Flavia Pinheiro is a choreographer, performer and a researcher from Brazil currently based in Amsterdam. Her research foregrounds networks of resilience and resistance to systems of knowledge by fabulative speculations around Science and Technologies. Her artistic practice in an ongoing attempt to create breathing and vital conditions; in an unstoppable dance she creates improbable exchanges with the nonhumans such as bacterias, plants, birds, antelopes and ghosts.
She graduated at DAS Choreography Master program, University of Amsterdam in 2022. Their Master's research was carried out in Benin with the fellowship, AHK Internationalization Fund and with the Talent Grant/ AHK. She is currently part of DAS Third research program developing M.I.M.O.S.A that intends to dismantle hegemonies of thoughts and species in an expanded choreographic and somatic approach.
In 2021 she was granted by Performing Arts Fund NL. Her graduation piece 7 Abiku Solos for 11 bacteria falling through was supported by Aart Janszen Fund and ID Lab and it was awarded with Andre Veltkamp Beurs Grant. With many others she developed South Boom Boom Platform that includes a publication supported by ATD, Platform 2025 and DAS Research and a series of lectures.
In 2022 Flavia Pinheiro was awarded the 3Package Deal fund for International Talents by AFK for the ‘Engaged Art’ coalition.
Art & Spatial Praxis – The research group Art & Spatial Praxis launched the digital artistic research platform Plot(ting) on April 17th 2024. Plot(ting) emerges as a publishing platform showcasing art, research, and spatial practices. Currently it harbors contributions by Flavia Pinheiro, Giulia Damiani, Francisca Khamis & Maia Gattás Vargas, Neeltje ten Westenend & Hanneke Stuit, Mariana Balvanera, Patricia de Vries, Amelia Groom, and Liza Prins. Here you can read in brief about the different contributions. Read more on the plotting website: plotting.rietveldsandberg.nl
Art & Spatial Praxis – The research group Art & Spatial Praxis (LASP) starts a new Plot(ting) research group consisting of 11 new members. They meet on a monthly basis to discuss theoretical and material manifestations that speak to Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot. They had their first fruitful session on May 30th 2023.