"The Keys For My Citizenship"
Performance at Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale II, curated by Guillaume Morin Dufour,
Fine Arts Museum, Chandigarh, India. Nov 2018
The Keys For My Citizenship is performance series that happened in New York City, Mexico City and Chandigarh in India.
This project originated in NYC in the summer of 2018 when Alejandro was walking with friends in Brooklyn and found a suitcase on top of lots of garbage bags on the sidewalk full of hundreds of keys. He took this suitcase and went to his friend house who was applying for citizenship struggling trough the application process which involved submitting forms with many multiple choice questions replying to very intimidating and shocking statements. Learning about this struggle he felt inspired to make a somatic movement performance using the keys he found as a metaphor on the complexity about earning a citizenship in another country apart from the place you were born.
This project originated in NYC in the summer of 2018 when Alejandro was walking with friends in Brooklyn and found a suitcase on top of lots of garbage bags on the sidewalk full of hundreds of keys. He took this suitcase and went to his friend house who was applying for citizenship struggling trough the application process which involved submitting forms with many multiple choice questions replying to very intimidating and shocking statements. Learning about this struggle he felt inspired to make a somatic movement performance using the keys he found as a metaphor on the complexity about earning a citizenship in another country apart from the place you were born.
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This keys he found were given to him by the city, so that he could open the doors that would lead the way for his citizenship? If so, he must open hundreds of doors with hundreds of keys or just one single door having to try hundreds of keys to open it? |
Casa Viva, Mexico City, November 2018.
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