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Biennial 2023 – Presente Invisível

Past events

Faro

2 September – 7 October

Lisboa

Espaço Público de Lisboa

7 September – 15 October

Lisboa

Espaço Público de Lisboa

6 September – 15 October

Faro

Espaço Público de Faro

6 September – 15 October

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

performance, Installation

Free admission

Héctor Zamora

Chimera

A cloud of brilliant colours takes over the public space of Lisbon and Faro, making the invisible visible while paying tribute to the informal economies on which Mexican – and Portuguese – society largely rests.

6 September – 15 October

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

Installation

Free admission

Neusa Trovoada

Chorus 1.8 – Latente

As part of the exhibition “Presente Invisível” (Invisible Present), Neusa Trovoada presents a set of works that – after considering the powers of the mouth and the scream in the first installation of the CHORUS series – take us inwards, to the latent pulse, to the depths that cross time and place.

6 September – 15 October

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

Concert

Free admission

Tiago Cadete

Concerto

The audience becomes a stage, and the stage becomes an audience. A concert without a body, a ghostly concert of voices.

6 September – 15 October

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

Installation

Free admission

João Melo / Glantosz

Incorpóreo

“Incorpóreo” is one of the most challenging solo exhibitions by Glantosz (João Melo), a young photographer from Faro who, at the age of 18, addresses complex themes such as conflict, sensitivity and the problem of accountability in the contemporary world.

6 September – 15 October

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

performance

Free admission

Rita GT

Unearthing

In “Unearthing”, part of the collective exhibition “Presente Invisível” (Invisible Present) at Fábrica da Cerveja, Rita GT reflects on the place of women in global expansionist politics by using clay, ceramics and singing as catalysing processes.

8 – 10 September

Lisboa

Academia das Ciências

15 September

Faro

Clube Farense

recital

João dos Santos Martins, Ana Jotta, Joana Sá, Filipe Pereira

Está Visto

A dancer who could not dance, a singer who could not sing, an actor who could not act, a writer who could not write, a painter who could not paint. A piece for song and dance based on the songs “Dichterliebe” (Poet’s Love[s]) by Robert Schumann.

14 – 15 September

Lisboa

Culturgest

23 September

Faro

Teatro das Figuras

Theatre, Visual Arts

Agnieszka Polska

The Talking Car

Under an invitation from BoCA, visual artist Agnieszka Polska creates her first theatre piece, with interpretation by Albano Jerónimo, Íris Cayatte, Vera Maintaino, Bartosz Bielenia and Aaron Ronelle. A group of people travel in a car that doesn’t stop. A tale about one’s role in the complex system of human and nonhuman agents and socio-technological infrastructures.

15 September

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

16 September

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

performance, Music

Lolo & Sosaku

V Contiene Metal

Lolo & Sosaku, one of the most inventive duos in contemporary art, investigate the possibilities of sculpture as an expanded field, in relation to performance, sculpture and sound. At BoCA, they create a new performance that is presented in two unique nights, in Lisbon and Faro.

16 September

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

performance

Zia Soares

Coro dos Assombrados

With a text by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Zia Soares brings together a set of disturbing vocals while reflecting on historical silencing and the political and subjective power of the voice.

19 – 23 September

Faro

Claustro do Museu Municipal de Faro

19 – 28 September

Faro

Museu Municipal de Faro

30 September – 15 October

Lisboa

Estufa Fria

Installation

Free admission

João Pais Filipe, Marco da Silva Ferreira

Terra Cobre – Installation

New creation by sound artist João Pais Filipe and dancer Marco da Silva Ferreira crosses the traditional practice of Alcáçovas’ rattle art with contemporary artistic practices, anchored in percussion and dance.

21 September

Lisboa

Panteão Nacional

22 September

Faro

Associação Recreativa e Cultural de Músicos de Faro

Music

Marina Herlop

Marina Herlop

Marina Herlop brings her garden of sonic references, South Indian Carnatic music and her alien vocal acrobatics to the National Pantheon in Lisbon.

21 – 23 September

Lisboa

Cinema Ideal

12 October

Faro

Auditório IPDJ

cinema

Milo Rau

The New Gospel

“The New Gospel”, winner of the Best Documentary award at the Swiss Film Festival, is both a recording of the theatre play’s rehearsals and, behind the scenes, a documentation of Cameroonian political activist Yvan Sagnet’s struggles – the first black Jesus in the history of European cinema.

23 September

Lisboa

Cinema Ideal

7 October

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

cinema, Film

Marcus Lindeen

The Regretters

At centre stage sit Mikael and Orlando. Both men, now well into their 60s, share a common bond — they changed genders twice. In this raw and candid tête-à-tête, Mikael and Orlando explore their pasts and trade war stories of their individual journeys.

23 – 24 September

Lisboa

Teatro da Garagem / Teatro Taborda

28 September

Faro

Teatro Lethes

Show

Julian Hetzel, Ntando Cele

SPAfrica

SPAfrica is a performance that juxtaposes the exploitation of natural and emotional resources, exposing neoliberal strategies in the search for alternative raw materials: is trauma the new gold of the arts?

30 September

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

performance

Free admission

Rui Catalão

Mal de Ulisses

Fresh from a rapidly changing Portuguese society, “Mal de Ulisses” is the new creation by Portuguese playwright and director Rui Catalão – a play that puts into dialogue testimonies of a country disappearing and another one emerging.

3 October

Lisboa

Cinema São Jorge

5 October

Faro

Auditório IPDJ

cinema, Film

Paul B. Preciado

Orlando, My Political Biography

First film by Paul B. Preciado, premiered this year at the Berlinale and winner of the Teddy Award for Best Documentary, “Orlando, my political biography” arrives in national cinemas in October, with a preview at BoCA.

5 October

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

7 October

Faro

Museu Municipal de Faro

Free admission

Corpo Visível – Cesariny em Fato de Banho

What if these verses were a song? What if this song was a painting? What if this picture was an action? “Corpo Visível” (Visible Body) is a transdisciplinary creation and mediation project that celebrates the centenary of Mário Cesariny.

7 – 8 October

Faro

Jardim da Alameda

Concert

Free admission

Solistas da Orquestra do Algarve

“The Wind in High Places”, “Canticles of the Sky” e “Three High Places”

John Luther Adams, compositor americano galardoado com o Prémio Pulitzer em 2014, reimagina e recria relações com a natureza através da música. Em dois concertos concebidos para o espaço verde de Faro, solistas da Orquestra do Algarve interpretam três das suas obras para quarteto de cordas.

14 October

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

performance

Free admission

BoCA Sub21 Faro / Ode to all dichotomies

BoCA Sub21 is a participatory and experimental project that was born during the first edition of the contemporary arts biennial. In Lisbon and Faro, two groups of young people followed the biennial’s programme and the issues that emerged from it, in a process of thought and creation that is now shared with the public in both cities.