Bogotá, Colombia, 2016
Artist in residence / workshop / performative and ritual action
MITAV — Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Theatre and Live Arts, National University of Colombia
Coreografía para una fiesta maldita was a workshop and artist-in-residence project developed with students of the MITAV Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Theatre and Live Arts at the National University of Colombia.
The workshop explored festivity as an aesthetic-political practice: a field where laughter, disobedience, trance, collective movement, and ritual action could become tools for social imagination and embodied resistance. Through performative exercises, group actions, sound, gesture, and the sensorial language of the body, participants investigated how celebration can operate not as escape, but as a form of critical intensity.
With la fiesta as a working grammar, the process examined rituals, festive objects, collective gestures, emotional contagion, and the sonorous body. The workshop asked how joy can be organized, choreographed, and politically activated; how the body can transmit affect; and how the festive can interrupt everyday discipline.
The process drew inspiration from Daniela Lucena’s text “Estrategia de la alegría” and from the archive of Losing the Human Form: A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America, presented at Museo Reina Sofía. These references opened a dialogue between joy, militancy, resistance, disobedience, trance, and Latin American traditions of aesthetic-political experimentation.
