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NEVER-ENDING STORIES

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Never-Ending Stories (work in progress)

Never-Ending Stories is a participatory performance by Lola Lustosa inspired by the book Question and Answer (Graded Oral Comprehension Exercises) by L. G. Alexander (Longman, 1967).

In the book, Alexander writes that learning a language is similar to learning a musical instrument: the goal is to perform publicly while making as few mistakes as possible. Taking this idea as a starting point, the performance transforms language learning into a playful social encounter.

During the performance, audience members are invited—one by one—to choose a story title, share a cup of tea, and begin a game of collective storytelling. The work breaks with the traditional structure of narrative and allows new stories to emerge through improvisation between the artist and participants.

Never-Ending Stories was first performed in Berlin in 2015 inside a small Chinese tea shop in Mitte. The space no longer exists, but the spirit of the project continues: to travel, meet strangers, and generate new stories together.

The long-term vision of the project is to travel on a cruise from Europe to South America, interacting daily with passengers. Each encounter will be filmed and eventually edited into a feature film.

In collaboration with: Musterzimmer
www.musterzimmer.net

The project is currently looking for partners and collaborators.

 

FUCK YOUR SELF

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Fuck Yourself, 2014
Collage/Installation

WINTER COLLAGE : For Musterzimmer’s individual and collaborative works at Meinblau Projektraum, located in the historical site of Pfefferberg in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.

EGO OPEN FOREVER

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EGO OPEN FOREVER

The Virus Inside the Virus

(ongoing digital performance / installation proposal)

EGO OPEN FOREVER is an ongoing digital performance by artist Lola Lustosa that investigates identity, ego construction, and self-representation in the age of social media.

The project began as an intervention using the platform Facebook—what the artist describes as “the biggest ego manager in history.” On the opening day, Lustosa took over the news feeds of more than 600 people for approximately three hours, posting a continuous sequence of self-portraits accompanied by fragments of her personal story. Through this action, she created what she calls a “virtual sculpture of the ego.”

By deliberately revealing intimate aspects of her life, the project explores the tension between what is shown and what is felt, questioning how digital platforms shape our identities and emotional landscapes.

The work functions as an open and continuous exhibition within the social media environment, accessible twenty-four hours a day through the digital network.

The series currently consists of 584 self-portraits and continues to grow.

The Virus Inside the Virus

We live in an artificial world — a virtual world.
We have closed the doors to a universal connection. In order to sustain this world of illusions we destroy living systems: trees, rivers, soil, water, and the organisms that repeat millenary flows of existence.

We produce waste that has nowhere left to go. Society becomes infantilized through the constant consumption of this waste.

With EGO OPEN FOREVER, the artist proposes to act as a virus inside the virus — an opposing force that disturbs the system from within. The work seeks to reopen the possibility of emotional and physical reconnection with what truly matters.

We have all acquired the same disease: the system.
To reconnect with the cosmos, the system must be broken.

— Lola Lustosa, Berlin, 2012

Flux

Everything is true. The hysteria is natural.

We are living through a moment of transformation in which previous structures of identity dissolve while we continue looking at them through old frameworks. The real tension today lies in confronting the possibility of existing without a fixed identity.

Our connections accelerate while we simultaneously long for slowness. Speed and slow motion merge, stretching time and perception. Humanity becomes a collective mass attempting to move beyond outdated narratives toward a new existential consciousness.

— Lola Lustosa, Berlin, 2013

Digital Performance

The digital performance EGO OPEN FOREVER consists of a growing series of self-portraits produced by the artist since 2005.

Initially created as a spontaneous and intuitive gesture, the images gradually became a personal archive reflecting instincts, ideas, frustrations, relationships, pride, failure, and persistence.

“I began taking these pictures as a random game.
With time I realized their deeper meaning: they became a door to my instincts, ideas, frustrations, happiness, relationships, pride, and failures.

They are proof of my persistence in life.

Now I have the courage and the pleasure to share these private reflections with you.”

— Lola Lustosa

“For those not interested in ego trips: please don’t come in.”

Physical Installation (proposal)

The project can also be presented as a physical installation transforming the digital archive into a spatial experience:

• hundreds of small printed self-portraits forming a sculptural wall
• texts accompanying the images
• headphones with music referenced in the digital archive
• projections of the social media feed
• mirrors or reflective elements placing the viewer inside the “ego sculpture”

In this format the digital performance becomes a physical environment of identity and reflection.

The project could also take the form of an artist book.

The artist is currently seeking partners and exhibition spaces to realize this installation format.

Recognition and Context

The project has been mentioned in Wall Street International and has been presented in artistic contexts including Fundação Iberê Camargo.

Exhibition

The digital exhibition has been open since
23 March 2012 — 19:30 (Berlin time)

Website
https://lolalustosa.com/ego-open-forever/

Archive
https://www.facebook.com/EGOOPENFOREVER

All images © Lola Lustosa

 

timeline Original format:  Lola Lustosa, OPEN SINCE 23/03/2012. 19:30

FACEBOOK

SPACES IN COMPOSITION

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Spaces in Composition

Spaces in Composition is one of the earliest video artworks by Lola Lustosa. The piece emerges from an ongoing exploration of visual composition, investigating the layered dimensions of image, space, and perception.

Through the camera and the editing process, the work searches for relationships between movement, rhythm, and spatial depth. The composition unfolds through overlapping visual planes, creating a dialogue between structure and abstraction. In this process, the image becomes a field where different layers of space interact and transform.

The sound environment draws inspiration from the experimental music of John Cage, whose work explores rhythm, chance, and the musical potential of everyday actions.

