Andrea Vezga Acevedo
Dance artist
TRANSFIGURATIONS
There is no success without failure. For us, both Latin American migrants, the path to "great success”can be described as an array of little successful fixes to an apparently endless chain of potential failures. Resilience is the only force that keeps us on this path. We draw strength from fear of the ultimate failure: to be sent back "home". The chain originates with the guilt of the first mistake: that we did not reach success in our own homeland.
Why is it such a burden to be a migrant? Why is it considered a failure? and more so, who's actually failing? Our experience is that despite following the law and all necessary steps for integration, obstacles keep on arising. Is it possible that the failures, or at least a big part of them draw back to the human mistake of forgetting that in a way we are all a product of migration?
Transfigurations is a performance piece that in 45 minutes shows, in an abstract but also figurative form, the struggles of foreigners to overcome a series of obstacles that promised to be doable but turn out into an endless chain of mistakes.
This project is kindly supported by the Austrian Association of Women Artists VBKÖ.
Concept and performance: Andrea Vezga and Guadalupe Aldrete
