Nástio Mosquito
“Respectable Thief”
World premiere

S.E.F.A. live performance of Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, 2015
© Lara Buchmann
- Duration 45 min
- In English and Portuguese
Past Dates
“I am not interdisciplinary. I am a hustler … a good one.”
With his charismatic and at the same time provocative performances, videos, music and poetry, multimedia artist Nástio Mosquito brings a raw new voice into contemporary art. His work shows an intense commitment to the open-ended potential of language. Easily misread as a kind of world weariness, it is the extraordinary expression of an urgent desire to engage with reality at all levels. In 2015, Birmingham’s IKON Gallery presented his first solo exhibition “Daily Lovemaking”, followed by a powerful show at the 56th Venice Biennale. With his new, immersive and visually powerful piece “Respectable Thief”, Mosquito combines video, music and live-performance to celebrate a productive, consequent, articulate and eloquent anger, and the power it has to instigate motion in communal social environments.
A Nástio Mosquito recipe
Written by Nástio Mosquito
Developed by Nástio Mosquito & Vic Pereiró
Project coordination for ZZZZZ Creative Projects Godelieve Mosquito
Music Nástio Mosquito & DZZZZ Band remixed by Seiji
Video Vic Pereiró