Past, Present & Future VIII

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Project Description

shrieking, wailing, sobbing (or raw emotions in general) is a vocal-text-visual live performance by Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra. The performance experiments with a diversity of intense female vocal tones that exist in a hybrid space between pain, pleasure, joy and emotional discharge, combined with spoken words and an immersive visual experience with light projections. Having as a starting point the texts The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson and The Scars Clan by Clarissa Pinkola, this work is about tremors that the female voice might produce and the need to break silences. 

Biography

Anna Costa e Silva (Rio de Janeiro, 1988) works with constructed situations between people that challenge the limits between reality and fiction, self and other, experience and memory. Interested in the states between awareness and sleep, the suspension of time, the silenced shouts of women. Her projects happen in the intersections between visual, performing arts and social practice and unfold in installations, films, or ephemeral situations. Anna holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the SVA, NY, and has won awards such as FOCO ArtRio, American Austrian Award and was a PIPA prize nominee. In 2022, she is part of the Mercosul Biennial and winner of Terremoto Ubisoft artist residency. Her work has been shown at BienalSur (Buenos Aires), Art in Odd Places (NY),  Pivô, Superfície Gallery, Oi Futuro, A Gentil Carioca (Brazil), among others and is part of public collections such as Rio de Janeiro Museum of Art. She teaches ArtLife Practices at Parque Lage School of Visual Arts. /

Nina Terra is an Brazilian Artist-Therapist who lives in the city of Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Psychologist, Art Therapist, graduated in dance technique by Angel Vianna, Yoga instructor, specialist in Pedagogy of Cooperation and Collaborative Methodologies. Creator of practices Corpo Oráculo, Corpo Potência Criativa e DANÇA-RITO. She has been singing for 11 years and practicing the body-voice connection. She is a body trainer, performs individual consultations and facilitates experiences of connection, awareness and expansion. Develops relational and ritual art performances relating the state of flow, body-voice and the present moment.

This artist was supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the friends and members of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. 

Image Descriptions: 1. And the buildings were growing taller, and I could not see what was behind, 2019, video installation/performance that comes from the experience of listening to dreams during presidential elections that elected Bolsonaro; 2. Tremor-try, 2021, performance in collaboration between Nina Terra and Anna Costa e Silva; 3. Purpura, 2018, performative experience of one-on-one artlife encounters in consumption spaces in the city. Images courtesy of the artist.