Program — Next Performances

Exhibition curated by John Romão

Works by André Romão (PT), Boris Charmatz & César Vayssié (FR), Brice Dellsperger (FR), Claudia Maté (ES), Diogo Evangelista (PT), Gregor Rozanski (PL), João Onofre (PT), João Pedro Vale & Nuno Alexandre Ferreira (PT), Tania Bruguera (CU) and Tiago Alexandre (PT)

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2018

If you are interested in visual arts, architecture or design, this is for you. The Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata comes to Lisbon to share the vast experience in site-specific installations, in collaboration with the collective of artists Os Espacialistas. It is a unique opportunity to learn, conceptualize and participate in the construction of the new exhibition that Kawamata will create for MAAT Museum.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2018

The notion of Arte Útil, or Useful Art, has been proposed by the Cuban artista Tania Bruguera and na informal group of collaborators to describe collaborative artistic practices that contribute to social change, creating beneficial outcomes to the people or communities involved in them. The Portuguese curator Miguel Amado delivers this workshop in collaboration with Bruguera and Alistair Hudson, the co-directors of the Arte Útil Association.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2018

"Sexy MF" by Ana Borralho & João Galante is already a classic of the performance art in Portugal. The workshop questions the body and its intimacy, sexuality and eroticism, identity, gender behavior and its limits. How to transcend the notions of feminine and masculine, not only in the intellectual understanding but in the physical experience of the day to day? How to create sexual confusion by nullifying or stressing gender?

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2018

Belgian choreographer Jan Martens comes to Lisbon to conduct a dance workshop for dance and theater performers. The workshop offers a total immersion into the diverse choreographic landscape of Jan Martens' creations, which introduces participants to the methodologies they have used for some of their work.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2018

BoCA's director and theatre director, John Romão, proposes the workshop "Bad and Sick". A laboratory of theatre creation that combines references and concepts from the visual arts and performance art. Open to students and professionals of the performing arts.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2018

After his trip to Lisbon during the BoCA 2017 Biennial, with "Nowhere", in collaboration with Ricardo Jacinto, Italian pianist Marino Formenti, considered the "Glenn Gould of the 21st century" (Los Angeles Times), is leading a workshop on his concept of "Systemic Music Performance" for musicians and composers.

ARTISTIC RESIDENCE

A new music work by artist Tânia Carvalho, a multidisciplinary artist, is part of the program of the 2nd edition of BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts (15 MAR - 30 ABR 2019). She will be in artistic residence at the Estúdios Victor Córdon - CNB & TNSC.

ARTISTIC RESIDENCY

The Portuguese multidisciplinary artist Tânia Carvalho integrates the programming of the 2nd edition of BoCA with a new creation, "duploc barulin". She will be working on music in an artistic residency at the Victor Córdon Studios - CNB & TNSC.

ARTISTIC RESIDENCY

Marlene Monteiro Freitas starts an artistic residency around her new creation for BoCA 2019, "Cattivo - Installation for Music Shelves and Other Materials", at the São Bento da Vitória Monastery / São João National Theater (Porto).

WORKSHOP WITH JOHN ROMÃO
Theatre | Performance

The workshop "Cave of forgotten dreams" proposes to work with two different materials: on the one hand, the cave paintings present in the cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, the oldest testimony of art in Humanity; on the other, performative actions from the 60-70s, conceived by Vito Acconci, pioneer of visceral performance and architecture.

WORKSHOP WITH MARIANA TENGNER BARROS

This will be a laboratory for creative experimentation, which asks the possibilities of dance, movement and performance as a political practice of activating the body. Attention modes and states of consciousness that will allow the reconfiguration of the filters we use to understand “reality” will be investigated.

RYAN TRECARTIN

Ryan Trecartin is one of the most daring artists working with video in current days. His movies are a mixture of performance arts, sitcoms and hypnotic digital collages, like the result of a collaboration between Bosch and Keith Haring. Shot in a former Masonic temple in Los Angeles – a five-story warren of large, cavernous rooms akin to a windowless convention center – “Temple Time” unfolds like a horror-movie group expedition in a campsite wasteland.

MEG STUART

Initially conceived for an ample and neutral room of Manifesta7, in 2008, this video-installation by Meg Stuart is now re-contextualized in the Albertas’ Chapel, inside the National Museum of Antique Art in Lisbon. Meg Stuart is exposed. A human face in a space of human hyper-representation. The real exposed in a place of representation. Is it us who look at Stuart or is Stuart the one looking at us?

MARINA ABRAMOVIC

The return of Marina Abramovic in Portugal. The last time she’s been here was in 1997 with the “Spirit House” installation, which she conceived for an old municipal slaughterhouse in Caldas da Rainha. “Spirit House” is composed of five videos that dialogue between them, in which we see Marina Abramovic in different performances created for the camera: ‘Dissolution’, ‘Insomnia’, ‘Luminosity’, ‘Dozing Con- sciousness’ and ‘Lost Souls’.

WILLIAM FORSYTHE

Since the 90s, parallel to his stage creations, Forsythe has developed installations, sculptures and movies he calls “Choreographic Objects”. Blurring the lines between performance, sculpture and installation, his “Choreographic Objects” invite the spectator to confront the fundamental notions of choreography. BoCA presents for the first time in Portugal one of the pieces that integrates this serie, the video “Alignigung 2”, in three museums of Lisbon, Porto and Braga.

WILLIAM FORSYTHE

Since the 90s, parallel to his stage creations, Forsythe has developed installations, sculptures and movies he calls “Choreographic Objects”. Blurring the lines between performance, sculpture and installation, his “Choreographic Objects” invite the spectator to confront the fundamental notions of choreography. BoCA presents for the first time in Portugal one of the pieces that integrates this serie, the video “Alignigung 2”, in three museums of Lisbon, Porto and Braga.

WILLIAM FORSYTHE

Since the 90s, parallel to his stage creations, Forsythe has developed installations, sculptures and movies he calls “Choreographic Objects”. Blurring the lines between performance, sculpture and installation, his “Choreographic Objects” invite the spectator to confront the fundamental notions of choreography. BoCA presents for the first time in Portugal one of the pieces that integrates this serie, the video “Alignigung 2”, in three museums of Lisbon, Porto and Braga.

JOÃO PEDRO RODRIGUES & JOÃO RUI GUERRA DA MATA

In the middle of the Príncipe Real Garden, iconographic site of LGBT bodies’ roaming, there can be found the subterranean Water Museum/Patriarchal Reservoir. BoCA presents the installation "National Identity" in a descent to the depths that re-contextualize the bodies the directors have been filming throughout the years, assembling film, photography and props from earlier works in a reflection on identities, and both gender and national identity.

JONATHAS DE ANDRADE

In the film “O Peixe” [The Fish] a fishing village stages a kind of ritual: they cradle the fish in their arms until their timely deaths. A limiting embrace – a rite of passage – where man retakes his condition as species and face to face with his prey, calms it down through an ambiguous sequence of gestures: affection, solidarity and violence. An embrace between predator and prey, between life and death, between the worker and the fruit of his labour.

NÍDIA

Nídia is one of the voices of a generation that has been transforming the international contemporary electronic music scene from a community basis. Her debut happened in 2015 with “Danger” as she still went by Nídia Minaj, and two years later released through Príncipe her first LP “Nídia é Má, Nídia é Fudida”.

BLACK

We can gather Lisbon’s cultural history from this century and appoint Black as one of the motors/mentors that made it become what we know today. Maybe you’ll have to investigate a little further to know his real name, but as co-founder of group Filho Único, the life of the city nowadays is what he helped create.

CONFERENCE BY JOACINE KATAR MOREIRA / INMUNE

A reflection on art and visuality, forcing assistance to reinvent new ways of looking at blackness; and the decolonization of language through listening to the black woman's body.

JONATHAS DE ANDRADE

In the film “O Peixe” [The Fish] a fishing village stages a kind of ritual: they cradle the fish in their arms until their timely deaths. A limiting embrace – a rite of passage – where man retakes his condition as species and face to face with his prey, calms it down through an ambiguous sequence of gestures: affection, solidarity and violence. An embrace between predator and prey, between life and death, between the worker and the fruit of his labour.

