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Arts & Communication A mean, the body. A mean body

want to retell a different story, history, historia, for our own
selves. How old are you? Recount. How are you? Recount.
How do you feel? Recount. How do you love? Recount. How
do you grieve? Recount. Please do not stop. That is where
it starts for me; that is where the counting happens first,
in ourselves. That relationship to the count is the one I am
committed to experiment with, through my embodiment
of space, time, and through the reconfiguration of the
body itself. I have to recognize my body in space first to be
able to count myself in. To count on myself, to then count
others, on others, again. To heal.
When it is important, I count in Spanish.
When the result must be exact, I count in Spanish.
When I need to remember it, I count in Spanish.

9. Being amazed
The writing of this article was a performance action in itself,
highlighting the intimate relationship that exists between
the thought and embodied processes of a human being —
in this case, the artist. The physicality of the body allows
for thought, experiences through time, muscle memory,
sensations, feelings, confusion, tiredness, consciousness,
Figure 7. Every 42 times, one, in the MFA in Fine Arts Thesis Show “An unconsciousness, and more. Performance art, along with
Asterism” at Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery (New York, May the experiments described in this piece, presents a window
2022), curated by Alison Burstein. Photographs by Martin Seck, 2022. into the coexistence between action and mind in ways
that could not have been predicted or controlled without
frame. The torso in a rectangular frame. The torso in a them happening first. The present pushes us into a non-
rectangular frame. stop mutation, and there is an amazement to be discovered

Thirteen times you and me. when letting yourself be and take notes; return to primal
Every day of the exhibition, the wooden segments that thoughts, thoughts you do not plan to have, thoughts
are removed will change as the position of the sandbags in that just pop into your head, movements that you do not
know why you like, movements like hanging from a beam,
place change. May be too obvious, may be not; feel free to measurements you thought you knew you had — but had
come by and count. Your body.
not really understood them completely before — and
Handing around 50 bags (the number of sandbags that might never do.
are part of every 42 times, one. because I like counts of
fifths, and I will probably lose a couple, so the grid will not Acknowledgments
be perfect), made out of fabric, filled in with sand, made This work was presented for a Master in Fine Arts Thesis in
in New York, touched by aliens, carried by a dolly, carried May 2022 at Parsons School of Design, The New School, in
in a car, carried by hand, carried by her, carried by them, New York, United States. Under the guidance of Professor
carried by they, carried by one, carried by two, carried by Yasi Alipour and Mira Schor, the author completed her
three, dropped on the floor — might only make sense. The studies successfully. This would not have been possible
core meaning of making with our senses and perceiving without the support and preparation she received in
the physical world through them — what else are they for? Architecture, both at the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels, at
Recount, rehold, retouch, relisten, retaste, resee, resmell. the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, before her
We pass them on, hold on to them for a while, a new while, studies in Fine Arts.
and keep on going.
Funding
I recount to lose control of my own previous count, of
anybody’s previous count. We might recount because we None.

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