Vivian Caccuri is an artist and musicologist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For the past fifteen years, Caccuri has been developing installations, performances, drawings, and embroideries that investigate how sound can disorient everyday experiences, inspire new forms of living, and shift power dynamics in society. Caccuri’s artistic practice seeks to highlight the active yet under-recognized aspects of sound.

During her residency at iii Vivian will be working on Mouth Ghost alongside Thiago Lanis. Thiago Lanis is a composer and music producer born in Arará, a slum in Rio de Janeiro. Being exposed since childhood to the cultural plurality of “favelas” the Brazilian working-class neighbourhoods with a mostly black population, Thiago is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and deeply inspired by polyrhythmic genres of Brazilian, Latin American and African music.

Mouth Ghost is a sound performance where Vivian Caccuri and Thiago Lanis recreate the soundscape of a tropical forest. Sounds are recreated one by one and birds, insects, water, air and other beings are simulated by the performers using only their lips and mouths.

The residency program of iii is supported financially by the Creative Industries Fund NL and the Creative Europe program of the European Union. The residency of Vivian Caccuri and Thiago Lanis at iii is organised in collaboration with Rewire and Novas Frequencias.