Snow

Jan 5, 2006.
Inspired by the work of Ana Mendieta and Tania Bruguera in regards to the Afro-Latin tradition of eating dirt. This practice is employed in Kimberley as a way of assimilating into a new place by women away from their homeland, in other places eating dirt is used to supplement nutrients and to strengthen inborn fetuses both physically and metaphorically. In Cuba, the natives revolted against the colonizers by eating dirt in a slow collective act of resistance. In doing so, as Tania Bruguera writes, "they ate their ancestors, themselves, their history, their memory as if they were committing a cultural suicide."
This experience was an attempt to heal myself through pain, to externalize the internal and to assimilate my surroundings by eating a universal element that is only tied to location because it is frozen.

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Entertainment

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• performance
• ana mendieta
• andres monzon
• snow

[DustinTriplett]

Never a dull moment....