Carn Viva: Fake Therapy

In this session of Carne Viva, Luciana Chieregati will perform Fake Theraphy, a healing practice developed by the artist Valentina Desideri, which proposes that all people can heal and be healed. Through some premises and a set of cards, we enter into this fiction and spend some time developing a deep listening in relation to the other, to the information that their body and their physical history can deliver and together, each one with their role, we practice the therapy. It is a practice that stimulates and reactivates the sometimes hidden capacities of any person to heal another person (or anything). The main goal of the therapist is to remain in a state of not knowing what he or she is doing while setting the intention to heal the other person. Setting the intention simply means that the therapist assumes what they are doing or what is happening as healing. We spend time healing the other "without knowing how". We experiment in both human-human pair mode and human-geography-objects pair mode, extending the healing practice to the territories, spaces and objects around us. To introduce Fake Therapy we first do an intuitive massage based on Betty Martin's premise developed in "The Wheel of consent", in which the author proposes a practical understanding of "give and take", what they are and what they are not, how they work and how to fall in love with both equally and completely. By making "give and take" clear, real and liberating through generosity and integrity, the practice addresses issues related to the dynamics at work in relationships (sexual, work, affective or political), helping us to understand how to take charge of them and propose changes that were previously invisible. In the practice I will propose we will have pleasure giving and self-pleasure as the main focus.

Carne Viva is a stable work group on body, discomfort and political imagination for the creation of somatic and emotional care tools. Once a month, we open Carne Viva to all those people who want to connect with matter, flesh, and breath.

By: Luciana Chieregati

Workshop promoted by the Participation Guild 

Luciana Chieregati is a choreographer, playwright and performer. She develops her work in the field of expanded performing arts, creating pieces that focus on the creation of language through choreography. She also develops workshops and teaches dance, movement and somatic practices. Trained in Dance and Movement at the Anhembi Morumbi University (São Paulo, Brazil) and Master in Scenic Practice and Visual Culture at the University of Castilla - La Mancha, in collaboration with the Museo Nacional y Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain). In 2008, together with Ibon Salvador, she created Coletivo Qualquer, whose main concerns are the investigation of movement, choreography and the creation of dance pieces in dialogue with other disciplines such as film, sound and philosophy.

Language: spanish

One Thursday a month at 11am, in the exhibition spaces of Santa Mònica, we open Carne Viva for all those who want to connect with matter, flesh and breath.

Carne Viva is born as an initiative of the Participation Guild, as part of the actions of a device / space / zone of collective learning to take care of our mental health and meet with our senses.