Maria Luigia Gioffre
Maria’s live art, performance and text works draw on anthropologies, mythologies and uncertain futures to expand and erode historical references. Her art encompasses visual art, theatre, performance, writing and curatorship. Maria is undertaking a PhD in performing arts and new media at The National Academy of Dramatic Arts, Rome.
Her Contested Desires residency in the Netherlands took her to Fort bij Vijfhuizen - a Unesco World Heritage Site that was originally designed to defend Amsterdam from a potential enemy who never came. In response, she created the first chapter of Waiting Wars, looking at the fort’s history in the critical framework of reflections on the colonial past of the European Union and using chants and dance movements as tools of resistance. The work enacts a southern Italian lullaby in dialogue with the historical environment of the defence line.
Maria will be joining six other Contested Desires artists for a residency at D6, Newcastle and group exhibition at the Great North Museum: Hancock this July.
Find out more about Contested Desires here.
Her Contested Desires residency in the Netherlands took her to Fort bij Vijfhuizen - a Unesco World Heritage Site that was originally designed to defend Amsterdam from a potential enemy who never came. In response, she created the first chapter of Waiting Wars, looking at the fort’s history in the critical framework of reflections on the colonial past of the European Union and using chants and dance movements as tools of resistance. The work enacts a southern Italian lullaby in dialogue with the historical environment of the defence line.
Maria will be joining six other Contested Desires artists for a residency at D6, Newcastle and group exhibition at the Great North Museum: Hancock this July.
Find out more about Contested Desires here.
