“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.
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.
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.
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.
Luís Lázaro Matos
Une vague joyeuse/Uma onda feliz
“Une vague joyeuse” is a project by Luís Lázaro Matos with a title that recalls the last scene of the film “Testament of Orpheus” (1960) by Jean Cocteau, in which a convertible car drives down a winding road while the passengers scream in joy, indifferent to the two policemen parked by the curb.
Anastasia Sosunova
When All This Is Over, Let’s Meet Up! + Agents
Through a process of distortion and the interlacing of elements from old mythologies, hybrid identities and a society of surveillance, Sosunova produces alternative forms of “contemporary folklore”, exploring new narratives and ways of life that require rules, ethics, codes and agreements between living beings.
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”.
Gustavo Ciríaco
Carrossel
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”.
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.
“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.
Musa Paradisiaca
Monumento para Amadores – Solar Boat
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”.
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.
Diana Policarpo
Green Walks
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”.
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.
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.
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.
Berru
Sobre um Futuro de Coexistência
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”.
Dayana Lucas
Cair Para o Alto*
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”.
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”.
