Semibreve Pageant 2026 has introduced the primary wave of artists collaborating in its sixteenth version. Returning to Braga from 22–25 October, the upcoming programme spans sound, transferring picture, set up and efficiency. Over the previous decade and a half, the Portuguese competition has developed a singular popularity inside modern audiovisual tradition for providing a structured atmosphere for artists to current formidable initiatives whereas difficult the boundaries between live performance, exhibition and digital artwork.
Going down throughout venues together with the historic Theatro Circo, the modern arts centre gnration and the Capela Imaculada, the Semibreve competition spotlights site-responsive and technologically mediated practices inside Braga’s architectural panorama. Braga, one among Portugal’s oldest cities, was designated a UNESCO Artistic Metropolis of Media Arts in 2017 because of its baroque structure and spiritual heritage, qualities that little doubt inflect the competition’s spatial selections. This 12 months’s programme specifically locations an emphasis on world premieres and newly commissioned works exploring audiovisual inventive types and sonic experimentation.
Christian Fennesz and Oscar Jockel with Saffron on Gray characteristic among the many first artists introduced, alongside new collaborative works by PYUR and Tarik Barri, Qasim Naqvi and Steven Wendt, and Malcolm Pardon with Gustaf Broms. The road-up additionally consists of performances and installations by Noémi Büchi, Sam Slater, TYGAPAW, Azu Tiwaline and João Carlos Pinto.
Semibreve’s scale continues to be deliberately contained. The competition consolidates its programme right into a centered sequence of encounters throughout solely a handful of venues, a characteristic which distinguishes it from bigger worldwide occasions and permits for nearer engagement between artists and audiences.
