Nastio Mosquito (Angola/Belgium)
In his performances, multimedia artist Nástio Mosquito explores various stereotypes in Western culture and also looks at the traditional roles of the audience and the artist. In Respectable Thief, an ambitious combination of music, poetry, video, and text, Mosquito openly articulates his critical viewpoints.
Two years ago The Guardian called Nástio Mosquito a “future star of the art world.” And a year earlier in Kyiv, he was given the International Future Generation Art Prize for artists under 35. Mosquito hails from Angola but lives permanently in the Belgian town of Ghent, where he creates multimedia projects combining performance, music, and text with visual installations, film, and digital art. He has presented his work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, and the Venice Biennale.
Credits
Written by: Nástio Mosquito
Developed by: Nástio Mosquito & Vic Pereiró
Project Coordinator: Godelieve Mosquito for ZZZZZ Creative Projects
Music: Nástio Mosquito & DZZZZ Band, RE-THIEVED BY: Seiji
Video: Vic Pereiró
Commissioned by: The Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with Projects 104: Nástio Mosquito, Respectable Thief, organized by Cara Manes, Assistant Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA.
Co-produced by:: KW Institute for Contemporary Art with Berliner Festspiele / Foreign Affairs, as part of Corpus, network for performance practice. Corpus is Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao), Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius), If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Playground (STUK Kunstencentrum & M-Museum, Leuven), and Tate Modern (London). Corpus is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. www.corpus-network.org
Vooruit Art Centre
Supported by: Pinchuk Art Centre (Kiev); Espaço Espelho d’Água (Lisbon).
