Spillings - Plaza de Miserere, Buenos Aires

Spillings, is a documentation of a site-specific live performance which took place in Buenos Aires at Plaza de Miserere.

This piece was inspired by an intuitive response to the interactions we observed at our first visit to the city square, which is next to a railway station and well known for its drug dealings and pick pocketing. Our intent was to highlight the seemingly unnoticed ones which live in the centre of the square on top of the monumental tomb of the first president barred off by an iron fence. We used a ritualised action which distantly echoed an aboriginal way of making an offering to Pacha Mama (the earth) and created a trail of sustenance on unforgiving ground.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• cats
• art
• contemporary art
• site specific art
• feral cats
• feral animals
• feeding
• milk
• feminine
• goddess
• pacha mama
• mother earth
• president's tomb
• buenos aires
• argentina
• alexandra zierle
• paul carter
• performance art
• live art
• ritual
• ceremony
• walking backwards
• offering
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