Lavinia Xausa

community - cross-over - documentair - film - fotografie

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 by 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 per Joined Narratives

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 10-12-2020 t/m 04-07-2021
    • Locatie: 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 - KUNST­AVOND RA­DIO

    Performance

    • 07-05-2021
    • In samenwerking met: TENT
    • Locatie: Worm, Rotterdam
    • ENT pre­sen­teert “Off-Sho­re”, een con­cept al­bum, ge­re­gis­see­rd door La­vi­nia Xau­sa in sa­men­wer­king met de Rot­ter­dam­se spo­ken-word kun­ste­naars en mu­zi­kan­ten Neu­sa Gomes, Kiki Luit­wie­ler, Ke­vin Jo­si­as, Ad­eiye Tjon, Rik Zut­phen, Ken­ny Gomes, Shi­va Wil­lem, Jephan Es­se­boom, en Is­mael Lo.
    • https://dekunstavond.nl/2021/04/kunstavond-radio/

    Dance Dictatorship

    Performance

    • 24-04-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Marta Worner, Jetty Steffers
    • Locatie: 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 samenwerking met: Marta Worner, Alberto Granada
    • Locatie: Roodkapje, Rotterdam
    • As part of the HCA 2020 program, resident artist Lavinia Xausa organises 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 around Populists and Cults

    Lezing

    HCA 2020: With Open Arms

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 01-10-2020
    • In samenwerking met: Danielle Hoogendoorn, Rafiq Abbasov, Iriée Zamblé, Gill Baldwin
    • Locatie: 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

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 18-07-2020 t/m 20-09-2020
    • In samenwerking met: Plenty
    • Locatie: Museum Belvédère, Afslag 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

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 19-06-2020 t/m 19-07-2020
    • In samenwerking met: Silvia B., Antye Guenther, Steven Maybury, Jochem Rotteveel, Olivier Scheffer
    • Locatie: 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 time.
    • https://catalogue.garagerotterdam.nl/en/catalogues/43/

    Opening | HCA 2020: Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 14-02-2020
    • In samenwerking met: Danielle Hoogendoorn, Rafiq Abbasov, Iriée Zamblé, Gill Baldwin
    • Locatie: 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

    De Brakkere Grond | Time Window X Amsterdam Fringe Festival

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    OPEN DOEK FESTIVAL PREMIÈRES: EVEN LEKKER HUNKEREN “Altijd dat ene andere willen”

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    Elektro Arts Festival

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • t/m 01-05-2019
    • In samenwerking met: Oana Clitan, Mihai Gui, Nikos Kostopoulos
    • Locatie: Gallery Casa Matei, Cluj-Napoca
    • media art festival

    Hubbub Le Scope

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 17-11-2017
    • In samenwerking met: Oana Clitan, Mihai Gui, Nikos Kostopoulos
    • Locatie: 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 analysing how we look at it.
    • https://www.facebook.com/events/1839407146351455

    Really Real at Organ Vida

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    There is something about my family

    • 20-05-2016
    • In samenwerking met: AKV Master fellows
    • Locatie: EYE Museum , Amsterdam
    • Breure en Van Hulzen leverden het vertrekpunt voor het EYE-project door het thema “There is something about my family” te verbinden met het scenario van Scènes uit een huwelijk van Ingmar Bergman. Aan de hand van een fragment uit de eerste veertig pagina”s van het script, bestaande uit drie lange dialoogscènes, maakt iedere student een nieuw werk. Alles is mogelijk: fotografie, performance, tekst, film, found footage etc. Filmmaker en docent Noud Heerkens begeleidt het research-lab.
    • https://www.eyefilm.nl/nl/whats-on/there-is-something-about-my-family-research-lab-akv-st-joost/270229

    Erkenningen

      Stipendium

    • Makersloket, Droom en Daad, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • Music Production support, Popunie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    • 2020
      Stipendium

    • Production support, Amarte Fund, The Netherlands

    • 2020
      Stipendium

    • Tijdelijke Werkbijdrage Productie, Presentatie en Research, CBK, Rotterdam

    • 2020
      Stipendium

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

    • 2020
      Stipendium

    • Stipendium for Emerging Artists, Mondriaan Fund, The Netherlands

    • 2019
      Stipendium

    • Regeling Incidentele Bijdrage Buitenland, CBK Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    • 2018
      Stipendium

    • Research and development grant, CBK Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    • 2018
      Stipendium

    • Re:vive initiative, Beeld en Geluid Archief, The Netherlands

    • 2018
      Stipendium

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

    • 2016