Natalia de Campos
SóFlowers (ritual), in collaboration with Jamaze (reading)
A ritual in homage to memories of people killed recently, originally thought of as an action around the tombstones inhabiting the maze within Prospect Cemetery in Jamaica, Queens. However, surprised by the closed access to its grounds, I decided on the spot that my action honored the living and stayed in the present. Asking that a force beyond enlarged my territory through a gospel song, I started placing red roses on the tablets that my accomplice Thiago created for his action Jamaze, containing an Ode to Jamaica’s Colosseum Mall, made of slogans. We had recently set up shop at the Colosseum Mall for 6 weeks, with ART&COM: Work Displays History, during the Jamaica Flux exhibition (April-June 2016). Although to me, our action for HERE IN JAMAICA was a meld of two separate individual ideas, I was also acknowledging important relationships and previous actions. In the week of our 15th anniversary, we were in front of the Chapel of the Sisters, so we could celebrate our complicity inherently, because Thiago would not celebrate formally. And I could celebrate I had met Nicolás through another action that involved the three of us 13 years ago. Finally, I decided to spread the love and offered the roses to the participants and visitors, attending the panel connected to Jameco Exchange and part of a program titled Once Upon a Place.
About the artist
A performance artist, sound/theater maker, untrained homeopath, wannabe dog-walker, unregistered nurse, amateur seamstress, I write urban poems, cook love, garden hope, teach foreign cultures, fight anti-democratic fires, text love stories, sing inner passions, exercise political minds, and curate sensibilities while walking my desires, worshipping nature and preaching peace. With Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, among other actions, I followed the maintenance staff of El Museo del Barrio, recording The Heart of El Museo, which still beats strongly in the Museum’s lobby. A long-time wife, collaborator of Thiago Szmrecsányi, we are also now partners in ART&COM: Work Displays History. Credits at syncretic.carbonmade.com/about
Photos: Natalia de Campos and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful
SóFlowers (ritual), in collaboration with Jamaze (reading)
A ritual in homage to memories of people killed recently, originally thought of as an action around the tombstones inhabiting the maze within Prospect Cemetery in Jamaica, Queens. However, surprised by the closed access to its grounds, I decided on the spot that my action honored the living and stayed in the present. Asking that a force beyond enlarged my territory through a gospel song, I started placing red roses on the tablets that my accomplice Thiago created for his action Jamaze, containing an Ode to Jamaica’s Colosseum Mall, made of slogans. We had recently set up shop at the Colosseum Mall for 6 weeks, with ART&COM: Work Displays History, during the Jamaica Flux exhibition (April-June 2016). Although to me, our action for HERE IN JAMAICA was a meld of two separate individual ideas, I was also acknowledging important relationships and previous actions. In the week of our 15th anniversary, we were in front of the Chapel of the Sisters, so we could celebrate our complicity inherently, because Thiago would not celebrate formally. And I could celebrate I had met Nicolás through another action that involved the three of us 13 years ago. Finally, I decided to spread the love and offered the roses to the participants and visitors, attending the panel connected to Jameco Exchange and part of a program titled Once Upon a Place.
About the artist
A performance artist, sound/theater maker, untrained homeopath, wannabe dog-walker, unregistered nurse, amateur seamstress, I write urban poems, cook love, garden hope, teach foreign cultures, fight anti-democratic fires, text love stories, sing inner passions, exercise political minds, and curate sensibilities while walking my desires, worshipping nature and preaching peace. With Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, among other actions, I followed the maintenance staff of El Museo del Barrio, recording The Heart of El Museo, which still beats strongly in the Museum’s lobby. A long-time wife, collaborator of Thiago Szmrecsányi, we are also now partners in ART&COM: Work Displays History. Credits at syncretic.carbonmade.com/about
Photos: Natalia de Campos and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful