Image and stage cross paths again today at the Temps d'Images Festival

Among absolute, national premieres and first presentations in the capital, the multidisciplinary event dedicated to artistic experimentation will feature the participation of emerging artists and collectives and creators already recognized by the public, according to the program.

The opening of the first moment of the festival will be marked today by the play [O Sistema], by Cristina Planas Leitão, at Teatro Ibérico, in which the artist once again explores "the solidarity generated from collective work", reflecting on the very notion of work and toil "as a generator of action and movement".

On Friday and Saturday, at Largo Residências, Jardins do Bombarda, Pedro Baptista will present, for the first time, 'Pássaro de Fogo', a show-performance that unfolds as "a portrait of the artist" under the baton of the homonymous musical work by Igor Stravinsky, to "reflect on legacies and the cycle of life-death-rebirth".

'Journey to Lisbon', by Joana Cotrim and Rita Morais, from the collective O Clube, at the Black Box of the Centro Cultural de Belém, on Saturday and Sunday, is presented by the festival's programme as a theatre show that "seeks to investigate, through a fictional story, the artists' family past and their connection to the recent history of Portugal".

The family appears in this concert-show "as a nuclear context to address sociopolitical tensions, such as colonialism, racism and the experience of 'returnees'", with Lisbon as the "motive for the irruption between encounters and expectations in contrast with the rest of Portuguese territory".

Among other creations, 'Bertie' by Rita Barbosa will be presented on June 26th and 27th, a Virtual Reality performance in which three performers find themselves in an immersive video game, which will be presented at a location to be announced, according to the organization.

The audience "will follow the live broadcast of what the performers see on the VR glasses, through a video projection that reveals the 3D universe where the performers interact as avatars", according to the synopsis.

In turn, the performance installation 'Ruins Part I: redux. realms. Regards', by artists an*dre neely and Liz Rosenfeld, will have its national premiere on June 27th and 28th, at Teatro Ibérico, closing the first moment of Temps d'Images 2025.

An "open-ended" project, the installation combines research, film, performance and writing to "explore the ruination of 'queer' political and social resistance," the program describes.

A multidisciplinary festival that celebrated two decades of activity in 2022, Temps d'Images is a production by DuplaCena/Horta Seca financed by the Directorate-General for the Arts and the Lisbon City Council.

According to the organization, since the event began in 2003, it has presented more than 400 pieces, many of them previously unpublished, by Portuguese and foreign authors, in different formats and genres, including performance, theater, installation, cinema, dance, photography and music.

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