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Biennial 2023 – Presente Invisível

Past events

Lisboa

1 March

Lisboa

Panteão Nacional

Concert, performance

Bendik Giske, Romeu Runa

The Endlessly Repeated Risings and Fallings of Desire

Surrendered to the obsessive desire to wander, in a hypnotizing trance, the Norwegian saxophonist and the Portuguese dancer and actor meet at the National Pantheon, in Lisbon, for a special collaboration performance.

29 August

Lisboa

São Luiz Teatro Municipal

Concert

Frederica Campos, Os Moços da Viola Campaniça

Frederica Campos & Os Moços da Viola Campaniça

In a partnership between BoCA and Futurama, the harmony between the sounds of the harp, with the delicate movements of the young artist from Porto Frederica Campos, and the unique timbre of the viola campaniça with the words of the traditional Alentejo songbook, by the Alentejo quintet Os Moços da Viola Campaniça, will be felt at the São Luiz Municipal Theatre.

2 September – 15 October

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

Installation

Free admission

Gabriel Chaile, Lisboa Criola

What if the Autobiographical isn’t More than the Stories of Others Passing Through Us?

Gabriel Chaile creates spaces where historical precedents, indigenous epistemologies and prescient craft conventions mingle with contemporary life. At the invitation of BoCA, he creates a new large-scale installation for maat’s Coal Square, to be activated with performances on three dates.

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.

7 September – 7 October

Lisboa

Convento de São Pedro de Alcântara (Bairro Alto)

Film, cinema

Free admission

Salomé Lamas

No Man’s Land

An empty room and a chair. José Paulo Sobral de Figueiredo describes his life as a commando, mercenary and homeless man. The presentation of Salomé Lamas’ powerful “No Man’s Land” at the Church of São Pedro de Alcântara offers a new look on this multi-awarded film.

7 – 19 September

Lisboa

ZDB

Theatre

Cláudio da Silva, Carolina Dominguez, Pedro Paiva

Woyzeck, Fuk’em’ol!

Written in 1896, Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck” has not ceased to unsettle contemporary theatre. In this project, Cláudio da Silva, Carolina Dominguez and Pedro Paiva reflect on this manifesto that continues to identify the strategies of perversion of human dignity.

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.

8 September

Lisboa

ACCA - Estúdios Clara Andermatt (Bairro Alto)

9 September

Lisboa

ACCA - Estúdios Clara Andermatt (Bairro Alto)

10 September

Lisboa

ACCA - Estúdios Clara Andermatt (Bairro Alto)

Workshop

Gaya de Medeiros

Workshop “Me For Dinner”

In this dance and performance workshop, we will explore the possibilities of modulating presence – playing with body and vocal performance in the encounter with the other. Through improvisation and composition exercises, participants will focus on the tension between body, voice and identity.

9 September

Lisboa

Teatro do Bairro Alto

10 September

Lisboa

Teatro do Bairro Alto

cinema

Marcus Lindeen

L’Aventure Invisible

Through the exceptional itineraries of three people forced to reinvent themselves, “L’Aventure Invisible” invites us to follow the course of an inner adventure, where no question is too intimate to ask.

9 September

Lisboa

Teatro do Bairro Alto

10 September

Lisboa

Teatro do Bairro Alto

Show

Marcus Lindeen

Orlando & Mikael

Orlando and Mikael meet while recording an interview about his gender reassignment operation. An intimate conversation about substantial choices, the desire to be loved and the dream of finding oneself.

10 September

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

performance

Pedro Alves Sousa

Performance for Plural Larynx: A Song for True

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 – 16 September

Lisboa

Estúdios Victor Córdon

Dance, performance

Free admission

Gaya de Medeiros

Cafezinho

In this performance in process, Gaya de Medeiros departs from Pina Bausch’s “Café Müller” to weave a multigenerational reflection on depression, ageing and the future.

