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Biennial 2021 – Prove You’re Human

Past events

Performance

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.

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.

12 September

Almada

Casa da Dança / Ponto de Encontro

18 September

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

performance

Free admission

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.

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.

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.

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.

13 October

Almada

Praça da Liberdade

performance, ativismo

Free admission

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.