Josefina Bahamondes

2016 / 01

Cuerpos Vaciados, Third performance and video gathering. Insekula Performance and Gallery El Cubo, Santiago, Chile.

Pictures: Lissette Aravena.

2014 / 01

Cuerpos Celestes, First performance and video gathering. Insekula Performance and Gallery El Cubo, Santiago, Chile.

Description: Work which inserts the idea of the Earth's movement into different physical substances, using the body as a principal factor of the movement system.  

I removed a spiral of tape from the gallery floor, pausing to exchange small objects for emotional actions, such as trading an architecture book for a hug or a chocolate for a gaze.

Pictures: Dominique Wainstein M.

Rotación/Traslación

Cuerpos Celestes. Primer festival de performance y video. Galería el Cubo, Santiago, Chile.

Descripción:  Trabajo que inserta la idea del movimiento terrestre en diferentes substancias físicas, usando el cuerpo como principal factor del sistema de movimiento.

Removí un espiral de masking tape del piso de la galería, pausándolo para intercambiar pequeños objetos por acciones emotivas, como cambiando un libro de arquitectura por un abrazo o un chocolate por una mirada.

Fotos: Dominique Wainstein M.

2014 / 08

Montréal, QC, Canada.

I set foot in North America for the first time February 25 of this year. I came from the opposite end of the world. A setting with a different reality, totally separate from that of my life today in Canada. I'm a performance artist who wants to experience the soil of this country, I want to feel how the soil mixes with my skin, I want to see the sky with the stars placed in another direction and feel the native forest in a endless embrace. I want to see the birds born to the sun and the sky. I want to experience the cold water of the north. I want to see the tides move. I want to feel part of this map.

My idea is to do it by resignifying my body in relation to the natural elements to finally construct my own natural kingdom.

Video Performance

2014 / 08

Montréal, QC, Canada.

Pise por primera vez América del Norte el 25 de Febrero de este año, vengo de un paraje lejano al otro extremo del mundo. Un paraje con una realidad totalmente ajena a la que estoy viviendo hoy día en Canada. Soy una artista de performance que quiere experimentar la tierra de este país, quiero sentir como la tierra se mezcla con mi piel, quiere ver el cielo con sus estrellas puestas en otra dirección y sentir el bosque nativo en un abrazo distendido. Quiero ver los pájaritos frutos del sol y el cielo. Quiero experimentar el agua fría del norte, quiero ver las mareas moverse. Quiero saberme parte de este mapa. 

Y mi idea es poder hacerlo a través de una resignificación de mi cuerpo en relación a los elementos naturales para finalmente construir mi propio reino natural.

2012 / 08

12 Moons, Cultural Centre Chileno de las Artes, Santiago, Chile.

Description: 

Work that uses the performance methodology "image and technology" to demonstrate the lightness of being.

A loudspeaker emits the sounds of a medical dictation of internal examinations of the human body. I'm sitting, in my lap are several beets and one knife. I took  one and I touched it  to my face, leaving a trail of red beet juice. I put the materials on the ground and offered the vegetable to the spectators to eat. After I cut the beet I put it directly on the ground. I inserted several safety pins into my clothes, hanging small pieces of beet from my body, as if they were vital organs. Finally I laid on the floor and played with the knife, finally laying it aside.

Pictures: Francisca Castelblanco.

2011 / 09

12 Moons, Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago, Chile.

Description: 

Work based on the idea of sugar, recalling its extraction in Latin America in the 19th century.

I started this work by depositing a line of sugar on the ground. I wound rope around my leg, torturing my flesh, recalling the slave and sugar extraction in nineteenth century Latin America. Sugar falls on my body, I communicate with others. I remove the rope revealing a red mark. I painted over the mark with white paint. I pushed the sugar together, leaving behind footprints.

Pictures: Francisca Castelblanco.

2011 / 07

Gallery Arcos, Santiago, Chile.

Description: Work that used site-specific performance methodology and technology. Referencial studies of several celebrations in 2006 around the world. 

Pictures: Alexander del Re.

2011 / 06

12 Moons, Cultural Centre IPA, Valparaíso, Chile.

Description: 

Performance which worked with the "luck" methodology.

I made "cootie catchers" and I wrote different actions in them. I interacted with the spectators with the cootie catchers, transforming the centre into a mini recital of laughter, shouts, songs, jumps, etc. It eventually became a mathematical exercise which by chance renamed the game as 7.78 cm.

Pictures: Hans Dreyer.

2011 / 06

Territorio Abierto International Festival, Santiago, Chile.

Pictures: Francisca Castelblanco, Alexander del Re.

2011 / 04

12 Moons, Cultural Centre SOFA, Santiago, Chile.

Description: I create a space in wich the spectator becomes part of the Panopticon, making the gallery space vulnerable through reconstruction of my physical body. 

I made a mold of the stomach of a mannequin, while wearing a cast of my stomach. I carefully cut and pulled the cast off my body. Then I did the same action with the mannequin and joined these molds. And I carried the body of the mannequin as though it were part of my body. The audience watching this became a panopticon.  

Pictures: Alexander del Re.

2011 / 03

12 Moons, Plaza del Descanso, Valparaíso, Chile.

Pictures: Ruth Muñoz.

2011 / 06

Bustamante Park, Santiago, Chile.

Pictures: Valería Tapia, Alexander del Re.

2011 / 02

12 Moons, Balmaceda Arte Joven, Valparaíso, Chile.

Description: I interpreted the lunar cycle with 28 communion wafers on black paper representing the universe. I cut the communion wafers one by one, illustrating the different phases of the moon, from crescent to full. Once I completed this process I stamped some of the communion wafers with blood. Finally I drew a path on my naked body and fallopian tubes.

Pictures: Hester Draycott.