Salivating Knots Generating Foams
Program
Mario Lopez Choreographer - DAS - Amsterdam University of the Arts
"Salivating knots generating foams is a performance that is born from Mario’s research on Afrotranstopia, a space of conviviality and creation that is built around the intersection between life technologies, existences and afro transcendences. Afrotranstopian technology does not only mean technical or digital resources - means that we also use in the creation process. In Afrotranstopia, technology is thought of as mobilisation and activation of knowledge, ways of life (existences) and of matriarchal, ancestral, indigenous and Afrodiasporic forms of resistance. Afrotranscendence is the multiple strategies for staying alive, even when it seems impossible. Afrotranscendence is not survival: it is living, existing and creating futures. Reactivating these technologies means building spaces of training and sharing that support the manifestation and dissemination of these technologies, but also spaces of creation, speculation and overcoming"
Netherlands, 2022
