NEWART centre – Centro de arte digital y tecnológico en Reus

São Paulo, 1954.

Analivia Cordeiro

Analivia Cordeiro is a dancer, choreographer, and architect. She studied the Laban Method of dance in Brazil and modern dance with Alvin Nikolais, Merce Cunningham, and Gus Solomons Jr., as well as at the Viola Farber Dance Studios in New York, and later studied the Eutony Body Method in Brazil. She holds a degree in Architecture from the University of São Paulo (Brazil), a Master’s degree in Multimedia from the University of Campinas, and a PhD in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP, Brazil.

Considered one of the pioneers of video art in Brazil, she has created both performances and videos. Of particular importance is a system of notation for human movement, “Nota Anna”, based on the Laban Method. Her work has been exhibited in several countries including the United States, Switzerland, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.

Her work is included in international collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC USP), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Oskar Schlemmer Archives, the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt, the Victoria & Albert Museum (England Museum of Modern Art), and MoMA, among others.

Her work “M3X3” won the 10th edition of the ARCO-BEEP Electronic Art Award.

Work in the collection: M3X3

https://www.analivia.com.br/

M3X3, 1973

It is a computer dance created for television (in 1973 there was no VHS in Brazil), considered the first Brazilian video art work. The performers are regularly positioned in a 3×3 matrix, in a high-contrast black-and-white scene, and move mechanically as a critique of digital society.