Trans Techno Feminist Rituals on Water & Cosmos
Insola Berlin
2022 – 2023
“Future Fluids is a cycle of technofeminist sorcery to experience the relationship of dissident identities as fluid bodies and water as the matrix of diversity and life.”
Future Fluids is a cycle of technofeminist sorcery to experience the relationship of dissident identities as fluid bodies and water as the matrix of diversity and life.
Located on the Insola Berlin, a floating platform on Rummelsburg, we will perform a series of open source, trans*feminist and decolonial rituals connecting the liquids of our bodies with this electric and divine materiality that hold us.
The Future Fluids curatorial rituals propose a complicity with water, mobilizing its ancestral and cosmic energies and thus interpreting, collectively, its encrypted messages as an oracle of a celestial memory that will reveal multiple stories about our origins from sidereal times. We believe that the future/past is encoded in it, it is fluvial, humid, eco-erotic and cyborg fluid.
Curated by
Nicol Rivera and Corazón de Robota
1º Performance
Nicol Rivera and Corazón de Robota
FUTURE_fluids is a galactic poem, to reassure our faith in the becoming of the waters as an original rhizome.
We will reconnect with an ancient encrypted open source message of this liquid cosmic materiality, receiver and projector of all the histories of humanity. An electric spirituality and divine energy that will hold us in this experience.
We will speak to her with deep love in this decolonial technofeminist poem and sound liquid ritual, in order to release what is stagnant to her molecules and return her to her ancestral flow.
The future is in the water, it is wet, eco-erotic and cyborg fluids.
2º Performance
Lia García (La Novia Sirena) and Yela Quim 30.08.22
Lia Sirena es una artista y activista trans mexicana quien desde el año 2011 propone que mediante la ternura radical nuestros cuerpos se encuentren y sanen a través de la política feminista de los afectos y los cuidados.
Combinando su voz, el tacto y una crítica a la colonización que encierra nuestras emociones Lia nos sumergirá en su ritual “Hundirse es hacerse profunda” junto al showcase de la rapera colombiana Yela Quim.
[…] hablar desde los abismos, renacer, surgir, ofrendar la voz trans[…] Con este ritual-performance, transitaremos juntxs a la superficie de nuestras heridas para invocar la cura con ternura radical y afectividad. Un canto colectivo por la justicia de nuestros corazones, territorios y cuerpos.. cuerpos…. Cuerpos.
Nada sin la piel.
3º Performance
Guided by Care 20.05.2023
Care (they/them) is a black trans non-binary trauma-informed care practitioner, transformative justice & eco-somatic practitioner, artist and doula, whose work focuses on re-membering somatics experiences of awe, connection, miracles and care.
4º Performance
Eli Wewentxu [CL] 04.08.23
Eli Wewentxu, mapuche artist from Gulumapu. He works with musical composition, sound art, video art and performance. His research focuses on finding new ways of making music, re meaning sound and listening from a critique of the Eurocentric western academy, turning it into something identitary linked to his cultural heritage.
5º Performance
Pacha queer [EC] 12.08.23
6º Performance
Anal.Fabets 14.08.23
ANAL.FABETS is a Berlin based queer collective experimenting live noise/y anal/og pleasure with dark pink machines moaning loops on tapes and poetry of free improvisation through genre/less electronics for riot queer bodies without organs or alphabets.
We are the music vandals phagocytizing copyrights and plagiarism.
Our instruments of discipline and pleasure are vocal chords, tape recorders, vinyl records on wrong speed, modular synths and amplified objects, hybridized with live visuals and still life scenographies.
7º Performance
Alina Maldonado [MX] and Barbara Lázara [MX] 4.08.2023
Alina y Barbara has been improvising toghether since 2021, merging their languages and interests in queer solidarity and embodied music to dialogue and colaborate.
In the context of Water Futures, this collaborative project aims to connect with the water environment, creating a conversation that allows both musicians to fuse with the fluid element, giving rise to a third voice.
Alina Maldonado, 1989. Violinist, composer, and performer whose work intertwines electroacoustic composition, free improvisation, sound design, and sound installation. As a violinist, she explores traditional and extended techniques in combination with electronics to create rich texture and noise. Questioning herself about her classical training as a musician and delving into sensations, identity, and the limits of musical language, her work pursues a nomadic aesthetic where improvisation has a relevant role. She is active in Mexico City’s experimental music scene and is constantly collaborating with other disciplines that inspire her music-making. nd in 2021 was nominated for “Best Sound Design” in The Metropolitan Theater Awards.
She is currently a candidate for a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at Bard College.
Barbara Lázara. Artist, performer and researcher devoted to tracing and amplifying subjugated language, archives of the body, and stolen memories. Her work often revolves around themes of illness, the affected and deceased voice, abnormality, and the silenced voice – an exploration that goes beyond the musical and becomes explicitly sonorous and physical, playing with the interplay of spatial and corporeal resonances; she delves into the moments before and after speech, linking its possibility of expression to the reflection of the unsaid.
Lázara has been granted the fellowship of the DAAD BKP 2022/23, Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (MX) 2019/22 and Iberescena in 2017. Her participation at group shows include Modos de oír (Museo Ex Teresa, 2019), The Listening Bienal (2020) and Social Acoustics (Errant Sound, 2017).
We are the music vandals phagocytizing copyrights and plagiarism.
Our instruments of discipline and pleasure are vocal chords, tape recorders, vinyl records on wrong speed, modular synths and amplified objects, hybridized with live visuals and still life scenographies.
