“Handmade Pills”, workshop+performance - Aniara Rodado & Jean-Marc Chomaz
Within the programming of
Gelatine 2019| Duration: | 4 hours |
This installation is somewhere between a kitchen, a dismantled scientific laboratory, and the secret lair of a shaman, alchemist or witch. Join us as we concoct medicines from plants of ill repute. The workshop will be followed by a performance open to the public that embodies and narrates the complex mutualism of life.
In order to view plants as more than mere carbon dioxide traps and not let the protocols imposed by the food and pharmaceutical industry govern our interactions with them, we must debunk anthropocentric capitalist stereotypes that dissociate the cohabitation of the plant world with diverse life forms. This installation is somewhere between a kitchen, a dismantled scientific laboratory, and the secret lair of a shaman, alchemist or witch. Join us as we concoct medicines from plants of ill repute. We’ll visualise the terribly intense symbioses of the Plantae kingdom with microorganisms and fungi and, on the scale of our own species, the insects or human community-bodies that care for, transform and accompany them in the most diverse biotopes, embodying and narrating the complex mutualism of life.
We intend to “plantamorphise” ourselves by mutating our sensorium: hyper-permeable bodies, phytophilia. We’ll experiment with self-medication like people trying out new sexual practices.
Handmade Pills is a project created by Aniara Rodado in collaboration with Jean-Marc Chomaz.
Practical information: the workshop will be held from 4 to 7 pm and is divided into two sessions. Handmade Pills will conclude with a performance by Aniara Rodado and Jean-Marc Chomaz. This activity, which will begin at 7 pm and end at 8 pm, is open to the public.
Medications will be made from the following plants: Ruta graveolens, Eucalyptus Globulus, Erythroxylum coca, Linum usitatissimum, Origanum vulgare, Crocus sativus L., Allium sativum, Calendula officinalis, Lavandula angustifolia, Cecropia peltata, Artemisia absinthium L., Bursera graveolens, Commiphora myrrha, Bursera copallifera, Thymus vulgaris, Prunus cerasus, Urtica dioica, Juniperus communis, Vanilla tahitensis
Glass objects made by: Jean-Michel Wierniezky
Stage assistance: Anouk Daguin
General assistance: Emilio Sánchez Galán
Lighting: Jean-Marc Chomaz
Choreography, video and performance: Aniara Rodado
Co-produced by: Compañía Aniara Rodado, Chaire arts & sciences (École Polytechnique, Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso), LadHyX hydrodynamics laboratory (CNRS-École Polytechnique) and the association OU\ /ERT, France
