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Biennial 2019 – Ecotemporaries

Past events

Lisboa

22 – 23 March

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

24 March

Porto

Palácio dos Correios

8 – 10 August

Hamburgo

Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik

performance

Free admission

Vasya Run

If You Want to Continue

Vasya Run is an anonymous Russian collective made up of young men between the ages of 16 and 27 from the outskirts of Moscow. Their work blends contemporary art, theatre, street subcultures, and rituals of spiritual emancipation. If you want to continue, their new performance, is commissioned by BoCA and revolves around the central concept of the hero—a figure associated with a state that is “post” the present moment.

1 October – 22 February

Lisboa

Estúdios Victor Córdon - CNB & TNSC

Tânia Carvalho

Residência Artística de Tânia Carvalho

The Portuguese multidisciplinary artist Tânia Carvalho integrates the programming of the 2nd edition of BoCA with a new creation, “duploc barulin”. She will be working on music in an artistic residency at the Victor Córdon Studios - CNB & TNSC.

18 February

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

lançamento

Free admission

BoCA 2019 | Lançamento da Programação em Lisboa

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

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

Music

Free admission

Black

Black DJ Set

We can gather Lisbon’s cultural history from this century and appoint Black as one of the motors/mentors that made it become what we know today. Maybe you’ll have to investigate a little further to know his real name, but as co-founder of group Filho Único, the life of the city nowadays is what he helped create.

15 March – 7 April

Lisboa

Museu da Água – Reservatório da Patriarcal

Installation

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

National Identity (Príncipe Real)

In the middle of the Príncipe Real Garden, iconographic site of LGBT bodies’ roaming, there can be found the subterranean Water Museum/Patriarchal Reservoir. BoCA presents the installation “National Identity” in a descent to the depths that re-contextualize the bodies the directors have been filming throughout the years, assembling film, photography and props from earlier works in a reflection on identities, and both gender and national identity.

15 March

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

Music

Nídia

Nídia DJ Set

Nídia is one of the voices of a generation that has been transforming the international contemporary electronic music scene from a community basis. Her debut happened in 2015 with “Danger” as she still went by Nídia Minaj, and two years later released through Príncipe her first LP “Nídia é Má, Nídia é Fudida”.

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.

15 March

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

28 April

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

Installation

Marina Abramovic

Spirit House

“Spirit House” é uma instalação que Marina Abramovic concebeu para um antigo matadouro municipal nas Caldas da Rainha, em 1997. Agora, 22 anos depois, a instalação é apresentada em Lisboa. “Spirit House” é constituído por cinco vídeos que dialogam entre si, nos quais vemos Marina Abramovic em diferentes performances criadas para a câmera: ‘Dissolution’, ‘Insomnia’, ‘Luminosity’, ‘Dozing Consciousness’ e ‘Lost Souls’.

15 March

Lisboa

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado

31 March

Lisboa

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado

vídeo-instalação

Ryan Trecartin

Temple Time

Ryan Trecartin is one of the most daring artists working with video in current days. His movies are a mixture of performance arts, sitcoms and hypnotic digital collages, like the result of a collaboration between Bosch and Keith Haring. Shot in a former Masonic temple in Los Angeles – a five-story warren of large, cavernous rooms akin to a windowless convention center – “Temple Time” unfolds like a horror-movie group expedition in a campsite wasteland.

15 March

Lisboa

Museu Nacional da Arte Antiga

28 April

Lisboa

Museu Nacional da Arte Antiga

vídeo-instalação

Meg Stuart

The Only Possible City

Initially conceived for an ample and neutral room of Manifesta7, in 2008, this video-installation by Meg Stuart is now re-contextualized in the Albertas’ Chapel, inside the National Museum of Antique Art in Lisbon. Meg Stuart is exposed. A human face in a space of human hyper-representation. The real exposed in a place of representation. Is it us who look at Stuart or is Stuart the one looking at us?

16 March

Porto

Maus Hábitos

22 March

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

performance

Free admission

INMUNE

Gestuário II

The Institute of Black Women in Portugal - INMUNE answers to BoCA’s invitation to create a spoken word performance around the themes that involve the creation of this intersectional and anti-racist feminist entity, made up entirely of black women. This performance, “Gestuário II” leads intact in the fight against the silencing of black women, African and afro-descendant in past and today’s History.

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.

17 March

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

guided visit

Delfim Sardo

Spirit House | por Delfim Sardo

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.

24 March

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

4 April

Porto

Passos Manuel

cinema

The Otolith Group

The Third Part of the Third Measure

“The Third Part of the Third Measure” creates an encounter with the militant minimalism of African-American avant-garde composer, pianist and singer Julius Eastman. The film invites spectators to watch the ecstatic artistry of black radicalism that Eastman himself once described as “full of honor, integrity and unlimited courage”.

