enpt
Biennial 2019 –

Past events

Instalação

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

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

28 April

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

Installation

Spirit House

“Spirit House” is an installation that Marina Abramovic designed for a former municipal slaughterhouse in Caldas da Rainha in 1997. Now, 22 years later, the installation is being presented in Lisbon. “Spirit House” consists of five videos that interact with each other, in which we see Marina Abramovic in different performances created for the camera: “Dissolution,” “Insomnia,” “Luminosity,” “Dozing Consciousness,” and “Lost Souls.”

23 March

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.

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.

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.

2 – 30 April

Lisboa

Complexos dos Caruchéus / Galerias Municipais EGEAC

Installation

Free admission

Tania Bruguera

Narciso

After her first visit to Portugal, at BoCA 2017, Cuban artivist Tania Bruguera presents her work for the first time in Lisbon, through a new installation for public space. Following her recent intervention at Tate Modern, “Narciso” evokes the migration and refugee crisis, but here, Tania Bruguera condenses this movement into an individual crisis, centered on the body and identity of each viewer.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.