Read 2024 THIRD Annual Forum Report: Flavia Pinhiero’s Mimosa By Amelia Groom here

Mimosa is an ongoing research in companionship with the plant Mimosa pudica, a plant that reflects on the violence of the representation of nature as a feminine domesticated ground. In a series of experiments taking shape in different formats (video, images, performance, text, scores), Mimosa and I explore how 'nature' is violently entangled with ideologies of race and gender.

Mimosa pudica is known for its rapid movement when it is touched. After being displaced and captured in greenhouses across Europe, the plant stopped reacting, PLAYING DEAD. 
Being inadequate, anesthetized and trapped in categories, I also stopped dancing.
How can we keep ourselves alive?

In the Annual Forum, I will present the “ in vitro - pill” performance MIMOSA, alongside three video works that show the development of this research over the past two years, and ‘Playing Dead: Lessons of Tenderness and violence with Mimosa Pudica’, a mini publication with the scores and notes of the research in which I learnt that their touch causes no real damage.

More text about the research Mimosa can be found here.

Credits:
Videos: Leandro Olivan, Yana Khazanovich, Henrique Vazz
Costume: Marc Andrade
Publication: In collaboration with Leho de Sosa

Flavia Pinheiro

Flavia Pinheiro is a choreographer and performer from Recife, Brazil currently based in Amsterdam. Her research foregrounds networks of resilience and resistance to systems of knowledge by fabulative speculations around Science and Technologies. Her artistic practice in an ongoing attempt to create breathing and vital conditions; in an unstoppable dance, she creates improbable exchanges with the nonhumans such as bacterias, plants, birds, antelopes and ghosts. She focuses on states of survival and refusal of captivity by proposing a radical ontological turn. She navigates in different media (photography, video, performance, installation, urban intervention, publications ) to underline how diversity and transversality can contribute to (un)learning colonial pedagogies.

flavia-pinheiro-site.webflow.io   
cargocollective.com/flaviapinheiro 

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