London's
Serpentine gallery will host a new performance by
Vivian Caccuri as part of the festival The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants. The São Paulo-based artist has composed a presentation that historically relates the intersections between yellow fever, sugarcane -sugar, mosquitoes and classical and contemporary Brazilian music.
Scientific studies on the subject are the backdrop to the debate on the links between sugar cane, yellow fever, Catholicism and the way in which colonial interactions were reflected in music. “It is almost ironic that yellow fever "I have 'chosen' to return to this political insanity that we are experiencing in Brazil. This is one of the reasons why the main form of performance is that of a historical hallucination", says Caccuri. The artist uses a piece she composed herself on a large organ, drawings, historical images, videos, sounds and her own voice to tell this semi-fictional story. Vivian is known for creating works in which she creates relationships between music , public space, real and virtual architectures, the body and performativity through objects, installations and performances.
