“THE TRANSITION FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY CORRESPONDS TO THE IMAGE THAT DISAPPEARS IN THE PRINTMAKING PROCESSES (ETCHING) AND THEN REAPPEARS (PRINTED ON THE PAPER). MY WORK CALLS TO THE NEED FOR A SEARCH FOR JUSTICE AND TRUTH, WHICH BY NO MEANS IS FINITE OR TERMINAL, BUT RATHER AN INITIATIVE THAT EXISTS IN AND WITH TIME."

The Javelin Project, Performance still, Santiago, Chile, March 2021
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THE JAVELIN PROJECT
A collaboration with Jose Vidal
This ritual-performance of 30 minutes with original music explores the concept of migration, resistance, and freedom through the history of the ancestral spear to the professional javelin. Inspired by sports, and more specifically on the javelin throw, the project seeks to reflect on issues of power and patriarchy through a choreography based on simple movements from the early aboriginal cultures to the capitalism system we inhabited.
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The Javelin Project venues
exhibitions, screening and performances
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"The Aesthetic of Information: No Olvidaremos", Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, (2023) (3 video channel screening)
"Geology of Memory / Geology de la Memoria", The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2023) (1 video screening)
Proyecto Jabalina, Galeria NAC, Chile (2022), (exhibition with 3 video channel, performance and artist books)
LAartFair, DIVERSEartLA, Musuem of the Americas (AMA), Los Angeles, CA (2021) (projection)
Action Performance, One Moment Art, OMA, (2021) online screening
Queens Museum, (2021), (theater screening +Q&A) NYFA grant
Parquemet, Cerrillos, Chile (2021) original performance
Concept: María Verónica San Martín / Coreography: Jose Vidal / Music: Andrés Abarzúa / Dancers: Daniela Santibáñez, Benjamín Marchant, Tomás Riveros, Imanol Ibarra, María Verónica San Martín / Cámaras: Paula Leonvendagar, Martina Sivori video edition (short): Víctor Leyton / video edition (long) and javelins construction: María Verónica San Martín / Artist books: Maria Veronica San Martín / Acknowledge: Alejandra Herrera, Victor Trujillo, Mauricio Catalán / Performance space: PARQUEMET, Ex aeródromo de Cerrillos, Parque Metropolitano de Santiago Cerrillos-Chile

The Javelin Project, Exhibition and performance, Galeria NAC, Santiago, 2022

The Javelin Project, screening, Queens Musuem, New York, 2021 (supported by the NYFA City Art Corp grant)
The Javelin Project, Performance still, Santiago, Chile, March 2021
The Javelin Project, Performance video, 1:30 min, Parquemet, Gobierno de Chile, Santiago, March 2021

The Javelin Project, Performance still, Santiago, Chile, March 2021

The Javelin Project, Performance still, Santiago, Chile, March 2021

The Javelin Project, Performance still, Santiago, Chile, March 2021

The Javelin Project, Performance still, Santiago, Chile, March 2021

The Javelin Project, Performance still, Santiago, Chile, March 2021

The Javelin Project, Chile, 2021. Handcrafted javelins made of wood, copper, metal and wool. ph. Martina Sibori

The Javelin Project, Chile, 2021. Handcrafted javelins made of wood, copper, metal and wool. ph. Martina Sibori

Handmade javelin with wood, stone, and cáñamo, and etchings on fabric. 2021

Artists book, etchings on fieltro, unique, 2021

Handmade javelins, wood, Cooper, metal, stone, resin, whool, cáñamo, vegetal fiber, leather. 2021
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The Javelin Project, Chile, 2021. Handcrafted javelins made of wood, copper, metal and wool. ph. Martina Sibori

Handmade javelins, wood, Cooper, metal, stone, resin, whool, cáñamo, vegetal fiber, leather. 2021

The Javelin Project, performance, Santiago, Chile, 2021. Maria Veronica San Martin y Benjamin Marchant. ph. Martina Sibori

The Javelin Project, research, Chile, 2021. Athletic trainer Alejandra Herrera and Maria Veronica San Martin. ph. Salvador E.
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Español
The Javelin Project consiste en un ritual-performance de 30 minutos que explora los conceptos de inmigración, resistencia y libertad desde de la historia de la lanza ancestral hasta la jabalina profesional contemporánea. Inspirado en el lanzamiento de la jabalina de la antigua Grecia, el proyecto busca reflexionar sobre el poder y el patriarcado a través de una coreografía que transita por imágenes que van desde las primeras culturas aborígenes hasta el sistema capitalista que habitamos.
Sobre un paisaje vasto en tonalidades terrestres, la composición musical y arquitectónica nos invita a pensar en un viaje constante y continuo, intercalando elementos, espacios y percepciones como el viento, las olas, la sobrevivencia, el nomadismo, la escritura, la búsqueda, la traslación, el aislamiento, el confinamiento y la colectividad. La coreografía presenta temporalidades aleatorias y cambios de equilibrios, siguiendo un recorrido que busca un espacio cosmológico infinito. La jabalina gravita en el aire, abriendo nuevas posibilidades de narrativas en su caída hacia la tierra.
Medio: Performance/instalación de tres pantallas de duración de 30 minutos. Incluye la participación de cinco bailarines, además de diez jabalinas confeccionadas a mano (cuerpo de madera y cobre, puntas de piedra, metal y cobre, encordaduras de cáñamo, lana y fibra vegetal). El trabajo incluye también una composición musical acompañada de un libro de artista de edición limitada de tres ejemplares con grabados en metal sobre fieltro, tela y papel hecho a mano.
