ᴄᴏꜱᴍᴏᴅɪꜰʏᴍᴇ

A performative ritual created to activate native indigenous knowledges in the search to re-connect with my ancestral legacy and their millenary practices of resistance and emancipation.

It is a personal reflection into recognising how the commercialisation of art and my close coexistent with the ‘performance art-market’ itself has influenced my principles and ethics on both a personal and artistic level. How to keep the ground? How to not forget ones own’s roots? During a self created performative ritual I claim back the need to re-activate native indigenous knowledge as a way to re-connect and align my artistic and personal aspirations with millenary practices of resistance and emancipation. An invocation to re-code and re-imagine anthropocentric practices/perspectives into biocentric ones is evoked.

Credits  

Performance Creation
Paula Chaves Bonilla
Virtual guests
Petrona López, Luisa Prias, Natalia Chaves and members of the Tseltal Indigenous community in Tenejapa, Mexico  
Dramaturge
Lisa Skwirblies
Advisor
Bruno Listopad
Video edition
Moi Bleu
Music composition
Nadia Bekkers 
Produced
School for New Dance Development (SNDO)