Elina Rodríguez
Her work combines research, performance, teaching and care. She studied choreographic composition at the Universidad Nacional de Artes of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has taken part in many different artistic projects in Argentina, Spain, Chile, Canada, Colombia, Switzerland, Brazil, Australia, Uruguay and Norway. She has received subsidies, grants and residencies from both national and international organisations.
She is the co-founder of the Micro collective (2013). This focuses its exploration on the intersection between the body, the voice and movement. We design devices that allow us to share questions and actions with women for whom the chances of doing anything together are as remote as they are desirable. We work with the idea of an archive as a place to keep this research shared between people who are far apart.
She is also co-founder of the Centro Rural de Arte (Rural Arts Centre, 2008), exploring the impact arts projects can have that bring together different languages around themes arising in rural areas. Multi-disciplinary platforms are set up where people with diverse expertise, from diverse places can take part. The activities suggest a variety of ways to communicate with the community: workshops, talks, residencies and a different kinds of creation and research.
She is interested in the ungraspable nature of the languages of movement and in mobility as a means of removing the hierarchies from relationships, altering positions. She develops her practice with this collaborative, contextual approach. Every project is conceived as a platform for research that can appear in public in a variety of formats: performance, installations, wanderings, lectures, festivals, fairs, publications.