Lavinia Xausa

community - crossover - documentary - film - photography

Lavinia Xausa was born in 1992 in Bassano del Grappa, Italy. She studied at the faculty of Literature and Philosophy in Bologna where she earned her bachelor's degree with honors in Visual culture and media studies in 2015. In 2017 she accomplished her master's degree in photography at AKV St. Joost in the Netherlands.

She works, lives and pretends to learn Dutch in Rotterdam, where she is an artist in residence at the Hamburger Community of Art at Roodkapje (2020-2021).

The center of her artistic practice consists in applying semiotics and sacred art research to an ongoing, participatory art practice, by involving groups of people on self-analysis and auto-recognition of their own role in history.

In 2018 she received the Research and Development grant awarded by CBK Rotterdam foundation (NL) for her project Further than Hip Hop and in 2019 she achieved the Stipendium for emerging Artists by the Mondriaan Fund. Her works have been shown at Noorderlicht International Photography Festival, (NL), Organ Vida (HR) and Tent (NL)

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    • Further than Hip Hop by Joined Narratives

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 10-12-2020 t/m 04-07-2021
    • Location: Tent, Rotterdam
    • In three solo presentations, Joined Narratives shows work by the young filmmakers Katarina Jazbec, Lavinia Xausa and Heidi Vogels, created in close collaboration with the protagonists. The narrative film works brought together by curator Mariska van den Berg question how experiences of exclusion, uprooting and loss – which are hidden from view – can be visualized and put into words, and made tangible and discussable. The emotional world, memory, desire and imagination are key.
    • https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/en/tentoonstelling/joined-narratives/

    Off-Shore Listening Session - ART EVENING RADIO

    Performance

    • 07-05-2021
    • In collaboration with: TENT
    • Location: Worm, Rotterdam
    • ENT presents “Off-Shore”, a concept album, directed by Lavinia Xausa in collaboration with the Rotterdam spoken-word artists and musicians Neusa Gomes, Kiki Luitwieler, Kevin Josias, Adeiye Tjon, Rik Zutphen, Kenny Gomes, Shiva Willem, Jephan Esseboom , and Ishmael Lo.
    • https://dekunstavond.nl/2021/04/kunstavond-radio/

    Dance Dictatorship

    Performance

    • 24-04-2021
    • In collaboration with: Marta Worner, Jetty Steffers
    • Location: Nineties Productions, Amsterdam
    • And something extra, on two of the eight weeks DjJJJ present Dance Dictatorship: a guided collective physical experience displayed online that takes the format of a virtual and performative DJ set with related audiovisual stimulus. During the DJ set, life-mixed electronic music, life-voice, and audiovisuals are melted to guide the listeners in the experience of their own body and digital and virtual space around.
    • https://www.ninetiesproductions.nl/artist/djjjj/

    Off-Shore listening session at Tent

    Performance

    Workshop | Truly, Madly, Deeply - 2 days of an Ultra's physical and audio experience

    Workshop

    • 05-12-2020 t/m 06-12-2020
    • In collaboration with: Marta Worner, Alberto Granada
    • Location: Roodkapje, Rotterdam
    • As part of the HCA 2020 program, resident artist Lavinia Xausa organizes and hosts a series of events that allows both her audience and the artist to dive deeper into her practice. Spanning an ongoing research trajectory into the relationships between notions of cults and populism, the goal of this project is to further engage with these topics in both theoretical and practical sense.
    • https://www.facebook.com/events/701770534048917/

    HCA Lecture | Truly, Madly, Deeply - A Conversation about Populists and Cults

    Reading

    HCA 2020: With Open Arms

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-10-2020
    • In collaboration with: Danielle Hoogendoorn, Rafiq Abbasov, Iriee Zamblé, Gill Baldwin
    • Location: Roodkapje, Rotterdam
    • 'With Open Arms' springs from the urge of the Hamburger Community artists to deal with the current challenges of making and presenting art, and to question what being part of an artist-in-residency program can contribute to face these challenges as a whole. As every day now poses new realities, we have to continuously look for new ways of relating, living, and being together.
    • https://www.facebook.com/events/2717851321874965?active_tab=about

    Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2020: Generation Z

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 18-07-2020 t/m 20-09-2020
    • In collaboration with: Plenty
    • Location: Museum Belvédère, Exit BLV, Museum Heerenveen & Noorderlicht Studio, Heerenveen
    • GENERATION Z, the 27th edition of the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, is about the youngest generation of world citizens, born after 1995. What is their place in society, how do they see their future, what are their ambitions? By tapping into the hopes and fears of Generation Z, Noorderlicht aims to provide insight into their young adult world. A sharp selection has been made for the festival, that shows a generation focusing on fundamental emancipation processes.
    • https://www.noorderlicht.com/en/zien-en-doen/programma/noorderlicht-internationaal-fotofestival-2020-generation-z/

    Exhibition Through the Looking Glass

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 19-06-2020 t/m 19-07-2020
    • In collaboration with: Silvia B., Antye Guenther, Steven Maybury, Jochem Rotteveel, Olivier Scheffer
    • Location: Garage Rotterdam, Gotham
    • In this exhibition, the fragility of life is unfurled through the eyes of art. This frailty reveals itself on many levels, such as health and the security of work and income, but also the delicate world order, with its rising tensions both within and between countries. We are living in the Anthropocene, an age shaped by humankind, and yet nowadays we feel more like pinballs. The six Rotterdam-based artists use their work to reflect upon these inauspicious times.
    • https://catalogue.garagerotterdam.nl/en/catalogues/43/

    Opening | HCA 2020: Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 14-02-2020
    • In collaboration with: Danielle Hoogendoorn, Rafiq Abbasov, Iriee Zamblé, Gill Baldwin
    • Location: Roodkapje, Rotterdam
    • The Hamburger Community of Art presents 'Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda', the first group exhibition with the new residents of Roodkapje's year long development trajectory for young and emerging artists, Daniëlle Hoogendoorn, Rafiq Abbasov, Iriée Zamblé, Lavina Xausa, and Gill Baldwin.
    • https://www.facebook.com/events/586841918826977

    The Brakkere Grond | Time Window X Amsterdam Fringe Festival

    Residencies / exchange

    OPEN CURTAIN FESTIVAL PREMIERES: HAVING A GOOD LUCK “Always want that one thing”

    Exhibition / presentation

    Electro Arts Festival

    Exhibition / presentation

    • until 01-05-2019
    • In collaboration with: Oana Clitan, Mihai Gui, Nikos Kostopoulos
    • Location: Gallery Casa Matei, Cluj-Napoca
    • media arts festival

    Hubbub LeScope

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 17-11-2017
    • In collaboration with: Oana Clitan, Mihai Gui, Nikos Kostopoulos
    • Location: Wolfart Project space, Rotterdam
    • The passive engagement of the audience and contemporary image culture are co-dependent. Our vision is inclined to introject the educational background, cultural values ​​and societal codes and to establish them as shared norms for understanding and interpreting the entanglements of what happens around us. An interference, a friction in the scheme, can lead the viewer to a profound reflection of what we actually see, by analyzing how we look at it.
    • https://www.facebook.com/events/1839407146351455

    Really Real at Organ Vida

    Exhibition / presentation

    There's something about my family

    • 20-05-2016
    • In collaboration with: AKV Master fellows
    • Location: EYE Museum, Amsterdam
    • Breure and Van Hulzen provided the starting point for the EYE project by connecting the theme “There is something about my family” with the scenario of Scenes from a marriage by Ingmar Bergman. Each student creates a new work based on an excerpt from the first forty pages of the script, consisting of three long dialogue scenes. Everything is possible: photography, performance, text, film, found footage, etc. Filmmaker and teacher Noud Heerkens supervises the research lab.
    • https://www.eyefilm.nl/nl/whats-on/there-is-something-about-my-family-research-lab-akv-st-joost/270229

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Makers counter, Droom en Daad, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Music Production support, Popunie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • Production support, Amarte Fund, The Netherlands

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • Temporary Work Contribution Production, Presentation and Research, CBK, Rotterdam

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • One year residency at HCA, Roodkapije, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • Stipend for Emerging Artists, Mondriaan Fund, The Netherlands

    • 2019
      Scholarship

    • Regulations for Incidental Contribution Abroad, CBK Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    • 2018
      Scholarship

    • Research and development grant, CBK Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    • 2018
      Scholarship

    • Re:vive initiative, Image and Sound Archive, The Netherlands

    • 2018
      Scholarship

    • 2 months Residency Derivé, Beius Foundation, Berlin, Germany

    • 2016