Pêdra Costa

Manifesto Writing Workshop
Panel, Brazil Focus: Diaspora

Pêdra Costa (1978) is a Brazilian-German Performance Artist and Visual & Urban Anthropologist based in Berlin and working with queer artists internationally. Through the complexity and fragmented epistemologies from queer communities, their work has built bridges between Performance Art, music, visual art and text, having the body as the main medium. 

Embodying knowledge almost destroyed by the colonial project and manifesting radical caring against the lack of opportunities of living, their projects engage with the political aesthetics of post-porn and anti-colonial strategies. In connection with mixed and forgotten ancestralities, the artist deals with failure as a transforming creative force. 

Some exhibitions include Deuniversalising the World, Barcelona 2019 (MACBA); À Nordeste, São Paulo 2019 (Sesc 24 de Maio); Manifestos for Queer Futures, Berlin 2019 (HAU – Hebbel Am Ufer); Violence in the Arts, Berlin 2019 (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg „Das Wissen der Künste“ – UdK); Multitud Marica: Activaciones de archivos sexo-disidentes en América Latina, Santiago de Chile 2017 (Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende); QUEER ENCOUNTERS_VIENNA TRANS LA, Los Angeles 2017 (CalArts School of Art); WELT KOMPAKT?, Wien 2017 (frei_raum Q21, MuseumsQuartier); Millionaires Can Be Trans* // You Are So Brave*, Berlin 2015 (Schwules Museum).