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.

27 March – 30 April

Lisboa

Estufa Fria

Sculpture, Installation

Horácio Frutuoso

Library

“Biblioteca” [Library] is the visual artist Horácio Frutuoso’s answer to the proposal of creating an installation having its starting point the video “A Experiência do Lugar II” by Helena Almeida. Horácio Frutuoso conceives three objects in acrylic, with three colors: transparent crystal, opaque black and translucent gray, presented in Lisbon Green House, a deposit of species, of shapes, as well as an archive.

29 – 30 March

Lisboa

Igreja do Convento dos Inglesinhos

evento especial

Yolanda Norton

Beyoncé Mass

What if “Flaws and All” was a song about a complicated relationship with God? And “Survivor” spoke to how Black women thrive even as they’re undervalued and underestimated? Beyoncé Mass is a womanist worship service that uses the music and personal life of Beyoncé as a tool to foster an empowering conversation about the marginalized and forgotten, in particular Black women - their lives, their bodies, and their voices.

29 – 30 March

Porto

Teatro Municipal do Porto – Rivoli

4 – 6 April

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

Show

Gabriel Ferrandini

Rosa. Espinho. Dureza

Under an invitation by BoCA, the drummer Gabriel Ferrandini conceives his first stage creation, sharing the stage with the actor Frederico Barata. “Rosa. Espinho. Dureza.” is made out of three acts: labour, sex, love. As a triptych, in which concepts and materials are interlinked, each act will have an action and object represent its respective “problem”, repeated ad nauseam, testing the persistence and concentration of the performers and the audience.

29 March – 28 April

Lisboa

Convento de São Pedro de Alcântara

Free admission

Projeto Teatral

Saint Simeon of the Admirable Montain

Colective Projecto Teatral is, at the moment, constituted by João Rodrigues, Maria Duarte, Helena Tavares, André Maranha and Gonçalo Ferreira de Almeida. In this BoCA’s edition they present a new creation, “São Simeão da Montanha Admirável” [Saint Simeon of the Admirable Mountain], for the church of the São Pedro de Alcântara Convent, located in the heart of Lisbon.

31 March

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

conversa

Arca

Arca Talk

Arca is the pseudonym of shapeshifting Venezuelan artist, singer, DJ, performer, and experimental music composer Alejandra Ghersi, a visionary of a new world where vulnerability is the powerful source of explosive energy. In a unique event, BoCA hosts a meeting with Arca, who will share her thought-provoking work and discuss the intersections between artistic creation, music, and performance.

31 March

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

talk

Free admission

Yolanda Norton, Alexandra Santos

Conversa com Yolanda Norton & Alexandra Santos (INMUNE)

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.

2 April

Lisboa

Cinema Ideal

6 April

Porto

Passos Manuel

cinema

Julian Rosefeldt

Manifesto

Rosefeldt collaged historical original texts from numerous manifestos by artists, architects, choreographers, and filmmakers as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, Adrien Piper or Sol LeWitt. By way of cutting back and combining the texts, 13 poetic monologues emerged, bringing the new manifesto texts together with situations of today, with women holding public speeches or interior monologues. They are all embodied and presented by the actress Cate Blanchett.

2 – 30 April

Lisboa

Complexos dos Caruchéus / Galerias Municipais EGEAC

Installation

Free admission

Tania Bruguera

Narciso

Following her recent investigation in the Tate Modern (London), “Narciso” evokes the migration and refugee crisis. Through the eye of Bruguera, this movement gains an expression of individual crisis centered in the body and the identity of each spectator: “A person will sit on a sculpture and will observe their face in the water. When they get near the water to see themselves, the reflection found will not be theirs but that of an immigrant person”, writes Tania Bruguera.

4 – 5 April

Lisboa

Lux / Frágil

Concert

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Stimmung by Stockhausen

“Stimmung” (1968) is one of the most notable and fundamental works from Stockhausen, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Conceived for six solo voices, the work is now displaced in a response to its radicalism and its sense of religion to one of the temples of our contemporaneity, a nightclub (Lux Frágil), in the context of BoCA.

