​Pêdra Costa

​Pêdra Costa is an anthropologist and performer based in Vienna/Berlin and studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Hers work is informed by the aesthetics of post-porn and an investigation about decolonial concepts. In Sound Acts, Pedra presented a performance and video that blends drag queer, D.I.Y. and post-porn with the beats of Baile Funk, a genre from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. The performance uses Baile Funk as a tool of political resistance, and distorting its initial form, it promotes a true explosion of cathartic dance and politics. Pêdra's explosive performance, which resulted to an on-stage dance-orgy had the Sound Acts audience jumping along to Baile Funk till the end of the night. Pedra also organised alongside Michelle Mattiuzzi and Jota Mombaça a performance workshop at AMOQA.
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