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Biennial 2019 –

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

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 – 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

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.

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 innovative artists working in video today. Ryan Trecartin’s films are a mix of performance art, sitcoms, and hypnotic digital collages. Filmed in a former Masonic temple in Los Angeles—a five-story labyrinth of large, cavernous rooms resembling a convention center—Temple Time unfolds like a horror movie expedition of a group of friends to a wild camping ground.

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 a large, neutral room at Manifesta, Meg Stuart’s video installation has now been recontextualized in the Capela das Albertas, inside the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon. The Capela das Albertas was a Carmelite convent for women, founded at the end of the 16th century, and it is likely that few people remember it. The space has been closed and is in need of restoration, and will be reopened exclusively and temporarily for this work by Meg Stuart.

17 March

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

visita guiada

Delfim Sardo

Spirit House | visit by Delfim Sardo

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.

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.

27 March – 30 April

Lisboa

Estufa Fria

Sculpture, Installation

Horácio Frutuoso

Library

Horácio Frutuoso uses different media in his work, structuring his practice around the concept and organization of a painting. He combines visual poetry, digital images, and installation-performance. In the context of BoCA, he was asked to create a new work based on Helena Almeida’s video “A Experiência do Lugar II” (The Experience of Place II). This is the first work that Horácio Frutuoso has created for an outdoor space.

29 – 30 March

Lisboa

Igreja do Convento dos Inglesinhos

evento especial

Yolanda Norton

Beyoncé Mass

“Beyoncé Mass” is a celebration of female worship that uses Beyoncé’s music and personal life as a tool to promote a discourse of empowerment about the marginalized and forgotten, particularly black women—their lives, their bodies, and their voices. With Yolanda Norton, Old Testament Assistant at the San Francisco Theological Seminary, and the participation of the Lisbon Gospel Choir.

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

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.

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.

9 April

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

performance, Installation

Rui Chafes, Vera Mantero

Comer o Coração em Cena

“Comer o Coração” (Eating the Heart) by Rui Chafes and Vera Mantero is a 2004 work that represented Portugal at the São Paulo Biennial. Now, at the invitation of BoCA, “Comer o Coração” takes on a new perspective and a new name, “Comer o Coração em cena” (Eating the Heart on Stage), as it migrates to the stage of the D. Maria II National Theater, bringing the magnitude of a work that originated in a museum and has already traveled through exhibition and natural settings (among the trees).

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

Ola Maciejewska draws inspiration from Loïe Fuller’s “Serpentine Dance.” She explores the relationship in the arts between human beings and physical matter, creating movement in large pieces of black fabric. Here, the natural body and the artificial process are inextricably linked: a poignant metaphor for a sculptural interpretation, exploring the relationship between the body and the artifact, in a frenzied and constantly dizzying way, where the hybrid nature of things is revealed.

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.

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, “A Viagem Invertida” (The Reversed Journey), is a performance and installation commissioned by BoCA, which sees Pedro Barateiro working on stage in the Garrett Room at TNDMII, with the exploration of lithium mines in Portugal as a backdrop, in an investigation that also draws on the book “Queda sem fim, seguido de Descida de Maleström, de Edgar Allan Poe” (Endless Fall, followed by Descent of Maleström, by Edgar Allan Poe), by José A. Bragança de Miranda. Performed by Pedro Barateiro, Lula Pena, Luís Guerra, and music by Raw Forest.

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.

19 – 20 April

Lisboa

Museu Nacional dos Coches

performance

Jonas & Lander

Coin Operated

“Coin Operated” arose from an invitation from BoCA to Jonas & Lander to create a piece for a museum. By using motorized horses, activated by inserting coins, the audience takes on an active role in the artistic action, enhancing different scenes with each performance. The actions and information in the performance convey the symbolism of the visible: a man riding a horse and everything that this moment of domestication involves and has involved during the forging of civilizations.

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 – 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.

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”.