The Welcome: Ivy Monteiro

The Welcome: Ivy Monteiro
Performance within the context of the exhibtion Evan Ifekoya ~ Resonant Frequencies

Date: Thursday, April 28, 2022, 6:30 to 7:30 pm
Location: In the museum
With: Ivy Monteiro

In the three-part performance series "The Welcome", the exhibition Evan Ifekoya ~ Resonant Frequencies becomes a place for encounter, healing, and community. Artists Maïa Nunes & Rory White (Dublin), Legion Seven (Berlin) and Ivy Monteiro (Zurich) invite the visitors to become part of an expanded collective experience through sound, music and dance.

• This event is free of charge.
• No registration required.

Ivy Monteiro
Ivy Monteiro (from São Paulo, Brazil) has a BA in Fine Arts and Performance in Zurich (ZHDK) and a BA in Social Communication (Anhembi Morumbi). Ivy is a developer of practices and performative roles in dance, music and theatre performance, for small and big stages. They are a natural shapeshifter, re-imagining and re-conceptualizing femininity, gender, social and race through (dis)identification in a post-colonial perspective. Under the name „Mother Tropikahl B. Poderosa“, they are the leader of the Pioneer House of B. Poderosa, first kiki house in Switzerland.  Since 2017, Ivy has been active in the international Vogue and Ballroom scene. Their work has been presented in galleries, theaters and museums like Counterpulse (San Francisco) or The Museum of Image and Sound (São Paulo) among others and in festivals like the Queer Biennial II (Los Angeles), Zürich Moves! (Zurich), in the Opening of the Swiss Pavillon for the Venice Biennale 2019 and most recently in Theatre Spektakel Zuerich (2021).