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La performance en Oaxaca y su alcance colectivo

A continuación les comparto el texto realizado por Scarlett Mizraim curadora de la residencia de “La Performance en Oaxaca y su alcance colectivo,” realizado en junio del 2019 en Oaxaca, México. 

Taller con Lukas Avendaño. Fotos por Coco Charles

Sesión con Saúl Lopéz Velarde. Fotos por Coco Charles

Ponencia de Scarlett Mizraim. Foto por Coco Charles

Sesión con Pájaros en el Alambre. Fotos por Coco Charles

Foto performance por Coco Charles y Maya. Fotografía Yati Ni y Pako Altamirano de Ojo Tres 

Foto performance por Mariana Rotili. Fotografia por Yati Ni y Pako Altamirano de Ojo Tres 

Foto performance por Polina Porras Sivolobova. Fotografia por Yati Ni y Pako Alotamirano de Ojo Tres

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These pictures are from the performance “Lilith under the last tree,” performed on June 16, 2018 in Brooklyn, New York. Hands, screens and grids; the flatness of a wall. The female body against a flat-gridded space. What kind of space is this? Standing against a blue bright light and licking my upper arm. Sliding against the wall, a reference to Ana Mendieta’s “Body Tracks.” How does the tree come across? Why hands? Behind Lilith there’s a video of hands moving slowly, caressing each other. The performance has a sensual-bodily feeling, yet is half mediated through the projected images in the screens. Half in the “real world.” The body and technology, the body projected through the flat image, a living entity - the tree- encapsulated in a screen.

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Study for “Lilith under the last tree” an exploration of primal sound, movement and image. A dystopian world where only a woman and a tree is left- here we have a cat as audience-performer.

at LEIMAY, Brooklyn, New York

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From Las Tristes to Lilith

“Las Tristes, Muertas y Dormidas” is a body of work created in 2007 and “Lilith Under the Last Tree” is a work I’m creating now. Both are about women, or a woman, possibly about myself. In Las Tristes opening text I wrote: “We are daughters of Coatlicue (1) creator and destroyer, exalted and denigrated. Dismembered just like her daughter Coyolxauhqui (2) Coyolxauhqui, the Moon goddess dies every month, defeated by the Sun. Thrown from the top of Coatepec hill and dismembered with each turn. Still dismembered in the twenty-first century, nobody can put us back together.” this is aggression towards ourselves because our often internalized misogyny - that’s what I discovered during those years. Now in 2018, I want to believe that I’m discovering other things, it’s been more than 10 years after all. Lilith is different, she took her destiny in her own hands. She refused to be below Adam and flew into the sky, the angels couldn’t bring her back and she agreed with God to have thousands of her babies killed everyday, she was also “converted” into a demon. “Lilith Under the Last Tree” which is still in the making brings into conversation the first woman ever created (according to Jewish folklore) and the last tree in the existence of humanity. What kind of conversation are these two going to have? Can you imagine sitting under the last tree, you...all by yourself...