This Land is Not Yours, Your Body is Not Mine:
Researching materiality of the land and body.
Resting Generations, 2020
installation: dirt, clay, water, ceramics, 14’ x 20’ x 12’
I am an interdisciplinary artist who researches the materiality of the land and body. I conceptualize about land as a body, and the ideas of who owns the rights to the our bodies. If one morally cannot own another’s body, then how can one morally own the land? My work critiques systems of hegemony and the histories of land rights and ownership with the purpose to bring awareness of marginalized peoples such as the indigenous and the working class. I engage in collaborative relationships with space, body and material. I work with processes of matter-flow and movement while researching the materiality of the land and body. I integrate gestures of farming and dance, and build narratives around the identities of generations arising from the root of community. It takes many to make one. I research and incorporate these views into my pedagogy by teaching the identity of the materials. Contemporary materiality encompasses the whole identity of the material. Where does it originate? Is it fetishized and/or specific to a culture or group of people, and how is it being used? Today, there is more to consider about the identity than what was taught by our previous generation of Modernists, who mostly valued material for its line, shape, and form. In ignoring the whole of a material’s identity, one can never explore materiality to its fullest meaning, nor master its art.
Chop, 2020
A "matter-flow" study, the transition of material between stages, with a juxtaposition of movements and materials. Conceptual elements touch upon the blood in the land, and how does that affect the nurturing process of the Earth.
Created and Performed by Caz Azevedo.
materials: dirt, clay, lawn, hatchet, rake, body, and studio
Created and Performed by Caz Azevedo.
materials: dirt, clay, lawn, hatchet, rake, body, and studio
Raking Generations, 2020
The objects in this video are created through a process of generation. The movement research is reaction to the action of the material. The conceptual narrative remembers those who have suffered and lost by the hands of others, and questions whose hands does the blood carry upon today.
Created and Performed by Caz Azevedo.
materials: ceramics, dirt, clay, rake, body, and studio
Created and Performed by Caz Azevedo.
materials: ceramics, dirt, clay, rake, body, and studio
Working is Living, 2020
Conceptual performance video with a narrative touching upon the ideas about generations of farming, and nature's law of the land, which includes but not limited to the right to work the land with the responsibilities to take care and replenish the soil, never over exhausting it, and never claiming ownership of its body. Thinking about our origins evolving from the land, and the many generations who grow the foods for the community. How are they affected by our social and environmental pandemics, and what precautions are being provided for their safety?
Created and Performed by Caz Azevedo.
materials: mud, clay, water, body, studio, and appropriated space.
Created and Performed by Caz Azevedo.
materials: mud, clay, water, body, studio, and appropriated space.
