Vias Y Umbrales / Pathways and Thresholds
is a project initiated by Karmit Evenzur as part of El Colectivo Epiral, to listen to and attend the specific bioregion of southern Andalusia and Northern Morocco. The only bioregion that spans an intercontinental divide, a group of artists including myself, Eli Guerrero, Annie Graham, Fred Chamama and Diane Zillmer, came together to meet with local experts on the ecological and cultural signature of the region. We were based and presented our work in progress in Facinas, Spain. You can find more information and a link to our online interactive map here. Supported by funding from EU Culture Moves Europe.
Moth(riv)er is an invocation to the region migrational insects, specifically moths, and to the La Janda laguna, a large marshland formerly swelling and moving with the rising and falling of three rivers. The land has been significantly changed by agricultural pastures, canals and dams to the three rivers. Moth river is to be worn for actions and performance for the land.
Foraged clay from the mountain in Facinas, Spain.
Queering Venus is an exploration into the significance of the planetary position of Venus in the night sky, and the longstanding tradition both in more recent historic Catholic times, of Stella Maris - Our Lady of the Sea (connected to the guiding home-coming light of Venus), and more ancient energetic pathways in the land and geological evidence of carvings that indicate these connections. The jacket made and worn attempted to connect the resonance of cave painting figures in the local area, with the connection between the venous blood flow in the body, and the thymus (behind the heart gland) and hands (extension of the heart). Worn for actions and performance for the land.