ANDRÉ ROMÃO

The “Flora” exhibition by André Romão presents a series of sculptures, photography and videos made over the last few years by the artist himself, propositioning us with a free and speculative narrative on the conditions of inhabitability and survival in the world, physically as well as culturally.

VOLMIR CORDEIRO

In “Rua”, Volmir manifests in the different bodies and faces the street might contain. The space which is drifted and crossed by the dancer’s redesigning by movement converts in an open abstraction, as the performer condenses in his body the diverse characters of the urban fauna, the ones most marginalized. A choreographic answer to the reading of the war poems of Bertolt Brecht, “Rua” instills a dance of thought and body, densifying the space, inhabiting a thousand ghosts.

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.

VOLMIR CORDEIRO

In “Rua”, Volmir manifests in the different bodies and faces the street might contain. The space which is drifted and crossed by the dancer’s redesigning by movement converts in an open abstraction, as the performer condenses in his body the diverse characters of the urban fauna, the ones most marginalized. A choreographic answer to the reading of the war poems of Bertolt Brecht, “Rua” instills a dance of thought and body, densifying the space, inhabiting a thousand ghosts.

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.

"Forum Dança", alongside BoCA, created PACAP - Program for Activation of Creation in Performing Arts, that gives professionals and students the opportunity to do both research and exercising corporal movement. Working side by side with two curators, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, three dance solos were originated for BoCA 2019: Descarada" by Patrícia Árabe; "A body that hides also stands" by Marta Ramos; and "Miragem" by Renan Fontoura.

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.

GABRIEL FERRANDINI

Under an invitation by BoCA, the drummer Gabriel Ferrandini conceives his first stage creation, sharing the stage with the actor Frederico Barata. “Rosa. Espinho. Dureza.” is made out of three acts: labour, sex, love. As a triptych, in which concepts and materials are interlinked, each act will have an action and object represent its respective “problem”, repeated ad nauseam, testing the persistence and concentration of the performers and the audience.

BEYONCÉ MASS by YOLANDA NORTON

What if “Flaws and All” was a song about a complicated relationship with God? And “Survivor” spoke to how Black women thrive even as they’re undervalued and underestimated? Beyoncé Mass is a womanist worship service that uses the music and personal life of Beyoncé as a tool to foster an empowering conversation about the marginalized and forgotten, in particular Black women - their lives, their bodies, and their voices.

ADOLFO LUXÚRIA CANIBAL

Adolfo Luxúria Canibal, known mainly for his work as a musician and lead singer of the band Mão Morta, presents at BoCA a performance and installation, with various plastic elements, music, video and the launching of a book.

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.

ARCA

Arca is the pseudonym of shapeshifting Venezuelan artist, singer, DJ, performer, and experimental music composer Alejandra Ghersi, a visionary of a new world where vulnerability is the powerful source of explosive energy. In a unique event, BoCA hosts a meeting with Arca, who will share her thought-provoking work and discuss the intersections between artistic creation, music, and performance.

MILO RAU

In the film “Congo Tribunal” theatre director Milo Rau gathers the victims, perpetrators, witnesses and analysts of the war in Congo for a previously unseen civil court in Eastern Congo. Milo Rau creates an unfiltered portrait of one of the largest and bloodiest economic wars in the history of mankind.

TANIA BRUGUERA

Following her recent investigation in the Tate Modern (London), “Narciso” evokes the migration and refugee crisis. Through the eye of Bruguera, this movement gains an expression of individual crisis centered in the body and the identity of each spectator: “A person will sit on a sculpture and will observe their face in the water. When they get near the water to see themselves, the reflection found will not be theirs but that of an immigrant person”, writes Tania Bruguera.

JULIAN ROSEFELDT

Rosefeldt collaged historical original texts from numerous manifestos by artists, architects, choreographers, and filmmakers as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, Adrien Piper or Sol LeWitt. By way of cutting back and combining the texts, 13 poetic monologues emerged, bringing the new manifesto texts together with situations of today, with women holding public speeches or interior monologues. They are all embodied and presented by the actress Cate Blanchett.

JOANA DA CONCEIÇÃO

A artista plástica Joana da Conceição concebe, para a BoCA, a performance e instalação "O Berço de Vénus". No Porto, estará na Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto para falar sobre a sua prática artística.

GULBENKIAN CHOIR SINGS "STIMMUNG" BY STOCKHAUSEN

“Stimmung” (1968) is one of the most notable and fundamental works from Stockhausen, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Conceived for six solo voices, the work is now displaced in a response to its radicalism and its sense of religion to one of the temples of our contemporaneity, a nightclub (Lux Frágil), in the context of BoCA.

GABRIEL FERRANDINI

Under an invitation by BoCA, the drummer Gabriel Ferrandini conceives his first stage creation, sharing the stage with the actor Frederico Barata. “Rosa. Espinho. Dureza.” is made out of three acts: labour, sex, love. As a triptych, in which concepts and materials are interlinked, each act will have an action and object represent its respective “problem”, repeated ad nauseam, testing the persistence and concentration of the performers and the audience.

MILO RAU

In the film “Congo Tribunal” theatre director Milo Rau gathers the victims, perpetrators, witnesses and analysts of the war in Congo for a previously unseen civil court in Eastern Congo. Milo Rau creates an unfiltered portrait of one of the largest and bloodiest economic wars in the history of mankind.

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".

MILO RAU

In the film “Congo Tribunal” theatre director Milo Rau gathers the victims, perpetrators, witnesses and analysts of the war in Congo for a previously unseen civil court in Eastern Congo. Milo Rau creates an unfiltered portrait of one of the largest and bloodiest economic wars in the history of mankind.

ECOTEMPORÂNEOS

"Ecotemporâneos" [Ecotemporaries] is an inclusive literary community acting in the green spaces of Lisbon, constituted by a diverse group of visual and auditory deficient people as well as people who can see and hear. The project shares a common time (contemporary) and a common space (the environment) around access to literature and its relation to a site.

GUESTS:
6 APR | Matilde Campilho (writer)
20 APR | Mamadou Ba (director of SOS Racism)

JOANA DA CONCEIÇÃO

In the Casa dos Crivos performance, Joana da Conceição proposes that we accompany the succession of ephemeral paintings she will be creating through the manipulation of objects, pictures and sound. For this multimedia game the artists brings her own original material, be it paintings, music or drawings, that she combines with found objects.

JULIAN ROSEFELDT

Rosefeldt collaged historical original texts from numerous manifestos by artists, architects, choreographers, and filmmakers as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, Adrien Piper or Sol LeWitt. By way of cutting back and combining the texts, 13 poetic monologues emerged, bringing the new manifesto texts together with situations of today, with women holding public speeches or interior monologues. They are all embodied and presented by the actress Cate Blanchett.

CIUDAD ABIERTA

“Punto de Fuga” is an interdisciplinary action that consists of the execution of three performances in open spaces: in the Chilean artistic community Cidade Aberta (Valparaíso), in the Magellan Strait (between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans) and in MAAT (Lisboa). This project, that has been re-equating issues about body-territory, architecture, public space, history or habitation.

RUI CHAFES & VERA MANTERO

“Comer o Coração” consists of a sculpted iron piece sus- pended in air and of a living body that lives in it, in vertigo, resulting in collaborative creation and conception between sculptor Rui Chages and dancer plus choreographer Vera Mantero. With BoCA’s invitation, “Comer o Coração” now takes a new perspective and a new name, “Comer o Coração em Cena”, migrating to the theatre stage the magnitude of a piece that has had its origin in a museum.

JONATHAN ULIEL SALDANHA

"Scotoma Cintilante" is a performance-concert for a mixed choir of blind people with three dimensional graphical sheet music. The surface of a sculpture-machine is the inanimate matter that operates the mutation over the voice in time. Coming from a world-vision where tactile relations with inanimate matter is the primordial source of sound building, this performance-concert submits itself between matter and animates, pre-language and surface.

MARLENE MONTEIRO FREITAS

In “Cattivo”, the music stands are explored up to the limit of their expressive properties, their capacity to flesh out other emotional states and to make decisions, manipulating themselves and other objects, forming as a team in a symphonic community, with different instruments, rhythms, melodic lines... Akin to a stage, a garden or dollhouse, the installation will remain between vegetable, animal and the fantasy world.

