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Biennial 17 – Primeira Edição

Past events

13 March

Porto

FBAUP

masterclass

Free admission

Héctor Zamora

Masterclass “Héctor Zamora”

17 – 31 March

Lisboa

Lisboa

1 – 30 April

Porto

Porto

Workshop

Aram Bartholl

Dead Drops

“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.

17 – 18 March

Lisboa

Teatro da Politécnica

Theatre

Von Calhau!

Tau Tau

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.

17 March

Lisboa

LuxFrágil

Concert, performance

Tianzhuo Chen, Aisha Devi, Asian Dope Boys

Concert-Performance / BoCA Oppening

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.

17 March – 30 April

Lisboa

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

Theatre

Rodrigo García

Come to Play with God and Devil (Pinball Bosch)

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.

18 March

Porto

Passos Manuel

Party

RAMZi, Obalski, CVLT

Party

18 March – 1 April

Lisboa

Teatro da Politécnica

Dance

Free admission

Tânia Carvalho

Toledo

“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.

19 March – 7 April

Lisboa

Complexo do Coruchéus

6 May – 14 August

Évora

Fórum Eugénio de Almeida

Free admission

Casa-Animal

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.

20 March

Lisboa

FBAUL

conversa

Free admission

Aram Bartholl, Os Espacialistas

Talk “Aram Bartholl, Os Espacialistas”

21 March – 30 April

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

Free admission

Videoteca BoCA

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.

22 March

Lisboa

MAAT

23 March – 22 April

Lisboa

MAAT

performance

Héctor Zamora

Ordem e Progresso

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.

23 March

Lisboa

Complexo do Coruchéus

30 March

Lisboa

Complexo do Coruchéus

cinema

Free admission

Ivan Argote, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Libia Castro, Marion Inglessi

Cycle of Films

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

23 March

Porto

Maus Hábitos

conversa

Free admission

Groove Ball, Rabbit Hole, Thug Unicorn

Debate Queerizando Espaços

23 March

Lisboa

FBAUL

conversa

Free admission

Rui Horta

Talk “Rui Horta”

24 March

Lisboa

Fontória Club Bar & Disco

Party

Rabbit Hole

“Mina” Party

“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.

24 – 25 March

Porto

Casa da Música

performance

Free admission

Kirill Savchenkov

Museum of Skateboarding

Reconstruindo arqueologicamente os movimentos e intenções do skate, os vídeos do artista russo Kirill Savchenkov propõem uma teoria e um guia do Novo Skate, combinando o skate com conhecimentos de artes marciais, treino militar e fitness.

25 – 27 March

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

Theatre

Romeo Castellucci

Ethica. Natura e Origine Della Mente

“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.”

25 March

Porto

Maus Hábitos

Party

Groove Ball

“Groove Ball” Party

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.

27 March

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

conversa

Free admission

Romeo Castellucci

Talk “Romeo Castellucci”

28 March

Porto

Teatro Nacional São João

masterclass

Free admission

Romeo Castellucci

Masterclass “Romeo Castellucci”

30 March

Lisboa

MAAT

conversa

Free admission

Héctor Zamora, Inês Grosso

Talk “Héctor Zamora & Inês Grosso”

30 March

Lisboa

ZDB

31 March

Lisboa

ZDB

performance

Free admission

Florentina Holzinger, Renée Copraij

Muse

“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.

30 – 31 March

Porto

Teatro Nacional São João

performance

Romeo Castellucci

Peças Soltas (Júlio César)

“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.

31 March – 2 April

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

Theatre

Free admission

João Maria Gusmão, Pedro Paiva

Avantesma Fantasma

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.”

31 March

Lisboa

ZDB

conversa

Free admission

Florentina Holzinger

Talk “Florentina Holzinger”

31 March

Lisboa

ZDB

Concert

Klein

Concert “Klein”

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

31 March – 2 April

Lisboa

Museu de Lisboa

7 – 8 April

Porto

Praça D. João I

Theatre

João Pedro Vale, Nuno Alexandre Ferreira

Palhaço Rico Fode Palhaço Pobre

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.

31 March

Lisboa

ZDB

Concert

Van Ayers

Concert “Van Ayers”

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.

1 – 2 April

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

8 April

Porto

Teatro Nacional São João

22 April

Castelo Branco

Cine-Teatro Avenida

Music

Free admission

Filipa Francisco, Filipe Reis, José Luís Bento Coelho, Paulo Raposo, Pedro Tudela, Vera Mantero

Música Pobre

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).

4 April

Lisboa

Complexo do Coruchéus

cinema

Free admission

Ulla Von Brandenburg

Die Strasse + Shadowplay

“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.

