SODA WORKS 2018
The SODA (Solo/Dance/Authorship) class of 2018 have compiled this publication to contain selected content from their individual thesis projects. These projects each consisted of a live performance - presented in December 2017, at the Uferstudios in Berlin - an artist work book, as a document of the creative process and a written essay, each explicating areas of independent research. It is the aim of this publication to present a selection of this material for public dissemination. The publication can be read in two directions: vertically as well as horizontally. You can choose from which perspective you would like to start. You can read the book from the beginning till the end and after that start again, this time reading from a different angle, or you can simply make fast changes, jumping from horizontal to vertical, from vertical to horizontal. It is just a matter of adjusting the object to your choices. The amount of changes is limitless.
The SODA (Solo/Dance/Authorship) class of 2018 have compiled this publication to contain selected content from their individual thesis projects. These projects each consisted of a live performance - presented in December 2017, at the Uferstudios in Berlin - an artist work book, as a document of the creative process and a written essay, each explicating areas of independent research. It is the aim of this publication to present a selection of this material for public dissemination.
The publication can be read in two directions: vertically as well as horizontally. You can choose from which perspective you would like to start. You can read the book from the beginning till the end and after that start again, this time reading from a different angle, or you can simply make fast changes, jumping from horizontal to vertical, from vertical to horizontal. It is just a matter of adjusting the object to your choices. The amount of changes is limitless.
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In my work I deal with personal material as means for engaging with<br />
a wider understanding and production of practice, knowledge and<br />
theory in order to connect with a broader social frame full of colonial<br />
woundings in which the enjoyment, growth and sharing of oneself in<br />
body-mind-soul-spirit, the exercise of memory, the practice of rituals,<br />
the awakening of consciousness, the embracement of sexuality,<br />
sensuality, emotions, sensations, affections and intuitions and the notion<br />
of deserving love and pleasure, are constantly diminished and/or<br />
threatened and therefore I see them as modes of resistance, knowledge<br />
production and a healing decolonial rebellion facing the different<br />
oppressive structures.<br />
Self healing through self reflection is one of the decolonial strategies<br />
I use in my creative processes. Gloria Anzaldúa says that achieving<br />
consciousness means to go deep into oneself and then expanding out<br />
into the world. Healing oneself is a way to consciousness and it also<br />
means healing others following the idea of the personal as political.<br />
For being able to do that I took the idea of juxtaposing different times<br />
of my life, inviting my past, future, real and imagined selves to a ritual<br />
here and now.<br />
The juxtaposition of times, images, dances, texts I produce are directly<br />
related to identity. A ch’ixi identity, as Silvia Rivera says, or a nepantlera<br />
identity, according to Gloria Anzaldúa.<br />
These identities exist at the cracks between worlds, they are fluid and<br />
constituted out of different worldviews, different influences that are<br />
many times contradictory and exactly this contradictions produces the<br />
necessary tension that will enable them to exist. I embrace my ch’ixi<br />
and nepantlera identity knowing there is no ‘pure’ identity where to<br />
‘come back to’ after a long process of colonization.<br />
trust your intuitions<br />
The aymara word ‘taypi’ means the gathering of the opposites. I see<br />
this liminal place as a healing space where feelings, emotions, sensations,<br />
desires, loves, thoughts, memories, negotiate with themselves<br />
and find their ways to be expressed, transformed, enhanced, comforted,<br />
forgiven and accepted, acknowledging the empowerment that will<br />
come out of that. So I created the conditions for my ritual to happen;<br />
I invited my beloved ones to send me their chants, letters, videos,<br />
music, thoughts, I invoked their presence to feel they were with me all<br />
the time.<br />
I celebrate my process of self healing with them<br />
and to expand the possibility of generating loving<br />
connections through this work, I dedicate this<br />
to my brother Diego.
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