LUCIA HINOJOSA

Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola (Mexico City, 1987) is an artist, writer and editor working with language in a variety of ways. She exhibits and performs in multiple media, fusing her poetic practice with sound, film, drawing and installation to explore the materiality and transmutation of language, archive, memory, and the ecology of sound. Her work also explores the somatic and improvisatory aspects of performance as a collective and collaborative practice. She has recently exhibited and performed at Ex-Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City); Pequod Co. (Mexico City); Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City); Microscope Gallery (NYC); among others. She is the author of the chapbook O (EBL/Cielo Abierto) and The Telaraña Circuit (Tender Buttons) and co-edits diSONARE, an experimental editorial platform from Mexico City.

10.10.2023 —

30.11.2023

During her second residency, Lucía Hinojosa developed the project "Reescrituras de invocación", a performance that culminated on November, 2023 at Vernacular Institute, as part of the exhibition "Estas voces enmarañadas". This project investigates ancient choral scores performed by Mexican nuns in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, which have remained hidden in convents and churches. Hinojosa found two scores in the Ex-Convent of Santa Monica in Puebla and, in attempting to recover these original compositions, was confronted with the anonymity surrounding these works. The project asks about the possibility of invoking these absent presences through a hidden archive and whether it is feasible to recover these archives.

"Reescrituras de invocación" reinterpreted and rewrote these scores as a form of advocacy, seeking to recover the identities of anonymous women's voices. Hinojosa collaborated with a collective of women practitioners of self-defense and martial arts, as well as with nuns from Casa Cuna La Paz in Mexico City. Through workshops, conversations and encounters, these identities came together in an act of self-defense represented through voices and body languages.

Participants: Marisa Naina, Natalia Hernández Morales ,María del Pilar Morales Rayón, Eugenia Suárez Rodríguez, Itzel Nallely Castillo Espinosa, Religiosas, hermanas y cuidadoras de Casa Cuna La Paz: Inocencia, María, Cristabel, Amelia, Delia, Mercedes, Martina, Asunción, Aurea Luz, Carmen, Guadalupe.

OBJECTIVES OF THE RESIDENCY

• Encourage the active participation of women religious in the project, involving them in workshops, conversations and meetings related to the reinterpretation of the scores and the representation of the associated identities.

• Promote collaboration between nuns and other participants, such as women practitioners of self-defense and martial arts, to enrich the project experience from different perspectives and disciplines.

• Provide a space for women to explore and reflect on their own identities in relation to the project's theme and the ancient scores.

• Facilitate nuns' connection to the broader cultural project, enabling them to contribute to the narrative and representation of women's voices through their participation in related activities and events.

• Strengthen community ties between the nuns and other project collaborators, fostering an environment of collaboration and mutual understanding.