4 – 5 April

Lisboa

Teatro da Politécnica

vídeo-instalação

Free admission

Jérôme Bel

Shirtology

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

6 April

Lisboa

LuxFrágil

performance

Cecilia Bengolea, Nigga Fox

Buss Dem Head

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.

6 April

Porto

FBAUP

Theatre

Free admission

Jérôme Bel

Disabled Theater

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.

6 – 8 April

Lisboa

Lisboa

cinema

Free admission

Ulla Von Brandenburg

It has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon

“It has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon” é o primeiro filme que Ulla von Brandenburg dedica à cor. Filmado no palco principal do teatro de Nanterre-Amandiers, trata-se de um longo e contínuo plano, sem edição; um “filme que dança”.

6 – 8 April

Lisboa

Teatro da Politécnica

Meeting

Antony Hamilton, Alisdair Macindoe

Meeting

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.

6 April

Lisboa

LuxFrágil

Music

Yves Tumor

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.

7 – 8 April

Lisboa

CCB

performance

Alexandre Farto, Vhils

Periférico

“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.

7 April

Porto

Gare

Party

Thug Unicorn

Thug Unicorn

8 April

Lisboa

EKA Palace

Party

Tropa Macaca, DJ Dealy, Just Jaeckin, CVLT

Festa “Tropa Macaca/DJ Dealy/Just Jaeckin/CVLT”

9 – 29 April

Lisboa

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

performance

Free admission

Marino Formenti

Nowhere

“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.

10 – 12 April

Lisboa

Central Tejo

performance

Free admission

Jan Martens

Ode to the Attempt (A Solo for Meself)

“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.

11 April

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional de São Carlos

performance

Free admission

François Chaignaud, Marie-Pierre Brébant

Symphonia Harmoniae Caelestium Revelationum

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).

11 – 12 April

Lisboa

Teatro da Politécnica

cinema

Free admission

François Chaignaud, César Vayssié

The Sweetest Choice

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

12 – 13 April

Lisboa

CCB

19 May

Castelo Branco

Cine-Teatro Avenida

Theatre

Salomé Lamas

Fatamorgana

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.

13 April

Porto

Passos Manuel

27 April

Lisboa

Cinema São Jorge

cinema

Free admission

Gilles Delmas, Damien Jalet

The Ferryman

“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.

18 April

Lisboa

FBAUL

conversa

Free admission

Anastasia Ax

Talk “Anastasia Ax”

18 April

Porto

FBAUP

22 April

Lisboa

FBAUL

masterclass

Free admission

Tania Bruguera

Masterclass “Tania Bruguera”

19 – 30 April

Lisboa

Museu de Lisboa

performance

Free admission

Anastasia Ax

The World as of Yesterday

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.

20 – 21 April

Porto

Teatro Nacional São João

Installation

Tania Bruguera

Endgame

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.

21 April

Porto

Casa da Música

Installation

Crinabel Teatro, Digitópia

Guia Prático para Artistas Ocupados

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.

21 April

Porto

Passos Manuel

Party

Serpente, DJ Khabal

Party “Serpente & DJ Khabal”

22 April

Lisboa

Museu Nacional dos Coches

campeonato

Free admission

Campeonato Internacional de Fingerboard

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.

22 – 30 April

Lisboa

ZDB

Exhibition

Free admission

Diogo Evangelista

Espaço de Fluxos

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.

26 April

Lisboa

FBAUL

conversa

Free admission

André Coral, Claúdia Dias

Talk “Claúdia Dias & André Coral”

Talk with Cláudia Dias (choreographer and performer) and André Coral (Lowpro / International Championship of Fingerboard), moderated by Cláudia Galhós.

26 April

Lisboa

Museu de Lisboa

performance

Free admission

John Romão, Romeu Runa

Que Difícil é ser um Deus

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.

27 April

Lisboa

Cinema São Jorge

performance

Free admission

Philippe Grandrieux

Meurtrière

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.

28 – 29 April

Lisboa

Museu de Lisboa

Installation

Free admission

Ana Borralho, João Galante

Estrelas Cadentes (Metal e Melancolia)

“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.

28 – 29 April

Lisboa

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea

30 April

Lisboa

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea

Dance

Free admission

Mariana Tengner Barros, Pandemick, Estelita Mendonça

Instructions for the Gods – i4gods

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.

30 April

Lisboa

LuxFrágil

Concert

Jenny Hval

Concert “Jenny Hval” | BoCA Closing

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.

16 – 21 May

Bruxelas

Cinéma Marivaux

Installation

Tania Bruguera

Endgame

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.

18 May

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

Free admission

Oração ao Futuro