This stage performance/installation opens a discussion on the female body and the stereotypes that put it in tension. The emphasis is now on the visual contrasts and connections between a cow body and the female flesh.
The parallel is radicalised: how our bodies are so similar, how the colours on stage (red, shining yellow and blue, black and pink) aim to the fact that we navigate societies which force us to be exhibited and on sale, like if we live in infinite museums, galleries, warehouses, supermarkets and slaughterhouses.
On stage the performer makes the audience feeling uncomfortable, observed, using devices and strategies like frontal stand up dialogues, open microphone, voice in off giving strict instructions, songs in live and a dance that puts the body at its limit: the limit of exhaustion, violence and vulnerability.
The invitation is to take a step further: to think together, frontally and directly, about the hardness of carrying many cultural charges while being a woman, but also the power still found in our flesh, once we remove those rigid structures and are able to bring it to a public space. Exactly as it is: fragile and strong, imperfect and powerful. Like a cow.
Karina Pino, Cuba 1985
Master in Performative Arts and Community Spaces.
Theater artist, project coordinator and researcher, with experience collaborating in interdisciplinary teams that address social issues.
Her processes include the collective writing of texts, the generation of sensitive archives, the realization of workshops, social research and the creation of artistic products (installations, performances, books). Her main interest is to create long-term projects that resonate with communities and audiences, with an emphasis on women’s and immigrant groups.
She has participated in creative residencies in Chile (Movimiento Sur), the United States (Nuevas Voces), Portugal (Linha de Fuga) and Germany (Theatertreffen, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Akademie Schloss Solitude), and in events as a curator, including FIBA, Santiago a Mil/ Off, Impulse Theater and Salmon Festival.
As an artist and project coordinator she has worked in Cuba, Colombia, Germany, Spain and Italy, always collaborating with institutions and autonomous collectives.
