performance & installation artist
AUSTRALIAN / DUTCH / ITALIAN
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"My process-driven practice negotiates the animate and inanimate, materiality and immateriality, intent and unknowing.
I'm interested in how intuition, memory, desire and perceived permission interact in improvised performance and collaborative processes. My past works observe the vulnerability, connectivity and transient nature of humanity; we are always both responding and a product of responses. Deeply invested in dance and other embodied practices, I value the art of letting go as much as accessing the new." Luigi Vescio |
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Biography
Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Luigi Vescio is a cross-disciplinary artist creating works for theatres, galleries, digital and outdoor spaces. From a queer feminist perspective, his practice engages with ideas pertaining to memory, intuition, authorship, sexuality and desire. His recent work enquires into the changing accessibility of intimacy in an increasingly individualistic and digitalised society.
Luigi’s work has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, Temperance Hall, Dancehouse, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Chunky Move, Performance Space, PACT, Diversitat, Nillumbik Shire Council, City of Greater Geelong, EIRA (Portugal), Polo Cultural Gaivotas Boavista and the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (Lisbon City Council).
Luigi has performed and collaborated with a diverse range of artists and companies throughout Australia, New Zealand and Europe, including Chunky Move / Anouk van Dijk, Phillip Adams / BalletLab, Rebecca Jensen, James Batchelor, Jimmy Nuttall, John Romão, Stephanie Lake, Rafael Alvarez, Graeme Murphy AO, Tasdance, Mariana Tengner Baros, Andrew Treloar, The Delta Project, Ho Tzu Nyen, Footnote New Zealand Dance, Sarah Foster-Sproull and Otto Ramstad & Olive Bieringa (BodyCartography Project).
Luigi was nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Performer in a Dance Production 2018 for his performance in Harrison Hall's 'The Venusian Slip'. Luigi is a 2018 DanceWEB Europe scholarship recipient under the mentorship of Florentina Holzinger and Meg Stuart. In 2017 he received a travel grant from the Ian Potter Cultural Trust to undertake two residencies in Lisbon, Portugal.
Luigi shares his passion for dance by teaching classes and facilitating workshops at primary, secondary and tertiary schools, and companies such as Chunky Move, Tasdance, Melbourne City Ballet and The Delta Project. These opportunities allow him to digest and share magical findings that aid living within the human body and amongst other bodies.
Luigi is currently studying a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Luigi is a graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance. Previously he trained at Brent Street Academy, Synergy Performance Studios and Warringah Performing Arts, whilst also completing his secondary schooling in Sydney. He excelled in academics, receiving an ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) of 99.1/100 and the New South Wales Premier’s All Rounder Award for achieving 90+ in every subject.
Luigi’s work has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, Temperance Hall, Dancehouse, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Chunky Move, Performance Space, PACT, Diversitat, Nillumbik Shire Council, City of Greater Geelong, EIRA (Portugal), Polo Cultural Gaivotas Boavista and the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (Lisbon City Council).
Luigi has performed and collaborated with a diverse range of artists and companies throughout Australia, New Zealand and Europe, including Chunky Move / Anouk van Dijk, Phillip Adams / BalletLab, Rebecca Jensen, James Batchelor, Jimmy Nuttall, John Romão, Stephanie Lake, Rafael Alvarez, Graeme Murphy AO, Tasdance, Mariana Tengner Baros, Andrew Treloar, The Delta Project, Ho Tzu Nyen, Footnote New Zealand Dance, Sarah Foster-Sproull and Otto Ramstad & Olive Bieringa (BodyCartography Project).
Luigi was nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Performer in a Dance Production 2018 for his performance in Harrison Hall's 'The Venusian Slip'. Luigi is a 2018 DanceWEB Europe scholarship recipient under the mentorship of Florentina Holzinger and Meg Stuart. In 2017 he received a travel grant from the Ian Potter Cultural Trust to undertake two residencies in Lisbon, Portugal.
Luigi shares his passion for dance by teaching classes and facilitating workshops at primary, secondary and tertiary schools, and companies such as Chunky Move, Tasdance, Melbourne City Ballet and The Delta Project. These opportunities allow him to digest and share magical findings that aid living within the human body and amongst other bodies.
Luigi is currently studying a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Luigi is a graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance. Previously he trained at Brent Street Academy, Synergy Performance Studios and Warringah Performing Arts, whilst also completing his secondary schooling in Sydney. He excelled in academics, receiving an ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) of 99.1/100 and the New South Wales Premier’s All Rounder Award for achieving 90+ in every subject.
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