FRI 18 APR / 15h00 > 18h00
LAC - Laboratório de Actividades Criativas, Lagos
Streaming performance / 60'
An armour? A weakness? The two at once? In Corpo-Espinho, the performer’s naked body receives a defensive layer as if responding to the attacks he has suffered for simply being who he is. He covers his skin with screws, creating a creature in a mix of magic and fear. This action is accompanied by an audio piece combining an ongoing beat with whistles and catcalls, calling out the ominous presence of the gaze of others.
Live streaming performance, Sound and costume / makeup by Leòn Franz
León Franz (Porto Alegre, 1993) is a transmasculine artist, producer and performer. Half beast and half queer, he builds (new) imaginaries using his own body as raw material. He studied at New York University, in the EMERGENYC programme of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, 2019. He did several residencies (Venice International Performance Art Week (2017) and Club Cultural Matienzo (Buenos Aires, 2015); he was also a member of the research group FUNDO, coordinated by director and actress Janaína Leite, investigating cyborgs, the deep web and performance; Franz participated in group exhibitions and performance festivals, such as the annual ITINERANT Festival, in New York (2019), and VERBO – Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo (2017, 2018, 2021 and 2023). He was nominated for the Alliance Française Contemporary Art Award 2018, finalist for the BIG Awards Competition 2019 and received the RespirArte Award, (Funarte, 2020). He lives and works in São Paulo (Brazil) and is the artistic director of Love Cabaret, a space dedicated to the arts of the body.
