
Tremenda
Corporea:
Lithium
Love Stories
Performance
What would happen if your life depended on the battery of your electronic constellation?
Millions of flamingos and humans are migrating from the Atacama Desert due to the intensive extraction of lithium—a key resource for powering cell phones, computers, bicycles, scooters, and electric cars. Lithium Love Stories is a performance that explores the tensions between technological development, emotional connection, and territory.
Tremenda Corporea moves through this landscape of postcolonial contradictions on analog e-scooters, where the human, the mineral, and the technological blend together. Ionized bodies inhabit a scenic ecosystem that breathes between the desire for a fast-paced future and the urgency of a calm present.
The piece is built from documentary fragments, improvisation, choreography, and sound, creating an experience that oscillates between the intimate and the collective. Together with the audience, we share the anxiety of a draining battery and reconnect with other forms of energy: the energy of the body, of desire, of being together.
Can this performance create a moment of reflection that honors the knowledge of the Lickanantai community, their relationship with water, salt flats, and the concept of buen vivir (good living)?
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Credits
By & with: Icaro López de Mesa Moyano, Moira Meine Fuentes, Víctor Artiga Rodríguez
Co-production: Schwankhalle
Supported by the Zeit Stiftung Bucerius, the Senator for Culture in Bremen and the Centre for Art.