2024

 

CLAVADO EN MEDIO DEL SOL - THRUST OUT UNDER THE SUN

How is ecological grief and a carbonated energy drink connected? Passed from hand to hand, mouth to mouth, the ritual of Mate drinking was already portrayed as a symbol of friendship in the Guaraní­ cosmologies, shaping the identity of many countries in the southern cone. In the last century, the "activating" properties of this plant has captured the attention of the western market, fostered in particular by the wave of Swiss migrants in the province of Misiones, Argentina, during the early 1900s. These settlers became the pioneers of the industrialization process of Yerba Mate production. As Mate's popularity increases so does the erosion of the very soil that sustains it. Through an on-growing dendrochronological cartography this work invites the audience to collectively revisit and reclaim the Argentinian-Swiss common heritage of Mate consumption, its cultural influence and environmental impact.





EXHIBITED AT

• Transbonna Halle as part of the public rehearsal To Dance on Tables