Biennial 2025 – Camino Irreal

Public presentation of the workshop “Situar el cuerpo”

25 October

Lisboa – Espaço BoCA Biennial 2025 performance, Visual Arts

© Bruno Simão

Public sharing from the workshop led by the artist Seba Calfuqueo, who seeks to bring a contemporary reflection on the relationship between humans and what we understand as nature, developing a breaking point in which we can understand that these two concepts can coexist.

"LiminaL" de Max Provenzano © Bruno Simão

“LiminaL” de Max Provenzano
Between a closed exit and a glass door comes a suspended territory - an indeterminate state. Based on the idea that what is outside is also inside, we are currently living in convulsive times, from the global to the personal - especially in my case. This performance by Max Provenzano is therefore a proposition about situating the body in this interval, this limit, and showing through an image the permanence of a border and the visibility of this discomfort. The glass allows you to see without crossing; the closed exit prevents you from returning - entry and enclosure at the same time. This action manifests itself as an exercise in presence - a silent resistance that welcomes indeterminacy - the result of the workshop “Situar el Cuerpo”, led by the artist Seba Calfuqueo.

{ Si-Tu_Ar na travesSia } de Eduardo Ibraim © Bruno Simão

{ Si-Tu_Ar na travesSia } by Eduardo Ibraim
This performance by Eduardo Ibraim, directed by Seba Calfuqueo and presented at the BoCA Bienal as a creation resulting from the “Situar el Cuerpo” workshop, inaugurates at each encounter an “alertartistic” moment where body, objects, sound and orality - cross fractures. The work reflects wars that repeat themselves, borders that tighten, and echoes of climate change that are increasingly urgent. The performance space, as a site of fruition, becomes a pulsating territory of displacement and resistance in the midst of instability.

"Triangulações" de Luís Godinho © Bruno Simão

“Triangulations” by Luís Godinho
Triangulations emerges from a concern about the erosion of democratic structures and the progressive narrowing of individual freedoms, particularly during childhood. The performance questions how gender expression can operate simultaneously as a gesture of protest and as a vehicle for threatening the maintenance of patriarchal matrices. Appropriating the fuchsia spatiality originally created by another artistic collective, the figure on stage reconfigures this territory as a field of continuous mutation. Its chameleon-like presence gives body to an organism on the rise, in the process of transformation, which summons a queer lineage.

Sessions

25.10.25

Espaço BoCA, Lisboa

16:00 – 17:00
Creation and interpretation
Max Provenzano, Eduardo Ibraim, Luís Godinho
Production
BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts (Lisboa)
Parceria
GDA Foundation
Support
Portuguese Republic - Culture, Youth and Sport / Directorate-General for the Arts, Lisbon City Council, Millennium bcp Foundation, Iberecena/Iberescena