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GROGONXS/ 2019 Performance 30min this is an experimental performance produced and performed by Brazilian Immigrant trans / gender non conforming artists. The collective envision a performance where their bodies are trapped in an imaginary tank. From this starting point, they choreograph an escape from the prying eyes of the public. The piece talks about the overflowing and overloading of energies in and around queer bodies, but also how to reuse those energies to survive [click on the image to open gallery]	FEUCHT Party Series Since 2018 FEUCHT is a collective formed by 8 queer/trans/non-binary people in Zurich Switzerland. The collective aims witih their parties to open a safe space where non-conforming bodies can express their sexuality. Ivy is responsible for hosting, communication and creative direction. [click in the image to open link]	Tituba.2Point.Oh! @Venice Biennale Excerpts of the show "Tituba.2Point.Oh!" Swiss Pavillion Opening Night. Co-produced by Pro-Helvetia Invited by the main Artist Representing Switzerland: Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz A collaboration with DJ Tracy September aka Young September Filmed by Stefan Schmidlin and Tobias Pagani Assistance and Video Edit by Nilo Stillhart For full lenght video please enter in contact. [click in the image to open link for video]
PREMIERE Mother The Verb/ 2017 Performance, 50min Mother the Verb is a queer experimental performance exploring motherhood, queerness, and toxicity. The piece interweave all three concepts in a multimedia dance performance. It is a collaborative duo with the choreographer/performer Javier Stell-Fresquez. It Premiered part of the Performing Diaspora Program from CounterPulse SF (US) . [click in the image to open link]	SOLO, Mother The Verb/ 2017 Performance, 30min This performance deals with the divination/damnation of the figure of the mother - that could possibly transcend gender. It also researches the relations between "mother nature" humans. This is a solo intake on Mother the Verb, produced and performed in MIS-SP - Museum Of Image and Sound - Sao Paulo / Brazil. [click in the image to open link]	Tituba, from Taboao da Serra/ 2017 This work is a depiction of an old colonized soul, trying to fit in a "new" world. Feminism: is this the modern denomination for witchcraft in the current world order? Can she combine her old beliefs and practices with the modernity around her? Is she really free to unleash her vengeance, or is she again just one more victim of another colonized system? [click in the image to open link]
Super Vixen and The The's/ 2017 Photography, Collage, Illustration. This work surrealistically highlights how body positivity looks like for queer-trans-nonbinray bodies in my view: as a super transcendental powerful asset. One that we daily use in a constant fight against the cis-tem. Part of this work belongs to Glo'art Gallery (Lanaken, Belgium). [click in the image to open link]	B.O.M.B.E.D. /2016 Long Durational Performance. B.O.M.B.E.D. - Bursting Our Memories By Enchanting Desires, is a work that seeks to exorcise the stigma of HIV by bonding with personal experiences from the audience, bursting black condoms from the bodies from the performers and leaving "scars" in written form in the skin of the performer. This work was done with Valerie Reding and presented in the Los Angeles Queer Biennial II 2016 [click in the image to open Link]	Divine Body Debts /2016 Digital Collage, Photography This work - that i consider the most biographical of my artworks - deals with my own memories and recognitions of how i constructed my notions of gender, divinity, identity, race and family. This process evoked in me a deep confrontation with the chaos and beauty from my own origins. [click on the image to open link]
Music Production Area Since forever i was a music lover. Have been a self-taught music producer since my adolescence. This has lead me to produce all the tracks for my performances and for performances of friends and some other paid sound productions. I perform live and jam live in galleries, events and clubs too. Here i present some tracks i have produced and performed in the last couple years. [click in the image to open link]	Know Thyself. but not too much /2016 Long Durational Performance An invitation to the public to trust and get up close and personal with two deities from another space and time, two all-knowingly ignorant postmodern oracle sorceresses defying the laws of communication with the divine. Through masterfully executed rituals with sweat, laughter, tears and other holy liquids or devices, the two priestesses will provide answers to anyone who dares to step in front of their gaze. [click in the image to open gallery]	Heart Heart Lap Dance /2015 One-to-one Long Durational Dance Performance The Performance was created to question active relations between the artist, the art space and the art consumer when sexuality is in frame. Another aim is also to question if the value of each lap dance can be payed with any other "coin" than the monetary one. The "client" can choose to read a passage of a book for the performer, have some tea and enjoy the rest of the session as a payment for the lap dance. [click on the image to open link]
(un)Holy Mother, Full of Grace /2015 Photography Installation, Video Performance - 7min A work that is a critique and a homage to the everlasting figure of the mother. In this surreal Visual construct, the artist researches ways to illustrate theories of empowerment through matriarchy, feminism, camp and drag - all mixed in a over-aestheticized mystic atmosphere. This work shifts from photography to an elaborate seven minute dance video performance. [click on the image to open gallery]	Malleus Maleficarum /2015 Performance, 30min. The multimedia performance „Malleus Maleficarum“ is an eclectic mixture of music, live singing and spoken manifestos, alternating with partially choreographed and improvised dance parts, with references to tango, voguing, drag, ballet, contemporary and contact improvisation. The piece evolves around two characters, the Slut and the Witch, exploring fluid expressions of female subjectivities. [click on the image to open link for gallery]	Organic UPbeat Mashine /2014 Performance, 20min. Organic Upbeat Mashine is a Performance done by Ivan Monteiro. Developed and realized in the year of 2014 for the first time, this Performance is a mixture between declaimed texts and live performed singing / electronic music. The texts are inspired on the 'Cyborg Manifesto' from Donna Haraway and other texts referring to the "cyborg" gender thematic. [click on the image to open link for video]

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