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    The Defence of Nature blossoms in northern Portugal

    Manuela Costa
    29 November 2024
    To think of natural spaces as spaces for creation and artistic experience is the main purpose of The Defence of Nature. A project developed by BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts since 2021, it brings together local communities and artists, calling on them to contribute to a forest of works of art. After stretching its […]
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    MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND UNIVERSAL: THE BALANCE OF BOCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2024

    Manuela Costa
    30 October 2024
    “Workshops are spaces to prove that philosophies, different thoughts and actions always find new life in one another. That’s why we have to keep sharing everything we learn.” The words of multidisciplinary artist Niño de Elche, summing up Sculpting the Voices workshop at CCB, also summarise perfectly the purpose of the BoCA Summer School. And this […]
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    WATCH NOW THE MINI-DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ODETE & CATY OLIVE’S NEW CREATION

    BoCA
    5 July 2024
    The last mini-documentary of BoCA 2023 has been released. We conclude the publication of this cycle of 8 small documentaries with a flourish, discovering the behind-the-scenes of Portuguese artist Odete’s investigation into “effeminate” stories – from the baroque Castrati to the dandies of the 19th century – and her collaboration with the French light designer […]
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    THE PENULTIMATE MINI-DOC IN THE 2023 SERIES IS ONLINE: CHIMERA BY HÉCTOR ZAMORA

    BoCA
    16 May 2024
    In their own countries, balloons were child’s play. When they cross borders, balloons become merchandise, a possible job. At BoCA, Héctor Zamora invited different immigrant people to populate the streets of Lisbon and Faro with their dreams – those that have fallen along the journey and those that endure and are renewed. On the penultimate […]
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    Mini-documentary: “Está Visto” by João dos Santos Martins, Ana Jotta, Joana Sá and Filipe Pereira

    BoCA
    3 April 2024
    At the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, surrounded by shelves of centuries-old books, João dos Santos Martins – with Joana Sá’s piano disarrangements, Ana Jotta’s costumes and Filipe Pereira’s lighting – dances love, in all its pleasures and pains. Bringing together Heine’s poetry, Schumann’s music and the sign language as a gestural vocabulary, “Está Visto” takes […]
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    Plant your artwork in Lisbon, on 23 March – Open call for “The Defense of Nature”

    BoCA
    11 March 2024
    On 23 March, we’re joining forces once again for The Defence of Nature in Lisbon. In partnership with Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, we’ll be planting around 500 trees on Av. Santo Condestável, giving titles to each of our green creations. This initiative continues a 10-year project, started at BoCA 2021 and inspired by the work […]
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    MINI-DOCUMENTARY ABOUT TERRA COBRE, NEW CREATION BY MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA AND JOÃO PAIS FILIPE

    BoCA
    28 February 2024
    With and from the traditional rattle art of Alcáçovas – a heritage practice in Urgent Need of Safeguarding, according to UNESCO – “Terra Cobre” challenges traditional Portuguese iconography and symbolism, coming from an earthly and pastoral world, but also one of ecstasy and celebration. In this new choreographic and installation creation, the sensitivity and musical […]
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    WATCH NOW THE MINI-DOCUMENTARY ABOUT GABRIEL CHAILE’S NEW CREATION, COMMISSIONED BY BoCA

    BoCA
    19 February 2024
    In a commission from BoCA for the latest edition of the biennial, Argentinian Gabriel Chaile draws on the ancestral knowledge of his family, whose economy was based on baking bread, to forge a gesture of closeness, empathy, struggle and celebration towards Alcindo Monteiro. In days of reflection, debate, abundance and music, artist and audience were […]