Description
Ordinary folk (Crucé) is a workshop for participants to create their own folkloric creatures made and designed out of collected materials; with the intention of performing a pilgrimage across Brixton house to Brockwell park, embodying their own mythical icons. The creatures will be an expression of the transformability of tradition and neo-folklore in urban contexts, becoming a collective interpretation of Latin American cosmopolitan culture in London. With the aim of documenting how folklore and memory have transformed and adapted new forms of manifesting in urban spaces and the individual; looking at personal and community experiences of folklore in the London Latin American community.
Led by Fatima Rodriguez Montañez is a Peruvian interdisciplinary artist based in London and a recent Master’s graduate from the Performance Design and Practice course at Central Saint Martins. Her practice engages with multiple mediums integrating aspects of theatre, poetry, film, and visual arts to explore themes of nostalgia, memory, and folklore.