GRINDING BLACKBERRIES (moliendo moras) by Julia Gorostidi Fellow artist solo project
12/09/2019 at 17:00
09/09/2019
FLORA ars+natura
Calle 77 # 20C-48
Bogotá, Colombia
Julia Gorostidi
“What is a myth? It is a dream. And if it is in thought, it means that it exists.”
Excerpt from an informal discussion between the artist and the vice president of Cabildo Mayor Muisca Chibcha Boyacá: Fagua Combita Salas Castellanos
Grinding blackberries (moliendo moras) is the sharing of living materials collected during the research trip that artist Julia Gorostidi has conducted for two weeks in the Colombian Cundiboyacence highlands. This performative reading acts as a digestive system that will help to develop the work concluding Chigys-Mie✾ (working title) project. Using her personal experiences of the artist as well as these of the production team formed by Santiago Reyes Villaveces, Carlos Rodriguez Pirateque and Andrés Medina, Julia Gorostidi shares a subjective and organic account of this journey where issues such as: ¿What is memory and to whom does the past belong? How is an identity constructed and / or rebuilt? Who is the true author of an autobiography? will be addressed. The artist’s proposal will lead us to deconstruct the myths and legends imposed by the past in favor of the construction of new stories through the development of a free collective exercise.
“In some way, the identity of Indians and women is defined from the outside, and that is why resistance consists in defining oneself”
Sylvia Cusicanqui in an interview for EL SALTO, 2017
✾Chigys-Mie is a project that takes root in the decision that the artist and her husband made to change their son’s last name to rescue the pre-Hispanic origin of the lineage of his paternal grandmother. Between road trip and performative tour, the project takes this personal anecdote as a starting point to embark on a journey through tthe old territory of the Muisca indigenous community in search of myths and legends where women can be something other than necessarily sinful, impure or subordinate. Comparing the oral and written versions of the Muisca myths, the project wants to observe the different subjectivities that inhabit these stories, both in their transcripts in the past and in their disclosures in the present.
Pics: two images of the audiovisual material recorded during the trip Acknowledgment: Santiago Reyes Villaveces, Carlos Rodriguez Pirateque, Andrés Medina
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