ALFREDO MARTINS

“Silent Disco” is an immersive show that happens in night- clubs, exploring the potential of the technology from ‘silent disco’ parties. This creation aims to speculate on the nature of clubbing as an act of resistance, capable of reconfiguring forms of reflection, affection and corporality. Spectacular identities, multiple sexualities, hedonistic consuming, raw physicality - do each of these constitute as a political practice of resistance?

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WOLFGANG TILLMANS
In Tillmans’ universe there is music, dance, dilated pupils, liberated sex, political affirmation and also abstract images. In the context of BoCA, he displays the most obscure side of his art: Tillmans also produces electronic music. It’s this hidden profile of the artist that he shares with us in Lisbon in a unique moment, starting the night with pre-recorded music as well as live set, with CDJ’s and microphone.

DIANA POLICARPO

“Total Eclipse” is also a sound installation inspired in ‘Status Quo’ (1938), a performance by Sound of Spheres, for the unperformed political opera by the German-American Johanna M. Beyer. It is also an arrangement and a story of art that broke art itself - which is what the term avant-garde wants to describe but still can’t, because Beyer was a woman.

MARIANA TENGNER BARROS

Séance” is an intimate performance, for 3 to 10 spectators at a time in unique and continuous sessions of 30 minutes each. Barros dives deep in Victorian era aesthetics, searching for reference in the Espírita movement that emerged in the 19th century simultaneously with the feminist movement and as a reaction to the industrial revolution, that at the same time denotes the permanence in the 21st century of the strong desire for the paranormal and supernatural.

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.

OLA MACIEJEWSKA

In “Bombyx Mori”, a play for three female performers, Ola Maciejewska takes inspiration from the “Serpentine Dance” from Loïe Fuller. Ola explores the relationship between human beings and physical matter in art, creating movement in sizable pieces of cloth. Waterfalls of black clothing wave throughout the stage, creating short-lived whirlpools, wings and mythical creatures that parade exuberantly before our eyes.

GERARD & KELLY

Gerard & Kelly continue their research on pole dance, questioning the violence related to race, gender, sexuality and national identity. Throughout various citations and transformations of the American flag and national anthem, in “State Of” we can watch a group of white and black men exploring the critical potential of intimacy, to suspend violence regarding our differences.

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.

PAULO CASTRO

"Hello My Name Is” is a solo show, performed by Timorese actor Rashidi Edward. In this one-man show, Rashidi makes a powerful display of a man who acts many parts – he is the one mourning for someone killed and right after he is the soldier who takes the shot -, using the poetic language of Edward Bond to draw attention to the place each one occupies in the games of tyrannical power.

MARIANA TENGNER BARROS

Séance” is an intimate performance, for 3 to 10 spectators at a time in unique and continuous sessions of 30 minutes each. Barros dives deep in Victorian era aesthetics, searching for reference in the Espírita movement that emerged in the 19th century simultaneously with the feminist movement and as a reaction to the industrial revolution, that at the same time denotes the permanence in the 21st century of the strong desire for the paranormal and supernatural.

PAULO CASTRO

"Hello My Name Is” is a solo show, performed by actor Rashidi Edward. In this one-man show, Rashidi makes a powerful display of a man who acts many parts – he is the one mourning for someone killed and right after he is the soldier who takes the shot -, using the poetic language of Edward Bond to draw attention to the place each one occupies in the games of tyrannical power.

PEDRO BARATEIRO

Pedro Barateiro’s project “The Inverted Journey” is a performance and installation commissioned by BoCA that allows him to work on the stage of the Sala Garrett of the National Theatre, having as its backdrop the exploitation of the lithium mines in Portugal, in an investigation that also goes through the book “Queda sem fim, seguido de Descida de Maleström, de Edgar Allan Poe”, written by José A. Bragança de Miranda.

JONAS & LANDER

“Coin Operated” follows an invitation from BoCA to Jonas & Lander to create a piece for a museum where dialog with the audience is direct and depends on itself. Jonas & Lander design a new relationship with the spectator where it starts having an ac- tive role in the consequence of the artistic action, making way for diverse and surprising scenes in every presentation, or in this case in the duration of every coin inserted in the horse rides.

ECOTEMPORÂNEOS

"Ecotemporâneos" [Ecotemporaries] is an inclusive literary community acting in the green spaces of Lisbon, constituted by a diverse group of visual and auditory deficient people as well as people who can see and hear. The project shares a common time (contemporary) and a common space (the environment) around access to literature and its relation to a site.

Guest: MAMADOU BA (Diretor of SOS Racism, Portugal)

MARIANA TENGNER BARROS

Séance” is an intimate performance, for 3 to 10 spectators at a time in unique and continuous sessions of 30 minutes each. Barros dives deep in Victorian era aesthetics, searching for reference in the Espírita movement that emerged in the 19th century simultaneously with the feminist movement and as a reaction to the industrial revolution, that at the same time denotes the permanence in the 21st century of the strong desire for the paranormal and supernatural.

ANGÉLICA LIDDELL

In this new creation, having its starting point the Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch narrative as well as the one from Marquis de Sade, the essay “The Cold and The Cruel” (1967) by Gilles Deleuze, Angélica Liddell focuses on the literary and artistic part of perversions, far away from any clinical explanation, where it is highlighted the poetic expression that goes beyond any artistic frontier or discipline to display the relations between father and daughter.

JOÃO PAIS FILIPE

João Pais Filipe is a percussionist, drummer and sound sculptor from Porto. Futurist and traditional. Ethno techno. For the Casa do Volfrâmio in Tibães Monastery (Braga) a circular installation of gongs is projected, suspended from sculpted items that can be sonically activated by the visitors. There will be two moments of live performance-concert of physical interaction between the musician and his sculptures-instruments.

Education and creation project based on HELENA ALMEIDA

The project honors, through contemporary music, one of the greatest artists of the XX and XXI century, Helena Almeida (1934-2018). Bringing together students from the three main Music universities of Lisbon, Porto and Braga, young composers create new works from the series of the same name by Helena Almeida. The result: a concert that brings together students from the three universities.

KUKURUZ QUARTET
PLAYS MARCEL ZAES & JULIUS EASTMAN

The Swiss pianist quartet Kukuruz Quartet continues its exploration around the political postminimalist music of Eastman, brought to Portugal for the first time, and the music of Swiss composer Marcel Zaes.

Education and creation project based on HELENA ALMEIDA

The project honors, through contemporary music, one of the greatest artists of the XX and XXI century, Helena Almeida (1934-2018). Bringing together students from the three main Music universities of Lisbon, Porto and Braga, young composers create new works from the series of the same name by Helena Almeida. The result: a concert that brings together students from the three universities.

Education and creation project based on HELENA ALMEIDA

The project honors, through contemporary music, one of the greatest artists of the XX and XXI century, Helena Almeida (1934-2018). Bringing together students from the three main Music universities of Lisbon, Porto and Braga, young composers create new works from the series of the same name by Helena Almeida. The result: a concert that brings together students from the three universities.

LINN DA QUEBRADA

Linn’s first LP gains its title of “Pajubá” after the dialect spoken by the gay community and its supporters in Rio de Janeiro. The name comes from the African languages and has begun being used by the transvestites of Rio as a form of survival against the violence on the streets. With lyrical and incisive power, frequently humorous, she approaches topics such as violence, poverty, body politics, sex, desire and the daily struggles of Brazilian trans women.

