About
Federico Protto
Federico Protto was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1991 and is based in Brussels, Belgium. His artistic practice unfolds across and between performance, sound, textile and fashion, and artistic research. Spanning a hybrid network of collaborators, disciplines, and materialities, Federico aims at configuring new forms of shared knowledge production and kinship. Drawing on a diverse set of live-sonic-textile methodologies, Federico considers his South American background to look towards practices atypical to the global north. Key to this approach is translation as a method, linking artistic fields, source materials, senses of belonging and ancestry, and migrations.
Together with collaborators, among others Anna Lugmeier, Aleks Borys, Stefan Cantante, and Myriam Van Imschoot, Federico investigates sonic and performative experiments within social and communal environments. His work has been shown internationally, e.g. at nadaLokal, Vienna (AT), the 22nd Red Dawns Festival, Ljubljana (SVN), From Breath to Matter, Berlin (DE), HochX, Munich (DE), ModaLisboa, Lisbon (PT), Harpa, Reykjavik (IS), and Volksroom, Brussels (BE). He graduated in fashion design from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (AT), and consequently in artistic research at a.pass – advanced performance and scenography studies – in Brussels (BE).
Contact:
federico.prottoscutti@gmail.com
IG:
@federico_luz
2020-2022 |
Post-Graduate study in artistic research – a.pass, advanced performance and scenography studies, Brussels (BE) |
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2011–2017 |
Masters degree in fashion design – University of Applied Arts, Vienna, prof. Hussein Chalayan/ Bernhard Willhelm, Vienna (AT) |
2022 |
Dress-Rehearsals – performance at ‘Reclaim! the power of community’ festival organized by nadaProductions and estudio el gozo, nadaLokal, Vienna (AT) |
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Dress-Rehearsals – performance at ‘re:source’ a.pass end presentation, Cultural Center De Kriekelaar, Brussels (BE) |
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Inter-Materiality Mode – tape-cassette release, Brussels (BE) |
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Valentine – music video directed by Aleks Borys – ModaLisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week online edition, Lisbon (PT) |
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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 Special Edition – series of 21 CD-Shirts, Brussels (BE) |
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FORMULAS EP – release, 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 – music video directed by 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) |
Notte di Trivatore – performance at Apotheke – kollaboratorium für grenzgänger aller arten, Berlin (DE) |
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Federico Luz Live – performance at Trampolin Residency, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen (DE) |
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Federico Luz Live – concert at Kolorado Festival, Nagykovácsi (HU) |
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Does Your Outfit Serve Your Salvation? – performance at Take Festival for Independent Fashion and Arts, Vienna (AT) |
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2017 |
OLIVER’S Trailers with OLIVER art collective – video work 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) |
2021 EXTINCT – fashion collection |
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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 – group fashion show, Take Festival for Independent Fashion and Arts, Vienna (AT) |
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2019 MUSES – fashion show, Modalisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) |
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2018 |
2019 Immortality & Fashion – group show, curated by Jakob Lena Knebel, Weltmuseum, Vienna (AT) |
2019 Immortality & Fashion – fashion show, Modalisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) |
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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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2017 |
2017 Non-Corporeal – installation, The Essence 17, year exhibition of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (AT) |
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) |
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) |
Methodology of Styling and Creative Direction – lecture, Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, fashion department, Budapest (HU) |
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2018 |
Tutor for fashion drawing and portfolio – Felszabter Rajziskola Budapest (HU) |
2017 |
fashion & _______ – online platform, concept and creative direction, Budapest (HU) |
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) |
Honorable Tribute – ModaLisboa, SangueNovo, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) |
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2017 |
AFA support collection – Austrian State Grant via Austrian Fashion Association (AT) |
2022 |
ON_OF_SPACE – International Art Centre De Singel – Artists in Residency, Antwerp (BE) |
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arts center BUDA – Artists in Residency 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 – Artists in Residency with Myriam Van Imschoot, Aalst (BE) |
2019 |
CARE: Activism, Art and Electronic Beats, Experiment on Community Empowerment – Artists in Residency, organized by Marcio Kerber Canabarro, SÍN Culture Center, Budapest (HU) |
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
Text by Lisa Deml
Image by Myriam Van Imschoot, 2021
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