Ximena Alarcón invited me last year (2016) to be part of Suelo Fértil, there I found the fertile soil that I needed in another spacial territory, in my own territory (radio)!!! I met June Chua this year (January 2017), we were at a party and we started chatting about our experience as migrant women. I… Read More Suelo Fértil and Empire of Dreams
Suelo Fértil [Fertile Soil]: Telematic Sonic Performance from Ximena Alarcón on Vimeo. For one-month eight migrant women, residing in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Austria and the United States explored ideas of migration, belonging and place. By practicing Deep Listening to their voices, dreams, memories, body and the outer environment, they recognised the vast territories that… Read More Suelo Fértil [Fertile Soil]: VIDEO
Suelo Fértil [Fertile Soil]: A telematic platform for migrant women Ximena Alarcón In this audio essay, presented on March 5th, in FOOT2017 Festival in the Panel ‘Cultures and Listening’, in Toronto-Canada, the listener is invited to immerse on the migrant women’s reflections on the space that has been shared, and the connections that they have… Read More Suelo Fértil Audio Essay – in FOOT 2017
Mil gracias al equipo de lleom: Cinthya García Leyva y Ana Cecilia Medina (lleom) por esta entrevista! como parte de Suelo Fértil 2 Many thanks to lleom team: Cinthya García Leyva y Ana Cecilia Medina for this interview! part of Suelo Fértil 2 Production: Eric Flores (CCD Radio)
This telematic performance is a continuation of Suelo Fértil in May 2016, an immersive experience exchanging dreams and sounds derived from migration and fertility metaphors. This new performance brings together 5 women in England, France and Mexico in a live online improvisation with Radio Centro de Cultura Digital. … Read More Telematic Sonic Performance: Suelo Fértil 2 – Esquiule-London-Reading-Mexico Tacubaya-Mexico Nativitas
Suelo Fértil was planned as a live telematic improvisation between 4 performers in London and 4 performers in Mexico, exploring ideas of migration, belonging and place, taking place simultaneously in both London and Mexico. A conversation with sounds, an invitation to cultivate a virtual dialogue of words, voices and sounds between migrant women in Mexico, the UK and Linz, that nourishes a fertile soil to inhabit migratory contexts.… Read More Telematic Sonic Performance: Suelo Fértil 1 – Mexico – London – Linz
