From Consent to Cosense: Rehearsing Ecologies of Exposure within Quimera Rosa’s Trans*Plant, my disease is an artistic creation*

Del Consentimiento al Cosentir: Ensayando Ecologías del Estar Expuesta en Trans*Plant, mi enfermedad es una creación artística de Quimera Rosa

Do consentimento ao Cosentir: Ensaiando Ecologias de Ser Exposta na

Trans* Plant, minha doença é uma criação artística da Quimera Rosa

Caro Novella**

Ph.D. Candidate ABD, Graduate Group Performance Studies, University of California Davis

Correo electrónico: cnovella@ucdavis.edu

Revista Corpo-grafías: Estudios críticos de y desde los cuerpos / Volumen 6 – Número 6 / Enero – diciembre de 2019 / ISSN impreso 2390-0288, ISSN digital 2590-9398 / Bogotá, D.C., Colombia / 134-152.

Fecha de recepción: 9 de julio de 2018

Fecha de aceptación: 28 de agosto de 2018

Doi: https://doi.org/10.14483/25909398.14234

Cómo citar este artículo: Novella, C. (2019, enero-diciembre). From Consent to Cosense: Rehearsing Ecologies of Exposu- re within Quimera Rosa’s Trans*Plant, my disease is an artistic creation. Revista Corpo-grafías: Estudios críticos de y desde los cuerpos, 6(6), 134-152 / ISSN 2390-0288.

*Artículo de investigación: Within Quimera Rosa’s Trans*plant, my disease is an artistic creation and in collaboration with artists and students at UC Davis, the question is: can rehearsal change the clinic sensorium?Esta pieza colecciona momentos de ensayo del performance creado en el marco de Trans*plant, mi enfermedad es una creación artística un proyecto de Quimera Rosa. Protocolos científicos y pautas de performance se mezclan con detalles de las cosas que ocurren durante el ensayo.**An artist-scholar-pedagogue working at the intersection of dance and improvisation, body installation, visual poetry, dra- maturgy, text composition, and performance art. She cultivates rehearsal as method to ignite inquiry and connect people to questions that matter while crafting performance pieces. Centering on cancer and trans feminism, she founded the per- formance project oncogrrrls (2011), awarded and recognized in Spain, the US, and Mexico. Recently she choreographed for Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens’ film Water makes us wet (presented at Documenta), and with Quimera Rosa, produced and co/dramaturged Trans*plant, my disease is an artistic creation. She has published solo and collaborative texts in Per- formance Research Journal, Kamchatcka revista de Análisis cultural, and in the book (In)visible scars. Novella holds an MA in communications with a specialization in dance for social change (Ohio University). Her PhD in Performance Studies at UC Davis, on.co.laborings, explores rehearsal as a collaborative tool with potential to unsettle oncological relations.

Abstract

In Spanish, the etymology of the word ‘rehearsal’ [ensayo] holds together the clinic (as in clinical testing), processes of knowledge making (as in trial and error), and the arts. What follows is a collection of rehearsal moments in the process of making a performance.

Within Quimera Rosa’s Trans*plant, my disease is an artistic creation and in collaboration with artists and students at UC Davis, the question is: can rehearsal change the clinic sensorium? Science protocols and performance scores mingle with accounts of the many things happening1 in rehearsal. Emerging within documentation and practice,this essay attends particularly to how we tangled in the tempos and relationalities of a biowet lab, while developing a mode of being in rehearsal that moved us from an ecology of (immune) consent to an ecology of (exposed) co-sense.

Keywords: sexuality; rehearsal; bioart; feminist science; diy-diwo.

Resumen

La etimología de la palabra ‘ensayo’ contiene la clínica (ensayo clínico), processos de creación de conocimiento (ensayo y error) y el arte. Esta pieza colecciona momentos de ensayo del performance creado en el marco de Trans*plant, mi enfermedad es una creación artística un proyecto de Quimera Rosa. Protocolos científicos y pautas de performance se mezclan con detalles de las cosas que ocurren durante el ensayo. En colaboración con artistas y estudiantes de UC Davis, la pregunta es: ¿Puede el ensayo cambiar el sensorium clínico? Entre documentación y práctica, el artículo atiende a cómo nos enredamos en los tiempos y relaciones de un laboratorio y a cómo desarrollamos un modo de estar que nos permitió pasar de una ecología (immune) del consentimiento a una ecología (del estar expuesta) del co-sentir.

Palabras clave: sexualidades; ensayo; bioarte; ciencia feminista; diy-diwo.

Resumo

A etimologia da palavra “ensaio” contém o ensaio clínico (ensaio clínico), os processos de criação de conhecimento (tentativa e erro) e art. Esta peça recolhe momentos de ensaio de performance criado no âmbito da Trans*plant, minha doença é uma criação artística um projeto de Quimera Rosa. Protocolos científicos e diretrizes de performance são misturados com detalhes das coisas que ocorrem durante o ensaio. Em colaboração com artistas e estudantes na UC Davis, a questão é: Pode o ensaio mudar o sensório clínico? Entre documentação e prática, o artigo trata de como nos enredamos nos tempos e relações de um laboratório e como desenvolvemos um modo de ser que nos permitiu mover de uma ecologia (immune) de consentimento para uma ecologia (de ser exposta) de co-sentir.

Palavras-chave: sexualidades; ensaio; bioarte; ciência feminista; diy-diwo.

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