A psychologist, dancer, and researcher from Colombia.
The Performance
Our performance will take place in a house, which we consider a site of heritage. For our performance idea, we need 4 rooms. Thus we will choose a house that has a bedroom, a kitchen, a toilet, a garden and a communal space. There, we will guide our audience through a private space where personal experiences become public through the interaction, where interactive performances bring to fore personal knowledge.
The bedroom
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Projections of short ethnographic accounts in the form of cinetracts. The films are of people’s experiences with endometriosis, PCOS, menopause, Hormone Replacement Therapy.
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We want to work with an artist, who can make a sculpture of figure or body that highlights the somatic experiences of hormones through a light installation.We would like to place lights inside the sculpture in order to visualize these experiences. This attempts to depict and make public individual, private, and often silenced somatic experiences.
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We will place ojects that show the intersection of private and public. These objects include, stained clothes, water jugs, menstrual products, warm water bottles, natural remedies for skin care, and clothing items etc.
The toilet
We envision a live performance including storytelling while enacting different movements related to transmitted knowledge about how to change the pads, faced challenges in the toilet like not finding a bin, washing, cleaning, everything while trying to make it discret.
The kitchen
Kitchen is a site of conversation, the audience will be immersed sensorially through the smell of natural remedies, the performers preparing them and explaining how this knowledge was transmitted. In this room, the public will be allowed to interact and ask questions to the performers, as well as perceiving the kitchen as a place of reflection and transmission happens.
The garden
The last part of the performance happens in the garden where the performer walks with a wash jug and basin (to wash pads and underwear) approximately 500 meters to reach the toilet. After a performer washes their underwear and tries to secretly change their pads behind the toilet. Basically garden performance shows infrastructure and its obstacles also make the private intersect with the public.
In the largest room of the site, at the end of this journey, a communal activity will take place.
The audience
We envision a space that emanates care so that everyone feels invited to join with their family and friends, a space that gives food for thought for children and adults, people with diverse gender identities, and different cycle experiences.
The project does not target a niche community but rather aims at sharing knowledge and advising awareness as a way of conversing between different generations, cultural backgrounds, gender identities, stories, etc.
The aim is to bring the public into a private space while experimenting with the established boundaries of what is publicly shared about cycles and what is kept private.
Gathering is part of the performance. We want to involve narrations, stories, conversations, open debates, exercises, etc. open to all (we could go up to 15 people per journey).
The public is allowed to react and becomes part of the performance through their interventions, drawing, moving, etc.
We acknowledge that we have curatorial agency over the selections of the stories.
The aim is allowing the audience to speak, thus, to sentitize, to build knowledge and for activism.