El MontónEl Montón I present a table setting, piled high with un montón of food. The food, heavy with starch, is the stuff of my Colombian mother’s kitchen: arroz, yuca, papas, pasta, arepas. I eat the food, filling myself past the point of comfort — as I do when I visit my Colombian mother’s home. While I eat, I repeat these phrases: Slowly, amidst my refrains, I begin to intermingle the story of my birth parents and how I came into being, revealing that I was conceived through violence perpetrated by my birth mother’s brother-in-law: my tia’s husband. Those present are then invited to share the labor of eating el montón. Performance History: Re Performed 25 June 2017 Performed 29 January 2017 | El Montón | El Montón, archival photos |