Earth Bodies
Workshop with Martha Hincapié Charry
Thu 4 June | 11am – tbc | Tramway, Glasgow
The practice/workshop “EARTH BODIES” delves into the effects on the body of the sense of grief created by today’s constant onslaught of negative environmental change and human-made eco-disasters in order to document these effects.
The research aims to explore the environmental grief we feel when our ecosystems are altered or threatened due to global warming or other environmental crises, specifically addressing the impact of climate change and extreme weather conditions on physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
“EARTH BODIES”, with an ecofeminist approach, reimagines (environ-)mental care through a decolonial perspective on climate anxiety by fostering biodiverse relationships and a regenerative approach. How are our bodies and all our relationships affected by environmental grief? The proposal opens channels of somatic, sensorial, and embodied encounter, creating an awareness space about the urgency of rewilding our wounded home. Human and more-than-human ancestral knowledge is invoked in a ceremonial space where participants are free to take off their shoes and get in touch with soil, experiencing an intimate, immersive space.
Artist Bio
Martha Hincapié Charry is a BIPoC Colombian artist, decolonial curator, choreographer, performer and researcher based in Berlin.
Martha is curator and artistic director of Plataforma/SurReal Berlin: independent festival for dance, performance, installation, discourse, screen dance, new and ancestral technologies since 2011. In 2021 and 2022 she was associate curator of Radialsystem Berlin, in 2017 and 2021 she was co-curator of Dance Bienal Cali, Colombia. Since 2015 she is a member curator of REDIV, the Ibero-American network of video dance festivals.
Martha facilitates unlearning spaces that address the expressions of under-represented BIPoC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) bodies. She opens up intercontinental dialogue spaces that through multidisciplinary reflections on racialized bodies, where migration, climate chaos, the relationship between the human and the more-than-human, as well as the interplay between the visible and invisible worlds, find a platform.
Martha taught at UdK Berlin, Centre James Carles, Toulouse, Zuni Hicosahedron - Cultural Center, Hong Kong, ASAB-Universidad distrital de Bogotá, Tanzfabrik, Dock11 and Radialsystem Berlin, Centro Nacional de las Artes CDMX México, Centro de Dança do DF, Brasilia, STRUT choreographic center Perth/Borloo, a.o.
Martha Hincapié Charry’s work for Rise Festival is realised in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.
