CRIA.TUA _ Água

Performance II/V of CRIA.TUA The performance “Água” refers to the element of water. The costume, created in collaboration with the artist Maria Martinez, uses plastic as its central material—not only because of its light-transmitting qualities, which recall the play of light underwater, but also as a symbol of the pollution that inhabits our oceans. This costume transforms the artist Pirii Pimentel Rodrigues not only into a layer of waste—a kind of creature struggling to breathe—but also functions as a sound instrument within the performance. The garment envelops Pirii like a cloak made of remnants, assembled as a collage of layers of translucent plastic, bubble wrap, blister packaging, sleeves, and industrial plastic leftovers. Between sound and silence, “Água” becomes a sonic portrait of the fragility of both body and nature, in which breathing signifies resistance and plastic paradoxically becomes both an instrument of life and a means of suffocation. Recorded on 23 October 2025 at noef noef Atelier, Luzern (Switzerland) by La Pataconera. #CRIA_TUA #soloperformance #noefnoefatelier #soundartist #experimentalmusic #performanceart #artisticcollaboration #liveperformance #piriipimentelrodrigues