Direction / Conception / Camera / Editing / Sound Design: Lola Lustosa

Music based on: Living Room Music 1 and Ocean of Sound by John Cage

Place / Year: Rio de Janeiro, 2008

CHANTAL – If i Could Take a Light (remix)

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Artist : Chantal
Production : Arttu Nieminen and Lola Lustosa | R2 production & Musterzimmer production

“La luce inarrivabile” della nostra esistenza è il senso del video. della canzone in se.
Il video è un modo di esprimere tutto ciò in una forma astratta, attraverso anche lo studio della luce ed il suo comportamento in contrasto al darkstep di Chantal.
(Chantal – Arttu Nieminen – Lola Lustosa)

||| CHANTAL |||
Chantal was born in the middle of 2010, after his arrival in Berlin.
It is thanks to the city discovers that, different ways of facing the music at the city level, daily interactions with artists and because of what happened is the involuntary exchange of ideas that found chantal …..
Chantal is a rock band from prior projects, and is now experimenting with a group, to present the impact of electronic music and dance.
Chantal hears: rock, indie, post hardcore, noise, dub / step, drum and bass, british psychedelic pop, metal, industrial, reggae, dance hall, ………… so on and so forth ……..
I believe in music, I believe in my fucking wallet and saw him say 30 years ago did not need this to get to an end, I believe in my mother sees me from heaven in this believe, I believe in nature and in his works of art, I think each one has a destiny but we can manipulate it according to some coincidences in life I lived and looked from different perspectives, I orgasm and I think that the only certainty in this fucking life.

Etichetta: http://www.thesoundsystem.eu/
Link : http://soundcloud.com/manu-sciama
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chantal..

LITLE STORM

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First single from “Worthless”, debut album from berliner duo Zäil.
Wasabi Produzioni 2014.

Concept: Lola Lustosa
Direction & montage: Lola Lustosa
Cameras: Lola Lustosa, Alana Lake
Colorgrading: Arttu Nieminen
Featuring: Stefano Sechi, Vera Vilhelmina

Musterzimmer / Wasabi Produzioni 2014

LITTLE STORM

The music video “Little Storm” made for ZÄIL is a tribute to life and nature. The video comes in the format of an intuitive story about The Myths of Adam & Eve getting alive in psychological danger. Paradise is no longer safe. The music expresses a protest of a human, that wishes to be heard, that wants to stop the unnatural progress of society, but no longer is listened and come ‘s out as a deep r lyrics and beats.

Adam & Eve feels the dangerous of there classical renaissance image while being together with the thoughts of mass control of the system, injustice, war, religious rape and factual pain.

The woman and the man are the same Mother Nature. They represent a contemporary dialogue of mind between dark and light, thoughts and reality, hope and fear. Let’s face the facts we must look back to nature.

 

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Dürer

“A Queda do Homem”

 

BETWEEN

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The video dance performance explores the idea of being between points, without a defined beginning or end. The piece values the creative process and focuses on the experience of living an idea before it takes formal shape—remaining open to many directions, yet with a single visible path represented by the stairs.

The stairs, a surrealist symbol, represent the inner world of the individual, capable of bringing together different phases without distinction of chronological time. The human body becomes the vehicle for these mental ellipses, navigating the attempts and experiments that unfold throughout this process.

Concept / Choreography: Lola Lustosa
Performers: Lola Lustosa and Carmen Lustosa Gaul
Music: Benedikt Stehle
Photography: Christian Gaul
Sound Recording: Philipp von Rothkirch
Costume: Anne Gaul (O’ESTUDIO)
Editing: Atilio Menéndez, Léo Almeida, Lola Lustosa, Sofia Karan

Rio de Janeiro, 2010

SKIN TO SKIN (Péle a Péle)

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SKIN TO SKIN (Péle a Péle)

Inspired by the film Lygia: From Skin to Skin by Helena Lustosa and by the ideas of Lygia Clark—particularly her concept of shedding or losing the skin as a process of transformation—the performance and installation Skin to Skin, by Lola Lustosa and Mari Stockler, transforms and transcends the human body into sculpture. The work originates in the body and evolves into a new body, both complete in their existence. Like a snake or a scorpion shedding its skin, it leaves behind an image in order to open itself to new possibilities.

Performance / Installation: Lola Lustosa and Mari Stockler
Video editing: Lola Lustosa
Camera: Mari Stockler and Carlito Carvalhosa
Music: Arto Lindsay
Photography: Christian Gaul

Duration: approx. 30 minutes

Venue: Center of Art Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro
Year: 2010

 

 

CAPITAVEIS “YOU CAUGHT”

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CAPITAVEIS “YOU CAUGHT”

Light has a meaning that goes beyond color, beyond incidence or reflection itself. As I see it, light is the greatest evidence of the passage of time. In this work, I explore the search to connect two universes—the micro, my starting point, and the macro, whose limits I cannot know. These are abstractions of the mind, simple questions, pure points of interrogation, and the absence of answers.

Dimensions: Each photograph 120 × 100 cm
Process: C-prints
Edition: 10 + AP
Year: 2008

ESTUDANTINA

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Estudantina is a sequence of moments derived from a short performance. It presents six seconds across six photographs. As in both photography and dance, the work focuses on capturing and defining a precise moment. Exposure time is what renders everything visible. The gesture within the sequence is one of disappearing into light while simultaneously being revealed through exposure. Lustosa works as a dancer, performer, and photographer, and her practice often combines these three elements.

Medium: Photomontage
Dimensions: 240 × 300 cm; each photograph 120 × 100 cm
Process: C-prints
Edition: 5 + AP
Year: 2008