Photo Credit: Bruno Freire
We are delighted to announce that BUZZCUT Festival, in collaboration with IPAF (Warehouse9, Copenhagen)and FLAM Festival (Festival of Live Art Amsterdam) are one of the cohort of festivals that have been awarded support from the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA, to support and offer emerging artists a platform to develop their careers on a European level through residencies and network opportunities.
The performer and musician Mavi Veloso will be the artist supported by the cohort in developing an international tour and live concert of her transgenre electronic pop album, Travesti Biológica, an album that celebrates the beauty of trans and non-binary bodies.
Travesti Biológica was released in January 2022. The project is composed by a series of music videos making up a visual album, focusing on Mavi's personal stories as a Latin American travesti migrating from Brazil to Europe, and the diaspora of trans women, for reasons of oppression, survival, and the need to discover new horizons.
The EFFEA grant will support the development of the album into a performative concert through a residency with FLAM and presentations at BUZZCUT and IPAF.
The Artist
Mavi Veloso is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist, currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Transdisciplinary by passion, she integrates her experience as a performer, visual artist, dancer, actress, singer and music producer in powerful stage performances combining pop with different styles such as R&B, trap, hip hop, synthpop, dance etc. Mavi is a chameleon and likes to do trannycrafts, confusing, questioning, delighting and enlightening our minds while we dance
The Festivals
FLAM:
FLAM operates as a group exhibition presenting works with backgrounds in various art languages that have in common the urge to be presented live. The platform supports cross-pollination thinking and practices, opening space for multiple forms of diversity to arise, mix and dialogue.
Their mission is to offer space for artists to dare experiment and exercise autonomy, showing performances which emerge from intrinsic research. FLAM offers young artists a platform to present their first works, and ‘on the road’ makers to grow further by exploring new ideas and keep developing. Each edition receives artists working in the Netherlands and from countries across the world such as England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, Chile, U.S.A, Australia, Poland, France, among others.
IPAF
IPAF is a biannual international performance festival produced by the multidisciplinary art and performance organisation Warehouse9. The festival is an extension of the organisations focus to support the development and presentation of work and ideas by LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners.
The Festival unfolds across the city of Copenhagen and presents genre-blurring work that engages with identity politics, sexual expressions and body representations. The Festival is based on the belief that performance can provide different perspectives and ways to understand reality, inspire collective imagining and advocate for better and more just futures. The festival’s focus is as a gathering. Gathering a community around work made by queer artists and connecting people, places, work and ideas.
Travesti Biológica - Concert development & international Tour is supported by the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists – EFFEA, co-funded by the European Union.