Defense of my PhD thesis Lost and Shared at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna!
Festival! 7 Prototypes for Eco-Social Renewal at Silent Green
The 7 Prototypes for Eco-Social Renewal supported by Driving the Human were finally unveiled at the beautiful venue Silent Green in Berlin between November 25-27. For my project Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning, the opportunity was ideal, since the place used to be a crematorium. I could exhibit drawings, audio pieces and video in its Kuppelhalle, creating a temporary commemorative space for the assassinated Indigenous leaders and environmental defenders whose stories can be now found at the website Luto Verde.
During the weekend, I participated in a round table with the amazing Brigitte Baptiste and Susane Pierre, with whom I also continued discussing in a moving one to one conversation. We were challenged by Vera Saccheti’s sharp questions and I also made a couple of workshops related to the project.
All pics: Camille Blake.
Los 7 Prototipos para la Renovación Eco-Social apoyados por Driving the Human finalmente se dieron a conocer en el hermoso lugar Silent Green en Berlín entre el 25 y el 27 de noviembre. Para mi proyecto Santuario Virtual de Luto Fertilizante, la oportunidad era ideal, ya que el lugar solía ser un crematorio. Pude exhibir dibujos, piezas de audio y video en su Kuppelhalle, creando un espacio conmemorativo temporal para los líderes indígenas y defensores ambientales asesinados cuyas historias ahora se pueden encontrar en el sitio web Luto Verde.
Durante el fin de semana participé en una mesa redonda con las geniales Brigitte Baptiste y Susane Pierre, con quienes también seguí discutiendo en una conmovedora conversación uno a uno. Fuimos desafiados por las preguntas agudas de Vera Saccheti y también hice un par de talleres relacionados con el proyecto.
Todas las fotos: Camille Blake.
Storytelling and workshop for Together the parts
I’m very happy to participate next week in this performatic encounter curated by Katalin Erdodi and Philippe Gehmacher for TanzQuartier en Vienna. I’ll be sharing some stories, thoughts and sounds related to my recent work around collective mourning and make a workshop connecting body and places that ache.
Blanca en Aniquilar la luz o hacerla
Mi pieza Blanca, basada en un poema de Blanca Varela, se muestra desde el 3/11 en la exposición «Aniquilar la luz o hacerla», curada por Nani Cárdenas para el Hay Festival en Arequipa. Acá una nota de el periódico El Comercio al respecto y este es el impreso hecho para la ocasión:
Nuevo Amanecer Hawai en el Mac Lima
Algunos videos realizados en la Comunidad Indígena Nuevo Amanecer Hawai, como parte del proyecto Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning, están siendo mostrados desde el 20/10 en el Mac Lima, en la exposición «Los ríos pueden existir sin aguas pero no sin orillas», curada por Giuliana Vidarte y Christian Bendayán.
Learning from Plants, Rocks and Water: Counter-Narratives from Earthlings Amidst Multiple Crises
The exhibition Learning from Plants, Rocks and Waters: Counter-Narratives from Earthlings Amid Multiple Crises was inaugurated on Tuesday the 4th at SOHO studios. The show features works of the Peruvian artists Imayna Cáceres, Alfredo Ledesma, Hansel Sato and me and will be on until October 23. Check out the program full of diverse activities!
«The exhibition is the result of a collective experiment, an ongoing collaboration between four artists with similar artistic approaches and a common interest in promoting plural ecological values of coexistence with other beings on earth.
As Peruvian artists living in Vienna, they accompany each other in their migration processes and together imagine stories that could make a world possible in which borders and hierarchies between people, but also between people and nature, have been overcome. The artistic production refers to old mestizo and indigenous practices from the Amazon and Andean regions. In these cultural spaces, people are viewed as an integral part of the natural fabric.»
We are having great press coverage, as shows this article, this article, and the beautiful images taken by Joanna Pianka for Esel.
And some other pictures taken by Joanna, including some taken during the guided meditation I made before the opening:
SCREENINGS AND REFLECTIONS ON THREATENED TERRITORIES
This text written by Aisha Altenhofen for Driving the Human’s journal, narrates some moments of my recent trip to Peru with Nuno Cassola, to continue the work for the project Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning. We went back to Sinchi Roca, Puerto Nuevo and Unipacuyacu, to show the videos made after the first trip in February, receive feedback and shooting more images, before finalizing the project which will be finally presented in November at Silent Green in Berlin.
On Fertilizing Mourning for the Berliner Gazette
«Carmen I» en Hilos que resisten, hilos que subvierten
Muy contenta de exponer parte de la serie «Carmen», basada en poemas de Carmen Ollé, en la bella exposición curada por Gabriela Germaná en el Centro Cultural del Británico, Lima. En sus palabras:
«A través de esta exposición, se presentarán vestimentas y piezas bidimensionales realizadas con hilos, pero también instalaciones, performances y videos que dan cuenta de los textiles como objetos en constante transformación, en estrecho vínculo con el cuerpo. Son alrededor de 46 piezas de diversos artistas que refieren a actos de afirmación identitaria y resistencia; identidades cambiantes e híbridas, producto de la movilidad; piezas que hablan del valor de los textiles como vehículo político y de protesta; y piezas que reflexionan sobre identidades individuales atravesadas por cuestiones de raza, género y pertenencia.
Artistas: María Abadón, Paloma Álvarez, Lucilda Amasifén, Nereida Apaza, Liliana Ávalos, Ana Teresa Barboza, Clara Best, Nilda Callañaupa Àlvarez y tejedoras de Chincheros, Angie Cienfuegos, Raquel Esquives, Venuca Evanán, Cristina Flores Pescorán, Gonzalo Hernández, Dora Inuma Ramirez, Eliana Otta, Nemiye Pérez Mardini, Robert Orihuela, Antonio Páucar, Harry Pinedo, Ingrid Pumayalla, Violeta Quispe, .Aquilino Ramos, Alionca Respaldiza, Ivet Salazar, Orlando Sosa, Hydn Trucios, Elena Valera, Javi Vargas, Gaudencia Yupari, Daniela Zambrano Almidón, tejedores Q’ero, Cusco, tejedores y bordadores de Junín, tejedores de Taquile, Puno, tejedoras y bordadoras Shipibo-Konibo.»
Trying to sing, scream: a text about my work published in Arts of the working class
Thanks to Angeliki Tzortzakaki for the beautiful text about my work, focused on voice, mourning, politics and feminism, recently published in Arts of the Working Class. The text can be read here and it features an image of Lola Marchena, a dear Peruvian singer who past away a few days ago. Long live, Lola!
Eliana Otta 