Luiza Prado

Luiza Prado is an artist, writer and theorist. She works between installation, sculpture, text, and image, using performance and ritual as a way of invitation and activation for audiences. Her practice explores relations and knowledge between plants, political infrastructures, and technology, and questions what processes are needed for collective concerns of environmental care and reproductive justice. She holds a PhD from the University of the Arts Berlin, and an MA from the University of the Arts Bremen.

Her ongoing artistic research project, “Un/Earthings and Moon Landings” starts from the mythology around silphium, an extinct plant used as an aphrodisiac and a spice, to engage with questions around body and territory as sites of extraction within computational, political, and economic infrastructures.