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Mapa Teatro – Laboratorio de Artistas
Venue: Gropius Bau
Was also part of: exp. 1
Mapa Teatro – Laboratorio de Artistas
Founded 1984 in Paris, FR – live and work in Bogotá, CO
Heidi Abderhalden, Rolf Abderhalden, Daniela Bright, Juan Ernesto Díaz, Javier Hernández, José Ignacio Rincón, Ximena Vargas
Mapa Teatro is an artists’ lab by Colombian visual and performing artists Heidi and Rolf Abderhalden. In the immersive installation The Moon is in the Amazon: Index #1, Index #2, Index #3: an ethnofiction (2020), the artists evoke an event that took place in the Colombian Amazon in 1969—the year a human being first set foot on the moon.
In the original story, an expedition of three men—a trader, a fur trafficker, and a gold prospector—happened upon a maloca (ceremonial space) of an Indigenous community in voluntary isolation. After this encounter, two of the men disappeared forever; only the gold digger, who was also a guaquero (grave robber), returned to Bogotá, where he became a goldsmith, exorcising the ghosts that returned in his dreams by making forgeries of pre-Columbian statuettes.
Mapa Teatro speculates about what these men might have faced during their encounter with the maloca, introducing three metaphorical characters: the Socratea exorrhiza (walking palm), the jaguar, and the nut. As in the imagined fiction, the installation seeks to free the spectator from an anthropocentric gaze through a hallucinatory image-sound experience, where the three characters come to life and enter into dialogue, creating a Pan-Amazonian narrative informed by archival and historical research. Additionally, the piece plays with different perspectives, alluding to the point of view of the Indigenous community itself. Within the installation, the visitor discovers that there is an “other place” accessible through a parallel entrance, from which one can observe the public immersed in the artwork.
The Moon is in the Amazon: Index #1, Index #2, Index #3: an ethnofiction functions as a laboratory that constructs forms of otherness in dialogue and confrontation, problematizing the privileging of modern scientific thinking within hegemonic narratives while revealing cosmogonies that exceed the Western genealogy.
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