JONATHAN ULIEL SALDANHA

"Scotoma Cintilante" is a performance-concert for a mixed choir of blind people with three dimensional graphical sheet music. The surface of a sculpture-machine is the inanimate matter that operates the mutation over the voice in time. Coming from a world-vision where tactile relations with inanimate matter is the primordial source of sound building, this performance-concert submits itself between matter and animates, pre-language and surface.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL

The film director João Salaviza confronts his last three films ("Russa", "High Cities of Bones", "The Dead and the Others"), where he rehearses new ways of thinking, producing, and living Cinema. Participants are also invited to bring out sketches, ideas and maps for future films.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL

Claudia Castellucci, co-founder with Romeo Castellucci and Chiara and Paolo Guidi of the Italian theater company Societas Raffaello Sanzio, in 1981, comes to Portugal to develop a workshop that combines dance and gesture theory. The workshop "The Wave Treatment" is built according to a rhythmic principle that considers the different moments of the day. A dance based on the sound of the bells and implemented with a stick.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL / Performance

For the first time in Portugal, CLAUDIA CASTELLUCCI developed a workshop that now results in three public presentations of dance performance. "The treatment of him where" can be seen in the cloister of the Convento das Bernardas / Museu da Marioneta.
During the workshop, a dance was created created with the sound of bells and performed with a stick. This is an unprecedented opportunity to discover CLAUDIA CASTELLUCCI's work in Portugal.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL

This workshop will explore the multidisciplinary methods used by the Egyptian artist Basim Magdy to experiment with poetic narratives, with unconventional photographic processes, with the construction of analog images and with the overlapping of colors using filters and masks inside and outside the camera.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL

This is the first time French choreographer Mathilde Monnier directs a workshop in Portugal. She will go through different writing processes related to her repertoire, which are also an opportunity to think about the notion of reinterpretation. This workshop will also be a space to question the need to go through contemporary repertoires to better understand what is represented in time and how writing can cross (or not) an era.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL

How can we use the preparation for the ring as a preparation to make dance or art? What if the preparation of the fighter is an artistic process? We want to explore the exchangability of physical disciplines as a tool for dancers, makers and creative people. Choreographer and performer Florentina Holzinger, who was at BoCA 2017 for an artistic residency, proposes now a workshop to recruit warriors, assuming that this will result in better artistry.

ECOTEMPORARIES

Ecotemporaries is a community of reading in green spaces in the city of Lisbon. Open, inclusive and accessible, it is made up of a diverse group: normal-sighted, visually impaired and hearing impaired.

Invited: MATILDE CAMPILHO (writer)

ONLINE TALK

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, with moderation by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Belanciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday until, at least, the 30th of June 2020.

22 APR: Bill T. Jones, 8pm (West)

PRESS PLAY

Streaming of performances and films by artists who question the relationship between the performing body, architecture and the camera. It has the cooperation of BoCA x Tate Modern, BoCA x Collection of Serralves Foundation and the BoCA archive. Every Thursday until - at least - 30 June.

23 APR: Otobong Nkanga, 9pm CET
"Diaptasia" (2015)
Curadoria: Catherine Wood (Tate Modern)

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, with moderation by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Belanciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday until at least the 30th of June.

24 APR: Gonçalo M. Tavares, 8:00 pm, live at www.youtube.com/bocabienal

LIVE STREAMING OF PERFORMANCES

Live broadcasts of short-term performances commissioned by BoCA, designed through the relational body-camera-home device.
Every Saturday until at least the 30th of June

25 APR: Odete, 19h, live at www.youtube.com/bocabienal
“Excuse me, miss, their history was always a matter of technique”

ECOTEMPORANEOUS

In an online format, each guest shares a photo of themselves in a natural landscape, relating it to a book they have at home. Thus, a dialogue is created between the interior and the exterior, between the body, nature and imagination. A live instagram conversation in which the online community is invited to participate. Every Sunday until at least the 30th of June 2020.

26 APR: Mariana Monteiro, 16h, live on Instagram BoCA Bienal
Chosen book: “Women” by Eduardo Galeano

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday until at least the 30th of June.

29 APR: José Bragança de Miranda, 8pm

PRESS PLAY

Exhibition of videos of performances and films by artists who question the relationship between the performing body, architecture and / or the camera. It has the cooperation of BoCA x Tate Modern, BoCA x Fundação de Serralves Collection and the BoCA file. Every Thursday until at least the 30th of June.

30 APR: Tania Bruguera, 10pm
"Endgame" by Samuel Beckett (2017) / BoCA Archive

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday until at least the 30th of June.

1 MAY: Ana Gomes, 8pm

LIVE STREAMING OF PERFORMANCES

Live broadcasts of new commissioned performances by BoCA, designed through the relational body-camera-home device.
Every Saturday until at least June 30th.

2 MAY: Tânia Carvalho, 10pm (WEST), live at YouTube/BocaBienal
"As if a layer of scales tightly closed"

ECOTEMPORARIES

In an online format, each guest shares a photo of themselves in a natural landscape, relating it to a book they have at home. Thus, a dialogue is created between the interior and the exterior, between the body, nature and imagination. A live instagram conversation in which the online community is invited to participate. Every Sunday until at least the 30th of June 2020.

3 MAY, 4pm, live on Instagram @ BoCA Bienal
Chosen book: "New Portuguese Letters"

HOMEWORK

Inspired by the Fluxus movement, in which artists wrote instructions to be activated by the public inside museums, BoCA now invites artists to write instructions for activation at home. Unpublished scores are shared that challenge the audience to a dialogue between the outside and the inside, the body and the imagination. Every Monday until at least 30 June 2020.

"Social Media for Kitchen or Bathroom" (2020)
"Living Room Mutualism" (2020)

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday until at least 30 June.

6 MAY, 7:00 pm, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

PRESS PLAY

Exhibition of videos of performances and films by artists who question the relationship between the performing body, architecture and / or the camera. It has the cooperation of BoCA x Tate Modern, BoCA x Fundação de Serralves Collection and the BoCA file. Every Thursday until at least 30 June.

7 MAY, 10 pm, streaming www.youtube.com/bocabienal
"UNI VER SÓ", 1985 / Fundação Serralves Collection

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday until at least 30 June.

8 MAY, 8 pm, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

LIVE STREAMING OF PERFORMANCES

Live broadcasts of short-term performances commissioned by BoCA, designed through the relational body-camera-home device.
Every Saturday until at least June 30

9 MAY: Pedro Barateiro, 10 pm, live www.youtube.com/bocabienal
"Opening Monologue"

ECOTEMPORARIES

Each guest shares a photo of himself in a natural landscape, relating it to a book he has at home. A dialogue is established between the interior and the exterior, between the body, nature and imagination. Every Sunday until at least 30 June 2020.

10 MAY, 4 pm, straight from Instagram @bocabienal
Location of the photo: Douro
Book: "Silence in the era of noise" by Erling Kagge, Quetzal publisher

HOMEWORK

Inspired by the Fluxus movement, in which artists wrote instructions to be activated by the public inside museums, BoCA now invites artists to write instructions for activation at home. Unpublished scores are shared that challenge the audience to a dialogue between the outside and the inside, the body and the imagination. Every Monday until at least 30th of June 2020.

"I Remember / I Imagine" (2020), Dora García

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, with moderation by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Belanciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday.

12 JUN, 7pm: Miguel Duarte, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday until at least the 30th of June.

13 MAY, 7 pm: João Pedro Vale & Nuno Alexandre Ferreira, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

PRESS PLAY

Exhibition of videos of performances and films by artists who question the relationship between the performing body, architecture and the camera. It has the cooperation of BoCA x Tate Modern, BoCA x Fundação Serralves Collection and the BoCA file. Every Thursday until at least the 30th of June.

14 MAY: Pablo Bronstein, 10 pm
“Constantinople Kaleidoscope” (2012)

ECOTEMPORARIES

Each guest shares a photo of himself in a natural landscape, relating it to a book he has at home. A dialogue is established between the interior and the exterior, between the body, nature and imagination. Every Sunday until at least the 30th of June 2020.

JUN 14, 4PM (WEST), direct from YouTube / BocaBienal
Photo location: Casa, 2020
Book: "80 Poems by Emily Dickinson" by Jorge de Sena

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday until at least the 30th of June.

15 MAY, 7 pm: Ailton Krenak, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

LIVE STREAMING OF PERFORMANCES

Live broadcasts of short performances commissioned by BoCA, thought through the relational body-camera-home device.
Every Saturday until at least June 30th

16 MAY: Mariana Tengner Barros, 10 pm, live www.youtube.com/bocabienal
“With Fino, performance for the bathroom in the era of the virus”, 2020

ECOTEMPORANEOUS

Each guest shares a photo of himself in a natural landscape, relating it to a book he has at home. A dialogue is established between the interior and the exterior, between the body, nature and imagination. Every Sunday until at least 30 June 2020.

17 MAY, 4 pm, straight from Instagram @bocabienal
Location of the photo: Madeira
Book: "Invisible Vision" by Jean Cocteau

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday until at least the 30th of June.

