[REPORT] MotionDAO July 2022- bruxa4s hub
bruxa4s hub is a group of four Latine/Indigenous interdisciplinary dance artists who have been engaged in collaborative work and knowledge generation since 2015. Members are Paola Escobar (Columbia/California), Damaris Ferrer (Puerto Rico/NY/Miami), Niurca Marquez (Cuba/Miami), and Amber Ortega (Texas).
Embodied Writing Sessions
We had our fourth Embodied Writing Session on July 11th. We continue to add material information, writings, and practices at the Embodied Writing Padlet site. We have a good body of writing which has led to conversations of publishing and holding an event combining a CI jam with our writings so far. At least one participant will be centering one of their graduate projects on a writing that came out of Embodied Writing Session 3.
Brujula Residency
July was the inaugural Brujula Residency in Cayey, Puerto Rico. The residency afforded us time and togetherness to define and design language around the concept of brujula. The Brujula defining statement is as follows:
Brujula is a modular, self contained, actioning system. Brujula is built on the core values of kinship, community and sustainability that is generative in nature and rooted in our personal and ancestral conocimiento, care taking, and ties to land. We arrived at this through geolocation, a process through which we situate our multiple lived experiences and consciousness as interrelated and self-aware makers.
In Cayey we shared individual practices, embodied, theoretical, and project based. The residency was a time to locate praxis in our individual practices so that we could then actualize brujula concepts going forward. We are now able to situate specific language within our writing, proposals, work practices, and even curriculum. Some example of key concepts are: body as active site of conocimiento, body as mediumship, body as conduit, cartography of past, present and future territories, fixed arrivals do not exist.
We were also able to visit with Puerto Rican artists and activist, connect with the Teatro Municipal de Cayey where we were able to lead a movement session, and visit key ancestral Taino locations.
