de_colon_isation is a live performance series to create a space of intimacy and political claim through the body, live images by a dildo camera and “The Southern Butthole Manifesto”. It uses post-porn as a strategy of pleasure, aesthetics and politics. Playing the artist as an exhibitionist, it shows performance art as a place to interact with the presence of the audience and disturb their gaze, through feelings, desire and empathy. The action merges the social categories of public and private, privileges and subalternity, sameness and alterity.
The research brings a critical thinking on The Anthropophagic Manifesto (Oswald de Andrade, 1928), a review of sodomy crimes committed against gender dissidents in Colonial Brazil established by The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (1536-1821) and issues on Global South and North and their ways to make performance art.
It has been presented at Friday Exit (Vienna), Kunstraum Niederoesterreich (Vienna), frei_raum Q21 (Vienna), AMOQA (Athens Museum Of Queer Arts), Capacete International Art Residency (Rio de Janeiro), AGORA Collective e.V. (Berlin), Matadero Madrid, TransFormations – Trans Film Festival (Berlin), UdK (University of Arts, Berlin), Museum of Impossible Forms (Helsinki), Schwules Museum (Berlin), MACBA Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona and Documenta Fifteen (Kassel).
https://cargocollective.com/pedra/de_colon_isation
Pêdra Costa (they; Nova Iguaçu, 1978) is a groundbreaking, formative Brazilian visual and urban anthropologist, performer, and tarot reader based in Vienna who utilizes intimacy to connect with collectivity. They work with embodied and invisible knowledge, engaging in caring practices informed by generational strength and drawing on queer and ancestral wisdom in relation to ongoing colonial legacies. Their work aims to decode violence and transform failure whilst tapping into the potencies of art and life as integral to anti‑colonial and necropolitical survival.