6 April

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

conference, performance

Free admission

Conferência-Performance Sub21

6 April

Lisboa

Estufa Fria

Free admission

Matilde Campilho

Ecotemporâneos: Matilde Campilho

Ecotemporâneos é uma comunidade de leitura em espaços verdes da cidade de Lisboa. Aberta, inclusiva e acessível, é constituída por um grupo diverso: normovisuais, deficientes visuais e deficientes auditivos. Convidada: Matilde Campilho (escritora)

7 April

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

performance

Free admission

Ciudad Abierta

Punto de Fuga

“Punto de Fuga” is an interdisciplinary action that consists of the execution of three performances in open spaces: in the Chilean artistic community Cidade Aberta (Valparaíso), in the Magellan Strait (between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans) and in MAAT (Lisboa). This project, that has been re-equating issues about body-territory, architecture, public space, history or habitation.

9 April

Porto

Auditório Ilídio Pinho - Edifício das Artes / Universidade Católica

30 April

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional de São Carlos

performance, Music

Free admission

Jonathan Uliel Saldanha

Scotoma Cintilante

“Scotoma Cintilante” is a performance-concert for a mixed choir of blind people with three dimensional graphical sheet music. The surface of a sculpture-machine is the inanimate matter that operates the mutation over the voice in time. Coming from a world-vision where tactile relations with inanimate matter is the primordial source of sound building, this performance-concert submits itself between matter and animates, pre-language and surface.

11 – 12 April

Lisboa

Rive Rouge

performance

Alfredo Martins

Silent Disco

“Silent Disco” is an immersive show that happens in night- clubs, exploring the potential of the technology from ‘silent disco’ parties. This creation aims to speculate on the nature of clubbing as an act of resistance, capable of reconfiguring forms of reflection, affection and corporality. Spectacular identities, multiple sexualities, hedonistic consuming, raw physicality - do each of these constitute as a political practice of resistance?

12 April

Lisboa

Lux / Frágil

Music

Wolfgang Tillmans

(Canceled) Before I Knew It

In Tillmans’ universe there is music, dance, dilated pupils, liberated sex, political affirmation and also abstract images. In the context of BoCA, he displays the most obscure side of his art: Tillmans also produces electronic music. It’s this hidden profile of the artist that he shares with us in Lisbon in a unique moment, starting the night with pre-recorded music as well as live set, with CDJ’s and microphone.

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.

13 – 14 April

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

Show

Ola Maciejewska

Bombyx Mori

In “Bombyx Mori”, a play for three female performers, Ola Maciejewska takes inspiration from the “Serpentine Dance” from Loïe Fuller. Ola explores the relationship between human beings and physical matter in art, creating movement in sizable pieces of cloth. Waterfalls of black clothing wave throughout the stage, creating short-lived whirlpools, wings and mythical creatures that parade exuberantly before our eyes.

13 – 14 April

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

17 – 18 April

Porto

Teatro Carlos Alberto / TNSJ

Show

Paulo Castro

Hello My Name Is

“Hello My Name Is” is a solo show, performed by Timorese actor Rashidi Edward. In this one-man show, Rashidi makes a powerful display of a man who acts many parts – he is the one mourning for someone killed and right after he is the soldier who takes the shot -, using the poetic language of Edward Bond to draw attention to the place each one occupies in the games of tyrannical power.

13 – 14 April

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

Dance, performance

Gerard & Kelly

State Of

Gerard & Kelly continue their research on pole dance, questioning the violence related to race, gender, sexuality and national identity. Throughout various citations and transformations of the American flag and national anthem, in “State Of” we can watch a group of white and black men exploring the critical potential of intimacy, to suspend violence regarding our differences.

14 April

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

meeting

Gerard & Kelly

Encontro com Gerard & Kelly

Influenciados pela dança minimalista, a crítica institucional e a teoria queer, Brennan Gerard e Ryan Kelly desenvolvem um trabalho na fronteira da dança e da arte contemporânea que integra a escrita, o vídeo ou a escultura.

17 – 18 April

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

25 September

Barcelona

Caixa Forum

7 December

Santiago do Chile

Matucana 100

performance, Installation

Pedro Barateiro

The Inverted Journey

Pedro Barateiro’s project “The Inverted Journey” is a performance and installation commissioned by BoCA that allows him to work on the stage of the Sala Garrett of the National Theatre, having as its backdrop the exploitation of the lithium mines in Portugal, in an investigation that also goes through the book “Queda sem fim, seguido de Descida de Maleström, de Edgar Allan Poe”, written by José A. Bragança de Miranda.

19 – 20 April

Lisboa

Museu Nacional dos Coches

performance

Jonas & Lander

Coin Operated

“Coin Operated” follows an invitation from BoCA to Jonas & Lander to create a piece for a museum where dialog with the audience is direct and depends on itself. Jonas & Lander design a new relationship with the spectator where it starts having an ac- tive role in the consequence of the artistic action, making way for diverse and surprising scenes in every presentation, or in this case in the duration of every coin inserted in the horse rides.

