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Vivian Caccuri proposes the realization of the Caminhada Silenciosa (Silent Walk) in Venice, an experience of urban drift, which allows an eight-hour conviviality between twenty people who do not know each other. An itinerary/performance, previously performed in Rio de Janeiro, that the artist transposes to Italy, bringing together places with intense sound activity, constructions that embrace contrasting sounds, building terraces, underground paths, isolated neighborhoods and religious spaces. The experimentation embraces the possibilities of similarity between "place" and "person", acoustic behavior and personality, listening and swimming.
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This walk investigates different densities of human occupation in Venice. Noting that the city offers alternative routes that are used more often by residents, I propose a route that overlap areas of great concentration of tourists to the small alleys and lanes where circulation is rare. In this way, the sound sensation becomes rhythmic under the presence and absence of tourism, causing different states of alertness, relaxation and contemplation in the participants. The contrasts between exposure and privacy, leisure and retreat, will be invoked all the way.
On the Google Maps platform I was able to make the drawing and the instructions on where we should go and what we would do in each of these locations.
The route I propose is 6.8 km long, with 8 hours of duration. At this intensity, it is possible to choose places to stop where the group can rest or simply remain idle for a few minutes. In these breaks I usually do sound performances with portable sound equipment, or organize collaborations with artists, dancers or musicians participating in the walk.
Despite the design of the route, once I do the research in the city, the new perceptions lead me to vary and adapt the initial script. The route also crosses several private properties with which I also try to establish a dialogue in order to obtain permission for our visit.
I had already done a few dozen silent walks in Rio de Janeiro and in some cities abroad, but this one in Venice was different.
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below I leave some references of other works that dialogue with the proposal:
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Brazilian artist, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Vivian Caccuri experiences sound in unusual compositions that disorient the conventional arrangement of everyday experiments. Sound systems, microphones, speakers, cables, chains, networks, lamps, candles and mosquitoes are some of the elements present in her installations and performances, which move visible and invisible, audible and inaudible layers. Vivian's investigations touch the body, memory and history, and from the composition of sculptural installations and trails - synchronized with specific circumstances of each of her researches - the artist builds wearable objects, delicate fabrics sewn and interwoven with threads and lines, stones and beads, which depict mysterious landscapes, as well as sound sculptures that emanate sometimes delusions and noises, sometimes melodies and mantras. In her works - bi, three-dimensional and with sound - the materials are malleable and soft for a period that may or may not reach rigidity, and vice versa. Vivian uses thinning tools, her music connects temporal dimensions that dig the space. Weight, volume and balance - dear to sculptural questions - embody the author's experiments and creations, which vary in scale, from the most imperceptible to highly vociferous productions.
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In 2020, she participated in the "Social Movements and Feminist Future" group at the Seismic Movements exhibition, at the fifth edition of the Dhaka Art Summit, in Bangladesh, India, and at the collectives shows "Mecarõ - Amazonia in the Petitgas Collection" held by MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, in France and “Brasil! Foco na Arte Contemporânea Brasileira”, at the Museo Ettore Fico, in Turin, Italy. Still in 2020, she will participate in an exhibition at ICA MIAMI with a work commissioned by the institution and in the group exhibition "And Say The Animal Responded?", at FACT, in London, United Kingdom. In 2019, she exhibited the solo show “Febre Amarela”, at A Gentil Carioca gallery, Rio de Janeiro, “O Xarope do Novo Mundo & A Mão da Febre (New World Syrup & A Fever Hand)” at EartH Gallery, London, “A Soul Transplant”at Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg , Sweden and took part in the group shows "The Fever of Yellow" at Serpentine Galleries, London and was one of the finalists for the Marcantônio Vilaça Award. In 2018, her solo shows were “Água Parada”, in the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, in Rio de Janeiro, and Galeria Leme, in São Paulo and the group shows were “Mosquito Shrine” at Fort Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India, “11th Mercosul Biennial” in Porto Alegre and “Ojalá” at the Carlsbad Museum, Carlsbad, USA. In 2017 she participated in the group shows “Vivemos na melhor cidade da América do Sul” at the Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, “Charivaria” at CentroCentro, Madrid, “Sonic Rebellion” at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Detroit, USA, “Buried in the Mix” at MEWO Kunsthalle, Memminghen, Germany, “Festwochen” in collaboration with Daniel Lie in Vienna, Austria, “Future Generation Art Prize” at Palazzo Contarini Polignac (parallel to the Venice Biennale), “Black Atlantic” at the Goethe Institute, Rele Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria, and the “Future Generation Art Prize” at the Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine.
Vivian Caccuri's works are part of the collections of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Pérez Art Museum Miami and ICA Miami, USA.
