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Biennial 2021 – Prove You’re Human

Past events

Lisboa

1 September

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

18 – 19 September

Lisboa

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Show

La Família Gitana, António Poppe

Música Cigana Camões Yanomami / A Soma de Todxs

“Música Cigana Camões Yanomami/A Soma dos Seus” consists of a performance/concert that combines the poetry of Camões, texts by Davi Kopenawa (from the Yanomami indigenous), with Gypsy Music. This encounter creates a communicative composition of original expressions.

3 – 5 September

Lisboa

Museu de Lisboa – Palácio Pimenta

9 October

Faro

Anfiteatro da Ria

Theatre

Free admission

Capicua

A Tralha

“A Tralha” is a quasi-monologue about hoarding. An essay about waste and obsoleteness, presented as a personal narrative. A reflection about the objects that surround us, that serve as a kind of extension of ourselves, containing our memories and functioning as an interface between us and the world.

3 September – 17 October

Lisboa

MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

performance, Installation

Free admission

Grada Kilomba

O Barco/The Boat

“O Barco/The Boat” is an installation by the artist Grada Kilomba, comprised of 140 blocks forming the shape of the bottom of a ship, a detailed drawing of the space that was created to accommodate the bodies of millions of Africans enslaved by European empires. Extended along 32 meters of the river, it invites the audience to enter a garden of memories, where poems rest over blocks of burnt wood. Three performance acts are expected during the biennial.

3 September – 15 October

Lisboa

Museu Geológico de Lisboa

vídeo-instalação

Free admission

Agnieszka Polska

The New Sun

“The New Sun” brings the Polish artist Agnieszka Polska to Portugal for the first time. A projection of the sun personified as a cartoon character that speaks directly to the audience about scientific theory, poetry, natural disasters, trivial jokes and love songs. Here, the sun is everything you see before the final collapse of your system, your planet, your sunset - the last witness to your extinction, softly driving you towards the black hole of a last meditation.

3 September – 17 October

Lisboa

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

vídeo-instalação

Anne Imhof

Untitled (Wave)

“Untitled (Wave)” creates resonance between questions around ideas of the feminine, worship and immateriality. It refers also to the history of art and aesthetic discourse, particularly to the concept of the sublime associated with the romantic period of contemplation of nature, of bleak and desolate landscapes conveying the smallness of the scale of the individual before the grandeur of the universe.

5 September

Lisboa

Centro Cultural de Belém

intervenção artística

Free admission

Gustavo Sumpta

Denominação de Origem Controlada

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”.

9 – 10 September

Lisboa

Auditório do Museu dos Coches

performance, Installation

Romeo Castellucci

O Terceiro Reich

“The Third Reich” is a performative video-installation based on the spectral representation of all names. All the nouns found in the Italian dictionary (here translated to Portuguese) are projected, in sequence, one by one. This furious bunch of words, with a powerful sound, does not allow space for choice or judgement. The core of language returns to white noise that leads to chaos.

9 – 12 September

Lisboa

Centro Cultural de Belém

16 September – 17 October

Lisboa

Reservatório da Patriarcal / Museu da Água

performance

Andreia Santana

Overlapses, Riddles & Spells

The way in which we relate or mutually affect each other, in permanent interdependence, is a principle that is found across much of the work by the visual artist Andreia Santana. “Overlapses, Riddles & Spells” is a project that contemplates a unique installation with pieces made of glass and iron, along with two video projections.

14 September

Faro

Museu Municipal de Faro

17 September

Lisboa

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

Dance

Free admission

Noé Soulier

Passages

“Passages” is a nomadic project that explores the relation between the movement of bodies and the spaces in which these inscribe their actions. In acting with imaginary objects, performers trigger resonances in multiple scales and dimensions, activating the physical memories of the audience, starting with the relationship to the spaces they inhabit.

17 – 18 September

Lisboa

Capitólio

Show, Music

Pedro Costa, Os Músicos do Tejo

As Filhas do Fogo

From the acclaimed director Pedro Costa and following his award-winning film “Vitalina Varela”, the premiere of “As Filhas do Fogo” (Daughters of Fire’), a show that merges cinema, music and theatre. Pedro Costa collaborates with Os Músicos do Tejo and proposes a stage format that once again places the emphasis on postcolonialism.

23 September – 3 October

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

16 September

Faro

Teatro das Figuras

Theatre, Music

Gus Van Sant

Trouble

Film director Gus Van Sant ventures into his first creation for the stage, a musical theater show inspired by Andy Warhol and his overwhelming talent for elevating images into icons, all while achieving worldwide celebrity status as persona and artist.

24 – 25 September

Lisboa

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado

7 October

Faro

Teatro Lethes

Concert

Papillons d’Éternité, Tânia Carvalho, Matthieu Ehrlacher

Concert

The instruments played by Tânia and Matthieu, saxophone and erhu, and her collaboration with the Faro Folklore Group, enable the embrace of this new form of experimentation with tradition and songbook. The songs are dismembered from their original form to be placed in the construction of a sound journey.

24 September

Faro

Jardim da Alameda

25 September

Almada

Parque Frois

9 October

Lisboa

Alto de Monsanto

plantação

Free admission

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.

28 – 29 September

Lisboa

Cinema São Jorge

2 October

Faro

Auditório IPDJ

cinema

Free admission

Khalik Allah

Iwow: I Walk on Water

“IWOW” brings to Portugal the memorable photographer and filmmaker from New York, Khalik Allah, already described as a director of “street opera” and praised for a disarming view that unveils, with delicate mastery, a viscerally beautiful humanity.

