Date: Saturday 1st April
Time: 22:30 - 23:30
Venue: CCA | Theatre
Accessibility Info: BSL | CC
Age Rating: 14+
Spanning elements of pop, contemporary R&B, hip hop, trap, electropop, synth pop, dance, tecnobrega and reggaeton Travesti Biológica is a transgenre electronic pop album that celebrates the beauty of trans and non-binary bodies: the struggles, resilience and empowerment.
A music album featuring 11 new songs was released in January 2022 with the Brazilian label BicudaRec. Together with it the project is composed by a series of music videos making up a visualalbum 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.
* Travesti is a term used in Brazil and South America as an trans identity where it emerged as a distinct social group. It’s been for a long time used as a pejorative term but was reclaimed as an empowered gender expression.
Credits:
"The project has musical production signed by Mavi in collaboration with Urubu Marinka, Salisme, Fitgirl and executive production by Mavi & BicudaRec.
The visual version of the record won a separate elaboration with direction of Bernardo Zanotta. The whole project has creative direction by Mavi in collaboration with Pauli Scharlach."
Made with support of @afk20 @artseverywhere.ca @detrutamsterdam & 150 funders via @voordekunst
For more info on Travesti Biológica and full credits click here.
This presentation is supported by the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists – EFFEA, co-funded by the European Union. It is presented as part of an ongoing exchange with FLAM (Forum for Live Art Amsterdam) & IPAF (International Performance Art Festival), ran by Warehouse 9 in Copenhagen.
For more info click here.
Mavi Veloso
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 pop and Brazilian rhythms such as tecnobrega, Brazilian funk and others.
Mavi is a chameleon and likes to do trannycrafts, confusing, questioning, delighting and enlightening our minds while we dance. She began her music experiences from a young age, starting with poetry. Over time, she composed first lyrics, taking music making as a parallel activity to her career as performance and visual artist. In the past years Mavi has been diving on her own musical creation, songwriting and producing her own tracks, resulting in the Travesti Biológica, her debut album released in January 2022.
