HÁBITOS

MALOS
LOS A PROPOSAL BY

VALERIA OVIEDO G.

IN COLLABORATION WITH
EVA ROBAYO

 LOS MALOS HÁBITOS

- Concept for a research project:

Our research aims to explore the embodiment of the heroic roles that women
take living in an environment that challenges them harshly. The struggle inside
this archetype, that in order to be fulfilled, we assume it overlooking the burdens
that it has on our mental, emotional and physical health. The use of movement
and poetry as tool to investigate within our own bodies the danger of this
demigoddess’ suit that shrinks and tightens threatening to leave us breathless.

This project aims to look for the honest observation of this patterns that we have
been fed and continue to feed to the next generations of women. A journey in
which we will try to shred traditional customs and practices that shape our
perception on this matter: individually and as society. The vital power that our
own sanity has over the future. Sharing the truth of our experience, in the project
of describing reality as honestly as we can to each other, allows the truth of
others to come into the space.

Women are and have been in the frontline of socio-political change and our
current context has highlighted women liberation and civil right movements all
over the globe. However, little has been mention about the development of our
fights inside a philosophy that does not recognize the need for self-care in the
process of revolution . The romanticization and victimization of our suffering has
an unrecognized dependence on the patriarchy that sustains old systems of
oppression.

We cannot be truly committed to the resistance of oppression, If we do not

prioritize ourselves. All forms of oppression are interrelated, creating change
requires to identify feelings are a form of self-knowledge that can inform and
enrich activism. Acknowledging and experiencing pain helps women to
transcend it.

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is

an act of political warfare.”

— Audre Lorde
American writer, poet, womanist, radical feminist, professor, and civil rights
activist.
- Methodology of working on the question(s):

This research is a collaboration with the Colombian artist Eva Robayo, as a

dancer and performer. Sharing a common ground on the particularity of growing
up in Latin America, where the female heroic role is reinforced on the different
layers of our community, like: religion, politics, education and societal customs.
We find vital to start generating conversation surrounding this issue,
consciousness-raising does not only brings it to the forefront of women's minds,
but doing so can lead to action.

Inspired by the utilization of poetic discourse as tool for activism and revolution,
our body and movement investigation is nurtured by the work of authors like
Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich. Who both recognized the need for
intersectionality within the feminist movement and the power of female solidarity
and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives. In connection to this, our own
writings will be a source of power and object of exploration during our
residency.

- Artistic Statement.

We are part of women battalion that is far from being the first or the last of our
time and it is essential to raise the question on what are we going to do
differently to sustain our revolution. As immigrant artists we endure the right and
the commitment to address issues that are ignored by the western European
society but still affect us and our lands of origin; people and territory.

On this part of the world, it is often talked about sustainability, but somehow it
seems like we skipped or overlooked the basic need for wellness. It is often
talked about diversity, but somehow our struggles here, become a trend that is
used only If convenient. We situate ourselves as a needle with a mission to pop
the bubble of the privileged local context that surrounds us and as a reminder
that Latin American women are still fighting for their most basic rights.

- Preferred residency period:

Residency #1 is preferred.
Residencies #3 &#4, could also be possible.
CHOREOGRAPHER

VALERIA
OVIEDO
BIO.
Valeria Oviedo is an artist from
Tijuana, Mexico working with
choreography, media art and
performance. She deals with
topics such as: migration, the
beneficial power of conflict and
the role of women in public and
private life. She has an
interdisciplinary base that plays
with poetic expressions and
symbolic movements, creating
images that manifest in live or
virtual platforms. Her work thrives
to connect with the public whether
they have a relationship with art
or not.
She has been working in Berlin
since 2020, collaborating as a
creator and producer in projects
with Uferstudios, Feld
Theater,Universität der Künste
Berlin, among others.

2022 2021 2020 2016

Research Residency Residency Certificate in BA in Visual Arts
POETIC BODIES "SITUATIVE WORKING - Entertainment by Universidad de
of the European SITUATED LEARNING" Management Guadalajara
Network Project Life of Uferstudios GmbH / by San Diego State (Mexico)
Long Burning PSR University
(Bulgaria/Germany) (Germany) (USA)