Agnieszka Polska
I Am the Mouth
In “I Am the Mouth”, a pair of lips partially submerged in turbulent waters floats while repeating soothing words, artistically reframing the viral Internet phenomenon of ASMR videos (Auto Sensory Meridian Response) - where sounds generated by trivial materials scratching against the microphone or whispering voices are amplified to stimulate pleasant tingling sensations on the nape.
Mónica Calle
Between Heaven and Earth
In “Between Heaven and Earth”, theatre director Mónica Calle picks as a starting point the writings of Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão and, under a BoCA’s invitation, develops a new work for a natural setting: among the beach and dunes of the naturist beach of Costa da Caparica. An intimate and challenging experience for only nine spectators at a time.
Odete
On Revelations and Muddy Becomings
Odete wants to “destroy the performative display that transforms our bodies into commodities” and “lie about history so that we can remodel the future”. The project “On Revelations and Muddy Becomings” is the culmination of a work about shadows and politics, which Odete, a multidisciplinary artist that operates within the spheres of music, visual arts, performance and theatre, has been creating.
Sarah Davachi
Antiphonals
Sarah Davachi is one of the most recent phenomena in minimalist music. “Antiphonals”, which Sarah Davachi will play on the organ of Santuário do Cristo Rei, in Almada, is as much concerned with the vertical experience of texture as it is with the elongation of intervallic progressions across the horizontal realm – an occurrence that we might typically refer to as ‘melody’, but which becomes obscured here in the continual undoing of its staying power. Unmissable listening.
A Defesa da Natureza
Plantation of 7.000 Trees
Inspired by Joseph Beuys’s project “7000 Oaks” (1982), BoCA debuts a 10 year project, combining the plantation of new creations (both natural and artistic), curatorships, debates and conferences throughout different areas, forming a forest of thousands of artists and artworks. All artists and citizens are invited to plant a tree and name it.
Rodrigo García
Movidas Raras
The Argentinean iconoclast, playwright and theatre director Rodrigo García returns with an audiovisual creation, written and produced remotely during the lockdown period. Not theatre, but a green screen (chroma key) and five exceptional performers materialise the director’s overflowing imagination. Angélica Liddell, Denis Lavant, Florencia Vecino, François Chaignaud and Volmir Cordeiro give themselves, body and soul, to this experiment.
Alice Ripoll
Dance Workshop – “Experiências de Criação”
Brazilian choreographer Alice Ripoll proposes a theoretical-practical workshop: a first part, where she presents her way of directing and choreographing, sharing experiences and methodologies; and a second part, in which the dancers and creatives of Cia REC present practical exercises developed in creative and improvisation processes. A unique opportunity to get together with one of the most significant artists of contemporary dance.
Lastesis
Performance and Activism Workshop
The Chilean feminist and multidisciplinary collective LASTESIS arrives in Portugal for the first time to lead a performance and activism workshop, which will result in a public presentation. In the convergence between performance, design, fashion, history, music and, of course, political and social activism LASTESIS will conduct a 3 day creative laboratory with the participation of around 80 women and dissenters.
Lastesis
Resistencia o la Reivindicación de un Derecho Colectivo
The artistic, interdisciplinary and feminist collective of women from Valparaíso (Chile) LASTESIS is dedicated to disseminating feminist theory based on performance. They travel to Portugal for the first time to work with 80 women and dissidents of different ages and backgrounds, in a performance that seeks to address the claim to the right to a life free from violence.
A serie of performances in the natural space, “I want to see my mountains” is curated by Delfim Sardo and Sílvia Gomes and proposes artists to look at the legacy of Joseph Beuys, while observing their own mountains, their own “selves”.
