Flávia Pinheiro | corpoafora

Flavia Pinheiro

Performer and choreographer living in Recife. Her works involve the body in movement in relation to different devices. She investigates the relations of force and power of hegemonic neoliberalism corporeified by intensive training for the end of the world and the limits of resistance in the creation of images, performance programs, installations, videos and urban interventions with a single goal: Dancing so as not to die!

Currently, she investigates in vitro bacteria in the unhealthy context of the city of Recife: a series of image and performance procedures in the fight against antibiotics. Her exhibition "Abysses of a body that fails", awarded by the Artistic Residencies Fundingf of Fundação Joaquim Nabuco FUNDAJ collapsed. The artist insists on the dystopia of hacking existence.

Antelope

In a state of dance. Fabulous animal in constant flight. Powerful musculature of the lower limbs. Sublime movement at high speed. Always afraid even in herd. About the misery of the human condition. Fleeing, escaping, surviving.

Artistic Team

Creation and performance: Flávia Pinheiro

Programming and noises: Leandro Oliván

Execution: João Guilherme

Sound Artist: Yuri Bruscky

Researchers: Leandro Oliván and Flávia Pinheiro

Research Coordinator: Claudio Lacerda

Graphic Design: Guilherme Luigi

Drawings: Renato Valle

Production: Flávia Pinheiro and Corpo Rastreado

Photo: Amanda Pietra

Diffusion: Corpo a Fora

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MIMOSA

is a solo dance performance in collaboration with mimosa pudica plants. The mimosas in particular are

chosen for their unique response to touch. We both come from the Global South and both experienced “touch

and touch me not“ mixed sensations regarding violence, pleasure and consent. Mimosa is also abounded with

suggestive references: mimosa’s name originates from the sexual taxonomy of plants by botanist Carl Linnaeus,

with "pudica" encompassing both external sexual organs and connotations of shyness or modesty. In Erasmus

Darwin's 1789 poem "The Loves of the Plants," this plant is likened to the notorious sexual escapades of botanist

Joseph Banks during his tropical encounters.

The mimosa plant can remember and is able to rapidly fold its leaves when it senses danger. Recently, science

research shows how mimosa plants stopped closing their leaves, “playing dead” after being touched repeatedly

by visitors in green houses. They learnt that the disturbance had no real damaging consequence. Starting from

this fact, this project engage different practices of remembering, learning and forgetting through touch encored in

the mimosa experiences.

THE MAGNIFICENT BACTERIA

The Magnificent Bacteria is a performance that pays a tribute to the bacterial life - one that infects, that lives freely, that reshapes its surroundings, and is, in other words, alive. Antibiotics is thus a complete opposite - it is what kills and annihilates and makes life impossible. These two metaphors are the foundation of The Magnificent Bacteria.