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     2022     S U B . S T A N C E

     2022     The Body In The Substance

     2021     The Water Tank Sessions

     2018     The Substance Of Heaven












EX TERESA ARTE ACTUAL, Mexico City, 2022






Live at NARS FOUNDATION, and Online at FRANKLIN FURNACE, NYC, 2021






Online at HAVERFORD COLLEGE, PA, 2021
Untimely Transgressions Forum, Closing Performance
https://www.haverford.edu/center-arts-and-humanities/news/untimely-transgressions






Online at GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE, NYC, 2020




The Body In The Substance
2015 - 2022

Awarded a FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND 2017-18.

The Body In The Substance is a durational performance in which I submerge my entire body within a liquid "substance" that progressively coagulates. When the "substance" thickens, I am confined in the most beautiful stillness: as vulnerable as the ones still in the womb—unable to move, talk, or see, unable to hurt others. Confined inside "the substance", the self grows, the female body reveals strength, the immigrant body defies distance and separation, the alive search for the absent. Stillness is a search for harmony, an act of resistance to counteract violence, fear, and injustice. "The substance" is the unknown, between the here and there, past and present, life and death.

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