{"id":22951,"date":"2025-04-15T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=22951"},"modified":"2025-04-16T12:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:16:48","slug":"identity-care-labor-and-matrilineal-stories-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/event\/identity-care-labor-and-matrilineal-stories-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity, Care Labor, and Matrilineal Stories\u2013 Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 Diaz M\u00e9ndez on their collaborative project (D\u00e9marches d\u00e9coloniales de fabulation critique et de reconnection: Hypergraphie, performance et futurismes andins dans la cr\u00e9ation de la Revue d\u2019\u00e9tudes Travesti, Q\u2019iwa & Suprabinaires).<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) Resonant roots: an intergenerational storytelling (Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez):<\/b><\/p>\n

Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez\u2019s event includes a solo performance (<\/span>resonant roots<\/span><\/i>) and a performative talk: (<\/span>mise en corps\/puesta-en-cuerpo)<\/span><\/i> which zooms in on the role of <\/span>coperas<\/span><\/i> (<\/span>women who worked at caf\u00e9s, combining traditional waitressing with some escorting services without necessarily being sex workers)<\/span> in Colombia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Resonant Roots<\/b> encompasses Alba\u2019s story (the artist’s great-grandmother) narrated through the voices of her daughter and granddaughter. While a video is projected, the performer enacts physical movements and interacts with objects around the space. Within this maternal lineage, some stories want to be told, others are hidden or denied. Are those stories somehow imprinted in the performer\u2019s body, although unknown? What are the resonances of her body with the audio archives of her distant lineage?<\/span><\/p>\n

mise en corps\/puesta-en-cuerpo<\/b> expands the inquiry; It is a performative talk which outlines the research process on the concept of public women, focusing on the role of coperas. Also, it draws on the dramaturgical guidelines, the exploration of storytelling, and the creative questions raised to develop these pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez <\/strong>(she\/they) is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist and educator developing her PhD studies in the INDI program. She is interested in creative, transformative and communal experiences that address critical intersectional concerns. Based in Tiohti\u00e0:ke – Mooniyang – Montreal since 2019. CA is affiliated with Hexagram, Milieux-LeParc, COHDS, ALLab, and SenseLab-3e at Concordia University. Editor and workshop facilitator at Kodama Cartonera, an independent publishing house born in Tijuana, Mexico, in 2010. CA\u2019s research-creation approach is performative, feminist, and (an)archival. Her perspectives stem from embodied practices as a source of knowledge, intertwining processes of doing-feeling-thinking. Due to their experience in different theatre troupes, CA learned about diverse techniques focused on developing research and creative methods for, in, and within public spaces and non-conventional stages. Currently, they are a board member of Teesri Duniya Theatre, where she has developed two community engagement projects.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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