enpt
Biennial 2019 –

Past events

Porto

7 – 16 January

Porto

Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória / TNSJ

Marlene Monteiro Freitas

Residência Artística

Marlene Monteiro Freitas starts an artistic residency around her new creation for BoCA 2019, “Cattivo - Installation for Music Shelves and Other Materials”, at the São Bento da Vitória Monastery / São João National Theater (Porto).

19 February

Porto

Teatro Carlos Alberto / TNSJ

apresentação

Free admission

BoCA 2019 | Apresentação da Programação no Porto

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

Porto

Mala Voadora

conferência

Free admission

Joacine Katar Moreira, INMUNE

Descolonizaaaaarte!

A reflection on art and visuality, forcing assistance to reinvent new ways of looking at blackness; and the decolonization of language through listening to the black woman’s body.

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.

22 – 23 March

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

24 March

Porto

Palácio dos Correios

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.

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

performance

Gonçalo M. Tavares, Os Espacialistas

Animals and Money

“Laboratory of Above-Average Ways of Feeling” – this is the proposal by Gonçalo M. Tavares & Os Espacialistas for BoCA 2019. There are three new performances presented in theaters based on the theme “Animals and Money.” Together and on stage for the first time, the artists develop above-average ways of feeling, based on texts, images, gestures, objects, and spaces in permanent construction, with the audience present.

29 March

Porto

Culturgest Porto

30 March

Porto

Culturgest Porto

formação e criação artística

Free admission

Forum Dança

“Forum Dança”, alongside BoCA, created PACAP - Program for Activation of Creation in Performing Arts, that gives professionals and students the opportunity to do both research and exercising corporal movement. Working side by side with two curators, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, three dance solos were originated for BoCA 2019: Descarada” by Patrícia Árabe; “A body that hides also stands” by Marta Ramos; and “Miragem” by Renan Fontoura.

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.

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

Julian Rosefeldt is known not only for his work in photography, but also for his elaborately staged films. “Manifesto,” starring Cate Blanchett, consists of 13 films that bring angry and surprisingly topical words to the screen. Manifestos by artists, architects, choreographers, and filmmakers such as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, Kazimir Malevich, and Adrian Piper are incorporated into 13 monologues by Blanchett.

2 April

Porto

Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto

masterclass

Free admission

Joana da Conceição

Masterclass: Joana da Conceição

Visual artist Joana da Conceição designs the performance and installation “The Cradle of Venus” for BoCA. In Porto, she will be at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto to talk about her artistic practice.

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.

10 – 18 April

Porto

Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória / TNSJ

Installation

Marlene Monteiro Freitas

CATTIVO

In “Cattivo”, the music stands are explored up to the limit of their expressive properties, their capacity to flesh out other emotional states and to make decisions, manipulating themselves and other objects, forming as a team in a symphonic community, with different instruments, rhythms, melodic lines… Akin to a stage, a garden or dollhouse, the installation will remain between vegetable, animal and the fantasy world.

11 April

Porto

Mala Voadora

Workshop

Ola Maciejewska

Workshop Com Ola Maciejewska

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

17 – 18 April

Porto

Teatro Carlos Alberto / TNSJ

Show

Paulo Castro

Hello My Name Is

“Hello My Name Is” is a one-man show. In this one-man show, actor Rashidi Edward gives a powerful performance as a man who takes on multiple roles—he is the person mourning someone who has been murdered, only to then become the soldier who shoots to kill—using Edward Bond’s poetic language to draw attention to the place each person occupies in the dynamics of tyrannical power games.

18 April

Porto

Teatro Carlos Alberto / TNSJ

Workshop

Paulo Castro

Workshop with Paulo Castro

In this workshop, you will develop a “self-devised” piece based on political theater and how it can be explored in the context of a performance. Paulo Castro proposes to explore with participants the political and artistic qualities of the contemporary art world.

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.

28 April

Porto

Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto

masterclass

Free admission

Os Espacialistas

Masterclass “Transobjestos”

23 March

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

24 March

Porto

Passos Manuel

live act, Concert

Caterina Barbieri

Caterina Barbieri

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”.