Posts tagged performance
P2: The Edenic Zone - Portal of Rest and Beauty

One person would have a hard time trying to save the world, but they can offer a shift in vibration within the micro to positively affect the macro. My belief is there exists many realities on this planet and ultimately varying frequencies we may step in and out of.

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Coco Villa - Chapter Five

Through the process of collecting these pieces, I noticed myself tapping back into familial practices to take care of oneself. These acts were so deeply embedded into everyday life that I did not question it or even acknowledge it as a practice.

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Coco Villa - Chapter Four

With the understanding that channeling joy is a true act of vulnerability, we voluntarily give ourselves to the motion of falling. Equipped with protection, we learn how to fall so that we know how to collapse gracefully then rise again.

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Coco Villa - Chapter Three

La Limpieza, which translates to “cleaning” or “cleanse,” is one of three short films that exists under the project, How to Turn Poison Into a Meal. It consists of intimate moments between oneself and a shared space to witness each other's movements and sounds.

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Coco Villa - Chapter Two

How to Turn Poison Into a Meal is the name of my Fall/Winter 2020 collection. This project is a way for me to celebrate and remember, as well as using my body as an archive, creating documentation of my ancestors and their practices of reveling in joy and resilience from a heavy existence.

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Providence Public Library’s Creative Fellowship: Old Legacies, New Work 

Research is a solitary practice, but a research fellowship can be a tool for community-building, and the relationships between artists and archival materials can help upend and reshape our sense of history. Special Collections at the Providence Public Library (PPL) in Providence, Rhode Island offers an annual, 6-8 month Creative Fellowship for an artist to do intensive archival research and create new work, along with an interactive public program.

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