.
LIVE STREAMING / FROM 9 APR
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ODE TO THE ATTEMPT (a solo for meself)
10 April 2017 — 12 April 2017Central Tejo (Fundação EDP) - Lisbonread moreJAN MARTENS
"Ode to the attempt" is the new solo that Jan Martens created for himself, in reference to the individualism and narcissism that characterize the human being today. The result is a self-portrait in the form of a collage, where choreography is revealed and his way of living and working, inviting the audience to look inside his head and computer.
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THE SWEETEST CHOICE
11 April 2017 — 12 April 2017Teatro da Politécnica - Lisbonread moreFRANÇOIS CHAIGNAUD & CÉSAR VAYSSIÉ
A fugitive in the desert dances and sings, celebrating the sweetest choice of solitude.
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SYMPHONIA HARMONIAE CAELESTIUM REVELATIONUM
11 April 2017Teatro Nacional São Carlos - Lisbonread moreFRANÇOIS CHAIGNAUD & MARIE-PIERRE BRÉBANT
They will create a visual and musical performance for voice and bandura using the first five antiphons of “Symphonia harmoniae caelestium revelationum" by Hildegarde von Bingen, at Teatro Nacional São Carlos (Lisbon’s opera house).
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FATAMORGANA
12 April 2017 — 13 April 2017Centro Cultural de Belém - Lisbonread moreSALOMÉ LAMAS
The filmmaker Salomé Lamas presents in world premiere "Fatamorgana", her first stage creation. A political parody, where a woman finds herself in a wax museum on the outskirts of Beirut, and from which emerge historical figures, as ghosts, and with whom she dialogues, cleaning the dust.
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THE FERRYMAN
13 April 2017 — 27 April 2017Passos Manuel - Oporto + Cinema São Jorge - Lisbonread moreGILLES DELMAS / DAMIEN JALET
"Ferryman" is a cinematographic and choreographic exploration of the animist roots of ritual, dance and sculpture, and their importance today. Between documentary and fiction, the film is a reflective journey across the boundaries of the worlds, narrated by Marina Abramovic and with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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TALK
18 April 2017Faculdade de Belas Artes - Lisbonread moreWITH ANASTASIA AX
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MASTERCLASS
18 April 2017Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Portoread moreWITH TANIA BRUGUERA
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THE WORLD AS OF YESTERDAY
19 April 2017 — 30 April 2017Pavilhão Branco / Galerias Municipais (Museu de Lisboa / Palácio Pimenta access) - Lisboaread moreANASTASIA AX
Anastasia Ax works with drawing, sculpture, performance and sound - elements that combine or make collide. She has developed an artistic process that employs destructive forces to create something new.
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ENDGAME
20 April 2017 — 21 April 2017Mosteiro de São Bento / Teatro Nacional São João - Oportoread moreTANIA BRUGUERA
Designed for the context of the BoCA, the artist challenges herself to enter the territory of the theater, proposing to stage "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett, a text she read in 1998 and for which she designed a giant cylindrical structure, which will be inhabited by the public, who sees the show from top to bottom.
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GUIA PRÁTICO PARA ARTISTAS OCUPADOS
21 April 2017Casa da Música - Oportoread moreCRINABEL TEATRO & DIGITÓPIA
In this collaboration, the creation is conceived for 13 performers with mental disabilities, from Crinabel Teatro. They challenge the boundary between fiction and reality, trying to find, among Cindy Sherman's creative universe and theirs own, a possibility of changing paradigmatic forms and contents and calling into question the absolute senses.
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PARTY
21 April 2017Passos Manuel - Oportoread moreSERPENTE / DJ KHABAL
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TALK
21 April 2017Casa da Música - Oportoread moreWITH CRINABEL TEATRO & DIGITÓPIA
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ESPAÇO DE FLUXOS
22 April 2017 — 30 April 2017Galeria ZDB - Lisbonread moreDIOGO EVANGELISTA
Designed for the context of BoCA and curated by João Laia, the exhibition "Espaço de Fluxos" is centered around the figure of the human being and explores ideas such as invisibility and introspection.
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CAMPEONATO INTERNACIONAL DE FINGERBOARD
22 April 2017Museu Nacional dos Coches - Lisbonread moreWith the organization of Lowpro and in partnership with IADE, young designers create objects and spaces for the International Fingerboard Championship to take place in a dialogue between urban and contemporary art practices. Young people from all over the world come to Lisbon to confront new forms that challenge them in the fingerboard practice.
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MÚSICA POBRE – CASTELO BRANCO
22 April 2017Cine-Teatro Avenida - Castelo Brancoread moreFILIPA FRANCISCO, FILIPE REIS, JOSÉ LUÍS BENTO COELHO, PAULO RAPOSO, PEDRO TUDELA, VERA MANTERO
Students from three music schools in Portugal will participate in a 6-month training and creation project entitled “Poor Music,” directed by Filipa Francisco (choreographer), Pedro Tudela (visual and sound artist), Paulo Raposo and Filipe Reis (anthropologists), José Luís Bento Coelho (acoustic engineer), and Vera Mantero (choreographer).