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

Lisboa

Mome (Santos)

Party, Music

Dengo Club

Festa Dengo Club x BoCA

Dengo Club is “a collective of black immigrants in Lisbon, creating a safe space for women, LGBTQI+ people, people of color and immigrants”, in the words of Saint Caboclo. A special party in partnership with BoCA takes place on September 16th at MOME, with a focus on new talents.

16 September

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

Concert, Installation

Free admission

Lisboa Criola

Gabriel Chaile x Lisboa Criola (Yeri & Yeni, Rute Lopes, Jzaugust)

Within the scope of musical, performative, cinematographic and reflection activations around the installation “What if the autobiographical is nothing more than the history of others passing through us?” by Gabriel Chaile, in Praça do Carvão at MAAT, Lisboa Criola collaborates in programming the 2nd activation date. With a concert by Yeri & Yeni, Rute Lopes and Jzaugust.

17 September

Lisboa

Culturgest

Show

Paul B. Preciado

Can the Monster Speak?

Drawing inspiration from Kafka’s text in which a monkey who has learned human language addresses an academy of scientists, Paul B. Preciado directs a collective reading by five voices, aimed not only at the psychoanalyst community but at each one of us and our ability to embrace change and imagine a new utopia.

17 September

Lisboa

Culturgest

conferência, Installation, Film

Free admission

Nuit des Idées (Night of Ideas)

Na Noite das Ideias, as questões levantadas pelo espetáculo “Eu sou um monstro que vos fala” convidam a uma reflexão sobre fenómenos contemporâneos de proliferação, como é o caso do género, ou determinados por uma lógica do excesso, como é o caso da aceleração e velocidade.

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.

22 September

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

Visual Arts, artes performativas, meditação, poesia

António Poppe

Em Voz Alta

“Em Voz Alta” reserves for us António Poppe’s intuitive gestures and words and their live manifestations – a poetics of the unexpected that crosses the various disciplines that make up the artists’s practice, from poetry to visual arts, from performing arts to meditation.

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?

24 September

Lisboa

Espaço Público de Lisboa

8 October

Lisboa

Espaço Público de Lisboa

performance

Free admission

Insularidade

In this performance-walk through Lisbon’s public spaces, the Cape Verdean ceramicist, sculptor and visual artist reimagines the myth of Atlas through the figure of a woman who nourishes and holds the world over her head.

24 September

Lisboa

Teatro Taborda

25 September

Lisboa

Teatro Taborda

Workshop

Ntando Cele

Workshop with Ntando Cele

In this theatre workshop, Ntando Cele will share and experiment with multidisciplinary methodologies for creations that transcend the boundaries between physical theatre, video installation, concert and performance.

27 September

Lisboa

Cinemateca Portuguesa

cinema, Film

Gisela Casimiro, João dos Santos Martins, Jorge Jácome, Cláudia Galhós, Joana Ascensão

Retrospective: Becoming Yvonne Rainer

As part of the cycle “Retrospective: Becoming Yvonne Rainer”, presented at Queer Lisboa, BoCA organises a debate around the complexities and impact of the work of one of the most influential performance artists of the 20th century.

28 – 29 September

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional de São Carlos

Music, Concert

Pedro Sousa

A Vaia Viva

Using three reel-to-reel machines, sound amplifiers, and voice, Pedro Sousa ventures into opera territory by reinterpreting Julio Cortázar’s story “Las Babas del Diablo”.

30 September

Lisboa

MNAC - Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado

Theatre

Fernando José Rodrigues com O Gato, CaosArte, Manipulartes e TASE

A Revolta do Milho

“A Revolta do Milho” is a theatrical recreation of the peasant uprising of June 1942, bringing to light the memory of this episode of civil resistance, with the fundamental participation of women, omitted from Portuguese history for so many decades.