20 MAY, 7 pm: André Lepecki, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

PRESS PLAY

Exhibition of videos of performances and films by artists who question the relationship between the performing body, architecture and the camera. It has the cooperation of BoCA x Tate Modern, BoCA x Fundação Serralves Collection and the BoCA file. Every Thursday until at least the 30th of June.

21 MAY: Gerard & Kelly, 10pm
"Schindler / Glass" (2017)

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday until at least 30 June.

22 MAY, 10PM (WEST): Linn da Quebrada, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

LIVE STREAMING PERFORMANCES

Live broadcasts of short-term performances commissioned by BoCA, designed through the relational body-camera-home device.
Every Saturday until at least June 30

23 MAY, 10pm (West): "Modular Dreams", Paulo Furtado / The Legendary Tigerman
live www.youtube.com/bocabienal

ECOTEMPORANEOUS

Each guest shares a photo of himself in a natural landscape, relating it to a book he has at home. A dialogue is established between the interior and the exterior, between the body, nature and imagination. Every Sunday until at least 30 June 2020.

MAY 24, 4 pm, straight from Instagram @bocabienal
Location of the photo: Italy
Book: "Journey to Italy" by J. W. Goethe

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, with moderation by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Belanciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday.

27 MAY, 7pm: Lia Rodrigues, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

PRESS PLAY

Exhibition of videos of performances and films by artists who question the relationship between the performing body, architecture and / or the camera. It has the cooperation of BoCA x Tate Modern, BoCA x Fundação Serralves Collection and the BoCA file. Every Thursday until at least the 30th June.

MAY 28, 10 pm, streaming www.youtube.com/bocabienal
"Biovirtual", 1981 - 87 / Partnership Collection Serralves Foundation

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Belanciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday.

29 MAY, 7 pm: Gabriel Abrantes, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

LIVE STREAMING PERFORMANCES

Live broadcasts of short performances commissioned by BoCA, thought through the relational body-camera-home device. Every Saturday until June 30th.

MAY 30, 9pm (West): François Chaignaud
Performance: YAWNING
www.youtube.com/bocabienal

ECOTEMPORARIES

Each guest shares a photo of himself in a natural landscape, relating it to a book he has at home. A dialogue is established between the interior and the exterior, between the body, nature and imagination. Every Sunday until at least the 30th of June 2020.

MAY 31, 4 pm, straight from Instagram @bocabienal
Place of photography: Txag'rú Mirawê indigenous village, Bahia (BR, 2018)
Book: "Ideas to postpone the end of the world" by Ailton Krenak

HOMEWORK

Inspired by the Fluxus movement, in which artists wrote instructions to be activated by the public inside museums, BoCA now invites artists to write instructions for activation at home. Unpublished scores are shared that challenge the audience to a dialogue between the outside and the inside, the body and the imagination. Every Monday until at least the 30th of June 2020.

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday.

3 JUN, 7pm: Catarina Vaz Pinto, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

PRESS PLAY

Exhibition of videos of performances and films by artists who question the relationship between the performing body, architecture and the camera. It has the cooperation of BoCA x Tate Modern, BoCA x Fundação Serralves Collection and the BoCA file. Every Thursday until at least the 30th of June.

4 JUN, 10pm (West): Emily Roysdon
"I am a helicopter, camera, queen" (2012)
Curator: Catherine Wood (Tate Modern)

LIVE STREAMING PERFORMANCES

Live broadcasts of short performances commissioned by BoCA, thought through the relational body-camera-home device.
Every Saturday until at least the 30th of June

6 JUN, 8pm (West): "Apatia Hiperactiva", Luísa Saraiva & Carlos Azeredo Mesquita
live www.youtube.com/bocabienal

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.

7 JUN, 7pm: Salomé Lamas, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

ECOTEMPORARIES

Each guest shares a photo of himself in a natural landscape, relating it to a book he has at home. A dialogue is established between the interior and the exterior, between the body, nature and imagination. Every Sunday until at least the 30th of June 2020.

7 JUN, 4PM (WEST), straight from Instagram @bocabienal
Chosen Book: “Nutshell” by Ian McEwan, editora Gradiva

HOMEWORK

Inspired by the Fluxus movement, in which artists wrote instructions to be activated by the public inside museums, BoCA now invites artists to write instructions for activation at home. Unpublished scores are shared that challenge the audience to a dialogue between the outside and the inside, the body and the imagination. Every Monday until at least 30 June 2020.

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday.

10 JUN, 7pm: Gerard & Kelly, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

PRESS PLAY

Exhibition of videos of performances and films by artists who question the relationship between the performing body, architecture and the camera. It has the cooperation of BoCA x Tate Modern, BoCA x Fundação Serralves Collection and the BoCA file. Every Thursday until at least the 30th of June.

11 JUN, 10pm (West): Tânia Carvalho
"A Bag and a Stone - dance piece for screen" (2018)

LIVE STREAMING OF PERFORMANCES

Live broadcasts of short performances commissioned by BoCA, thought through the relational body-camera-home device.
Every Saturday until at least June 30th

13 JUN: Mette Ingvartsen, 8 pm, live www.youtube.com/bocabienal

HOMEWORK

Inspired by the Fluxus movement, in which artists wrote instructions to be activated by the public inside museums, BoCA now invites artists to write instructions for activation at home. Unpublished scores are shared that challenge the audience to a dialogue between the outside and the inside, the body and the imagination.

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday.

17 JUN, 7pm: Miguel Moreira, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

PRESS PLAY

Exhibition of videos of performances and films by artists who question the relationship between the performing body, architecture and the camera. It has the cooperation of BoCA x Tate Modern, BoCA x Fundação Serralves Collection and the BoCA file. Every Thursday until at least the 30th of June.

18 JUN, 10pm (West): John Romão
"Hard to be a god"

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday.

19 JUN, 7pm: Grada Kilomba, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

LIVE STREAMING OF PERFORMANCES

Live broadcasts of short performances commissioned by BoCA, thought through the relational body-camera-home device.
Every Saturday until at least June 30th

20 JUN: Florentina Holzinger, 8 pm (West), live on Zoom
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83277222654
ID: 832 7722 2654

ECOTEMPORARIES

Each guest shares a photo of himself in a natural landscape, relating it to a book he has at home. A dialogue is established between the interior and the exterior, between the body, nature and imagination. Every Sunday until at least 30 June 2020.

JUN 21, 4pm (west), live from Instagram @bocabienal

HOMEWORK

Inspired by the Fluxus movement, in which artists wrote instructions to be activated by the public inside museums, BoCA now invites artists to write instructions for activation at home. Unpublished scores are shared that challenge the audience to a dialogue between the outside and the inside, the body and the imagination. Every Monday until at least 30 June 2020.

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday.

24 JUN, 7pm: Gil Penha Lopes, www.youtube.com/bocabienal

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday.

26 JUN, 7pm (West): Vhils / Alexandre Farto
www.youtube.com/bocabienal

LIVE STREAMING PERFORMANCES

Live broadcasts of short performances commissioned by BoCA, thought through the relational body-camera-home device.

JUN 20: BoCA Sub21
9pm + 9pm (West), live at www.youtube.com/bocabienal

ECOTEMPORARIES

Each guest shares a photo of himself in a natural landscape, relating it to a book he has at home. A dialogue is established between the interior and the exterior, between the body, nature and imagination. Every Sunday until at least the 30th of June 2020.

28 JUN, 4pm, straight from Instagram @bocabienal
Picture: Mata Nacional do Buçaco, Feb 2020
Book: The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Balenciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal.
Every Wednesday and Friday.

29 JUN, 7pm (West): Graça Fonseca, Minister of Culture from Portugal

To mark the end of the BoCA Online programming cycle, we want to invite the entire audience, artists and team that accompanied us during these two and a half months to a face-to-face meeting in Jardim da Estrela, Lisbon.
In a relaxed environment, we intend to share reflections and experiences around this cycle.
The event will take place with appropriate safety distances.

JUN 30, 6pm (West): BoCA at Jardim da Estrela

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2020
Dance, Video, Ecosystem

It is the first time that Argentine choreographer and dancer conducts a workshop in Portugal. In this workshop, Cecilia Bengolea proposes to dance and film inside (Casa da Dança de Almada) and outside the studio (Cais do Ginjal, in front of the Tagus river).

