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!

Thanks to an invite from Sarrita Hunn, Florencia Portocarrero and me spoke recently at the SFSIA 2022 Deep Ecology in the Cognitive Capitalocene. Our talk Fertilizing Mourning: From Representation to Thinking With can be watched here.

About the content:

More than 60% of the Peruvian territory is part of the Amazon. Locally known as the Selva–this vast economically and politically neglected region– is currently the center of some of the most important debates in terms of sustainability and planetary biopolitics, as well as a crucial site for the struggles for the rights of diverse indigenous communities and the preservation of their ancestral knowledge. Despite the high degree of social conflict experienced in the Amazon area due to illegal mining and internal-colonial processes of land appropriation by the state, over the last fifteen years its multiple and heterogeneous artistic production has received increasing attention at a national and international level; mainly thanks to the work of artists (indigenous and not indigenous), academics and curators, who have devoted themselves to the research, promotion and dissemination of what is currently considered one of the most solid scenes in Peru. Even though all these efforts have been important to make visible the importance of Amazonian cultural production, they have mainly operated in the representational realm, rarely addressing the primitive accumulation processes hat traverse the region and its inhabitants. In conversation with curator Florencia Portocarrero, In “Fertilizing mourning: from representation to thinking with”, artist Eliana Otta will introduce her latest project, which based on  Yana Allpa–a technique that was devised thousands of years ago by Amazonian communities to guarantee soil regeneration– proposes us to adopt a native way of knowing and learning from people who have already survived the ending of their world and, therefore, may be better equipped for living in a damaged and more complex planet.

Exercises on Dwelling

Mouries Collective invites you to participatory performances and ponderings on dwelling in the contemporary urban habitat. By bringing together words, temporary structures and movement research we will explore, through collective inhabitation inside the park, issues of comfort, safety, privacy, community, isolation, rest and routine.

Mouries Collective is a fluid group composed by different women at different times. We originally gathered due to our common interests in healing and divination practices. We found motivation and focus through a shared interest in the possibility of communicating with trees and plants. Through our projects we develop methods, thoughts and intuitions for creating connections with all beings who inhabit the land with us.

We want to ignite a liberating space for healing, acknowledge the coexistence of different life experiences and expand our understanding of storytelling. We aim to deepen our perception and explore the terrains between intimacy and public space, with nature as our companion in the city. By learning to hear the hills and listen to the fields, we can all learn to hear each other.

We wish to provide tools that can help us reproduce ourselves collectively and individually while (creatively yet care-fully) exploring affective modes of relating as the basis of a shared practice.

At this moment in time we are Isabel Gutierez Sanchez, Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki, Thalia Dimitropoulou, Maria Juliana Byck, Artemis Papageorgiou, Eliana Otta and Sanem Su Avcı.

5:00 pm PEDION TOU AREOS
Exercises on Dwelling (performance, 45΄)
Idea & Creation: Oi Mouries
Meeting Point: Entrance to the park from Alexandras, Statue of Athina

Part of EIGHT / ΤΟ ΟΧΤΩ, critical institute for arts and politics
HILLS AND FIELDS https://fb.me/e/1JxDDMsLk
11-16 Μay 2022
performance-workshops-discussions-readings-walks

«The six 𝕖𝕔𝕠-𝕃𝕠𝕘𝕚𝕩 artists/researchers have come together in admiration for life and their immediate environments – built and lived; human and non-human; made of affections, imaginations, and struggles. Through nuanced embodied methods and poetic movements, they examine histories of human/non-human intervention on the planet and in our own bodies. Using the mediums of video, sculpture, photography, and drawing, this reflective course reveals absurdities, ambiguities, disparities, and, above all, hope.❤️
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Exhibition Dates: June 10-15, 2022
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A big thank you to @kunstraum_flat1 for hosting our show for five and a half consecutive days in Vienna.» 

A film project with material of the Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning pitched at Evia Film Project this June.

Thanks to Ntizeza for the invitation to be part of their first residency, together with @roisinternet, @tilsa.ov, @furasu ,  @mihosarouko , @anastasteia

«Five days filled with collective readings and writings, encounters with island creatures, parastrological advices and narratives, bitching and stitching, poetic road tripping, swimming, laughing and being together.»

My text (Re)generated Bonds Through Collective Mourning was published in the last issue of Texte zur Kunst about mourning. (#126, June)

In May I gave a talk on Fertilizing Mourning for the beautiful program «On loss and resilience» set up by Sofia Dati and Hoda Siahtiri in the context of her exhibition at Beursschouwburg.

The full program can be found here: