(this page was last updated in July 2019)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1987.
Lives and works in São Paulo, SP.
PIPA Prize 2019 nominee.
Borrowing concepts from Contemporary Design and Media Theory, Luiza Crosman’s work is speculative in nature and investigates the possibility of a cultural fiction turn reality and the planetary scale composition of infrastructures to contemplate art’s traction within urban spaces and uncertain futures. Non-linear narratives, performative realities and complexity of information are tools to communicate processes and consider their implications. Visual and conceptual distortions challenge the viewer into becoming part of the speculative scenarios she proposes. Drawing and computer graphic gestures are part of a feedback process which delivers images not entirely woman-made nor machine made, proposing a human and technology integration.
Website: luizacrosman.com
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA Prize 2019:
Borrowing concepts from Contemporary Design and Media Theory, Luiza Crosman’s installations, drawings and projects are speculative in nature and investigate the concepts of hyperstition – the possibility of a cultural fiction turn reality – and megastructures – the planetary scale composition of infrastructures – to contemplate and speculate art’s traction within urban spaces and uncertain futures in the interest of rethinking the institutional critique tradition into institutional speculation of new possibilities. Non-linear narratives, performative realities and complexity of information are tools to communicate processes and consider their implications. Visual and conceptual distortions challenge the viewer into becoming part of the speculative scenarios she proposes. Drawing and computer graphic gestures are part of a feedback process which delivers images not entirely woman-made nor machine made, proposing a human and technology integration. Crosman has participated in exhibitions and developed projects with Iselp, Greylight Projects, Constant, (Brussels 2017, 2016), KW (Berlin, 2017), CAC (Vilnius, 2017), CCSP (São Paulo, 2017), &Model Gallery (Leeds, 2015), Silvia Cintra BOX4 Gallery (Rio de Janeiro, 2015), SFMOMA (San Francisco, 2014), Agora (Berlin, 2014). She was part of the directorial team of the exhibition space casamata between 2014-2017 in Rio de Janeiro. She is currently a fellow of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee, a member of the consulting agency Negozio Automatico and has recently won the Sabam for Culture, Artcontest 2017 prize. Recent projects includes “TRAMA” commissioned by 33 São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2018), “Drawing Blue-prints for potential art spaces” at HKB University, Bern (2018) and “BLOCC – Building Leverage Over Creative Capitalism” with SommerAkademie Paul Klee at Grand Palais, Bern (2019).
Education, Research
2017-2019
– Fellowship, REALTY SommerAkademie Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2016-2017
– Post-Master, a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies), Brussels, Belgium
2014-2017
– Research project, casamata, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012 – 2014
– MA in Arts and Culture, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2004 – 2008
– BA in Graphic design, PUC-RJ, Brazil
Solo exhibitions
2014
– “E eu via quase de perto”, Despina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
– “Campo em linha”, casamata, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2018
– “Affective Affinities”, 33rd São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
– “The future for today”, SESI Digital Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Times to reflect on”, Jozsa Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2017
– “ArtContest”, Vanderboght Building, Brussels, Belgium
– “Realty”, KW Institute, Berlin, Germay
– “Bestiário”, CCSP, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Unanimous Night”, CAC Vilnius, Lithuania
– “Métalangue”, ISELP, Brussels, Belgium
– “Hearsay”, Greylight Projects, Brussels, Belgium
2015
– “Project Radio”, Leeds, England
– “Summer show”, Gallery Silvia Cintra+Box4, RJ, Brazil
– “Sítio ed.2”, RJ, Brazil
2014
– “Foreplay”, Agora Collective, Berlin, Germany
– “Visual Activism”, SFMOMA, San Francisco USA
2013
– “43o Novíssimos”, IBEU Gallery, RJ, Brazil
– “Dupla-boca”, Candido Portinari Gallery, RJ, Brazil
– “Double-Mouth”, Bergen Arts Academy, Bergen, Norway
2012
– “Exposição 2.0”, Capacete, Brazil
Residencies
2018
– FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil
2016
– Chto Delat Summer School, St. Petersburg, Russia
2015
– IV Internacional, at Nuvem estação rural art and technology, Resende, Brazil
2012
– AULA – Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Awards
2017
– Sabam for Culture prize, Brussels, Belgium
2013
– Faperj Research Grant, Brazil
2012
– Faperj Research Grant, Brazil
Teaching / Workshops
2018
– Drawing blue-prints for potential art spaces, HKB University, Bern, Switzerland
– Drawing blue-prints for potential art spaces, ZHdK University, Zurich, Switzerland
2014-2015 / 2019
– Faculty Procedência & Propriedade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016
– Unravelling Institutional Dynamics, Constant, Brussels, Belgium
– Unravelling Institutional Dynamics, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Published Papers
2018
– “A spell’s draft: why and how speculate on institutional dynamics”, 33rd São Paulo Biennial Catalog, Brazil
– “Diagrammatic Spells” – Practices of Attention Seminar, 33rd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil
2017
– “Táticas para criar buracos de minhocas”, Astrolabio magazine, Brazil
2016
– “Unravelling Institutional Dynamics video”, Indisciplinas Seminar, Casa França, Brazil
2015
– “I was spying on my neighbor when”, 3rd LAVITS symposium, Brazil
– “The Waterline Prophecy”, CONTRA, Brazil
– “Notes on occupation and a hypothesis to be developed by practice”, seismopolite magazine n.10, Norway
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