Scenographic Hypothesis of a Green Territory

This proposal considers the singular geographic location of Costa Rica as a generator of behaviors and instigator of idiosyncrasies. This thesis acts as a lens which observes a verdant territory, graded in a multiplicity of greens, a confine of spatiality, in between the confluence of worlds, a canal and container of diversity.

It is found at the border of two oceans, it is flux, a crossing and a bridge between continents, between seas. This territory is poised as the limit, of civilizations in pre-hispanic times, of vice-royalties during colonialism; as a geographic demarcation of continental masses and a confluence of different forms of biological life in transit through the continent: human, animal, plant, from North to South and vice versa. Finally, it serves as a threshold of tropical climates, a place shifting between the humid and the dry. The territory has been formed by all the persons who have arrived, by all those bodies who are now absent and have become part of the land, made it greener, and thus formed our geography.

It is a place through which we pass, maybe we’ll continue on, surely we’ll leave something behind, likely we’ll take something with us. It is also the place where we stay, live, establish community with the others who remained, or maybe guide those who are in transit. Frontier, limit, border, bridge, passageway, place. A place of multiple togethers.

Country/Region Costa Rica

Presenting Organization Tsakuna Escenica Fundation ( La MAE )

Curator Felipe Da Silva, Michelle Canales, Mariela Richmond, Carlos Schmidt

Artists Carlos Schmidt, Michelle Canales, Fito Guevara, Jennifer Cob, Rebeca Woodbridge, Mariela Richmond

Team Gabriel Mejías