Luciana Luthi

Selected works

2008 — 2026

Liminal

Sound performance · 2026 · work in progress

A body that listens, unfolding as passage between presence and absence. Voice, breath, and internal sounds amplified through contact and air microphones. What is inaudible comes forward.

Brücke 235, Tanzlobby Tryout · Zürich, CH

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Photo: Jan Zelisko

Corpos de Lu(S)

Performance with live sound · 2024–ongoing

An excavation of memory. Seven surgical layers opened during cesarean birth became the starting point. Live voice, field recordings (plants as sound sources via sensors), and analog synthesis.

Espaço Cultural Renato Russo · Brasília, BR · Supported by FAC/DF

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Photo: Vinícius Faraco

Movimento Invisível

Live sound & performance · 2025

Created for blind and visually impaired audiences. Bodily movement converted into real-time fractal sound structures via motion capture and AI models. Sound becomes orientation.

Brasília, BR · Publicly funded

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Photo: Iago

Camadas

Experimental electronic EP · 2024

As Luu Li. Voice, field recordings, analog and modular synthesis. Layers physical, sonic — of skin, insects, organs. Incision as composition.

Label Bruta · Brazil

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Artwork: Uirá Ryker

Earlier works

2013–2016

Arranha Céu

Vertical movement performance

Solo on a building façade over 40 metres high. Vertical movement as disorientation and freedom.

São Paulo, BR

2008–2015

Costurando-se

Aerial duo · International tour

Double trapeze with Tum Aguiar. Two suspended bodies approaching acrobatics as deconstruction, drawing from childhood cloth dolls.

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Photo: Paulo Barbuto

International

2015

Cores

Residency & documentary film

Research residency in India investigating Mallakhamb, yoga, and suspension as altered states of perception. Supported by Funarte.

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India

2014

G.I.R.A

Video dance

Circular motion as memory and resistance. The carousel of childhood revisited.

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Brazil

2015

Germinar

Video dance

Reinvention and displacement. Replanting oneself in spaces of childhood.

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Brazil

Sound

Live sets & recordings

Camadas EP

As Luu Li. Voice, field recordings, analog and modular synthesis. Released by Bruta, 2024.

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Luu Li — Live Trailer

Live trailer. Voice and analog synthesizers in solo performance.

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Vórtice Floral

Experimental film. Performance and soundtrack by Luu Li. Exploring the threshold between dreaming and waking.

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About

Luciana Luthi is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist based in Winterthur, Switzerland. Her practice brings together movement, minimal circus, voice, and live electronic sound composition.

Working with the body, field recordings, analog synthesizers, and real-time processing, she investigates memory, ancestry, the female body, and altered states of perception. Her practice is rooted in yoga, somatic research, and suspension as method.

Her work has been presented in Brazil, Switzerland, Austria, France, Canada, and India.

Based Winterthur, Switzerland

Links linktr.ee/luli.elastica

Music Camadas EP as Luu Li — Spotify · SoundCloud

Award APCA — Best Movement Production, São Paulo, 2013

2026	Tanzlobby Tryout Program — Brücke 235	Zürich, CH
2026–ongoing	Peer-to-Peer Program "Here I Am" — Artchlin	CH
2025–2026	Feminist Circus Initiative — Scholarship Program	DE
2024	FAC Multicultural Residency	Brasília, BR
2022	Conexão Cultura — Vienna / Paris	AT / FR
2015	Funarte — Mallakhamb, Kalbelya movement & Yoga research	India
2011	ProAC Criação Circense — Costurando-se	São Paulo, BR

Luciana
Luthi

Selected works

Liminal

Corpos de Lu(S)

Movimento Invisível

Camadas

Earlier works

Arranha Céu

Costurando-se

Cores

G.I.R.A

Germinar

Sound

Residencies & programs

Open to
collaboration

LucianaLuthi

Selected works

Liminal

Corpos de Lu(S)

Movimento Invisível

Camadas

Earlier works

Arranha Céu

Costurando-se

Cores

G.I.R.A

Germinar

Sound

Residencies & programs

Open tocollaboration

Luciana
Luthi

Open to
collaboration