The multidisciplinary festival focused on artistic experimentation, featuring both newcomers and veteran artists, will open today with Cristina Planas Leitão’s piece [O Sistema] at Teatro Ibérico. The performance examines “solidarity generated from collective work” and explores the nature of labor as a “generator of action and movement.”
On Friday and Saturday, Pedro Baptista will debut ‘Pássaro de Fogo’ at Largo Residências, Jardins do Bombarda. This performance, inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s work, serves as an “artist’s portrait” and reflects on legacies and the life-death-rebirth cycle.
‘Viagem a Lisboa’ by Joana Cotrim and Rita Morais from the collective O Clube will be presented at the Black Box of Centro Cultural de Belém on Saturday and Sunday. This theater piece delves into the artists’ family history and their connection to recent Portuguese history.
The performance-concert uses the family framework to address sociopolitical tensions, such as colonialism and racism, and the experience of the ‘retornados,’ with Lisbon described as the “catalyst for contrasts between encounters and expectations across Portugal.”
‘Bertie’ by Rita Barbosa will be showcased on June 26 and 27, featuring a Virtual Reality performance where three performers engage within an immersive game. The live broadcast of the performers’ VR views will be projected, showcasing the 3D universe they navigate as avatars.
Also, the installation performance ‘Ruins Part I: redux. realms. Regards,’ by an*dre neely and Liz Rosenfeld, will premiere nationally on June 27 and 28 at Teatro Ibérico, concluding the first segment of the Temps d’Images 2025.
This “open” project fuses research, film, performance, and writing to “explore ruins in political and social ‘queer’ resistance.”
The Temps d’Images festival, which celebrated twenty years in 2022, is produced by DuplaCena/Horta Seca and funded by the Direção-Geral das Artes and the Lisbon City Council. Since its inception in 2003, the festival has presented over 400 pieces, including many premieres from both Portuguese and international authors, spanning performance, theater, installation, cinema, dance, photography, and music.
