How to talk about a work? A work that is hard to talk about...

Facebook post: The things we cannot speak about we make art about. (Then we are made to speak about it lol).  I just keep making art with the tension, confusion, truth and dignity that brings, sometimes that art has words too. 

Final & Solo Project of The Resistant Body Series: 999: The Alchemist Trauma Centre / Power Centre

999 is a “feminist meditation, poetic activist activation”, shaking the foundations of belief systems at the intersection of East and West in a way that has been described as “punk”. It offers humour and insight into the struggling, chaotic global conditions of our time from a subjective perspective, by provocatively questioning our shifting foundations in this capitalist/neo-liberal era transnationally and finding a new way to be present amidst the confused, but generative tension within inter-sectionality. It was born in India, on a residency I curated in the Himalayas and is a work in progress. This work will have an accompanying creative text in a the form of a small book, and also be written about in Contemporary Hum this year. 

I have spent much time in the past few years moving between collaborative projects (Berlin/NY/NZ), residencies (India/China/Germany), commissioned group works (e.g NZ's Footnote Dance Company) and a trilogy of interactive solo works (Europe, US, NZ) prior to this project. This project would be considering different ways in which solo work is influenced by collaborative processes and group projects, which are also facilitated. It will therefore in process involve conversations with others as a developing solo.

"Himalayan Fem Trash Activation: Alexa Wilson
a.k.a. The Angry Version

Similar to the “trigger warnings” said before some performances in certain “socially progressive” scenes in the past few years, New Zealand-born Alexa Wilson begins her bold, funny, and insightful piece by asking the audience, “Do you want the angry version or the reflective version?” 

We said angry." -Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos, Critique 

This is a work in progress during 2018 to present in Berlin, London and New Zealand.