I insist is a long-duration performance piece that unfolds over the course of several hours. In it, the artist slowly wraps their body in red sewing thread. With minor, ritualistic, almost inconsequential movements, the piece itself is mostly understood in fragments. The scale of this piece does not encourage you to sit with it in […]
Bodies carry and transmit traces of memories, sites, and stories—both as acts of care and as burdens to bear. Bodies Carrying: Traces & Stories is a twofold conversation taking the form of a group exhibition and a program consisting of workshops, performances, and talks. This is an experiment in transforming the Centre for Oral History […]
Photo Credits: Film still from Crossing the Seventh Gate (2017) by Ali Essafi Description by Bouchra Assou and Salma Chouqair Drawing from a post-colonial concern with the preservation of different forms of oral traditions in Morocco, this lecture performance seeks to restage a halqa as both a space and a conduit for ancestral storytelling, performance […]
Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez. In an intimate space within the exhibition space, a copera will interact with volunteer participants who visit this spot individually. Before the interaction begins, each participant will be given a token amount, which will be used to exchange stories and typical beverages of the Colombian cafés. The tokens have […]
Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez, Javi Fuentes Bernal and David Diaz Méndez. This is an event composed of two artist presentations followed by a joint Q&A. It will begin with a performance and talk by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez (Resonant roots: an intergenerational storytelling), followed by a presentation from Javi Fuentes Bernal and David […]
