FUGA FUTURA - livia rita
Livia Rita is coming to Germany and Amsterdam with their upcoming album & eclectic live performance FUGA FUTURA.
05/07/22 - Kassel / ruruHAUS, Documenta - 7pm (installation from 4pm - 6pm)
08/07/22 - Hamburg / ASTRA STUBE - 9.30pm
23/07/22- Amsterdam / SEXYLAND - 9.30pm
Contact: Livia Rita on liv@liviarita.com (+41 75 492 454 99) or Ellora (press) on avantgardeners@liviarita.com
FUGA FUTURA
FUGA FUTURA is Livia Rita’s upcoming debut album, to be released on 2nd September, which has expanded into worlds, identities, and immersive concerts across its conception and development. Livia Rita is building a queer future-oriented mythology of hybrid identities and fantastical creatures to foreground an imaginative response to the climate crisis. It is a visceral performance combining ‘mystic eco-pop’ music with self-designed ArtFashion, sculpture and dance choreography, spurring visions of queer utopias and environmental dystopias.
MUSIC
Livia Rita’s vision should enchant and bewitch, offering a new style of sensual, intuitive pop music from the occult world that casts spells upon the future. Mixing electronic earthy beats with clear romantic vocals and misty experimental synths, Livia Rita is forming her own eclectic genre-defying sound, stretching beyond pop boundaries into a fluid post-everything era. She subverts with each musical venture - as wild, brutal textures meet fragile, otherworldly melodies in adventurous and gut-wrenchingly emotional ways. These internal outpourings sing your mind into the future, beyond the apocalypse, making music a source of fierce and fiery strength.
Vision
Livia Rita and the Avantgardeners want to offer fertile soil for growing new identities, ones that can connect us back to the earth and each other in this increasingly disconnected state of existence. This is part of the movement to reclaim our identities as beings within nature, not outside of it. FUGA FUTURA will offer us a futuristic coven where we can explore ourselves, form alliances, shelter from the system and join forces to open the portal to an alternative reality.
FUTURA Glitchting into a night…
FUTURA Glitch builds upon the FUGA FUTURA concert by sharing the space with local artists - creating a much needed space for communal healing and empowerment. It bridges the gap between queer club nights, daytime climate protest and community activity, bringing the collective rituals of dance as resistance into softer social environments, where whispers can be heard and dreams can be held. We have just finished touring the UK with FUTURA evenings, with a premiere at Sadler’s Wells. Every concert evening contains elements of Glitch.
LIVIA RITA
Born in the remote alps before creating their life in the UK, Livia Rita is everything you would expect an alpine witch to be: a vibrant polymath deeply instilled within nature. Livia Rita’s resonant, multimedia practice combines sculptural, performative, choreographic and auditory elements at the intersection of pop culture, music and visual art. She explores the oscillating relationship between gender, body and nature, questioning how our sense of identity is subject to change: hybridity is central. For Livia Rita, the awakening of speculative worlds is a valuable vehicle for sociopolitical transformation. In her practice, she pursues deeper climate awareness and new forms of otherness through the formation of expansive, experiential, immersive worlds and new identities. A processual approach favours interactive, dialogic exhibition formats and multi-sensory experiences, evoking futuristic scenarios. In other words: hallucinatory worlds are brought ever closer to hungry participants, many of whom yearn for the kind of worldmaking that Livia Rita’s artistry offers.
PRESS FOTOS: https://www.picdrop.com/liviaritaheim/hwhboRuJ4v
THE AVANTGARDENERS
The Avantgardeners are a community / swampy collective that grew from Livia Rita’s work and encompasses all dimensions of collaboration and co-creation. Worldmaking strategies are quickly changing from desires into demands. As collective fears of an uncertain future intensified with the pandemic, we saw our relationship to community and intimacy permanently altered. Our interdependencies were made clear: we must stand closer together to overcome the challenges of our time and develop a driving, life-affirming optimism in the face of impending crisis. Only through building communities can we prepare for the future. To this end, the Avantgardeners was born: a swampy, fluxing amalgamation of artists, creatives and activists. Avantgardeners projects are supported by Avantgardeners Productions and Avantgardeners Studio, both of which are fledgeling strands in the process of establishing themselves. The projects range from concerts and performances to workshops, exhibitions and films. Avantgardeners Studio is the making-atelier of the Avantgardeners, where creatives share their skills to develop new ideas and objects for Avantgardeners projects and productions.
Music video: AGE OF FATALITY
ARTFASHION
ArtFashion is Livia Rita’s designs brought to life. These handmade garments are an integral part of Livia Rita’s immersive vision of the future, wherein cosmic and terrestrial alliances are made. Each wearable sculpture creates a second skin, transforming the wearer to the creature within. ArtFashion is purposefully anti-commercial – a response to the reckless destruction of the global fashion industry – instead foregrounding sustainability, individuality and DIY culture. Rather than appropriating the structure of a commercial brand, we follow our curiosity and experiment with interdisciplinary collaboration, different production processes and new formats of fashion. Livia Rita and the Avantgardeners Collective strive for consistent progression and adaptation, both artistically and ethically.
Trailer for the premiere at Sadler’s Wells in may 2022
Photos of FUTURA @Sadler’s Wells
Photos by Likphotographe & Roxy Hervé. Performers : Leah Marojevic, Felix Dobson, Rosalie Pearce Bell