FITOPÍA is bioinspired in the plant world. This performatic installation invites participants to approach the notions of activity and passivity in inhabiting one’s surroundings, questioning the implications of our overactivity in the environment.
Podcast language: Spanish
By Lorena Ormeño
The current water scarcity and ecological crisis highlight the need for questions that invite us to look at non-human models of coexistence between living things.
Inverting the attention toward the plant world opens up diverse perspectives: decentralized organization that does not hold the brain to be the only hierarchically ordered command center; collaborative modes of survival; and capacities for adaptation, among others.
The ecosystem of FITOPÍA is made up of different media — sound, visuality, performance and video, constituting a tapestry of organic elements, waste and diverse technologies — which guide the sensory experience toward reflection.
By Lorena Ormeño
Credits
Indian shot, Agave, Aromo, Equisetum, Stenocarpus, Festuca, Beeblossom, Papyrus, Fountaingrasses, Lavender and Ragworts are our protagonists
| Co-Director, Performer | Josefina Camus |
| Co-Director, Performer | Rodrigo Chaverini |
| Sound Designer, Music | Francisco Marín |
| Sound Artist | Ce Pams |
| Set & Light Designer | Catalina Devia |
| Assistant Set Designer | Gabriela Torrejón |
| Audiovisual Director, Video Art | Paula Sepúlveda |
| Assistant Audiovisual Director | Fernando Andreo |
| Digital Animation | Poli Mujica |
| Costume Designer | Catalina Devia |
| Jacket Design and Fabrication | Matías Hernán |
| Creative Produce | Mayo Rodríguez Baeza |
| Communications Manager | Daniela Valdés |
| Collaborators and Co-Producer | Creation & Residency space Centro NAVE, Valparaíso Cultural Park (PCdV) and Centro Cultural M100 |
| Project funded by | The 2021 National Fund for the Development of Culture and the Arts, Performing Arts category, through the Transitional Emergency Fund. |
The project’s research process delved into diverse reading materials related to botany, gardening and ecology, and included field study as well as a series of interviews, which are available online in podcast format (Podcast language: Spanish).
FITOPÍA was presented at Centro NAVE, Parque Cultural de Valparaíso and Matucana 100 during March and April 2022.
Project funded by the 2021 National Fund for the Development of Culture and the Arts, Performing Arts category, through the Transitional Emergency Fund.
Fecha y horario
Fitopía
09/abr | 13:00pm
03/abri | 18:00pm
Fecha y horario
Fitopía / Parque cultural Valparaiso
22/abr | 19:30pm
23/abr | 19:30pm
Fecha y horario
Fitopía / Matucana 100
27/abr | 20:00pm
03/may | 18:00pm
