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Biennial 2019 – Ecotemporaries

Past events

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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 – 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 – 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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 – 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?

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

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.

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.

18 April

Porto

Teatro Carlos Alberto / TNSJ

Workshop

Paulo Castro

Workshop with Paulo Castro

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.

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 – 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.

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.

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.

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.

6 – 7 December

Bangkok

Neilson Hays Library

performance

John Romão, Romeu Runa

Hard to be a God

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”.