22-24 July, 5 – 9 pm
silent green Berlin, Atelier 1
Foto: Gui Galembeck
Immersive workshop and participatory performance
Conducted by Marina Guzzo (Brazil)
Workshop dates: 22, 23 and 24 July 2025, 5 – 9pm
Public performance: 24 July 7:30 pm
Free of charge, in English language
Artist and researcher Marina Guzzo connects bodies with landscapes, fashion with nature, memory with everyday life. As part of the Growing Sessions, she conducts a multi-day Mistura workshop, fostering alliances between people, clothing, objects, and plants. The workshop begins with the search for fallen leaves, discarded items, colorful garments, and personal memories. These are ritually woven together and, on the final day, presented as a choreography in the silent green garden.
For the Mistura workshop, we are looking for 20 participants with diverse backgrounds, in terms of age, physical and cognitive conditions, cultural origins, sexual orientations and gender identities. The objective of this project is to explore our capacity for transformation and create new emotional alliances.
The Open Call closes on 7 July. Selected participants will be informed by 13 July.
In order to register, please fill out this form.
Mistura is an immersive workshop that proposes a transformation game. It aims to forge a ritual between people and plants, and to think about a choreographic mixture. It's a play on the words used by Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia, who suggests a metaphysics of mixture. The workshop proposes, through movement, the creation of a community choreography that builds alternatives for interspecific, wild, non-human worlds. It's a form of resistance to the Anthropocene/Plantationcene/Capitolocene, bringing together perspectives that point to cosmopolitics from other ways of being in the world: stem, roots, sap, leaves, flowers and fruits.
The workshop encourages the participants to engage in a game of immersion, exploring the presence and time of plants, as well as choosing fabrics, objects and accessories to compose a mixture between the many "skins" we inhabit. Mistura approaches the city from the point of view of the life of the nonhuman species that surround us, inviting participants to find gestures that allow the construction of a common dance.
As an artist and researcher, Marina Guzzo concentrates her creations at the interface of the body and the landscape, mixing dance, performance and circus when tensioning the limits of subjectivity in cities and in nature. Since 2011, the climate crisis and the role of the artist in the production of imagery for crossing a ruined world in the Anthropocene have been at the center of her research. She works in partnership with health, culture and social assistance equipment, thinking of art as a political action that weaves a complex network of people, institutions, objects and nature. Marina has a post-doctorate from the Department of Performing Arts at ECA-USP and a master's and doctorate in Social Psychology from PUC-SP. She is an Adjunct Professor at Unifesp at the Baixada Santista Campus, a researcher at the Corpo e Arte Laboratory in the Society and Health Institute.
Proposal, creation and research by Marina Guzzo
Assistant: Lacy Barry
Research platform // Lab Corpo y Arte UNIFESP
As part of a research project in Affective Societies- Freie Universität Berlin sponsored by National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil (CNPq)
The workshop takes place as part of the series THE GROWING SESSIONS, in the frame of the project The Vegetable Parliament by José Délano, funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.