Radicantes is a space for experimentation, research, observation and debate on performative practice.
The artists invited to this edition of Radicantes 2022-23 will be Laura Ramírez, Paz Rojo and Elena Córdoba.
A conversation between/with the three guests is scheduled for Friday, January 20, 2023
Die well. Paz Rojo
January 9-13, 2023. On Friday 13th she will conduct a demonstration of her research.
During her stay she will work with an inter-generational group of people. A call will be opened to form part of the laboratory.
Paz Rojo: “In the new cycle of Radicantes I would like to share an investigative process that I am just beginning. The project is entitled Die Well and is born from the desire to decolonize this future.
With the expression “die well” I try to understand a sustainable present through the practice of a pharmakon: a word of Greek origin that means both a poison and an antidote. “To die well” is perhaps the tragedy that remains for us to assume. We are at the end of this particular world. A fact that forces us to act assuming our own contingency and finitude, however. Understood in this way, the expression “die well” can be a practice involving reflection over the long term about the continuity of our practices, and the knowledge that they generate, in order to conceive together a culture which is connected to what it is to die, to age, to end, yet oriented towards what comes after the segment of time in which we live…”
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