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IVO SERRA | 1979
In 2003, he was invited by the Bomba Suicida collective to become a resident artist, where he performed and danced in the works of other resident artists.
His first creation was a video/dance, and after that Serra started to develop his own work/performances combining video with stage.
Ivo Serra left the association in 2008 with "Canvas", a performance collaboration in Temps d' Image Festival at Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ivo Serra defined a new step in his career by becoming a Video Artist since 2005 , where he studied and developed work until 2009 at the
Video and New Media Department at Ar.co, a Fine Arts College in Lisbon, Portugal.
In 2007/2009, he worked with the choreographer João Fiadeiro in RE_AL, Lisbon, to develop his video archive, and also filmed and edited his studies projects, providing
a visual context for Fiadeiro’s "Real Time Composition” research.
Co-lead the video documentation of Festival Festa da Dança 08, provided video material to the Program of Studies, Research and Choreography–CCDRTP at
Forum Dança, Web Video streaming manager, video post-production for Rumo do Fumo artists: Vera Mantero, Miguel Pereira and was the Lead Documentarian,
videographer coordinator of the Festival Materiais Diversos- first edition in Portugal.
Award winner in 2010 of the Inov-Art 2ª edition Program from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Ivo Serra started to work in NYC with Movement Research in
video archiving and videography.
With this opportunity, Serra begun to develop a body of freelance artistic and professional documentation work in NY: A creative collaboration with Larrisa Velez for
Danspace Project platform 2010 and the American Realness Festival, videography for Melanie Maar at The Chocolate Factory, Jon Kinzel at the
Baryshnikov Arts Center, Nicky Paraiso at La MaMa, and for numerous "Food for Thought" venue artists at Danspace Project.
September 3rd 2011, making Berlin City his home base, Ivo Serra continues to explore and develop work in the field of archiving in Dance and Performance as an Intern in
Mime Centrum, video taping performances of Jeremy Wade "Mountain/ to the Fountain" in HAU1 and other artists at DOCK 11, developing his artistic work, a video collaboration
with Ana Monteiro in "SHOW CASE", her last piece for the closing of the MA SODA 2011, but also decided to return to the performing field as a performer for the new project of
Tino Sehgal to be presented in 2012 at Festival documenta in Kassel, Germany.
Since 2003 to 2012, Ivo Serra presented his works in Germany, USA, Russia, South of Africa, Brazil, France, U.K., Switzerland, Greece, Spain and Portugal.
Ivo Serra defines himself as a video artist, a video cartographer in the Dance and Performing arts field, a videographer, a performer
and most especially a re-writer of thoughts and hopes.
CONTACTS | ivomserra@gmail.com