20 April

Lisboa

Estufa Fria

Free admission

Mamadou Ba

Ecotemporâneos: Mamadou Ba

“Ecotemporâneos” [Ecotemporaries] is an inclusive literary community acting in the green spaces of Lisbon, constituted by a diverse group of visual and auditory deficient people as well as people who can see and hear. The project shares a common time (contemporary) and a common space (the environment) around access to literature and its relation to a site.

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.

30 April

Lisboa

Lux / Frágil

Concert

Linn da Quebrada

Pajubá

Linn’s first LP gains its title of “Pajubá” after the dialect spoken by the gay community and its supporters in Rio de Janeiro. The name comes from the African languages and has begun being used by the transvestites of Rio as a form of survival against the violence on the streets. With lyrical and incisive power, frequently humorous, she approaches topics such as violence, poverty, body politics, sex, desire and the daily struggles of Brazilian trans women.

31 August – 1 September

Lisboa

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado

Workshop

João Salaviza

Workshop with João Salaviza

The film director João Salaviza confronts his last three films (“Russa”, “High Cities of Bones”, “The Dead and the Others”), where he rehearses new ways of thinking, producing, and living Cinema. Participants are also invited to bring out sketches, ideas and maps for future films.

1 September

Lisboa

Jardim do Campo Santana / Campo Mártires da Pátria

Free admission

Dulce Maria Cardoso

Ecotemporâneos / Dulce Maria Cardoso

3 – 6 September

Lisboa

Estúdios Victor Córdon - CNB & TNSC

summer school, Workshop

Claudia Castellucci

Workshop com Claudia Castellucci

Claudia Castellucci, co-founder with Romeo Castellucci and Chiara and Paolo Guidi of the Italian theater company Societas Raffaello Sanzio, in 1981, comes to Portugal to develop a workshop that combines dance and gesture theory. The workshop “The Wave Treatment” is built according to a rhythmic principle that considers the different moments of the day. A dance based on the sound of the bells and implemented with a stick.

6 September

Lisboa

Museu da Marioneta

performance, Dance, summer school

Free admission

Claudia Castellucci

Claudia Castellucci, “Il trattamento delle onde”

For the first time in Portugal, CLAUDIA CASTELLUCCI developed a workshop that now results in three public presentations of dance performance. “The treatment of him where” can be seen in the cloister of the Convento das Bernardas / Museu da Marioneta. During the workshop, a dance was created created with the sound of bells and performed with a stick. This is an unprecedented opportunity to discover CLAUDIA CASTELLUCCI’s work in Portugal.

12 September

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

Workshop, summer school

Basim Magdy

Workshop with Basim Magdy

This workshop will explore the multidisciplinary methods used by the Egyptian artist Basim Magdy to experiment with poetic narratives, with unconventional photographic processes, with the construction of analog images and with the overlapping of colors using filters and masks inside and outside the camera.

18 – 30 September

Lisboa

Estúdios Victor Córdon - CNB & TNSC

Workshop, summer school

Mathilde Monnier

Workshop with Mathilde Monnier

This is the first time French choreographer Mathilde Monnier directs a workshop in Portugal. She will go through different writing processes related to her repertoire, which are also an opportunity to think about the notion of reinterpretation. This workshop will also be a space to question the need to go through contemporary repertoires to better understand what is represented in time and how writing can cross (or not) an era.

21 – 22 September

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

Workshop, summer school

Florentina Holzinger

Workshop with Florentina Holzinger

Neste workshop, a coreógrafa e performer Florentina Holzinger quer recrutar guerreiros, assumindo que isso resultará numa arte melhor. Usarão a preparação de um lutador para a preparação do trabalho artístico. A partir de um estado de desafio físico, inspirando-se nas artes marciais e no treino de boxe. Trabalharão sobre a condição física, com luvas, com parceiros e preparar-se-ão para alguma disputa, o “pas de deux” do ringue. Ninguém vai ficar indiferente.

28 September

Lisboa

Jardim do Campo Santana / Campo Mártires da Pátria

Free admission

João Pedro Vale, Nuno Alexandre Ferreira

Ecotemporâneos / João Pedro Vale & Nuno Alexandre Ferreira

23 March

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

24 March

Porto

Passos Manuel

live act

Caterina Barbieri

Caterina Barbieri Live Act – Lisboa

Caterina Barbieri’s music has its origins on the meditation over primary waves and the polyrhythmic dance of harmonics. Her algorithmic approach to composition rooted in minimalism and Indian tradition, as well as her pragmatic attitude towards sequencing, unfolds in audible images that are surprisingly organic and almost tangible, to which she refers as “ecstatic computation”.