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Alicia Arévalo



Works

Magical Theys
Henshin Panoply
Les Faules de Leporida
Inkuybeta Tales
Monstruos de última hora
La cuerpa - M.paradoxa
La cuerpa
Water Shell
Dark Sun Gwyndolin
Suspiros de luz

Curating

Ni memoria de forma

Art direction

Outside Weave
MDA mutation
DM
Cleaning
Verano en espiral
Digital Goddess
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Inkuybeta
Tales


Inkuybeta Tales 2022
Instalation and performance
Salt, tar, synthetic hair, plaster, plastic, moss, wood, compost
With the support of L’Estruch Fábrica de Creació, Sabadell

Exhibit in Nau Estruch (Sabadell, 2022), Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona, 2023), Festival Espiral Files (Barcelona, 2023), Metropolitan Exchange de Berlin ClubCommission (Barcelona, 2023) & Festival Argiartean (San Sebastián, 2023).

Inkuybeta Tales is a story that imagines interspecies relationships in the ruins of capitalism, through speculative fiction and queer ecologies. The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic future within a sick and magical forest. The protagonist is Inkuybeta, a creature that can no longer inhabit the outside world because air pollution rots its ventilation ducts. It lives in a cave with a giant nest to incubate an egg it found while exploring, from which mosses and lichens are born. These are the last plants of that world. Over time, Inkuybeta and the moss egg have begun to live in a relationship of interdependence. They have fused together and relate through patterns of xenosolidarity.

In the performance, Alicia embodies Inkuybeta and the egg is a prosthetic sculpture that functions as a moss terrarium. They have built it to hang on their torso, allowing the contact of bodies (moss-plastic-skin) to produce sound. The result of this composition is a hybrid chimera of cohabiting organisms.

In a guided dark fantasy meditation, they create a polyphony live, using multiple digital voices generated by the sonification of the moss terrarium prosthesis hanging from my torso. Meanwhile, Alicia recite an incantation with excerpts from my own texts and those of Haraway, Anna Tsing, Bruno Latour, Derrida, and Starhawk, as well as scripts from anime like Utena: The Revolutionary Girl and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. They focus attention on polyphony as a tool to understand complex systems of plant relationships and the potential of conjuration and spells.



Photography: Andrea Carilla
Hood: Zoe Oms

Inkuybeta Tales from Alicia Arévalo on Vimeo.
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