PADRE NO ME PEGUES
FATHER DON’T HIT ME
Annually, 66,000 women are violently killed across the globe, the number of women killed on account of their gender has more than doubled in the past four years. Despite this, comprehensive measures to eradicate gender violence have not been implemented on either the federal and local level. On the contrary, the widespread failure by the authorities to address this issue is part of a system of male impunity and a reflection of the lack of women’s access to justice. Frequently, victims face discrimination and more physical abuse simply for trying to access the justice.
In response to local violence that our community was enduring in Chiapas Mexico, we developed a series of performances that addressed femicide and gender-based violence, both in Chiapas and globally. The phrase, "If they touch one, they touch us all" refers to a real conviction to stop this violence and create a more united and healthy society.
Chiapas Mexico 2013
EDELO Collaborative lead by Mia
Dalia Perez, Adriana Tomy Santiz
Workshops and Performance
In this work, Dalia Perez and Adriana Tomy Santiz, two actresses from Chamula, Chiapas are tied to each other by ropes around their ankles, inching away from somewhere slowly on their backs. They are in deep contact with the land that sustains them. They are hung from ropes along the mountain, frozen in time. In the background, one hears the sound of a speaker mounted to a truck, asking people to trade in their used electronics in exchange for cash. Taken together, the scene suggests both shared escape from gender-based violence and an eerie reminder of women as objects, often tossed away or sold.
Chiapas Mexico 2013
EDELO Collaborative lead by Mia
Dalia Perez, Adriana Tomy Santiz
Workshops and Performance
With actresses Dalia Perez and Adriana Tomy Santiz from the Mayan Chamula community in Chiapas, we recreated a classic and everyday scene that we might observe anywhere in the world: two women sweeping. But in this incarnation, the spectator public experiences surprise, awkwardness, and even grief as the gravity of the surrealist scene unfolds. These women sweep up hundreds of gesso penises littering the central plaza and throw them into the organic waste garbage can. This work uses surrealism and even comedy to bring people into issues that are dark, it uses absurdity to take people out of their comfort zone and notion of reality. Over the course of the performance, we could see the viewers excitement turn to a more serious understanding of the issues at hand. In the end, many of the spectators took a pene out of the garbage as souvenirs.
ARTE URGENTE
Chiapas Mexico 2013
Galeria Muy
EDELO Collaborative lead by Mia Eve and Caleb Duarte
Dalia Perez, Adriana Tomy Santiz
Ceremonia Juan Gallo de Chamula
Workshops and Performance
EDELO 2013
Cecilia Martinez Xun
Experimental Workshop and Performance
Mexico City 2016
La Gozadera
Co-Directors Oncogrrrls & Mia Eve
Collaborators - womxn with breast cancer
One-Month Residency, Workshops and Performance