Program
Mimosa | Flavia Pinheiro
Flavia Pinheiro
Mimosa is an ongoing research in companionship with the Mimosa pudica plant that reflects on the violence of representing nature as a feminine domesticated space.In a series of experiments taking shape in different formats, we explore how ‘nature’ is violently entangled with ideologies of race and gender.
The Mimosa pudica plant is known for its rapid movement in reaction to touch: after being displaced and captured in greenhouses across Europe, the plant bent over in response to touch, playing dead.
Mimosa Experiment #2 is a performance that explores nature as an undomesticated, disobedient ground that refuses to be silent, passive, a resource, or an abject matter.
Must we play dead to survive? How should we respond to touch?
How can we keep ourselves alive?
About Flavia Pinheiro
Flavia Pinheiro is a Brazilian choreographer and researcher currently based in Amsterdam. Her research foregrounds networks of resilience and resistance to systems of knowledge rethinking through speculative fabulation ways of unlearning and dismantling power hierarchies. Her practice entails performances, videos, installations and urban interventions, in collaboration with artists from different fields, such as contemporary music, visual art, cinema and digital art.
She graduated at DAS Choreography Master program, University of Amsterdam in 2022. Her Master’s research was carried out in Benin with a fellowship from the AHK Internationalization Fund and with the Talent Grant/ AHK. She is currently part of DAS Third research program developing M.I.M.O.S.A that intends to dismantle hegemonies of thoughts and species in an expanded choreographic and somatic approach. Her graduation piece 7 Abiku Solos for 11 bacteria falling through“ was supported by Aart Janszen Fund and ID Lab and awarded with the Andre Veltkamp Beurs. In 2022, Flavia Pinheiro was awarded the 3 Package Deal fund for International Talents by AFK for the ‘Engaged Art’ coalition. She has been in residency in CND/ Pantin (France 2018), La Caldera (Spain 2021) and Working-space Brussels (Belgium 2022). In 2020 together with many others she created SOUTH BOOM BOOM; a platform with a series of performative conferences and a publication for non-europeans students to voice out their experiences.
Credits
Creation and performance : Flavia Pinheiro
Music and Video: Henrique Vazz
Production : Tom Oliver Jacobson
External eye: Rodrigo Batista, Tom Oliver Jacobson, Leandro Olivan