
IMPROMPTU NuaNua {LaResistencia}
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Lo propio Lo Extranjero
Happening * Performance
1.5.2024
Duration 60’
[Sur]realisation within my [your] our [Bichinoide], in front of the former Börse für Landwirtschaftliche Producte — now the ODEON Theatre.
This live work unfolds as a spatial odyssey and time capsule:
an embodied excavation of ancestral values, memory, and transformation.
Through visual and vocal fragments, it navigates tensions of heritage —
between the hunted and the beloved, strength and vulnerability,
the dominant and the dominated.
Voice is a connective force —
fragments of ancestral Patagonian tunes and popular songs
intertwine with open, extended vocalisations (aaaa, eeee)
that recall childhood tunings.
This breath-based resonance carries both intimacy and collectivity.
A long blue velvet cloth and a golden object — from the Lines and Loops series —
serve as sculptural extensions of the body.
They transform through movement: covering, revealing, resonating.
The object, composed of raw sonic materials collected across Latin America,
acts as a carrier of sound memory — an artifact of lived territories.
The choreography shifts between classical and extravagant contemporary forms —
questioning beauty, balance, and disruption.
The performance concludes in quiet contact with the Bichinoide sculpture —
a resting gesture where the act of performing becomes part of the terrain traversed.
Artė pur ARTë.
A living artwork — both nature and artifact —
where costume, object, voice, and space interact in a ritual of resilience, fertility, and inheritance.
Concept, choreography, and performance:
Juliana Herrero
Fix camera: Maksymilian N. (the anthropologist)
Dancing camera: Maximiliano N. (the anthropologist)

Photos © Michael Nagl


