Heavy Blood
2018
3 Channel Video Installation, HD. 18’45"
In Heavy Blood,the devastated landscape of an open-pit mine in Vetagrande Zacatecas hosts ghostly creatures designing obstacles against progress. A miner and a phone sex worker’s proletarian lungs work under the demand of affective and mechanic performances for labor and pleasure. An extinct hummingbird looks for the nectar of flowers in a mining area, dwelling among crushed rocks and corrosive air. A lady with copper teeth that resembles Nahua destructive deity Tlantepuzilama, roars her non-human laments inside a cave. A gang of Mesoamerican voracious vagina-dentata-like creatures enjoy themselves and fulfill their toxic cravings, ingesting politics of inequality. Unwanted and desiring, they are trained for survival under harsh circumstances. But they want something more than survival. They want to play loud, they want to play too hard, in ecstasy.
Directed, scripted and edited by:
NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Lady of the Copper Teeth:
BÁRBARA LÁZARA
Teethed Vaginas Ensemble:
KARINA RIVERA, AZALIA MORALES and ROSALBA LIRA
Hummingbird:
NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Lyrics and Texts:
NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Musical Composition:
FEDERICO SCHMUCLER
Cinematography:
DALIA HUERTA
Drone:
DAVID DEL HOYO
Direct Soud:
ELDA ORTIZ y SERVÁNDO LÓPEZ
Photo Documentation:
ANGÉLICA CANALES
Choreography:
MARTA SPONZILLI
Production assistances:
FERNANDO SALCEDO y ERIC NAVA
Props design:
NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Masks craftmen:
JORGE LUIS GUERRERO y ABELARDO PIÑA
Seamstress:
EMILIA ROBLES
Special thanks to the research group FWF/PEEK/Dis/Possession:
Post-Participatory Aesthetics and the Pedagogy of Land
Heavy Blood was commissioned by XIII FEMSA Biennial We Have Never Been Contemporary, Zacatecas, 2019.