BoCA 2017 — Next Performances

WITH HÉCTOR ZAMORA

ARAM 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

RODRIGO 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.

TIANZHUO 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.

VON 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.

TÂNIA 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.

RAMZI / OBALSKI / CVLT

MUSA 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.

WITH ARAM BARTHOLL & ESPACIALISTAS

The 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.

HÉCTOR 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.

WITH RUI HORTA

WITH GROOVE BALL & RABBIT HOLE & THUG UNICORN

IVAN ARGOTE + ÓLAFUR DARRI ÓLAFSSON & LIBIA CASTRO + MARION INGLESSI

Cycle of films curated by Jean-François Rettig and Nathalie Hénon (Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin).

KIRILL SAVCHENKOV

Rather than examining skateboarding as a subculture, “The Museum of Skateboarding” addresses the impact skateboarding has on consciousness and the body.

RABBIT 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.

ROMEO 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.”

GROOVE 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.

WITH ROMEO CASTELLUCCI

WITH ROMEO CASTELLUCCI
AND MODERATED BY JOSÉ TOLENTINO MENDONÇA

WITH SALOMÉ LAMAS

FLORENTINA 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.

ROMEO 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.

WIHT HÉCTOR ZAMORA AND INÊS GROSSO

JOÃO 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.

JOÃO 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.”

KLEIN

At 19, Klein is already one of the most intriguing and unclassifiable contemporary producers. Her music is fluid yet uncompromising.

VAN 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.

WITH FLORENTINA HOLZINGER

FILIPA 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).

JERÔME BEL

Film installation based on the performance Shirtology (1997), created for the opening of Centre Pompidou in Malaga in 2015.

ULLA 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.

JÉRÔME 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.

YVES 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.

CECILIA 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.

ANTONY 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.

ULLA 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.”

ALEXANDRE 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.

SOLD OUT

THUG UNICORN

FILIPA 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).

TROPA MACACA / DJ DEALY / JUST JAECKIN / CVLT

MARINO 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

JAN 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.

FRANÇOIS CHAIGNAUD & CÉSAR VAYSSIÉ

A fugitive in the desert dances and sings, celebrating the sweetest choice of solitude.

FRANÇOIS 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).

SALOMÉ 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.

GILLES 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.

WITH ANASTASIA AX

WITH TANIA BRUGUERA

ANASTASIA 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.

TANIA 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.

CRINABEL 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.

SERPENTE / DJ KHABAL

WITH CRINABEL TEATRO & DIGITÓPIA

DIOGO 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.

With 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.

FILIPA 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).

WITH TANIA BRUGUERA

JOHN 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.

WITH CLÁUDIA DIAS AND ANDRÉ CORAL

PHILIPPE 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.

MARIANA 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.

ANA 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.

WITH DAMIEN JALET

All 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.

WITH MARINO FORMENTI & RICARDO JACINTO

MUSA 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.

TANIA 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.

SALOMÉ 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.

BOCA SUMMER SCHOOL

BoCA 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.

BOCA 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.