30 September

Lisboa

Estufa Fria

1 March

Lisboa

Estufa Fria

14 April

Lisboa

Estufa Fria

performance

João Pais Filipe, Marco da Silva Ferreira

Terra Cobre – Performance

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

30 September

Lisboa

São Luiz Teatro Municipal

Workshop

Free admission

Tamara Cubas

Workshop “In Search for an Autonomous Body”

The Uruguayan choreographer, visual artist and cultural manager Tamara Cubas invites us to experiment and analyse in action certain practices and logics that she considers useful in the search for an autonomous body.

1 October

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

Installation

Free admission

Gabriel Chaile, Lisboa Criola

What if the Autobiographical isn’t More than the Story of others Passing Through Us? – Installation

As part of the installation “What if the autobiographical isn’t more than the story of others passing through us?” by Gabriel Chaile, the third activation takes place on Sunday in partnership with Lisboa Criola: a social program, with cinema, debate and food, around the screening of the documentary “Alcindo” by Miguel Dores.

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.

5 October

Lisboa

B.Leza

Concert

Podeserdesligado

Podeserdesligado

Podeserdesligado travels from the north of São Paulo, Brazil, to Lisbon to premiere her Live PA project. Reflecting and celebrating black narratives through Afro-diasporic rhythms, the multi-award-winning music producer and soundtrack composer uses elements of Funk, Electro, Break and Gabber.

6 – 7 October

Lisboa

Goethe Institut

Music, performance

Herlander

Ao: Léo (Trial)

Herlander is an artist-performer who rewrites the rules of standard popular music. His music verges on the anti-pop, diving into a lake without genres. Under the invitation of BoCA, he proposes a new performative project, a piece that takes us on a journey to the countryside in search of our nameless origin and essence.

6 – 7 October

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

performance

Vera Mantero, Teresa Silva

A Small Composition Exercise

In this performative sharing, the artists exercise making and composing from the things that were left behind, hanging, or that simply did not find their place in the creative process of the play “O Susto é um Mundo” (2021).

13 October

Lisboa

Teatro do Bairro

14 October

Lisboa

Teatro do Bairro

Show

Ana Borralho, João Galante

Chatroom

In this new play, a world premiere, Ana Borralho & João Galante invite the viewer on an unpredictable and engaging journey that explores the volatile and transitory nature of human connections in the digital age.

13 October

Lisboa

Teatro Ibérico

Theatre

Odete, Caty Olive

Il y a Une Larme Dans Chaque Note et un Soupir Dans Chaque Pli

In this new creation, Odete’s poetic and sonic meanderings meet Olive’s bodies of light to speculate a fluid and vacillating place from the vocal and aesthetic universe of the castrati.

14 October

Lisboa

Goethe Institut

performance

Free admission

BoCA Sub21 Lisboa / Sub-Variations

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.

14 October

Lisboa

Musicbox

Concert, Music

King Kami

BoCA x Musicbox

On Saturday, 14 October, BoCA celebrates the end of its programme at Musicbox. King Kami, DJ Narciso and Mel are the DJs chosen to close the 4th edition of this celebration of art, with a programme identity based on crossings between artistic territories, between languages and geographies, between times and spaces.

15 October

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

Visual Arts, Music, Dance, performance

Free admission

Lisboa Criola

Gabriel Chaile x Lisboa Criola (Sasha Silva, Pilmaiquén & Soraia Morais + Aliança Velha)

As part of the musical, performative, cinematographic and reflection activations around Gabriel Chaile’s installation “What if the autobiographical is nothing more than the history of others passing through us?”, Lisboa Criola is collaborating in the programming of the fourth and final activation date: a concert of female voices bringing together Sasha Silva, Pilmaiquén and Soraia Morais, as well as the group Aliança Velha.

6 – 7 January

Lisboa

Polo Cultural das Gaivotas

Workshop

Pedro Alves Sousa

Workshop “A Crude Link”

In this sound and music workshop, multidisciplinary artist Pedro Alves Sousa proposes different techniques of chance and repetition to explore the architectural and spatio-temporal dimensions of music.