"Chicamocha or search Rio" Performance
exposure Dance-Along the Rhine-KIT-
Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2009
Concept / Performance: Silvia Ospina
Music: Johannes Eimermacher
Photo: Alwin Lay
Chicamocha is the name of a canyon and a river in the region of Santander. It is also a word that could be caused Guane culture, the community that inhabited the lands of Santander before English conquest. According to researchers in the region this word might mean: Waiting for the bathroom men with courage. This performance, held on German soil, in an exhibition located next to the River Rhine, was danced action seeking the integration of different memories in the present. Silvia
living abroad for 8 years. His position of "foreign" has led to a job that is concerned with the collection of fragments cultural, intellectual and aesthetic with which it has had contact from his years in Colombia and in the new lands he has visited and inhabited today. His work seeks to realize these experiences, which could be compared with a mosaic of fragments form variety, a hybrid fabric which in turn allows you to transcend the limits of the format, to advocate for the mobile, flexible, permeable to the territory / context and the need for movement. The performance
, Silvia is a figure who visits the exhibition site, takes a journey through the exhibits, carefully observed for leave to create a physical impression, reflected in the transformation of his body. Create a river, where recorrdio through space makes connections and weaves his experience of place with its action. He appropriates the area you visit and change "to be washed away slow" (PJ Harvey)
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