Cansancio Tears

Cansancio Tears is a violent exercise to challenge power structures in a moving body informed by a cultural,  political, and social context. This interactive, research-led performance aims to question and exhaust the masculine perception of Latin American women established through patriarchal  and colonialist structures which are embedded in religion, codes of conduct, narco-culture, and the ‘macho’ figure in societies like Colombia and Argentina.

The exercise comprises an 8-hour interactive movement sequence performed by Latin American women. Audience members receive a command card to be used on the performers: Fall, Speak, Shut up, Dance, Stop, Kneel and Dress-Undress. They can use these commands as many times as they want, on the only condition that they speak clearly.  Through this audience-performer relationship, Cansancio Tears aims at dislocating power relations within the Latin American system, by making its devices and their performative power evident.