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Biennial 17 – New Temples

Past events

Performance

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.