Anarcomistical Herstories
- Fiction
- Performance
- Magic
- 2021
Performance within Spells and Potions, translating its hosted encounters into a performative and narrative form
Anarco-mistical Herstories (Historias Anarco-misticas) is a performance that emerges from the research developed in Conjuros y Colocones, engaging with embodied knowledge, care practices, and alternative forms of healing.
The piece draws on narratives, conversations, and texts developed through the encounters at Metzineres, shelter for women who use drugs and survive violences, where experiences related to drug use, pleasure, dependency, and survival are shared and transformed. These materials move between testimony, fiction, and ritual language, forming the basis of the performance.
Through voice and performative narration, the work stages fragments of these narratives, assembling them into a non-linear structure. Rather than representing individual stories, the performance constructs a symbolic space in which voices intersect, overlap, and resonate.
The dramaturgy follows a ritual and narrative logic, translating collective experiences into an authored performative structure. In this process, language becomes both material and action, producing a space where knowledge is not explained but enacted.
The performance was developed in close dialogue with the Metzineres context context and presented as part of the broader project, in connection with its other forms, including Oracles, installation, and participatory activations.
Documentation
A video documentation of the performance is available HERE https://vimeo.com/662552033
You can download the script of the piece here It is shared under a Creative Commons open-source license. If you use or reference it, we would appreciate hearing from you.
Credits
Concept and direction: Christina Schultz
Developed in collaboration with: MACBA, Metzineres and Escoles Velles
Participants and collaborators: Laia, Itzaskun
Performers:Lisa Reventós, actress and educator, Sonia G. Vilar, artist and cook, Laia and Itzaskun
picture by Kati Riquelme
All following pictures by Anke Luckmann were taken at the MACBA (Museum for Contemporary Art of Barcelona)
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