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Cannibal Enfleshments
2025  Arrangement of sculptural props, costumes, and other ephemera used by the activist collective Papaya Kuir (PK) in a series of performance workshops held in West, Contemporary Art Center. These objects were part of the scenography created for the enactment of a collaboratively written myth.

The workshops were developed through an open call organized with Papaya Kuir, which brought together a fixed group of 12 queer and trans immigrants and asylum seekers. Over a number of 10 co-creation workshops, we produced multiple outcomes, including this myth.

The myth narrates the cosmopolitics and story of Q-loXXX, a place where all earthly species—extinct, endangered, and present—exist in a state of continuous mutation. This transformative place is threatened by static and contaminated external forces. In response, the inhabitants of Q-loXXX enact a cannibal sacrifice to restore the land’s cyclical and ever-changing nature.



This work is a co-creation and participative project done with Papaya Kuir, -an activist organization working with immigrant Latinx queer communities in the Netherlands-, and its extended community.

Co-creators: Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla, Alejandra Zabala, Lauren Gonzalez, Flor Chavela, Paholy Lenar Alvarado, Francia Misha Bustamante Blanco, Sasha Aguilera, Yoacin “El Lobo” Villalobos, María Maiz Bermúdez, Alexandra Arévalo y La Aluxe Solis.

https://www.papayakuir.com/

This work has been shown in:

West, Contemporary Art Center, Den Haag (2025) as part of the show Life on Earth, Art and Ecofeminism curated by Catherine Taft.

Credits:

This work was made with the support of the Fonds Voor Cultuurparticipatie (2024-2025). 

Images by: 
Silvia Arenas
Natalia (Nika) Sorzano

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