HÉCTOR ZAMORA

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.

GABRIEL CHAILE

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.

HÉCTOR ZAMORA

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.

TIAGO CADETE

The audience becomes a stage, and the stage becomes an audience. A concert without a body, a ghostly concert of voices.

NEUSA TROVOADA

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.

RITA GT

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.

JOÃO MELO / GLANTOSZ

“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.

CLÁUDIO DA SILVA, CAROLINA DOMINGUEZ AND PEDRO PAIVA

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.

SALOMÉ LAMAS

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.

JOÃO DOS SANTOS MARTINS WITH ANA JOTTA, JOANA SÁ AND FILIPE PEREIRA

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.

GAYA DE MEDEIROS

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.

MARCUS LINDEEN

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.

MARCUS LINDEEN

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.

PEDRO SOUSA

AGNIESZKA POLSKA

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. 

GAYA DE MEDEIROS

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. 

JOÃO DOS SANTOS MARTINS WITH ANA JOTTA, JOANA SÁ AND FILIPE PEREIRA

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 singing and dancing made from the songs "Dichterliebe" (Poet's Love[s]) by Robert Schumann.

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.

ZIA SOARES

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.

LOLO & SOSAKU

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.

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.

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.

PAUL B. PRECIADO

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.

The questions raised by the performance "Can the monster speak?" by Paul B. Preciado invite a reflection on contemporary phenomena of proliferation, such as gender, or determined by a logic of excess, such as acceleration and speed.

JOÃO PAIS FILIPE & MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA – 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.

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.

MILO RAU

"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.

MARINA HERLOP

In her Algarve debut, Marina Herlop brings her garden of sonic references, South Indian Carnatic music and her alien vocal acrobatics to the Associação Recreativa e Cultural dos Músicos de Faro.

ANTÓNIO POPPE

“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.

AGNIESZKA POLSKA

Under an invitation from BoCA, 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. 

JULIAN HETZEL & NTANDO CELE

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?

MARCUS LINDEEN

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.

JACIRA DA CONCEIÇÃO

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.

NTANDO CELE

Neste workshop de teatro, Ntando Cele irá partilhar e experimentar metodologias multidisciplinares para criações que ultrapassam as fronteiras entre teatro físico, vídeo-instalação, concerto e performance.

TAMARA CUBAS

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.

GISELA CASIMIRO, JOÃO DOS SANTOS MARTINS, JORGE JÁCOME, JOANA ASCENSÃO AND CLAUDIA GALHÓS

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.

JOÃO PAIS FILIPE & MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA

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.

PEDRO SOUSA

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".

JULIAN HETZEL & NTANDO CELE

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?

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. 

JOÃO PAIS FILIPE & MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA – 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.

JOÃO PAIS FILIPE & MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA

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.

RUI CATALÃO

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.

FERNANDO JOSÉ RODRIGUES WITH O GATO, CAOSARTE, MANIPULARTES AND TASE

"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.

BENDIK GISKE AND ROMEU RUNA

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.

GABRIEL CHAILE x LISBOA CRIOLA

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.

PAUL B. PRECIADO

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 to Portuguese with a special preview at BoCA, followed by the screening of an exclusive interview to Paul B. Preciado.

KELI FREITAS WITH VISUAL ARTS STUDENTS FROM ALGARVE UNIVERSITY AND COMPOSITIONS STUDENTS FROM ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE MÚSICA DE LISBOA

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.

PAUL B. PRECIADO

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.

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.

VERA MANTERO AND TERESA SILVA

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).

HERLANDER

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.

MARCUS LINDEEN

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.

KELI FREITAS WITH VISUAL ARTS SUDENTS FROM ALGARVE UNIVERSITY AND COMPOSITION STUDENTS FROM ESML

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.

SOLOISTS FROM THE ALGARVE ORCHESTRA PLAY JOHN LUTHER ADAMS

John Luther Adams, American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner in 2014, reimagines and recreates relationships with nature through music. In two concerts conceived for Faro's green space, soloists from the Algarve Orchestra perform three of his works for string quartet.

MILO RAU

"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.

ODETE & CATY OLIVE

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.

ANA BORRALHO & JOÃO GALANTE

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.

BoCA x Musicbox: KING KAMI + DJ NARCISO + MEL

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.

BOCA SUB21 FARO

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.

BOCA SUB21 LISBON

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.

SASHA SILVA, PILMAIQUÉN, SORAIA MORAIS AND 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.

PEDRO ALVES SOUSA

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.