Agenda

23.05 - 03.08.2025

ProtoZone19

kuratiert von Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler, Assistenzkuratorin Vanessa Bosch
01.08.2025

Queer Bay Day 2025

September 2025

ProtoZone20 (finale ProtoZone des aktuellen Kuratoriums)

- Programm tba. Kuratiert von Lucie Tuma, Michelangelo Miccolis, Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler, kuratorische Assistenz Vanessa Bosch

Alberto
Bustamante

XOCHIPILLI

 

Xochipilli-Macuilxóchitl, “Noble Florido, 5-Flor”, florid nobel or the Prince of Flowers. Fifth “god of excess”, Xochipilli is considered the patron of music, teather, dance, singing, play and pleasure. He was equally a fertility deity with strong solar associations. Considered the best piece of Chalca culture, this male figure was found on the skirts of Iztaccíhuatl volcano, outside Tlalmanalco. His body is covered with psychedelic plants: peyote, psilocybe (mushrooms), tobacco, sinicuichi, ololiuqui, sombrerete and floripondio.

 

The portrait is part of a project/persona called Wicha Pancha, started in 2019 by theater ensemble Compañía Cromagnon. The performer embodies the deity as an offering as a means of protest against gender-based hate crimes in Mexico. It also refers to the “the robbery of the century” when 2 veterinarian students from the National University broke into the Anthropology Museum and stole 140 archaeological pieces back in 1985.

 

Production: Colectivo Cromagnon

Text and performer: Jesus Giles

Traduction: Diego Saldaña

Direction & edition: Alejandro Guerrero

Camera: Michelle Menéndez

Performance direction: Pepe Romero

Make up: Crisiscostum and Maria Perkances

Nahuatl text: Diego Cristian Saldana

Shedhalle – Alberto Bustamante – XOCHIPILLI