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Federico Protto
*1991, Montevideo, Uruguay
based inBrussels
My artistic practice unfolds across performance, sound, fashion, and research. Spanning a hybrid network of materialities, practices, and collaborators I aim at contributing to im/material forms and tools for decolonial kinship.
These forms and tools are invoked at proto-esoteric gatherings (such as the work ‘Dress-Rehearsals’ 2022), blends of performance, workshop, and installation, addressing ancestry, migration, and continuity collectively. Texts, songs, dances, languages, costumes, objects, paintings, and audio-visual works are activated through instinct, impulse, humour and spontaneity. The multidisciplinary work harbours methods atypical to the global north, nourished by ethno-ecological, queer, and subcultural thought and approach. My close and longterm collaborators are, among others, Stefan Cantante, Anna Lugmeier, Myriam Van Imschoot, and Lisa Deml.
2022 |
Post-Graduate artistic research – a.pass, advanced performance and scenography studies, Brussels (BE) |
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2017 |
Masters fashion design – University of Applied Arts, Vienna, prof. Hussein Chalayan/ Bernhard Willhelm, Vienna (AT) |
2023 |
Baby-Steps & Candy – process sharing at Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo (UY) |
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2022 |
Dress-Rehearsals – performance at ‘Reclaim! the power of community’ festival at nadaProductions/nadaLokal, Vienna (AT) // at ‘re:source’ a.pass end presentation, Cultural Center De Kriekelaar, Brussels (BE) |
Inter-Materiality Mode – tape-cassette release, Brussels (BE) |
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2021 |
Human Measueres with Myraim Van Imschoot – sound piece on Tomoko Hojo’s compilation Touch, released on Dragon’s Eye record label, Los Angeles/Tokyo (US/JP) |
Federico Luz Live – performance at Volksroom, Brussels (BE) |
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FORMULAS EP – extended play release and series of 21 CD-Shirts, Brussels (BE) |
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Da geht die Sonne unter! – video work for 22nd Red Dawns international feminist & queer festival, Ljubljana (SVN) |
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3 Studies for Mask with Myriam Van Imschoot – video work for From Breath to Matter, online edition, Berlin (DE) |
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Pan – video directed with Anna Lugmeier – ModaLisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week online edition, Lisbon (PT) |
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2019 |
Oliver’s Antigone with OLIVER art collective – performative stage piece for Antigone Archiv Oper hosted by collective rendezvous3000, Schwere Reiter, Munich (DE) |
Federico Luz Live: performances at Kunsthaus Essen, Essen (DE) // Apotheke – kollaboratorium für grenzgänger aller arten, Berlin (DE) // Kolorado Festival, Nagykovácsi (HU) // Take Festival for Independent Fashion and Arts, Vienna (AT) |
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2017 |
OLIVER’S Trailers with OLIVER art collective – video screening, Schikaneder, Vienna (AT) |
2022 |
School of Mountains and Water by Amanda Piña, TanzQuartier Wien- costume design, performance, Vienna (AT) |
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2021 |
MATRIA! by Rocio Marano, HZT Berlin – costume design, Berlin (DE) |
2020 |
Libelle by May Zarhy – costume & stage design, HochX, Munich (DE) |
2019 |
2020 Antigone – fashion performance at Modalisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) |
UNEXPECTED SCARF with Stefan Cantante – virtual brand, Antwerp (BE) |
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2019 MUSES – fashion show, Modalisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) // group fashion show, Take Festival for Independent Fashion and Arts, Vienna (AT) |
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2018 |
2019 Immortality & Fashion – fashion show, Modalisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) // group show, curated by Jakob Lena Knebel, Weltmuseum, Vienna (AT) |
2017 Non-Corporeal – fashion show, Modalisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) |
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Heartbreak & Mixed Media on Boots – group show, Vad Art 8, Budapest (HU) |
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Cow Eyes – Sunglasses Project with Silhouette Eyewear, Linz (AT) |
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2017 Non-Corporeal – fashion show, Show Angewandte 17, Orangerie Schônbrunn, Vienna (AT) // installation, The Essence 17, year exhibition of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (AT) |
2022 |
KITE with Myriam Van Imschoot – artistic research on sound with and for children, Netwerk Aalst, Aalst // arts center BUDA, Kortrijk (BE) |
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2021 |
we shall be monsters a vocabulary of monstrous empathy, with Lisa deml – workshop facilitation, dotdtodt Open Air Kurzfilmfestival, Vienna (AT) |
2020 |
CARE WHERE? – online zine, textual and visual contributions |
2019 |
arachne Almanac of the Fashion Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna – print publication, concept and creative direction, published at Birkhäuser, Vienna (AT) |
2018 |
Tutor for fashion drawing and portfolio – Felszabter Rajziskola Budapest (HU) |
2023 |
Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo (UY) |
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arts center BUDA, Kortrijk (BE) |
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The Green Corridor, Saint-Gilles (BE) |
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2022 |
ON_OF_SPACE – International Art Centre De Singel, Antwerp (BE) |
arts center BUDA, with Myriam Van Imschoot, Kortrijk (BE) |
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Studio Aalst – Netwerk Aalst – Associated Artists of Netwerk Aalst with Myriam Van Imschoot, Aalst (BE) |
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2021 |
Netwerk Aalst, with Myriam Van Imschoot, Aalst (BE) |
2019 |
Best International Designer – ModaLisboa, SangueNovo, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) |
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2018 |
AFA support collection – Austrian State Grant via Austrian Fashion Association (AT) 2017-2019 |
associated colleagues and spaces:
Lisa Deml
Stefan Cantante
Anna Lugmeier
Aleksandra Borys
Myriam Van Imschoot
Marieke Werner
Nathaniel Moore
ON_OFF_SPACE De Singel
ModaLisboa
Netwerk Aalst
a.pass
@federixoxo
Image by Anna Lugmeier, 2023
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