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Biennial 2019 –

Past events

Braga

20 February

Braga

Museu da Imagem

apresentação

Free admission

BoCA 2019 | Apresentação da Programação em Braga

15 March – 28 April

Lisboa

Museu Nacional da Arte Antiga

15 March – 30 April

Porto

Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis

15 March – 30 April

Braga

Museu Dom Diogo de Sousa

Installation

William Forsythe

Alignigung 2

BoCA presents for the first time in Portugal one of the works that is part of the “Choreographic Objects” series. William Forstyhe’s video installation “Alignigung 2” is presented in three museums in three cities: the National Museum of Ancient Art (Lisbon), the Soares dos Reis National Museum (Porto), and the D. Diogo de Sousa Museum (Braga). “Alignigung 2” is a hybrid between choreography, film, and sculpture, and features musical collaboration by Ryoji Ikeda.

15 March – 30 April

Braga

Fonte do Ídolo

16 March – 13 April

Lisboa

Cisterna da Faculdade de Belas-Artes de Lisboa

vídeo-instalação

Jonathas de Andrade

The Fish

Artist Jonathas de Andrade uses photography, installation, and video to traverse collective memory and history, employing strategies that blend fiction and reality. In the film “O Peixe” (The Fish), a fishing village stages a kind of ritual: they hold the fish in their arms until they die. An embrace between predator and prey, between life and death, between the worker and the fruit of their labor. Situated in a hybrid territory between documentary and fiction, the work dialogues with the ethnographic tradition of audiovisual media.

16 March – 30 April

Braga

Museu da Imagem

Exhibition

Free admission

André Romão

Flora

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.

16 March

Braga

Museu Dom Diogo de Sousa

17 March

Lisboa

Padrão dos Descobrimentos

Show

Free admission

Volmir Cordeiro

Rua – Braga, Lisboa

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.

20 – 21 March

Lisboa

Teatro Taborda / Teatro da Garagem

13 April

Braga

Theatro Circo

Concert

Tânia Carvalho

Duploc Barulin

After presenting an exhibition of drawings at BoCA in 2017, “Toledo,” this time we get to know another artistic expression, Tânia in concert. This is where she explores the creative possibilities of the instrument, in a concert where, for the first time, she is also composing music for another performer, André Santos, who joins her on the piano. The lyrics are her own or texts by Fernando Pessoa.

23 March

Braga

Casa dos Crivos

performance, Installation

Free admission

Maria Trabulo

It Will Sound Like Silence, the Sound of a Revolution Inside a Bunker

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.

30 March – 4 April

Braga

Casa dos Crivos

performance, Installation

Free admission

Adolfo Luxúria Canibal

(Des)Dobras

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.

1 – 3 April

Lisboa

Cinema Ideal

4 April

Braga

gnration

5 April

Porto

Passos Manuel

cinema

Milo Rau

Congo Tribunal

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.

6 – 12 April

Braga

Casa dos Crivos

performance, Installation

Free admission

Joana da Conceição

O Berço de Vénus

Na performance para a Casa dos Crivos, Joana da Conceição propõe acompanharmos a sucessão de quadros efémeros que ela vai criando a partir da manipulação de objetos, imagens e som. A artista vem colecionando impressões sensíveis do erotismo que se confundem com arquétipos de feminilidade, os quais escolheu problematizar em “O Berço de Vénus”.

12 – 13 April

Braga

gnration

16 – 18 April

Porto

Casa-Museu Fernando Castro

24 – 27 April

Lisboa

ZDB

performance

Mariana Tengner Barros

Séance

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.

12 April – 30 June

Braga

gnration

Installation

Free admission

Diana Policarpo

Total Eclipse

“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.

16 April

Braga

Museu Dom Diogo de Sousa

music

Terzi

Terzi

26 – 27 April

Braga

Mosteiro de Tibães

Show

Angélica Liddell

Lo Frío y lo Cruel

In the world premiere of her new creation, Angélica Liddell draws on the narratives of Sacher-Masoch and the Marquis de Sade, as well as Gilles Deleuze’s text “The Cold and the Cruel” (1967). Liddell focuses on the literary and artistic aspects of perversions, far removed from any clinical explanation, highlighting poetic expression that transcends all boundaries and artistic disciplines to present the relationship between father and daughter.

26 April

Braga

Museu Dom Diogo de Sousa

28 April

Porto

Casa das Artes

29 April

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional de São Carlos

Music

Free admission

Ana Cristina Cachola, Delfim Sardo, Filipa Oliveira, Dimitrios Andrikopoulos, Diogo Alvim

Feel me. Hear me. See me.

The project pays tribute, through contemporary music, to one of the greatest artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, Helena Almeida (1934-2018). Bringing together students from the Lisbon School of Music, the School of Music and Performing Arts (Porto), and the University of Minho (Braga), young composers create new works based on H. Almeida’s series of the same name. The result: a concert that brings together students from the three universities.

26 – 30 April

Braga

Mosteiro de Tibães

Installation, performance

João Pais Filipe

Voluta

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.