Life & Death of the Medusa, costumed performance with two performers | 7 min | 2025
I birthed twin snakes at midnight, then proceded to kill them.
Performance in the form of a ritual which celebrates a birth and funeral; appropriating ancient symbolism to explore ideas about bestiality, birthing, rejection, anger and shame. The work is informed by ancient snake deities associated with fertility, death and renewal. Attire and ritual objects include cotton robes, red ceramic snakes and snake-themed ceramic masks, soil, four red candles, thirteen honeywax candles, palo santo, a red beaker with water and an improvised gong.
ESP: Performance en la que se celebra el nacimiento de serpientes gemelas, seguido por su sacrificio y funeral. La pieza retoma aspectos de distintas deidades ancestrales asociadas con los ofidios para explorar ideas sobre la fertilidad, la muerte, la bestialidad, el rechazo a maternar y la culpa. Atuendos con detalles en forma de vibora hechos de cerámica, tierra, un cantaro con agua, velas y un comal. 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.