La Unión
La
Unión is a lived
experience and a chain of “fiestas” and
dance parties with therapeutic elements. The element of dance injects vitality to the bodies of the
participants. Each event
is divided into five different stages where different cognitive skills are
stimulated. An experience where
the joy and pleasure of being together is the maximum goal for the celebrating
crowd. It is a celebration that collapses all divisions created and
imposed by colonialism and the West.
It is
a community of non-professional dancers in an inclusive place without
prejudices where notions of freedom, body consciousness and collective
consciousness are explored. La Unión evokes a feeling of unity
and connection, through the multitude that dances. It is a place where
individual identities connect to construct a collective identity greater than
the sum of their parts, and a place where we can be freed from traces of
repression. It seeks to transform exhausted bodies into affective bodies,
reactivating the affective dimension, which allows the reconstruction of
emotional solidarity. These
celebrations were open, and several communities and social organizations that
don’t belong to the art world were invited in order to put on genuinely
democratic events, and work with bodies that experience real fatigue and damage
from the lives they lead.
Locations:
Stage
1 – Editions 1-2, Casa Parque Villaseca, Santiago, Chile.
Stage 2 – Editions 3-5, Espacios Revelados (Plaza
Brasil, Parque de los Reyes and MMDH Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos) Santiago, Chile.
Stage 3 – Editions 6-7, Centro de Creación y
Residencia NAVE, Santiago, Chile.
Stage 4 – Editions 8-11, Revuelo, Concepción, Chile.
La Unión Nº7 at Sala Negra, Centro de Creación y
Residencia NAVE
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La Unión Nº6 at Azotea, Centro de Creación y
Residencia NAVE
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La Unión Nº1 at Casa Parque Villaseca
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La Unión Nº11 in Chiguayante, Concepción
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Collaborators: Xoana Baz, Ana
Corbalán, Luis Corvalán, Cristina Gómez Penna, Daniela
González-Díaz, Moisés Hazan, Sofía
Hott, Benedicto López, Matías Ulloa, Sandra Araya, Joaquín Juricic and Andrés Zanetta.
Photos: Isabel Baeza, Vale Hofmann and José Arroyo
Video by Christian Chierego
Special
Guest: Casa de la Mujer de Huamachuco Renca
Supporters: Fundación América and Fundación Honra
Copyright © 2020 Raúl Hott, All rights reserved
La
Unión is a lived
experience and a chain of “fiestas” and
dance parties with therapeutic elements. The element of dance injects vitality to the bodies of the
participants. Each event
is divided into five different stages where different cognitive skills are
stimulated. An experience where
the joy and pleasure of being together is the maximum goal for the celebrating
crowd. It is a celebration that collapses all divisions created and
imposed by colonialism and the West.
It is a community of non-professional dancers in an inclusive place without prejudices where notions of freedom, body consciousness and collective consciousness are explored. La Unión evokes a feeling of unity and connection, through the multitude that dances. It is a place where individual identities connect to construct a collective identity greater than the sum of their parts, and a place where we can be freed from traces of repression. It seeks to transform exhausted bodies into affective bodies, reactivating the affective dimension, which allows the reconstruction of emotional solidarity. These celebrations were open, and several communities and social organizations that don’t belong to the art world were invited in order to put on genuinely democratic events, and work with bodies that experience real fatigue and damage from the lives they lead.
Locations:
Stage 1 – Editions 1-2, Casa Parque Villaseca, Santiago, Chile.
Stage 2 – Editions 3-5, Espacios Revelados (Plaza Brasil, Parque de los Reyes and MMDH Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos) Santiago, Chile.
Stage 3 – Editions 6-7, Centro de Creación y Residencia NAVE, Santiago, Chile.
Stage 4 – Editions 8-11, Revuelo, Concepción, Chile.
La Unión Nº7 at Sala Negra, Centro de Creación y Residencia NAVE
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La Unión Nº6 at Azotea, Centro de Creación y Residencia NAVE
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La Unión Nº1 at Casa Parque Villaseca
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La Unión Nº11 in Chiguayante, Concepción
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Collaborators: Xoana Baz, Ana
Corbalán, Luis Corvalán, Cristina Gómez Penna, Daniela
González-Díaz, Moisés Hazan, Sofía
Hott, Benedicto López, Matías Ulloa, Sandra Araya, Joaquín Juricic and Andrés Zanetta.
It is a community of non-professional dancers in an inclusive place without prejudices where notions of freedom, body consciousness and collective consciousness are explored. La Unión evokes a feeling of unity and connection, through the multitude that dances. It is a place where individual identities connect to construct a collective identity greater than the sum of their parts, and a place where we can be freed from traces of repression. It seeks to transform exhausted bodies into affective bodies, reactivating the affective dimension, which allows the reconstruction of emotional solidarity. These celebrations were open, and several communities and social organizations that don’t belong to the art world were invited in order to put on genuinely democratic events, and work with bodies that experience real fatigue and damage from the lives they lead.
Locations:
Stage 1 – Editions 1-2, Casa Parque Villaseca, Santiago, Chile.
Stage 2 – Editions 3-5, Espacios Revelados (Plaza Brasil, Parque de los Reyes and MMDH Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos) Santiago, Chile.
Stage 3 – Editions 6-7, Centro de Creación y Residencia NAVE, Santiago, Chile.
Stage 4 – Editions 8-11, Revuelo, Concepción, Chile.
La Unión Nº7 at Sala Negra, Centro de Creación y Residencia NAVE
La Unión Nº6 at Azotea, Centro de Creación y Residencia NAVE
La Unión Nº1 at Casa Parque Villaseca
La Unión Nº11 in Chiguayante, Concepción
