The human being is an organic machine, and inside this complex mechanism happens many thoughts, reactions, internal projections, and status definitions that might build or destroy concepts and meanings of lifetimes in an instant. It is difficult to be a human. Almost all of us, consciously or unconsciously, are afraid to deal with ourselves. And this search for identity and social struggle with the insides, and the projection of it to “the other”, to the “public” space, is the main inspiration for my creational process. The body is a vessel to this lovely chaos called the human mind, human soul. THE BODY, my own body, because I see myself in the works that I do. This acknowledgment brings my work to an undoubtable performative level. But I try to keep the diversities of medias in which I work always very broad, from musical and dance performances, to clothing design, to illustrations, to photography. All those medias are very important for me to keep on reinventing ways of working. And at the same time it helps me to challenge my self in new methods of expression and possible collaborations with other artists. In my practice I look very carefully at different symbols and images of femininity in our history and social dimensions, creating new propositions how to envision gender that could at the same time suggest identification as well as disidentification. I find myself also very interested in bringing together context of how and where I have grown up to connect with context of new cultures, new points of views, resulting in the exposition from constant fluid movements of borders in self recognition processes.







Planets
PAST SHOWS

12/12/2017
SHOW
AUNT CHARLES LOUNGE (SAN FRANCISCO)

04/12/2017
SHOW
EL RIO (SAN FRANCISCO)

16/11/2017
SHOW
THE STUD (SAN FRANCISCO)

09/11/2017
SHOW
THE EDGE (SAN FRANCISCO)

27/10/2017
SHOW
LES BELLES DE NUIT (ZURICH)

21/10/2017
SHOW
DEEP TRASH (LONDON)

18/10/2017
SHOW
BAR WOTEVER (LONDON)

UPCOMING SHOWS

03/02/2018
SHOW: 21:00
KEINE DISZIPLIN, INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL GESSNERALLEE (ZURICH)

MARCH 2018
TANZHAUS
ZURICH MOVES (ZURICH)

Ivan Monteiro (from São Paulo, Brazil) has a BA in Multimedia and Performance in Zurich (ZHDK) and a BA in Social Communication (Anhembi Morumbi). Ivan is a developer of practices and performative roles in Dance, Music and Visual Arts. He is a natural shapeshifter, reimagining and reconceptualizing femininity, gender, social and race through disidentification. Ancestrality and Spirituality are reshaped and envisioned in queer futuristic pieces where the artist takes place as protagonist most of the time. Ivan also goes by the name “Tropikahl Pussy”, an alter gender bender ego, producing “draglesque” and live music performances.
2017
ARTISTIC RESIDENCY
(GLOART) LANAKEN, BELGIUM

2016
ARTISTIC RESIDENCY
CITY OF ZURICH
AUSLANDATELIER ODC THEATRE
(SAN FRANCISCO, USA)

2012-2017
BA IN MEDIA ARTS
ZHDK ZURICH (ZURICH, SWITZERLAND)

2011
PREPARATION YEAR
ZHDK ZURICH (ZURICH, SWITZERLAND)

2016-2009
BA IN SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
ANHEMBI MORUMBI UNIVERSITY
MORUMBI, SÃO PAULO,
BRASIL