JOHN ROMÃO & SALOMÉ LAMAS

Conceived by John Romão and co-directed by John Romão and Salomé Lamas, the recreation of the conference "The Theatre and the Plague", by Antonin Artaud (1933), is presented in streaming, from several empty theaters and different geographies.

Recorded at São Luiz Municipal Theatre (Lisbon), with the actress Cucha Carvalheiro and Aida Tavares, artistic director of the theatre.

JOHN ROMÃO & SALOMÉ LAMAS

Conceived by John Romão and co-directed by John Romão and Salomé Lamas, the recreation of the conference "The Theatre and the Plague", by Antonin Artaud (1933), is presented in streaming, from several empty theaters and different geographies.

Recorded at Teatro do Bairro Alto, in Lisboa, with the actress Mónica Calle and FRANCISCO FRAZÃO, artistic director of TBA.

JOHN ROMÃO & SALOMÉ LAMAS

Conceived by John Romão and co-directed by John Romão and Salomé Lamas, the recreation of the conference "The Theatre and the Plague", by Antonin Artaud (1933), is presented in streaming, from several empty theaters and different geographies.

Recorded at LU.CA - Teatro Luís de Camões, in Lisbon, with actor Igor Regalla and LU.CA's artistic director Susana Menezes.

JOHN ROMÃO & SALOMÉ LAMAS

Conceived by John Romão and co-directed by John Romão and Salomé Lamas, the recreation of the conference "The Theatre and the Plague" by Antonin Artaud (1933) is presented in streaming, from several empty theaters and different geographies in Portugal.

Recorded at Teatro Viriato, in Viseu, with John Romão and the artistic director of the theater, Patrícia Portela.

ECOTEMPORÂNEOS

Ecotemporaries is a project that links literature with the green spaces of the city of Lisbon. Open, inclusive and accessible, in each session a new guest chooses a book and connects it to the green space where the public gathers. It has the presence of an Sign Language Interpreter and the printing book in braille.

Guest: Jorge Silva Melo (theatre and film director, author)
Chosen book: "O mundo dos outros" by José Gomes Ferreira
Green space: Quinta da Alfarrobeira, Lisbo

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2020
Performance / Visual Arts

The Spanish artist Dora García comes to Lisbon for the first time to conduct a performance workshop at MAAT Museum. How to react to a reality system that is not part of it? The feeling of strangeness is increasing, the distance is increasing, and it is increasingly difficult to find anchor points in a system that repeats the same mistakes over and over.

BoCA IN ÁGUEDA

On the weekend of 12 and 13 September, BoCA presents an extension of its programming at the Águeda Arts Center, with free entry. Composed of 5 recent commissions (BoCA 2019), creations by Gonçalo M. Tavares & Os Espacialistas, Tania Bruguera, Jonas & Lander, Mariana Tengner Barros and Horácio Frutuoso travel to Águeda.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2020
Dance

Choreographers and artists Gerard & Kelly return to Lisbon to direct a workshop. How do we fall into and out of sync with each other? How is time the technical support of both performance art and social relations? How might an awareness of time lead us to history and to politics? What is queer, feminist, and post-colonial about time?

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2020
Theatre

Imagine a conference that nobody goes to. A performance in which the main invited scientists do not appear physically, but are represented by local artists. "Absentee Conference" is a project for which the company Rimini Protokoll is researching. In Lisbon, it will be a workshop on global cooperation in a global crisis for students and professionals in the performing arts, writing and related fields.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2020
Conference | free entrance

Stefan Kaegi is in Lisbon for the BoCA Summer School. In this conference, he will show and comment short videos on recent productions of the german theatre label Rimini Protokoll including 50 remote controlled spectators, 100 statistically chosen citizens of São Paulo as well as international weapon dealers and immersive spaces remembering the legacies of people after the end of their lives.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2020
Cinema

The filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata lead the workshop "Fiction 2 meters away", where they discuss what might be the cinema with restrictions / limitations / conditionalities / setbacks / obstacles / antagonisms / obstacles, that is , the daily constraints of cinematographic creation. Participants are invited to bring their film drafts or audiovisual projects.

TANIA BRUGUERA

“Narciso” evokes the migration and refugee crisis. Through the eye of Tania Bruguera, this movement gains an expression of individual crisis centered in the body and the identity of each spectator.

ECOTEMPORÂNEOS

Ecotemporaries is a project that links literature with the green spaces of the city of Lisbon. Open, inclusive and accessible, in each session a new guest chooses a book and connects it to the green space where the public gathers. It has the presence of an Sign Language Interpreter and the printing book in braille.

Guest: Gisela João (fado singer)
Chosen book: "The Sun and his Flowers" by Rupi Kaur
Green space: Quinta da Alfarrobeira, Lisbon

ODETE

The artist Odete is the winner of the first edition of RExFORM - International Performance Project, which was born from the collaboration between BoCA and MAAT. The artist proposes a critical approach to historical silence around issues of the body and gender identity. The project's debut will take place in January 2021 and will then integrate BoCA's national circulation during the biennial.

ECOTEMPORÂNEOS

Ecotemporaries is a project that links literature with the green spaces of the city of Lisbon. Open, inclusive and accessible, in each session a new guest chooses a book and connects it to the green space where the public gathers. It has the presence of a sign language interpreter.

Guest: Mamadou Ba (activist, SOS Racism leader)
Chosen book: "Erosão” by Gisela Casimiro
Green space: Jardim do Museu de Lisboa (online)

ECOTEMPORÂNEOS

Ecotemporaries is a project that links literature with the green spaces of the city of Lisbon. Open, inclusive and accessible, in each session a new guest chooses a book and connects it to the green space where the public gathers. It has the presence of a sign language interpreter and the free distribution of the books printed in braille.

Guest: Beatriz Batarda (actress)
Chosen book: "Caderno de Memórias Coloniais", Isabela Figueiredo
Green space: Jardim do Museu de Lisboa

HORÁCIO FRUTUOSO

“In the light direction" is a site-specific intervention by artist Horácio Frutuoso for the foyer of Teatro Camões (CNB), promoted by BoCA. A set of visual poems suggest an idea of movement, of transforming words and the space where they are installed by light.

1 to 31 July 2021

PLANTATION OF 7.000 TREES

Inspired by Joseph Beuys’s project “7000 Oaks” (1982), BoCA debuts a 10 year project, combining the plantation of new creations (both natural and artistic), curatorships, debates and conferences throughout different areas, forming a forest of thousands of artists and artworks. All artists and citizens are invited to plant a tree and name it.

GRADA KILOMBA

“O Barco/The Boat” is an installation by the artist Grada Kilomba, comprised of 140 blocks forming the shape of the bottom of a ship, a detailed drawing of the space that was created to accommodate the bodies of millions of Africans enslaved by European empires. Extended along 32 meters of the river, it invites the audience to enter a garden of memories, where poems rest over blocks of burnt wood. Three performance acts are expected during the biennial.

CAPICUA

“A Tralha” is a quasi-monologue about hoarding. An essay about waste and obsoleteness, presented as a personal narrative. A reflection about the objects that surround us, that serve as a kind of extension of ourselves, containing our memories and functioning as an interface between us and the world.

LUÍS LÁZARO MATOS

“Une vague joyeuse” is a project by Luís Lázaro Matos with a title that recalls the last scene of the film “Testament of Orpheus” (1960) by Jean Cocteau, in which a convertible car drives down a winding road while the passengers scream in joy, indifferent to the two policemen parked by the curb.

AGNIESZKA POLSKA

“The New Sun” brings the Polish artist Agnieszka Polska to Portugal for the first time. A projection of the sun personified as a cartoon character that speaks directly to the audience about scientific theory, poetry, natural disasters, trivial jokes and love songs. Here, the sun is everything you see before the final collapse of your system, your planet, your sunset - the last witness to your extinction, softly driving you towards the black hole of a last meditation.

AGNIESZKA POLSKA

In “I Am the Mouth”, a pair of lips partially submerged in turbulent waters floats while repeating soothing words, artistically reframing the viral Internet phenomenon of ASMR videos (Auto Sensory Meridian Response) - where sounds generated by trivial materials scratching against the microphone or whispering voices are amplified to stimulate pleasant tingling sensations on the nape.

