Faustin Linyekula is the Artist in the City 2016 – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The Congolese artist Faustin Linyekula is back to Lisbon, this time for a year. Linyekula succeeds the British author and director Tim Etchells as Artist in the City. The biennial is now in its third edition. The Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker was the first guest in 2012.

                     

                          In 2016, the dancer, choreographer and director Faustin Linyekula will be Lisbon. Linyekula will exchange the Congo by Portugal, which will present some of their shows in different rooms and spaces of the capital. The Congolese are still challenged to create new projects with artists, students and people of Lisbon.

The biennial Artist in the City brings together all the various structures and cultural entities issues together have the public a wide range of proposals for a single foreign artist. The project seeks not only present existing works, such as dynamic collaborations between artists and organizations Lisbon and the guest artist.

In Lisbon, Linyekula will have as partners, and the Council of Lisbon and EGEAC (the municipal company that manages the facilities and the cultural agenda of the municipality), the alkantara festival, the Centro Cultural de Belém, the National Ballet Company, Culturgest, the Festival Temps d’Images, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the municipal theaters Maria Matos and St. Louis and the National Theatre D. Maria.

Portugal, Lisbon and specifically not It is a strange place to Faustin Linyekula, born in Ubundu in the former Zaire in 1974. The dancer, choreographer and director debuted in the city in 2003 and has since presented here by several of its projects. The last stay in Lisbon the Congolese, whose desktop is divided between dance and theater, incorporating projects in their artistic fields like music and video, was last year with Le Cargo , show that performed at St. Louis under the alkantara.

His career includes a dozen creations that have been presented worldwide, including collaborations with the Comédie-Française, Raimund Hoghe and Ballet de Lorraine. In his work, deepens issues related to the history of their country and their personal experiences as a storyteller:. Memory and forgetting, censorship and clarification, the postcolonial paradigm

In recent years , Linyekula has developed outreach work with artists and disadvantaged and outlying arts communities. In 2006, he created the city of Kisangani, Congo, the residence center Kabako Studios in order to boost training, creation and international exchange. Pamoja project, created by their studios and supported by the European Union, develops collaboration and exchange between three countries:. Congo, Mozambique and Senegal

In 2007, Faustin Linyekula was awarded the Grand Prize the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development.