#3 Venous
With Venous, Luiza Furtado presents a new work inspired by the rhythm of cicadas as a translocal presence within the soundscapes of the cities in which she has lived.
In her performance Furtado dances a circulatory system bounding the bodies of bug and human. Engaging with the Hemolymph which is a substance that flows freely inside of insects, and has the function to transport nutrients & hormones similar to blood inside of our bodies. The story encapsulates us into the fluid potential of textilles, narrating a fiction in which the echos of cicada and human sounds materialize as a growing vessel in space.
Interlaced by soft sculptures, paintings and music created by Francesca Hirschl. The work reflects on soft forms of alchemy which are constantly in process – underneath the cemented grounds of cityscape. Presenting a score that interacts with soil stamina, through fabulation and frames bug structures as recipients of active memory within an ecosystem.
30.5.2026, 4 p.m.
Performance
31.5.2026, 4 p.m.
Performance
Followed by an artist talk with Katja Stecher
The works by the artist are on view until Sunday, June 7.
was born in Florianópolis, Brazil (1999). She lived in Rio de Janeiro where she received her Design BA from PUC in 2021. Five years ago she moved to Austria for her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
She is a performer and multimedia artist who explores materiality and its ecological reverberations in the Anthropocene. Interested in the friction between past and present, Furtado focuses on questions of hybridity in late capitalism, tracing connections between biopolitical control and industrial dynamics.
Her work has been presented abroad, at Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro (Casulo), The Coronet Theatre in London (Casca) and Museum am Rothenbaum Harmburg (Santa Maria Paraffina). In Vienna she performed in events of VBKÖ, Das Weisse Haus, Parallel and Vienna Art Week.