HUMUS Video-Dance

Abstract

In 2020, in the province of Córdoba, more than 340 thousand hectares were burned, including native forest. These fires have been happening systematically for more than twenty years and were accepted until they became “normal”. They are intentional fires that correspond to an extractivist policy of plundering our territory and everything that inhabits it. HUMUS is the record of the Borde group's research process on the dance that emerges in relation to the inhabited space in conditions where the destruction of the vital environment is a factor that questions the body as a territory. The interest of the project lies in the relationship with the environment in that particularity: the “moment after” a fire framed in its social and political context. Sustained in an annual cycle, it develops artistic, poetic and political discourses that propose new configurations of meanings that relate bodies to the affected territory. HUMUS provides a decentralized view that allows the expression of the subjects in the situation, based on the subjectivization and awareness of experiencing corporally the destruction of their vital environments. The Borde Danza group spent a year in the same mountain space to record the changes that were taking place in the territory and in their bodies in relation to it. The music in the video that accompanies this work is an original composition by Toni Volpen and Tuto Petruzi, musicians from the same Cordoba town.