BÁRBARA FOULKES
She lives and works in Mexico since 2008 where she develops her personal work as well as collaborative projects and collective work. She is a choreographer, teacher and her work is linked to the interdisciplinary developing exhibition works and art education. Within her practice, the body is the starting point of an expanded research. She understands choreography as the relationships established between bodies and ideas, and translates this into a way of thinking and observing the world in terms of tensions, forces, counterweights, balances and imbalances: in terms of action, and therefore, of life. His performative work is ritualistic and weightless. He approaches drawing and writing as an extension of the ephemeral, a way of documenting action and turning it into material for poetic study. She works from curiosity as a way to jump into the unknown, a medicine to combat the symptoms of a world focused on goals and results. Her work often creates containers of potential: mobile structures within which we can rethink power relations (read, action) over objects, bodies and the environment.27.09.2022 —
24.02.2023
From her work with the body in movement, Barbara's workshop will revolve around the tensions that are generated between what is alive and what comes out of that life. From the question "What is a body like?", she will lead us to know ourselves in a different way than the one proposed by our western and capitalist culture, and will allow us to grant it new qualities and functions in our daily, individual and social life. The invitation for the community of the Casa Cuna la Paz home is to observe the world from another type of functionality, since what is suspended does not operate in terms of productivity, but in terms of forces and relationships. To use force to re-signify, to use suspension to suspend what is given and generate new meanings.
OBJECTIVES OF THE RESIDENCY
To inhabit the body in movement and in relation to other bodies.
Strengthen the community bond.
Promote a space for socialization among participants
Encourage the care of people who care for others.
To generate new stimulating experiences for women caregivers and children.
To promote physical and mental activity for caregivers and children.