Sofía Córdova, GUILLOTINÆ WannaCry, Green: Savage Sauvage Salvaje
Sofía Córdova’s multimedia practice illuminates the joyous survival and righteous anger of indigenous people and people of color around the world, in the face of the violence of racism, classism and climate change. Córdova’s video, GUILLOTINÆ WannaCry, Green: Savage Sauvage Salvaje, is set in lush forests and silver waters, but also invokes the power of air through its focus on speech, movement, and invocation. Media snippets, poetry, and historical accounts are intermittently beamed across a jungle landscape as brown bodies dance, chant, and struggle against invisible forces. This new ritual, according to the artist, “approaches ‘wilderness’ as a collaborator in revolt and rejoicing.” It is both commentary and protest against global economies of extraction and exploitation.
Performances + Voice Acting (in order of appearance) :
Yagrumo/Guanina/1. Sofía Córdova
Kárstica/ Padre Piedrahita/ 2.: Rashaun Mitchell
Acerola/ X/ : 3.Meg Jala
Narrator: Imani Mason Jordan
Director of Photography: Sofía Córdova, Matthew Gonzalez Kirkland
Musical Composition: Sofía Córdova + Matthew Gonzalez Kirkland (XUXA SANTAMARIA)
(with samples from Love, La Lupe, Ismael Rivera)
Audio Mixing and Mastering: Matthew Gonzalez Kirkland
Director: Sofía Córdova
About Sofía Córdova
Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and currently based in Oakland, California, Sofía Córdova makes work that considers sci-fi as alternative history, dance music's liberatory dimensions, colonial contamination, climate change and migration, and most recently, revolution - historical and imagined - within the matrix of class, gender, race, late capitalism and its technologies.
Sofía Córdova的多媒體創作揭示了世界各地原住民和有色人種在面對暴力、種族主義、階級主義和氣候變化時，仍然快樂地生存和對於現狀憤怒的情緒。Córdova的影片《GUILLOTINÆ WannaCry, Green: Savage Sauvage Salvaje》以茂密的森林和銀色的海水為背景，但也透過對言語、動作和祈求的關注來與空氣的能量相呼應。片段、詩歌和歷史敘述斷斷續續地響遍森林，棕色的動物在跳舞、吟唱，與無形的力量在較勁。藝術家表示，這種新的儀式將“荒野”視為對抗和享樂的調節，既是對全球開採和經濟剝削的評價，也是抗議。
Sofía Córdova 1985 年出生於波多黎各Carolina，現居於加州屋崙。她的作品將科幻視為另類歷史、舞曲的解放思維、殖民污染、氣候變化和移民，以及最近的革命——歷史與想像——在階級、性別、種族、晚期資本主義及其技術的範圍內。