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Luques Oliveira
Brazilian Afrofuturism Dance Performance
11/11/23
Part of the Fundraiser event for Peixes Electric
Note from the Arcology Zero Director: I didn’t have any background about the performance or the artist when he came on. But it evoked kinesthetic connections to Japanese Butoh and aesthetic connections to the Japanese Guati movement, and Brazilian Afrofuturism (intentional or otherwise). The electronics and violent seizure-like movements are reminiscent of dystopian science fiction visions of brain-computer interfaces downloading past forgotten lives from ancient ancestors. But being totally ignorant of the artist’s intentions, this is all just my imagination running wild… that’s a mark of a masterful performance.
Filmed by Dr. Clement Shimizu
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