benjamin lundberg torres sánchez

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curation

  • se aculilló?
  • From Procession to Possession

I. performance

  • Ancestres
  • No Wet Materials
  • The Island
  • TO THE BONE
  • El Montón
  • Incorporated Mark: a skin-to-skin for two
  • Safety Pin Removal
  • A Lengua for Mi Boca
  • Audition for Trinity
  • Baudio (Tape 1)
  • Limpieza de Sangre
  • Parachute, (circa 1988 - 2006)
  • i dug 54 stones from the providence river
  • Product of Colombia
  • Lundberg/Torres-Sanchez (L/T-S: Pts. I-III)
  • Hold/Release
  • Naturalization (L/T-S: Pt. I)
  • Colombioplasty (L/T-S: Pt. II)
  • WHITE LIES/ EXIST TO PROTECT PRIVACY
  • Mic Check After the Zimmerman Verdict
  • Prism
  • The Same Colombian: a tête-à-tête for two
  • Memoir: Draft 1

II. visual art + installation

  • others in losing
  • Choqué: Otra Vez
  • #ColorPoll2017
  • Color Poll
  • Casa de Casta

III. video

  • for our sake, not the wind's
  • Bendiciones
  • SPIT/TAKE/PAY/BACK
  • Empire: Can’t Remember to Forget You [Pt.1]
  • The more I hold you
  • Choqué: I collide

IV. spectacles

  • Miss La La & the Roustabouts
  • There's a time and a place...
  • A New Game:
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Ancestres

Ancestres
Performance. (2019)

Through alternations between folkloric dance and the tedious labor of undoing embroidery, Ancestres contemplates our ancestors through an acts of undoing, extracting, pulling on, drawing out, retracing, and remembering.

Before the performance, I create a circle-cut Cumbia skirt and red scarf to wear in the performance, signifying traditionally coded femme and masc pieces of Cumbia dress. I embroider the word Ancestres, a gender neutral word for Ancestors in Spanish, in the the skirt using a continuous piece of yarn.

As I dance this courtship dance alone, un-partnered, I undo the word ANCESTRES and collect the yarn. I carry a tape recorder as I dance. It plays sounds of breath, and then alternates between a recording of the Cumbia, “La Muerte,” and Shakira’s “Underneath Your Clothes” until the end of the tape. As La Muerte plays, I dance Cumbia to travel. As Shakira plays, I stop to rest in the activity of removing the yarn.

Later, I re-embroider pieces of yarn that I removed into remnants of the fabric used to create the dress. I sell these small pieces back to the public.

<em>Ancestres</em>, skirt detail.<br> Photo © Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez 2019
Ancestres, skirt detail.
Photo © Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez 2019
<em>Ancestres</em>.<br>Video still © Shey Rivera Ríos 2019
Ancestres.
Video still © Shey Rivera Ríos 2019
<em>Ancestres</em>.<br>Photo © Vatic Kuumba 2019
Ancestres.
Photo © Vatic Kuumba 2019
<em>Ancestres</em>. Yarn removed, re-embroidered<br> Photo © Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez 2019
Ancestres. Yarn removed, re-embroidered
Photo © Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez 2019