EARTH BODIES, Martha Hincapie Charry
EARTH BODIES
Martha Hincapie Charry
3 September
7.00pm
Sala Branca, Central Elétrica
The research/work EARTH BODIES – environmental grief (WT) deepens into the effects on the body of the sense of grief created by nowadays constant onslaught of negative environmental change and human-made eco disasters in order to document this effects.
The research time aims to explore the environmental grief we feel when our ecosystems/home is altered or threatened due to global warming, natural disasters or other environmental crises. Specifically approaching the impact of climate change, extreme weather conditions, on physic, mental and emotional well-being
EARTH BODIES – environmental grief – (WT), with an ecofeminist approach, reimagines (environ)mental care through a decolonial approach to climate anxiety, by fostering biodiverse relationships and a regenerative approach. How are our bodies and all our relationships affected by environmental grief?
The proposal opens channels of somatic, sensory and social recognition, creating awareness about the urgency of rewilding our wounded planet/home. Human and more than-human ancestral knowledge is invoked in a ceremonial space, where participants, are free to take off their shoes and get in touch with soil, experiencing an hybrid, intimate, immersive space.
Support
Iberescena – Fondo de Ayudas para las Artes Escénicas Iberoamericanas
BIO
Martha Hincapié Charry (Colômbia) BIPoC Colombian artist, decolonial curator, choreographer/performer, researcher.
MA -Art in Context- at the University of the Arts, UdK Berlin. BA dance theatre & solo dance studies at the Folkwang University Essen under the direction of Pina Bausch. Martha has been awarded the Pina Bausch fellowship.
Her work has been invited to Europe, Asia and the so called Americas. Her work has been invited to festivals and venues in Europe, Asia and the so called Americas. She is artistic director of Plataforma/SurReal Berlin Festival. Her curatorial praxis reflects on (de)coloniality processes and forms of survival of artists migrating to Europe or engaging in geopolitical approaches of native peoples of the Abyayala. In 2021 and 2022 she was associate curator at Radialsystem Berlin.
Hincapié Charry has unfolded several unlearning spaces focused on underrepresented BIPoC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) expressions. She facilitates a dialogue between continents with an ancestral wisdom perspective, embodying earth and water based native ontologies, while addressing topics such as climate chaos, ecocide, the human/more-than-human kinship, and the interplay between the visible and the invisible worlds, with an ecofeminist position.
