¡n[s]urgênc!as 2018

Artist: Pêdra Costa (Brazil)

Pêdra Costa (1978) is a Brazilian Performance Artist and Anthropologist based in Berlin and working with queer artists internationally. Hers work is informed by the aesthetics of post-porn and an investigation about anti-colonial concepts.

 

Pêdra Costa works with hers body, presenting Performance Art, making videos and writing, using complex and fragmented epistemologies from queer communities, being contaminated by knowledge almost completely destroyed by the colonial project and remembering radical caring against the lack of opportunities of living. S/he engages the political aesthetics of post-porn and anti-colonial strategies. S/he faces failure every day, transforming failure into creative force, in connection with mixed and forgotten ancestralities.

 

Some exhibitions include Multitud Marica: Activaciones de archivos sexo-disidentes en América Latina, Santiago de Chile 2017 (Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende); QUEER ENCOUNTERS_VIENNA TRANS LA, Los Angeles 2017 (CalArts School of Art); WELT KOMPAKT?, Vienna 2017 (frei_raum Q21, MuseumsQuartier); Millionaires Can Be Trans // You Are So Brave, Berlin 2015 (Schwules Museum); Oral Museum of the Revolution, Barcelona 2013 (MACBA); Caos e Efeito, São Paulo 2011 (Itaú Cultural).

 

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Collaborator: Wilma Lukatsch

 

Wilma Lukatsch is a writer, editor, curator and researcher based in Berlin, Germany.After studying art history, history of religions and sociology until 2002, Wilma Lukatsch engaged in the international contemporary art scene. Since then she worked and is working with artists and is trying to develop a dialogic praxis together.

 

She published various artists’s books, was running a gallery and bookshop between 2004 and 2015 and is thinking and writing on contemporary art and artists’s practices as resistance tools. After the death of the Fluxus artist Tomas Schmit in 2008 she was, together with Barbara Wien, the co-founder of the tomas schmit archive, Berlin and together they developed a website for an online web-archive (www.tomasschmit.de).

 

Through her working experiences, she scrupled more and more about the socio- political power techniques on work within the institutionalized contemporary art world and about her own participation of sustaining inequality and inequity. Mainly for that she decided in 2015 to start doing research within the broad field of decolonial studies.

 

After overviewing the artist archive of Maria Thereza Alves in 2016, Lukatsch designed a website for Alves (www.mariatherezaalves.org) which structure and modes are based on her evolving decolonial thinking/working practice. At the same time she started doing reasearch for her PhD project about the ways of countering colonialty in the works of Maria Thereza Alves. Since 2017 is doing her reseach as part of the PhD research group „The Knowledge of the Arts“ at the University of the Arts in Berlin.

 

 

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