28 – 29 September

Lisboa

Cinema São Jorge

11 October

Almada

Fórum Municipal Romeo Correia

15 October

Faro

Auditório IPDJ

cinema

Free admission

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.

28 – 29 September

Lisboa

Cinema São Jorge

Workshop

Khalik Allah

Workshop de cinema – “Camera Ministry”

Jamaican-Iranian filmmaker and photographer Khalik Allah, based in New York, runs a workshop for the first time in Lisbon, in which he discusses the spiritual implications of his work, namely the use of photography to capture the essence of a person from a non-judgmental perspective; the recognition of all people as a light, and as a child of God; the choice to find beauty everywhere and in everything around us; and the use of photography to build intimate relationships.ma. O workshop investigará as maneiras pelas quais a metodologia distinta de Allah busca resistir aos estereótipos que ainda costumam enquadrar as discussões em torno de raça e marginalidade, em vez de adotarem uma abordagem empática e diferenciada.

29 September

Faro

Teatro das Figuras

14 – 17 October

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

Theatre

Tiago Cadete

Brasa

In “Brasa”, Tiago Cadete traces one of the lines of his theatrical research, that of the enquiry and critical approach to the historical relations between Portugal and Brazil, accompanied by a group of creatives-performers from diverse backgrounds: Isabél Zuaa, Julia Salem, Keli Freitas, Magnum Alexandre Soares, Ana Lobato, Dori Nigro, Gustavo Ciríaco and Raquel André.

30 September – 1 October

Lisboa

Fundação Champalimaud / Anfiteatro ao ar livre

Concert

Gabriel Ferrandini

Anjo Solidão

When releasing “Hair of the Dog”, his first solo album, Gabriel Ferrandini brings to the Champalimaud Foundation’s open-air amphitheater a performance that precisely reflects this state of openness to new artistic experiences: with the Gulbenkian Choir he explores the contemporaries possibilities of operatic singing, with the voices succeeding each other in successive loops (canon), raising issues of memory, traps and liberation.

30 September – 10 October

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

performance

Miles Greenberg

Water in a Heatwave

“Water in a Heatwave” is a new durational piece for eight performers and is the artist’s most challenging project so far, in terms of scale and duration. In pairs, the performers clash their bodies into each other atop a series of pedestals, creating numerous tensions within the space.

1 – 3 October

Lisboa

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado

performance

André Huerba

A Hole the Size of Your Touch

Through deceleration, inhibition of the sense of sight and a kinetic and somatic approach to the body and its movement, André Uerba and the performers explore different ways to get to know and feel each other. Bodies that meet, coordinate and communicate non-verbally, opening a space that is understood as political.

2 – 3 October

Lisboa

ZDB

Workshop

Von Calhau!

Listening and Sound Arts Workshop – “Tesourelha”

In the workshop “Tesourelha”, the artists Marta Ângela and João Alves propose to form a listening group with the participants. During the two intensive days of the workshop, four listening sessions will take place, lasting 2h30 each. Each of the sessions will correspond to listening accompanied by a composition of sounds. No image. Each of the compositions will have as reference each of the four elements: Fire, Water, Earth, Air.

3 – 10 October

Lisboa

Estufa Fria

Installation

Free admission

Jonathan Uliel Saldanha

Atavic Machine / Máquina Atávica

Jonathan Uliel Saldanha is a musician, visual artist, sound and stage creator. In “Atavic Machine” Jonathan operates for the first time in a vegetal space (of human construction) - the Lisbon Green House - the action of a sound and light machine, where the latent and fictitious characteristics from a remote and future time come together.

8 October

Faro

Teatro das Figuras

15 – 16 October

Lisboa

Teatro Taborda

Dance

Joana Castro, Maurícia | Neves

And Still We Move

And yet we still move. Fragility as a capacity, as a poetic place, is the starting point of a performance that arises from the desire to shift the private to the public sphere. The choreographers and performers Joana Castro and Maurícia | Neves question and reconfigure the relationships between them, using as a base photographs from the personal archive of a romantic relationship that ended last October.

8 – 9 October

Lisboa

MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

performance

Carlos Azeredo Mesquita

Über Alles

“Über Alles” is a durational performance in which the performers explore the history and the stories, iconographic and sociological elements in national anthems. Reflecting on the role that these songs have in the formation of the mythology of a nation and in the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion associated to this process.

9 October

Lisboa

Panteão Nacional

performance

Pan Daijing

Half a Name

Cited as one of the most uprising figures in the current avant-garde, Pan Daijing is for the first in Portugal with “Half a Name”, a site-specific music performance for the National Pantheon. Pan Daijing takes on the expansive sound and visual documentation of her large-scale performances. Deconstructing moments of memories, the piece explores the possibilities of the performative archive, as well as its practice in experimental narrative.

13 October

Lisboa

Culturgest

conferência, performance

Bruno Latour, Frédérique Aït-Touati

Moving Earths

A conference-performance by the philosopher Bruno Latour and sociologist and stage director Frédérique Aït-Touati, in which the social and cosmic order is described as “moving towards an unparalleled political and ecological collapse”, as a result of the climate crisis.

14 – 16 October

Lisboa

Culturgest

Workshop

Duncan Evennou, Patrick Laffont-DeLojo

Performing Arts Workshop – World Models

Based on the stage experiments that Frédérique Aït-Touati and Bruno Latour have been conducting together for the past ten years, the workshop proposes to explore these questions through different mediums (video, scenography, philosophy, architecture, cartography, drawing), and to share with the participants the different tools that the troupe has been exploring for several years in the form of scenic and graphic research - a gaïa-graphy.