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Biennial 2023 – Presente Invisível

Past events

Performance

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.

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

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.

10 September

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

performance

Pedro Alves Sousa

Performance for Plural Larynx: A Song for True

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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.