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AVANT POP ECOLOGIES AVANT POP ECOLOGIES AVANT POP ECOLOGIES
From São Paulo, Brasil - Lives in Berlin, Germany
As a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and singer-composer, Luïza Luz investigates multisensorial ways of learning and sharing emancipatory knowledge. Their work spans the human and more than human worlds, engaging with intuitive, theoretical, and practical approaches towards intersectional environmentalism, language, and planetary narratives that actualize the concept of nature.
In the fields of performance, sound, and installation, they collaborate with both digital and organic entities to co-create avant-pop soundscapes, and immersive, and collaborative ecosystems.
As an extension of their artistic work, Luïza Luz teaches the seminar "Planetary Embodiment” at the Berlin University of Arts for students and non-students, while pursuing their masters degree at the Art in Context Institute. Through this course and other projects, they strive to contribute to a broader movement towards structural change, and radical imagination while expanding timelines of care, reparation, and belonging.
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Highlights
Luïza Luz graduated in Visual Arts (2017) and studied with Indigenous authors such as Ailton Krenak and were awarded a scholarship by the Ecologist Fritjof Capra. In 2017 they published the book “T(t)ERRA: Artistic Pedagogical Approaches for The Cultivation of Ecological Cultures”.
In 2023 they visited the performance department at the University of Giessen as guest professor on the topic of Planetary Pedagogy, performed at the Montevidéo Marseille in France, presented the solo show "Flourish & Collapse" at Kulturdrogerie in Vienna, Austria, and participated in the group show "Über das Neue" at the museum Belvedere21.
In 2022, they visited the Academy of Fine Arts of Zagreb, Croatia, as guest professor, performed at Documenta15, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Lios Labs, Vorspiel of CTM/Transmediale Festivals, among others.
In 2021 they integrated the first Wanwu Council 萬物社 initiated by the artist Zheng Bo at Gropius Bau, Berlin, and won the Junge Akademie award from Akademie der Künste for their project "Privilege of Dreaming".
The audiovisual performance "AFTER NATURE SOUNDSCAPE" (2020-2023), a collaboration with the artist Vi Amoras, was presented at the Documenta15 (2022), at the Floating E.V Berlin (2022), at the Waking Life Festival (2023), at "Creative Code Art", in New York, at Lightbox Gallery, at "UUU - Unbounded, Unleashed, Unforgiving - Reconsidering Cyberfeminism in 2021" - New Art City, at Lios Labs in Poland, in São Paulo, Brasil, among others, and it was awarded by the Kommunale Galerie (2021) in Berlin, Germany.
ARTIST PORTRAIT TAKEN
BY INFINITA CHEBEL (2020)
BY INFINITA CHEBEL (2020)
contact: l.luizaluz@gmail.com