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12:30-15:30
satellite meetings 5: Eliana Οtta
Feeling-Thinking from the Body-Territory
The workshop will introduce two contemporary concepts that are central to Latin American feminist and communitarian struggles: ‘Sentipensar’ (feeling-thinking) and ‘Cuerpo-Territorio’ (body-territory). Emerging from a context in which capitalist and extractivist dynamics are violently corroding the bonds between the land and its human and more than beings, these political tools challenge the Western, modern divisions between mind and body, individual and collective, and nature and culture.
How might these concepts enrich our sense of connection to the territory known as Greece? How can they inform the needs and desires of our bodies as artists, performers and dancers creating in times of privatisation and the extreme commodification of the places we love? We will consider these questions through drawing, writing, discussion, reading, and exploring how to move and position our bodies in the contested spaces we inhabit.
bio
Eliana Otta is a Peruvian artist living in Athens, who crafts spaces for sharing intimacy, trust and curiosity, often through pedagogical, curatorial and editorial work. She holds a Master in Cultural Studies and a PhD from the PhD in Practice Program, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her PhD project Lost and Shared: Approaches to collective mourning towards affective and transformative politics, investigated Athenian socio-economic phenomena, by creating dialogues between theory and affective labor, through shared experiences that connected emotion, critical thinking, body and space. Her film Asking Trees, Birds and Ghosts About Future Images and Sounds was produced by Pixel, Bytes+Film in 2024. She co-founded the ecofeminist collective Mouries and coordinated the curatorial team that made the permanent exhibition at Lugar de la Memoria in Lima. She is also a certified yoga teacher, a butoh apprentice and makes people dance as Dj Flaquita.