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MASTERCLASS
22 April 2017Faculdade de Belas Artes - Lisboaread moreWITH TANIA BRUGUERA
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QUE DIFÍCIL É SER UM DEUS
26 April 2017Pavilhão Branco / Galerias Municipais (Museu de Lisboa / Palácio Pimenta access) - Lisboaread moreJOHN ROMÃO & ROMEU RUNA
The disappearance of the individual inside his own body? Or the dissimulation of the body via disappearance of the individual? In Hard to be a god, the body is an anthropomorphic object, a sort of proto-language that reveals a reduced occupation of the human inside the human.
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TALK
26 April 2017Faculdade de Belas Artes - Lisbonread moreWITH CLÁUDIA DIAS AND ANDRÉ CORAL
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MEURTRIÈRE
27 April 2017Cinema São Jorge - Lisbonread morePHILIPPE GRANDRIEUX
The Thing is nonsense, insane, intolerable, hysterical, grotesque, phobic, dangerous, brutal, consumerist, wild, sexual, unpredictable, dazed, frenetic, atrocious, anxious, frightening, mind-blowing, desirable, vulgar, perverse, embarrassing, shamelessly nervous, obscene, sacred, furious, murderous.
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE GODS- I4GODS
28 April 2017 — 30 April 2017Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (Rua Capelo n.º 13) - Lisbonread moreMARIANA TENGNER BARROS & PANDEMICK & ESTELITA MENDONÇA
Mariana Tengner Barros has "the need to search for dormant memories of the collective unconscious, invoked, invented rituals, the awakening of an entity." In "i4gods", a 5 hour performance, she develops 9 mantras to activate the trance, in collaboration with musician PandemiCK and fashion designer Estelita Mendonça.
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ESTRELAS CADENTES (Metal e Melancolia)
28 April 2017 — 29 April 2017Pavilhão Branco / Galerias Municipais (Museu de Lisboa / Palácio Pimenta access) - Lisboaread moreANA BORRALHO & JOÃO GALANTE
“Shooting Stars (Metal and Melancholy)” is a performance/installation that comes in response to the different landscapes the artists have experienced and observed, flown over and travelled, the densely populated and the deserted, and which places the two artists' bodies in the center of the gallery.
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TALK
28 April 2017Cinema São Jorge - Lisbonread moreWITH DAMIEN JALET
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JENNY HVAL
30 April 2017LUX/Frágil - Lisbonread moreAll modesty aside, Jenny Hval is an absolute miracle of experimental pop. It’s a lofty affirmation, but well deserved by this vigorous Norwegian artist. With a background in performance, she moulds word and sound to a conceptual line that is as apocalyptic as it is hopeful.
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TALK
30 April 2017Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Lisbonread moreWITH MARINO FORMENTI & RICARDO JACINTO
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CASA-ANIMAL / Évora
06 May 2017 — 01 July 2017Fórum Eugénio de Almeida - Évoraread moreMUSA PARADISIACA
Built from a hybrid notion of scale, between man and animal, "Casa-animal" (Animal-house) is a sculpture-monument-stage for the public space and which houses a set of different daily actions (installations, films, conferences, performances, etc.), selected from an open call.
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ENDGAME
16 May 2017 — 21 May 2017Cinéma Marivaux - Bruxelasread moreTANIA BRUGUERA
Designed for the context of the BoCA, the artist challenges herself to enter the territory of the theater, proposing to stage "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett, a text she read in 1998 and for which she designed a giant cylindrical structure, which will be inhabited by the public, who sees the show from top to bottom.
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FATAMORGANA
19 May 2017Cine-Teatro Avenida - Castelo Brancoread moreSALOMÉ LAMAS
The filmmaker Salomé Lamas presents in world premiere "Fatamorgana", her first stage creation. A political parody, where a woman finds herself in a wax museum on the outskirts of Beirut, and from which emerge historical figures, as ghosts, and with whom she dialogues, cleaning the dust.
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WORKSHOP WITH SALOMÉ LAMAS
04 September 2017 — 05 September 2017Galeria ZDBread moreBOCA SUMMER SCHOOL
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WORKSHOP WITH ANGÉLICA LIDDELL
06 September 2017 — 10 September 2017National Theatre D. Maria IIread moreBoCA SUMMER SCHOOL
The Spanish dramaturge and theatre director Angélica Liddel will be in Lisbon to direct a workshop of 5 days at the D. Maria II National Theatre.
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WORKSHOP WITH GARY HILL
14 September 2017 — 15 September 2017MAATread moreBOCA SUMMER SCHOOL
The multimedia artist GARY HILL will be in Lisbon to direct a workshop of 2 days. This is a unique opportunity to get in touch and develop a video object with one of the pioneers on video art.