Telepathic plants is a silent visual poetry project that seeks to invite one to think about how other species (in this case, plants) relate and solve problems among themselves, as well as the connection with different ecosystems that the human species has lost. It does so by evoking associative thoughts while maintaining contact with the moving images of a landscape with erasures made using an archive that is both found and intervened-upon, including with the menstrual blood of the artist.
The project is part of the subtheme The Ecology of Language - Poetry and Environmental Action.
Author
Marcela Cuevas Ríos
Intermedial artist and cultural manager from Mexico City, currently living in Murcia, Spain. She has studied photography, psychology, stage design, and the anthropology of art. She works mainly between the cities of Oaxaca de Juárez and Mexico City in the areas of filmmaking, film programming, and the pedagogical processes of experimental cinema, as well as creative writing and therapeutic accompaniment via art, performance, stage design, and community video.
Her work has been presented in different museums, cultural spaces, and festivals in Mexico and abroad, including Australia, the U.S., Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Canada, Uruguay, Paraguay, Spain, Chile, Guatemala, and Bolivia, among others.
She is co-director of the project Consultorio de Archivo Vivo, together with documentary filmmaker, producer, and researcher Alejandra Arrieta, through which they together conduct workshops and film therapy projects. She is also part of the film programming and exhibition collective SACIMU (Oaxaca); the audiovisual creators network Yerbabuena; the logistics team of the Fisura International Experimental Film and Video Festival; and the expanded film collective Luminikarna. She participated in the book De carne y Ritual, dedicated to performance and autoethnography, published by Investigación y Diálogo para la Autogestión Social A.C. In 2021 she was a beneficiary of the Jóvenes Creadores grant awarded by FONCA.
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