Daniela Ortiz
The root you pulled out is not a hole in my land, it is a tunnel
The program ends on 20 November with a newly conceived performance by Peruvian artist Daniela Ortiz, who on the occasion of Sowing Archives, will present the latest chapter in an ongoing project which employs the languages of traditional children’s theater and puppet shows.
Through an exploration of the subterranean—physical and metaphorical—as a place of life and death, as a site for refuge and one where those in power repeatedly banish opposition, the artist will suggest an alternative history made up of forced silencing and underground struggle.
The buried anti-colonial and anti-imperialist histories of the 20th century were in fact seeds and the roots they generated give life to the protagonists of Ortiz’s tale of resistance.
