live art and learning experiments
::: childhood ::: carnival ::: playful places ::: interactive creatures ::: transmedia ::: experimental learning spaces ::: creative direction ::: project design ::: accessibility ::: residencies ::: festivals ::: exhibitions ::: talks ::: workshops ::: events ::: collaborative spaces ::: participatory art ::: music videos ::: films ::: theater ::: dance ::: performances ::: costumes ::: stage design ::: fashion ::: wearable computing ::: mapping ::: researches :::
CARNIVAL
During 12 years I dedicated myself to this beautiful Samba School for Children from Duque de Caxias in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As part of the schools’ creative direction, I designed parades with over 1500 children, that every year meet up on this avenue with 25000 other children. In Rio, Carnival is all year round, when we weren’t parading, we were creating, drawing, preparing, building, dancing, meeting and playing. We designed and coordinated projects in primary schools, technical schools, universities, cultural centers, the school’s warehouse its court.
PLAYFUL SPACES · INTERACTIVE CREATURES · LABS
Contos Circuitos is an invitation to inventiveness through experiments, costumes, multilinear narratives and eletronic circuits. A playful system to mix realities and create interactive fiction, to play with wearable creatures, sound gadgets and interactive spaces, to dive into a childhood universe.
This project was created as part of a research on childhood experiments within learning spaces. It holds researches and labs where children create their own multi-toys, fantasies and narratives. It took place in schools, cultural centers and maker spaces as; Centro de Artes Helio Oiticica, Olabi, Fabulosa, ERAP – Art and technology school in Rio Negro, Patagonia, Oi Futuro and Território Inventivo.
….some say that “play is the highest form of research”.
“How a childhood play can have social tactics values, including the guerrilla of each moment, each gesture…
the children are the ones who embody the future; they keep the keys to conflicts and to all historical transformations.”
“Cuando las imagénes toman posición” by Didi-Hubermn
PROJECTS · TRANSMEDIA :::
Street Child World Cup
Kids from the Samba School for children exchanged with 236 kids from 19 countries during the Street Child World Cup. They took Carnival’s colors, moves and magic to their soccer fields and artistic workshops creating the opening and closing ceremonies of the games with them.
CREATIVE DIRECTION · ACCESSIBILITY
RESIDENCIES · FESTIVALS · EVENTS
Invention Parks
Invention Parks is a learning network where children, teenagers and artists cocreate, collaborate and express themselves through artistic, social and scientific experiments. The programme includes creative laboratories and immersions in urban and natural environments, where humans, nonhumans, local matters and discarded materials assemble in interactive spaces, fantastic costumes, mechanical creatures, musical instruments, inflatables, games, images and sounds. These artefacts are used to remix realities, broaden repertories, express and rehearse desirable futures.
Lívia Diniz has created the Invention Parks.
She designs playful spaces where humans and non-humans co-create multilinear narratives, interactive creatures and artefacts to imagine desirable futures. She weaves individual ideas and activates collaborative actions through transdisciplinary practices related to childhood. She went to Cinema and Fine Arts schools in Rio de Janeiro where she co-directed carnival parades along with their expanded experiences which happened in different places and formats throughout 12 years. Transmidia experiments, design/architecture workshops, music videos, exhibitions… in the past 20 years she has engaged in artistic productions and investigations in 17 countries with festivals, networks, indigenous villages, favelas, schools, universities, theatres, artistic and activist projects, museums, residencies, maker spaces, research and cultural centres, planetariums, etc..
Carnival created by children with the Festival Internationales de la guitare
The trees of our dreams
2020 - 2023 April - October | Lunel, France
Cafofo's Carnival workshops at Yeobi, Federation of International Associations
2020 - 2023 February | Montpellier, France
Invention Parks audiovisual residency at AvistaVulcão
2023 February | Faial, Azores
Invention Parks' Transdisciplinary course at Human Academy
2023 January - February | Ponta Delgada, Azores
with Lívia Diniz, Marco Torre and Habitat Açores
IF THESE STREETS WERE OURS
This course was a transdisciplinary and creative experience to stimulates the curiosity of children and young people of the Island of São Miguel. The intention was to let the imaginary of Carnival, Natália Correia's poetry and the rural, urban and natural beauties in. We expressed our desirable futures for the islands. With the youth, we developed learning laboratories in which the children in-bodied magical creatures, composed melodies, costumes and narratives to celebrate their culture and nature. Songs, dances, knowledge, new ways of looking at things, dreams and fantasies arose and spread.
Anaïs Berck's Publishing House
Trees, Algorithms and Humans Research
2022 September - December | Brussels, Belgium
Arbola Residency at Cima Cittá
2022 July | Torre, Switzerland
Project presentation and workshop participation
2022 June | Barcelona, Spain
Audiovisual coordination of the Festival MIME IN MOTION
2022 February | Montpellier, France
NODO - Associative project for the internationalisation of Living Arts
2022 January - May | International Research, Chile
NODO Artes Vivas is a network of ten cultural institutions in Chile working in collaboration to promote the possibility of creating new futures; to bring together, associate, converge and diverge ways of thinking the economy of the present, including tangible and intangible resources in the creation of new logics of collaboration from the environmental, social, cultural and transactional dimension. Based on the methodology of Fluxonomy 4D - Flux 4D elaborated by Lala Deheinzelin, who coordinated this research, with the support of the Chilean Ministry of Economy, we are thinking about the future of the Living Arts and new forms of international collaboration.
