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Biennial 2023 – Presente Invisível

Past events

Free admission

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.