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Biennial 2019 – Ecotemporaries

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

23 March – 23 August

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.

26 March

Lisboa

Teatro da Trindade

30 March

Porto

Teatro Municipal do Porto – Rivoli

13 April

Braga

Theatro Circo

4 December

Buenos Aires

Centro Cultural San Martín

7 December

Santiago do Chile

Matucana 100

performance

Gonçalo M. Tavares, Os Espacialistas

Animals and Money

“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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.