TUKUY: COLLECTIVE MASHADA
GENERAL INFO
- LOCATION
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Institute for Postnatural Studies, Madrid
- DATE
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June 21st 2025
- ARTIST / FACILITATOR
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Synnøve Urgilez
TUKUY: collective mashada was an immersive gathering for movement and collective sharing resulting from the eco-somatic research of Ecuadorian artist and movement specialist Synnøve Urgilez. Within her research-driven public program TUKUY, the mashada stems from the concept of the (cuer)páramo: a body whose network of fascial tissues is linked to the ecosystem of the Andean páramo highlands, its native territory.
In Synnøve's migratory journey between the Ecuadorian Andes and Madrid, the desire arises to return to the páramo, where everything seems to be resting. Mashar—lying in the sun—becomes a practice that challenges hegemonic models that understand rest “only as a productive pause.” At TUKUY, we asked ourselves: what happens in migrant, tense, and/or aching bodies that cannot afford a break? This practice proposed inhabiting rest as a vital right and reconfiguring it from a postnatural perspective as an opportunity for connection with the community, the earth, and internal rhythms.
The participants joined in pairs for guided moments of movement, collective listening, and shared pauses. To lead the session, Synnøve Urgilez invited performer Stephane Blay to generate a common space-time, leading us to collectively mash and reimagine health as a living fabric between bodies and nature.
CREDITS
- PARTNERS / SUPPORTED BY
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City of Madrid - Government of Area for Tourism, Culture and Sports
