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PADRE NO ME PEGUES

FATHER DON’T HIT ME

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

Mia Eve Rollow

EDELO

everollow@gmail.com

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