From October 22 to 26, Galeria Municipal do Porto and Teatro Municipal do Porto present, for the first time in Portugal, a joint programme entirely dedicated to the Polish-British artist and choreographer Alex Baczyński-Jenkins.

Co-founder of the queer feminist collective Kem in Warsaw, Baczyński-Jenkins develops a choreographic practice that articulates desire, and relationality. His work embodies multiple forms of connection, experimenting with memory, time, and touch as modes of resistance and collective imagination. Between the intimate and the political, his performances explore sensing, queer utopia and the emergence of shared affect.

At Teatro Rivoli, the programme features Untitled (Holding Horizon), a durational performance where sensual and repetitive gestures evoke the ambience of rave, halfway between celebration and mourning; and Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin), a piece dedicated to the theme of finitude, which navigates the tension between ecstasy, dissolution and disconnection.

As for Galeria Municipal do Porto—as part of Fogo Fátuo, an event dedicated to art in motion, focusing on live, performative and sound art practices—it will host Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless, a choreographic meditation about desire, love, loss and resistance, which inhabits states of grief and celebration; and Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background), exploring eroticism and touch as a queer gestures in constant flux.

 

Programme

October 22, 7:30pm 
Untitled (Holding Horizon)
Teatro Rivoli, Praça D. João I, Porto

October 23–24, 7:30pm
Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin)
Teatro Rivoli, Praça D. João I, Porto

October 25, 4pm
Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless
Galeria Municipal do Porto, R. de D. Manuel, Porto

October 26, 4pm
Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background)
Galeria Municipal do Porto, R. de D. Manuel, Porto

 

Further information at  Galeria Municipal do Porto and Teatro Municipal do Porto.

For press enquiries, please contact Diana Reis (dianareis@agoraporto.pt) or Joana Brandão (info@jbcomunicacao.pt).