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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A Lengua for Mi Boca

A Lengua for Mi Boca
Performance. (2016)

I hit PLAY on a tape recorder. I set a table in preparation for a meal. I ceremoniously display a covered plate to the public. I lift the veil, revealing a beef tongue. I butcher the fat from the end of the tongue. I practice stretching my mouth. I lift the beef tongue to my open mouth, salivating. I insert the tongue into my mouth. I press the tongue into my mouth and throat, deeply. I attempt to swallow the tongue for the remainder of the lesson. Overwhelmed by its size and force, I leave starved.

A Lengua for Mi Boca is a decolonial action in which I present myself as a willing student attempting to complete an assignment. Framed by an audio tape playing a Spanish language lesson, I attempt to swallow a beef tongue. The action is a contemplation of the role of submission within my colonized body, and of the violence of having to learn your colonizer’s tongue. By submitting to the tongue, an action that is both painful and pleasurable, I attempt to receive sustenance from the tongue.

Performance History:

Re Performed 5 November 2016
at Panoply Performance Laboratory
as part of Performancy Forum
curated by Esther Neff & PPL

Re Performed 8 October 2016
at 130 Central Avenue (Jersey City)
as part of the JC Art & Studio Tour

Performed 27 August 2016
at AS220
as part of DOGSTAR
organized by Neal Walsh

<i>A Lengua for Mi Boca</i><br>© Sam Eckmeier 2016
A Lengua for Mi Boca
© Sam Eckmeier 2016
<i>A Lengua for Mi Boca</i><br>© Lundberg Torres Sanchez 2016
A Lengua for Mi Boca
© Lundberg Torres Sanchez 2016
<i>A Lengua for Mi Boca</i><br>© Emily Mock 2016
A Lengua for Mi Boca
© Emily Mock 2016
<i>A Lengua for Mi Boca</i><br>© Emily Mock 2016
A Lengua for Mi Boca
© Emily Mock 2016