[ VIVIAN CACCURI ]

performance, 2010
microphone,  software made by the artist, audio
aprox. 15min

In this performance, “The Airplane Samba” (Samba do Avião), by the world-known Brazilian bossa nova composer Tom Jobim, is sang verse by verse. Each verse is reversed by an audio system and played backwards. The performer then tries to sing the verses simulating the inversion. When the simulation of the inverted verse satisfies her, she inverts them again in order to recreate the song to its original form.

video-installation, 2009
digital video, LCD screens, DVD player, variable size

A person is asked to dance to a song she does not know. This improvisation is recorded in video and is then shown to the person who danced. She then has to copy her own improvisation without sound, and this new movements are again recorded. The new video – a mimesis of the original improvisation – is again shown to the dancer. These procedure is repeated three times, producing four videos – one is the original dance and three are sucessive copies of it.

This work was inspired by “I am Sitting in a Room” by the composer Alvin Lucier, 1969.

performance, 2009
microphones, voice filters, software made by the artist, audio
aprox. 12min

In “Double Oral Incorporation”, the performer uses two microphones (one with a masculine voice filter and the other with a feminine) to create a dialog with herself. To compose this chat, the artist chose dialogs from Brazilian straight porn movies.