Analivia Cordeiro | Artifinatural Body

Franck James Marlot’s curatorship is introducing the Brazilian public to Analivia Cordeiro’s pivotal contributions to the visual arts for the first time, highlighting the significance of her research. The selected works, which include historical videos, studies, documents, photographs and performances, form a cohesive group. This selection provides a wide ranging look at the artist’s hybrid and multidisciplinary research, which has always been on the cutting edge of digital media studies, fostering the integration of technology into artistic research through body language – focusing on body expression and body awareness.

The work that initiated her research in this field was M3x3 (1973), considered the first Latin American work in video art. This was followed by years of investigation, on the basis of which Analivia Cordeiro produced a series of works in computer dance, created at the UNICAMP Computer Center. This work had a watershed impact on video dance worldwide, making the artist a reference in this field to this day. In this development, she created a software written in the computer programming language Fortran IV, which processed information to create instructions for coordinating not only the dancers’ choreography but also the actions of the video production technicians. The curatorial approach for the present exhibition, Artifinatural Body, gets its bearings from a work the artist produced in 1974, titled 0°=45°.