Converging

This project – which includes a floating, temporal monument – is based on the search for traditional knowledge in textiles and iconographies as well as it intends to facilitate the dialogue between textiles as a subject with other (non-)human beings. The textile is inspired by an iconography of the ancient Chuquibamba culture in the Arequipa region. It is inspired by a specific textile which was excavated in the course of mining activities and is thus a protagonist of the extraction and violence that mining exerts on non-human bodies. Through the action of submerging in the ocean based on indigenous rituals for mourning and interconnectedness with the environment its agency is recovered. We want to revalidate the properties of the textile as a subject as well as of other non-human beings such as the wind, the pacific ocean and the sun manifest in this performance, as well as local fisherman in their intimate relation with the sea, carefully navigating the boat through the waves into calm areas of la Mar (the sea). With the support of the practical knowledge of the fishermen interpreting the waves of the sea, the performance was a corporal experience, in an attempt to allow the textile to converge and float with the sea and to document the encounter between them in the sun’s path in the south coast of Lima, Perú. Through the movement of the waves, I want to propose the possibility of the practice of coexisting and converging.

Converging 2022/ Collective Performance / Cerro Azul, Cañete – Lima (Perú) (Video edition 2024, still in process)