Paula Proaño Mesías

  1. A Thousand Eyes Beneath the Tide
  2. The Llama That Kindles the Wetland
  3. Pulverizing the World, but Also Spiritualizing Its Dust
  4. May the Illusion Be Nourished by the Whisper of the Wind, Not by the Sedative Modern Spell
  5. On Trans-Spirit, Technobodies and the Family of Tukã
  6. Chimeras
  7. Hyperbeccus (On Transhuman Artifacts)
  8. Grecia (On Repair Mechanisms)
  9. Elizabeth (On Surgical Musical Instruments)
  10. Tukã (On Domestication Devices)
  11. Íyi (On Mystical and Sacred Objects)
  12. Translucent Matter
  13. Studies on Zoo-Physiologic Modification: Grecia
  14. Untitled
  15. Sustenance

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Stills, ‘Quimeras’ [Chimeras], digital video 2K, 2023. 



‘Affectus’ is a project that hybridizes the aesthetic and conceptual universes inherent in reconstructive medical sciences, biological sciences, ancestral artifacts, and animal domestication instruments; distilling these categories into sculptural pieces that allude to the reconstructive prosthesis of Grecia (the toucan), the first bird to have received a beak prosthesis.

Digital video 2K
7’17’’
2023. 

Chimeras is a video performance in which four contemporary dancers activate the sculptural pieces, becoming mediums for the stories, gestures, and imaginaries carried by the objects. The works—Grecia (On Repair Mechanisms), Hyperbeccus (On Transhuman Artifacts), Íyi (On Mystical and Sacred Objects), Tukã (On Domestication Devices), and Elizabeth (On Surgical Musical Instruments)—form a constellation of hybrid figures through which human and non-human bodies, technologies, rituals, and systems of care become entangled.

Work supported by  the Creation Grant from  Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Argentina) 2022.


Photo: David Jara Performer: Malena Gelati