Life & Death of the Medusa, costumed performance with two performers | 7 min | 2025
ENG: Performance in the form of a ritual which celebrates a birth and funeral. The work is informed by ancient snake deities associated with fertility, death and renewal. The work engages with the idea of archeology as a form of speculative fiction, appropriating ancient symbolism to explore ideas about bestiality, birthing, rejection, anger and shame. Attire and ritual objects include cotton robes, red ceramic snakes and snake-themed ceramic masks made by the artist, soil, four red candles, thirteen honeywax candles, palo santo, a red beaker with water and an improvised gong.
ESP: Performance a manera de ritual en la que se celebra un nacimiento y un funeral. La pieza retoma aspectos de distintas deidades ancestrales asociados con las serpientes para explorar ideas sobre la fertilidad, la muerte, la bestialidad, el rechazo y la culpa. Atuendos con detalles en forma de vibora hechos de cerámica. Coreografía inspirada en brujxs, la Diosa minoica de las Serpientes y la arqueología como ficción especulativa.
Presented at 0:00 hrs on 8 February 2025 as part of Noche boca arriba at Biblioforevers, Mexico City.
Documentation by Alejandra Bolaños and Roberto Ochoa.