From 2 September to 15 October, the “Invisible Present”, title of the 4th edition of BoCA, was increasingly uncovered. In an effort to move the margins to centre stage – or, better still, to move the stages to the margins – we sought to dilute the geographical, physical, temporal, identity and binary boundaries that insist […]

It was 6 weeks, 2 cities, 32 spaces and more than 40 artists. This is how we concluded another challenging edition of BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts, inviting us to unveil the “Invisible Present”. Seeing, hearing and touching presences – even those that, distant in time or space, bring warmth and closeness to our […]

Last week at BoCA, we unveiled the “Invisible Present” of human connections in the digital age, with “Chatroom” by Ana Borralho & João Galante; of bodies whose contours have always escaped gender and sexuality norms, with “Il y a une larme dans chaque note et un soupir dans chaque pli” by Odete & Caty Olive; […]

After almost 40 days in the company of BoCA, we have reached the final week of programming. Now we’re preparing for a grand farewell with the world premiere of “Chatroom”, an interactive show by duo Ana Borralho & João Galante, or “Il y a une larme dans chaque note et un soupir dans chaque pli”, by the […]

Over the 5th week of BoCA program, various artistic proposals have led us to discover the “Invisible Present”, which drives reflections and transformations: in the field of gender oppression, with Paul B. Preciado or Marcus Lindeen; and racial oppression, with the beats of Podeserdesligado or the new mythology of Jacira Conceição. We also visited the obligatory body […]

We’re more than halfway through. Last week, we were moved by various immersive proposals, from projects whose concerns were as universal as they were local. We were thrilled by the sounds of Alentejo, through the viola and harp in the concert by Os Moços da Viola Campaniça & Frederica Campos, but also through the rattles of […]

In the third week of BoCA, we didn’t slow down. In Faro, we marked the Algarve premiere of Catalan artist Marina Herlop, the installation “Terra Cobre” by João Pais Filipe and Marco da Silva Ferreora and the theater play “The Talking Car” by Agnieszka Polska. In Lisbon, we also get to know the alien vocabulary […]

We concluded one of BoCA’s most challenging and bustling weeks: we danced to the intergenerational tenderness of Gaya de Medeiros and the thunderous industrialism of Lolo & Sosaku; we rehearsed fluid futures with the world premiere of Agnieszka Polska’s “The Talking Car” and the remarkable national premiere of Paul B. Preciado’s “Can the monster speak?”; […]