The pandemic found me in the untamed landscape of the Costa Rican jungle; where I had to learn to constantly negotiate my space with the wild flora and fauna that surrounded me at close range and in total isolation. I was the intruder into its dense and cohesive world. The pandemic came to announce the irrelevance of humans when they separate themselves from all other living beings.
How do we move from being apart from nature to being part of nature once again. The natural world will rebuild itself with or without us. How do we remember, reclaim and regenerate?
"Where the Road ends and the Jungle begins" will be a live solo performance. Video projections and live sounds will accompany me throughout this interdisciplinary journey as I creatively unfold the process of my research towards the creation of a dialogue with the different wild species and voluptuous vegetation I cohabitate with. The need for interconnectedness is of primary importance to indigenous people and Third World countries; whom according to traditional peoples themselves, carry their interrelationship to the rest of the world in their DNA. How do we create community? How do we together create social change with greater care and commitment to each other and to the environment? How do we create continuity? How do we ensure that process becomes progress, one creative step at a time? How can we engage neighbors, and local, national and international allies, respect what has been done before, acknowledge what is being done already, and contribute to its expansion to make sure it spills over the community at-large through the creation of art?
I will like this performance to contribute a conceptual foundation from which a future on-going art project can stand on, ponder on these inquiries and thrive. I hope this work contributes to the conversation on climate, how it affects our interconnectedness with other living beings and our chances of survival as we strive to matter.