Sessions with Frida – a performance on thepossibilities of healing

Ein Bühnenraum, in dem auf einem lila Sofa eine Person liegt, dahinter zwei Screens, auf denen das Röntgenbild eines Gesichts zu sehen ist
Foto:
Judith Stehlik

To understand the trembling movement of the world, it is imperative to do it from where one stands. Eduard Glissant said that there are innumerable visible and invisible ties binding all corners of the world. I am a Mexican woman living in Austria. Not only that: I am an Afro-Latin brown artist. Like everyone else I am connected to an island in an archipelagic manner within the trembling ocean that is the world. The quest of this performance leans towards pain, towards understanding my suffering as a complex combination of personal, historical and social pain. I am constantly crossed and affected by numerous pulses that are inscribed in my memory, my phantasies, my surroundings, in the news and in my body. We are all a pulsating conglomeration of continuous affects.

The performance presented a live psychoanalytic session, a master yo-yo player, live music and an invocation of ghosts through the films of the Mexican film collective Los Ingrávidos.

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Frida Robles Ponce

Frida Robles is a Mexican artist and curator based in Vienna. She reflects on interconnectivity, the subversive power of imagination and contextual specificity. Her artistic practice has varied from public art installations to performances to textual work. She has continued her practice through exhibitions, several artist in residence programs and fellowship programs like the RAW Academy and the Young Creators Program of FONCA. A member of the editorial board of the Mexican journal Fractal, Frida Robles is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (with the support of the JUMEX Contemporary Art Foundation and the Marietta-Blau-Stipendium).

https://fridarobles.wordpress.com/