ANNE IMHOF

“Untitled (Wave)” creates resonance between questions around ideas of the feminine, worship and immateriality. It refers also to the history of art and aesthetic discourse, particularly to the concept of the sublime associated with the romantic period of contemplation of nature, of bleak and desolate landscapes conveying the smallness of the scale of the individual before the grandeur of the universe.

ANASTASIA SOSUNOVA

Through a process of distortion and the interlacing of elements from old mythologies, hybrid identities and a society of surveillance, Sosunova produces alternative forms of “contemporary folklore”, exploring new narratives and ways of life that require rules, ethics, codes and agreements between living beings.

MÓNICA CALLE

In “Between Heaven and Earth", theatre director Mónica Calle picks as a starting point the writings of Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão and, under a BoCA's invitation, develops a new work for a natural setting: among the beach and dunes of the naturist beach of Costa da Caparica. An intimate and challenging experience for only nine spectators at a time.

GUSTAVO SUMPTA

A serie of performances in the natural space, “I want to see my mountains” is curated by Delfim Sardo and Sílvia Gomes and proposes artists to look at the legacy of Joseph Beuys, while observing their own mountains, their own "selves".

ROMEO CASTELLUCCI

“The Third Reich” is a performative video-installation based on the spectral representation of all names. All the nouns found in the Italian dictionary (here translated to Portuguese) are projected, in sequence, one by one. This furious bunch of words, with a powerful sound, does not allow space for choice or judgement. The core of language returns to white noise that leads to chaos. 

ANDREIA SANTANA

The way in which we relate or mutually affect each other, in permanent interdependence, is a principle that is found across much of the work by the visual artist Andreia Santana. “Overlapses, Riddles & Spells” is a project that contemplates a unique installation with pieces made of glass and iron, along with two video projections.

GUSTAVO CIRÍACO

A serie of performances in the natural space, “I want to see my mountains” is curated by Delfim Sardo and Sílvia Gomes and proposes artists to look at the legacy of Joseph Beuys, while observing their own mountains, their own "selves".

ODETE

Odete wants to “destroy the performative display that transforms our bodies into commodities” and “lie about history so that we can remodel the future”. The project “On Revelations and Muddy Becomings” is the culmination of a work about shadows and politics, which Odete, a multidisciplinary artist that operates within the spheres of music, visual arts, performance and theatre, has been creating.

NOÉ SOULIER

“Passages” is a nomadic project that explores the relation between the movement of bodies and the spaces in which these inscribe their actions. In acting with imaginary objects, performers trigger resonances in multiple scales and dimensions, activating the physical memories of the audience, starting with the relationship to the spaces they inhabit.

NOÉ SOULIER

“Passages” is a nomadic project that explores the relation between the movement of bodies and the spaces in which these inscribe their actions. In acting with imaginary objects, performers trigger resonances in multiple scales and dimensions, activating the physical memories of the audience, starting with the relationship to the spaces they inhabit.

PEDRO COSTA & OS MÚSICOS DO TEJO

From the acclaimed director Pedro Costa and following his award-winning film “Vitalina Varela”, the premiere of “As Filhas do Fogo” (Daughters of Fire'), a show that merges cinema, music and theatre. Pedro Costa collaborates with Os Músicos do Tejo and proposes a stage format that once again places the emphasis on postcolonialism. 

ANTÓNIO POPPE AND LA FAMÍLIA GITANA

“Música Cigana Camões Yanomami/A Soma dos Seus” consists of a performance/concert that combines the poetry of Camões, texts by Davi Kopenawa (from the Yanomami indigenous), with Gypsy Music. This encounter creates a communicative composition of original expressions.

ODETE

Odete wants to “destroy the performative display that transforms our bodies into commodities” and “lie about history so that we can remodel the future”. The project “On Revelations and Muddy Becomings” is the culmination of a work about shadows and politics, which Odete, a multidisciplinary artist that operates within the spheres of music, visual arts, performance and theatre, has been creating.

SARAH DAVACHI

Sarah Davachi is one of the most recent phenomena in minimalist music. "Antiphonals", which Sarah Davachi will play on the organ of Santuário do Cristo Rei, in Almada, is as much concerned with the vertical experience of texture as it is with the elongation of intervallic progressions across the horizontal realm – an occurrence that we might typically refer to as ‘melody’, but which becomes obscured here in the continual undoing of its staying power. Unmissable listening.

MUSA PARADISIACA

A serie of performances in the natural space, “I want to see my mountains” is curated by Delfim Sardo and Sílvia Gomes and proposes artists to look at the legacy of Joseph Beuys, while observing their own mountains, their own "selves".

GUS VAN SANT

Film director Gus Van Sant ventures into his first creation for the stage, a musical theater show inspired by Andy Warhol and his overwhelming talent for elevating images into icons, all while achieving worldwide celebrity status as persona and artist.

TÂNIA CARVALHO AND MATTHIEU EHRLACHER

The instruments played by Tânia and Matthieu, saxophone and erhu, and her collaboration with the Casa do Minho de Lisboa Folklore Group, enable the embrace of this new form of experimentation with tradition and songbook. The songs are dismembered from their original form to be placed in the construction of a sound journey.

DIANA POLICARPO

A serie of performances in the natural space, “I want to see my mountains” is curated by Delfim Sardo and Sílvia Gomes and proposes artists to look at the legacy of Joseph Beuys, while observing their own mountains, their own "selves".

KHALIK ALLAH

“IWOW” brings to Portugal the memorable photographer and filmmaker from New York, Khalik Allah, already described as a director of “street opera” and praised for a disarming view that unveils, with delicate mastery, a viscerally beautiful humanity.

RODRIGO GARCÍA

The Argentinean iconoclast, playwright and theatre director Rodrigo García returns with an audiovisual creation, written and produced remotely during the lockdown period. Not theatre, but a green screen (chroma key) and five exceptional performers materialise the director’s overflowing imagination. Angélica Liddell, Denis Lavant, Florencia Vecino, François Chaignaud and Volmir Cordeiro give themselves, body and soul, to this experiment.

TIAGO CADETE

In “Brasa”, Tiago Cadete traces one of the lines of his theatrical research, that of the enquiry and critical approach to the historical relations between Portugal and Brazil, accompanied by a group of creatives-performers from diverse backgrounds: Isabél Zuaa, Julia Salem, Keli Freitas, Magnum Alexandre Soares, Ana Lobato, Dori Nigro, Gustavo Ciríaco and Raquel André.

MILES GREENBERG

“Water in a Heatwave” is a new durational piece for eight performers and is the artist’s most challenging project so far, in terms of scale and duration. In pairs, the performers clash their bodies into each other atop a series of pedestals, creating numerous tensions within the space.

GABRIEL FERRANDINI

When releasing "Hair of the Dog", his first solo album, Gabriel Ferrandini brings to the Champalimaud Foundation's open-air amphitheater a performance that precisely reflects this state of openness to new artistic experiences: with the Gulbenkian Choir he explores the contemporaries possibilities of operatic singing, with the voices succeeding each other in successive loops (canon), raising issues of memory, traps and liberation.

ANDRÉ UERBA

Through deceleration, inhibition of the sense of sight and a kinetic and somatic approach to the body and its movement, André Uerba and the performers explore different ways to get to know and feel each other. Bodies that meet, coordinate and communicate non-verbally, opening a space that is understood as political.

FELIPE BRAGANÇA, TEATRO GRIOT, CATARINA WALLENSTEIN

Science fiction, tale and documentation are blended in this visual and theatrical performance about the memories of the Mueda Massacre, which happened in Mozambique in 1960.

ANTÓNIO POPPE E LA FAMÍLIA GITANA

“Música Cigana Camões Yanomami/A Soma dos Seus” consists of a performance/concert that combines the poetry of Camões, texts by Davi Kopenawa (from the Yanomami indigenous), with Gypsy Music. This encounter creates a communicative composition of original expressions.

KHALIK ALLAH

“IWOW” brings to Portugal the memorable photographer and filmmaker from New York, Khalik Allah, already described as a director of “street opera” and praised for a disarming view that unveils, with delicate mastery, a viscerally beautiful humanity.

VON CALHAU!

