Flavia Pinheiro
Flavia Pinheiro is a Brazilian choreographer and performance artist currently based in Amsterdam. Her research foreground networks of resilience and resistance to systems of knowledge by using images and words from technology and science in order to create speculative fabulations. Using different media, she questions the complexity of the colonial modernity by dismantling hegemonic hierarchies. Specifically, science disenchantment of the world on translating everyting that exists in objective, rational knowledge.
She radically explores the roots of Western en colonial knowledge systems and unveils the link between racial, gendered, and sexual belonging, differential ways of knowing and imagining the world, and the overarching governing codes that have created, maintained and normalised practices of exclusion. Her artistic practice is an ongoing attempt to create breathing and vital conditions; in an unstoppable dance, creating improbable entanglements with nonhumans such as bacterias, plants, birds, antelopes and ghosts.