Housewarming:
A Happy Ending, part IV:
A Dweller's Longing by Jumana Emil Abboud
and Salia de la tierra by Mercedes Azpilicueta (by private invitation)
Image: Hide Your Water from the Sun. Courtesy of Jumana Emil Abboud and Issa Freij
Image: Hide Your Water from the Sun. Courtesy of Jumana Emil Abboud and Issa Freij
Image: SalĂa de la tierra by Mercedes Azpilicueta
On this day we welcome guests by invitation. On Thursday 7 March we will be open to the public with the same programme of performances.
Schedule:
17:30 Doors open
18:20 Opening remarks
18:30 - 19:00
SalĂa de la tierra [It came out of the earth], 2024
Performance (and cleansing ritual) by Mercedes Azpilicueta with sound by Constanza Castagnet
19:00-19:30 break
19:30 - 20:15
A Happy Ending, part IV: A Dweller's Longing, 2024
Performance by Jumana Emil Abboud
A Happy Ending, part IV: A Dweller's Longing
Performance by Jumana Emil Abboud
The artist wishes to recall a folktale from nine or nine-hundred years ago, a tale from Palestine and from the world. A tale dismissed by the world of today. Abboud's storytelling emerges from several endangered water sources in Palestine and the inherited tales they inspire through time. What unfolds, as the artist walks us through the natural landscape, is a multi-layered poem encompassing water-lore, myth, metaphor, imagination and audience participation that all respond to the difficulty of present-day human and more-than-human entanglements.
SalĂa de la tierra [It came out of the earth]
Housewarming cleansing ritual and performance by Mercedes Azpilicueta with sound by Constanza Castagnet
Mercedes Azpilicueta's artistic practice brings together different figures, from the past and the present, who address the vulnerable or collective body from a decolonial feminist perspective. In fluid, associative connections, she confronts rigid narratives of history in an attempt to dismantle them and make room for the affective and dissident voices to emerge. As such, her work manifests itself in performative and sculptural installations inspired by speculative and fictional Latin American literature, neo-baroque art history, contemporary popular culture and new materialist theory. In SalĂa de la tierra Mercedes initiates a cleansing of the building with sage, laurel and rosemary. The Ruda plant will also be present in spirit. A letter composed by the artist and addressed to the guests, containing poems, allusions to performance works from the archive and songs, will be read by the artist. As a remnant of the performance, an altar composed by de Appel's team will be left in the exhibition space.