RITUALS FOR RELINQUISHING A BODY
This is a ritual of separation.
The last moments of a person with the body they inhabited.
This is a funeral song you sing to yourself.
This is a ritual of gratitude and tenderness, of desperation and frustration.
This is a moment of realization that there is no true return to the earth.
This is a moment of love and horror.
Rituals for relinquishing a body 2024 Performance and installation.
as performed in Working Title, a project [blank] event at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in San Diego, CA.
Concept, direction, costume and installation by Esther Gámez Rubio.
Mariana Salazar (performer), Ivan Trujillo (trumpet) and Wilfrido Terrazas (flute)
“Ñàkàn ké kî’în ñùu vichin vi kùù ká yù mií yu chin xà sè’è ichí naa ini va kú yu.
Por eso, desde esta noche, no soy de mí misma, sino de un próximo viaje que conduce al olvido.
That is why, since that night, I am not of myself, but of an upcoming journey that ends in oblivion.”
Florentino Solano
Tákúu ndi’i tachi si’í yu / Todas las voces de mi madre / All the voices of my mother