Biennial 17 – New Temples

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 – 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.

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.”

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 – 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.

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.

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.