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Biennial 2019 –

Past events

Performance

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.

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.

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.

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.

6 April

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

conference, performance

Free admission

Conferência-Performance Sub21

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”.

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

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).

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 – 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

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.

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 – 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.

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.