In the workshop "Tesourelha", the artists Marta Ângela and João Alves propose to form a listening group with the participants. During the two intensive days of the workshop, four listening sessions will take place, lasting 2h30 each. Each of the sessions will correspond to listening accompanied by a composition of sounds. No image. Each of the compositions will have as reference each of the four elements: Fire, Water, Earth, Air.

BERRU

A serie of performances in the natural space, “I want to see my mountains” is curated by Delfim Sardo and Sílvia Gomes and proposes artists to look at the legacy of Joseph Beuys, while observing their own mountains, their own "selves".

JONATHAN ULIEL SALDANHA

Jonathan Uliel Saldanha is a musician, visual artist, sound and stage creator. In “Atavic Machine” Jonathan operates for the first time in a vegetal space (of human construction) - the Lisbon Green House - the action of a sound and light machine, where the latent and fictitious characteristics from a remote and future time come together.

PAPILLONS D'ÉTERNITÉ (TÂNIA CARVALHO AND MATTHIEU EHRLACHER)

The instruments played by Tânia and Matthieu, saxophone and erhu, and her collaboration with the Faro Folklore Group, enable the embrace of this new form of experimentation with tradition and songbook. The songs are dismembered from their original form to be placed in the construction of a sound journey.

JOANA CASTRO E MAURÍCIA | NEVES

And yet we still move. Fragility as a capacity, as a poetic place, is the starting point of a performance that arises from the desire to shift the private to the public sphere. The choreographers and performers Joana Castro and Maurícia | Neves question and reconfigure the relationships between them, using as a base photographs from the personal archive of a romantic relationship that ended last October.

CARLOS AZEREDO MESQUITA

“Über Alles” is a durational performance in which the performers explore the history and the stories, iconographic and sociological elements in national anthems. Reflecting on the role that these songs have in the formation of the mythology of a nation and in the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion associated to this process.

ALICE RIPOLL

In “Lavagem”, the most recent work by the Brazilian choreographer Alice Ripoll and Cia. REC, reality and fantasy merge in a delirium, like an apocalyptic dream. With the help of buckets, water and soap, the performance looks into ambivalent imagery around the act of washing, critically observing the unravelling of scenic and historical elements.

CAPICUA

“A Tralha” is a quasi-monologue about hoarding. An essay about waste and obsoleteness, presented as a personal narrative. A reflection about the objects that surround us, that serve as a kind of extension of ourselves, containing our memories and functioning as an interface between us and the world.

ALICE RIPOLL

Brazilian choreographer Alice Ripoll proposes a theoretical-practical workshop: a first part, where she presents her way of directing and choreographing, sharing experiences and methodologies; and a second part, in which the dancers and creatives of Cia REC present practical exercises developed in creative and improvisation processes. A unique opportunity to get together with one of the most significant artists of contemporary dance.

PAN DAIJING

Cited as one of the most uprising figures in the current avant-garde, Pan Daijing is for the first in Portugal with “Half a Name”, a site-specific music performance for the National Pantheon. Pan Daijing takes on the expansive sound and visual documentation of her large-scale performances. Deconstructing moments of memories, the piece explores the possibilities of the performative archive, as well as its practice in experimental narrative.

DAYANA LUCAS

A serie of performances in the natural space, “I want to see my mountains” is curated by Delfim Sardo and Sílvia Gomes and proposes artists to look at the legacy of Joseph Beuys, while observing their own mountains, their own "selves".

LASTESIS

The Chilean feminist and multidisciplinary collective LASTESIS arrives in Portugal for the first time to lead a performance and activism workshop, which will result in a public presentation. In the convergence between performance, design, fashion, history, music and, of course, political and social activism LASTESIS will conduct a 3 day creative laboratory with the participation of around 80 women and dissenters.

RODRIGO GARCÍA

The Argentinean iconoclast, playwright and theatre director Rodrigo García returns with an audiovisual creation, written and produced remotely during the lockdown period. Not theatre, but a green screen (chroma key) and five exceptional performers materialise the director’s overflowing imagination. Angélica Liddell, Denis Lavant, Florencia Vecino, François Chaignaud and Volmir Cordeiro give themselves, body and soul, to this experiment.

LASTESIS

The artistic, interdisciplinary and feminist collective of women from Valparaíso (Chile) LASTESIS is dedicated to disseminating feminist theory based on performance. They travel to Portugal for the first time to work with 80 women and dissidents of different ages and backgrounds, in a performance that seeks to address the claim to the right to a life free from violence.

BRUNO LATOUR AND FRÉDÉRIQUE AÏT-TOUATI

A conference-performance by the philosopher Bruno Latour and sociologist and stage director Frédérique Aït-Touati, in which the social and cosmic order is described as “moving towards an unparalleled political and ecological collapse”, as a result of the climate crisis.

TIAGO CADETE

In “Brasa”, Tiago Cadete traces one of the lines of his theatrical research, that of the enquiry and critical approach to the historical relations between Portugal and Brazil, accompanied by a group of creatives-performers from diverse backgrounds: Isabél Zuaa, Julia Salem, Keli Freitas, Magnum Alexandre Soares, Ana Lobato, Dori Nigro, Gustavo Ciríaco and Raquel André.

DUNCAN EVENNOU e PATRICK LAFFONT-DELOJO

Based on the stage experiments that Frédérique Aït-Touati and Bruno Latour have been conducting together for the past ten years, the workshop proposes to explore these questions through different mediums (video, scenography, philosophy, architecture, cartography, drawing), and to share with the participants the different tools that the troupe has been exploring for several years in the form of scenic and graphic research - a gaïa-graphy.

JOANA CASTRO E MAURÍCIA | NEVES

E ainda assim nos movemos. A fragilidade enquanto potência, enquanto lugar poético, é o ponto de partida para uma performance que surge da vontade de deslocar o campo privado para o público. As coreógrafas e intérpretes Joana Castro e Maurícia Neves questionam e reconfiguram a relações entre ambas, tendo como base fotografias de arquivo pessoal de uma relação amorosa que encontrou o seu fim em outubro passado.

RODRIGO GARCÍA

The Argentinean iconoclast, playwright and theatre director Rodrigo García returns with an audiovisual creation, written and produced remotely during the lockdown period. Not theatre, but a green screen (chroma key) and five exceptional performers materialise the director’s overflowing imagination. Angélica Liddell, Denis Lavant, Florencia Vecino, François Chaignaud and Volmir Cordeiro give themselves, body and soul, to this experiment.

GUS VAN SANT

Film director Gus Van Sant ventures into his first creation for the stage, a musical theater show inspired by Andy Warhol and his overwhelming talent for elevating images into icons, all while achieving worldwide celebrity status as persona and artist.

SARA BICHÃO

A serie of performances in the natural space, “I want to see my mountains” is curated by Delfim Sardo and Sílvia Gomes and proposes artists to look at the legacy of Joseph Beuys, while observing their own mountains, their own "selves".

GRADA KILOMBA

Grada Kilomba's first large-scale installation travels to Margarida Xirgu Square, in front of Teatro Lliure, in Barcelona. 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.

GUS VAN SANT

O realizador de cinema Gus Van Sant aventura-se na sua primeira criação de palco com uma equipa portuguesa, um espetáculo de teatro musical inspirado em Andy Warhol e no seu esmagador talento para elevar a ícone as imagens, ao mesmo tempo que escalava como persona e artista a um estatuto de celebridade mundial.

GUS VAN SANT

Film director Gus Van Sant ventures into his first creation for the stage, a musical theater show inspired by Andy Warhol and his overwhelming talent for elevating images into icons, all while achieving worldwide celebrity status as persona and artist.

GRADA KILOMBA

Grada Kilomba's first large-scale installation travels to Khunstalle Baden Baden, in Germany. 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.

JONAS & LANDER

"Coin Operated" came from an invitation by BoCA to Jonas & Lander, to create a museum piece. The scenic device features two coin-operated motor horses, with both performers seated on it. For something to happen, the audience has to insert a coin into the horses. The performance addresses the economic and power relationship, the conquest of territory, slavery, the mounting of the more powerful social classes to the less fortunate.

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.

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.

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.

TIAGO CADET

“Brasa” by Tiago Cadete continues one of his theatrical research lines, that of questioning and critically looking at the historical relationship between Portugal and Brazil, accompanied by a cast of creators-performers of different origins. The piece is a commission and co-production of BoCA 2021.

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.

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.