PROJECT // PA(I)SAJES
BIOGRAPHY
Mayra Morales is a Mexican infra-non-disciplinary artist-scholar, residing between Montréal and Cholula. Mayra holds a BA in Dance, an MA in Dance Theatre Practices (Laban, London) and a recent PhD A Philosophy of Movement (Concordia, Montréal). Her research focuses on the relationship between thought and movement through transversal intersections between movement practices, process philosophy and dance and performance studies.
She dedicates their time to domestic choreography, feeling attempts, tortuous-incessant writing, imaginary teaching, eternal applications, working from bed, and performing for walls, sometimes licking rocks and eating soil.
What moves her work are guttureal complex performativities that appear unexpectedly in the middle of the day and night, as flashes of visions of other worldly songs. Sitting on the couch, taking a bath, sipping a cup of tea, looking through the window. They catch you unannounced. You find yourself dancing on the shower, performing in the living room, giving a lecture to your empty walls, building a telescope with your hands in front of the mirror. Licking the floor. Reaching out to touch branches. The world is full of hallucinatory events unfurling at every turn, knocking on the window inviting into it’s undomesticated play.
Their practice obsessively explores the interplay between somatic contemporary shamanic movement, the body, architecture, sculpture, installation, color, texture, and materiality, prioritizing moving sensation over reproducing vocabularies of form, to experiment a relation between movement and thought, body and atmospheric environments through what she calls com-possessions, and compositionalities.
| DETAILS OF THE PROJECT |
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| A piece of emergent choreography open to malleability in which a hundred scenes compose affective landscapes that re-configure for different performances which become a long ever-changing creature. In pa(i)sajes, a landscape is a machine for passage, for transformation, through which the body camouflages with materiality, text and installation, modulating a transversal field in which dance becomes sculpture and vice versa. Exploring indigeneity in ways that honour a mix of blurred dirt kitchens, kite making long tables and nike sneakers. Interested in polymorphias as something in which form is not stable and shifts toward an incessant flicker of one thing being another. Through installation, pa(i)sajes builds rooms to observe, feel, and sit or lay down with movement in an experimental way. |
| In its early stage the project reaches out to dear soft collaboratorsDiego Gil, Cadu Mello, Csenge Kolozsvári, Khadija Baker et Teah González. |
