In 2023, Colectivo Moriviví celebrated ten years since its founding with a retrospective of our work.  Muralism, artivism and community have become the pillars of our practice.  Something that we have achieved by learning, unlearning and reformulating ourselves with each project, with each of the people who have been part of this feat and with each community that we have collaborated with. Our methodology has evolved, from an internal collaboration because it is a collective, to developing community practices. We create in community to make the power of art accessible and thus keep on building and de-constructing imaginaries, allowing us to claim our narratives. In this manner, we are committed to divergent, transformative, healing and sensibilizing art.

Fostering connection and creating in community is a constant task. During this past decade, our archipelago has faced crisis after crisis. Fighting for a better world, while protecting and defending previously obtained rights, is exhausting. We cannot romanticize resistance and resilience. In a world that demands so much of us, claiming spaces for self-reflection, introspection, and self-care is an act of survival.

After more than ten years of work, achievements, and transitions, we reaffirm ourselves as a collective. Moriviví has ​​become a project that continues and will continue to be a team project, opening its doors to the flow of collaborators. We recognize that the passage of different people, some who stay and others who leave, is part of our growth. Therefore, we welcome the most recent members of the collective. We claim this space to be able to coincide, meet, and create together. In the Colaboratorio VIVO Moriviví (LIVE CoLaboratory), the current members are exploring our intersections as artists. We are searching, articulating, evolving, and expanding our practices and our visual language. As a result, this gallery becomes a collaborative laboratory to experiment with the new dynamics and relationships we are forging.

For this “CoLaboratory” we are developing a live art piece. In a concise way, the term live art or Live Art refers to those works of art that are created in front of an audience. In this sense, the piece is born in the space where artists and spectators encounter. This practice is very close to performance, happenings and action art, but it diverges by rejecting all categorization. Nick Kaye in Live Art: Definition and Documentation (1994), argues that live art resists explanation and categorization, giving importance to experimentation, process and the present moment.

The protagonist of this exhibition is a living piece, an original work for the space, created by the current members of the collective. The current members are individuals, of different ages and diverse backgrounds. When setting out to create a work together, we used Live Art to empower ourselves. We are articulating, making visible and questioning the political nature of our differences. In this way, we experiment with languages ​​and representations to explore our identities and where our ideas converge.

We are creating a mural with an interactive installation component for this room. We present an unconventional landscape that connects with the body. It is buried and unearthed. From our tropical landscape we descend, to look at what has been left beneath: an ever-powerful earth, life that never tires of being and transforming, and identities that transgress the boundaries of the normative. On the walls, a pictorial representation of an excavation can be seen in which the layers of the soil can be distinguished: bedrock, parent material, subsoil, topsoil and humus. Within the design, shapes are identified that allude to bodies, cells, fungi, organs, systems and organisms. From the earth, tangled and interwoven threads extend from the wall. Expanding, like roots, nerves, or veins, they intersect and envelop a three-dimensional corporeal mass. We then question the flow of these fibers. Does the body feed on the earth or does the earth claim the body?

The work of art becomes an experience. Starting from our identities and our bodies, we propose to weave-unweave a common map-landscape.