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Biennial 2021 – Prove You’re Human

Past events

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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 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.

4 – 26 September

Almada

Praia da Bela Vista, Costa da Caparica

performance, Theatre

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.

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.

18 September

Almada

Cristo Rei

Concert

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.

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.

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

Cacilhas

Lisnave

Show

Felipe Bragança

Mechanical Tropics (Mueda)

Science fiction, tale and documentation are blended in this visual and theatrical performance about the memories of the Mueda Massacre, which happened in Mozambique in 1960.

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.

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.

9 – 10 October

Cacilhas

Lisnave

Dance, performance

Alice Ripoll

Lavagem

In “Lavagem”, the most recent work by the Brazilian choreographer Alice Ripoll and Cia. REC, reality and fantasy merge in a delirium, like an apocalyptic dream. With the help of buckets, water and soap, the performance looks into ambivalent imagery around the act of washing, critically observing the unravelling of scenic and historical elements.

9 – 10 October

Almada

Casa da Dança / Ponto de Encontro

Workshop

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.

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.