“Hybrid Viscera”(2024/2023) is an ongoing performance series by Luiza Furtado, which aims to discuss materiality and waste in the Anthropocene.
Interwoven relations of upcycling and dance as community building practices take a central role in the narrative as six dancers interact with fabric membranes in urban space.
This movement of bodies, threads a fictional space in which soft sculptures become prosthetic extensions of limbs. As the performers activate gadgets made with found materials such as ruber, metal and second-hand fabrics.
Embodying both organic and inorganic components present in the city as material for choreography. The artist includes allegorical scenes of machine moves involved in the industrial making of several upcycled elements.
While presenting a sequence of metaphorical acts which assimilate the inner structures that hold a body together: the bones, cartilage and guts. With the outer ones, those framing it on the public space of Vienna: such as rails, fassades and foundations.
The piece plays with a temporary setting in which the performers role shifts in Schillerpark while leading the audience through space to draw together different mobility patterns. 

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Performers: Francis Hirschl, Frederike Gordillo, Leandro Barros, Luiza Furtado, Miao Fangping, Thomas Vava. Music: Francis Hirschl
Documentation: Lily Zlotover and Joanna Pianka Edit: Luiza Furtado