Mimosa
by Flavia Pinheiro
Mimosa is an ongoing research in companionship with the Mimosa pudica plant that reflects on the violence of representing nature as a feminine domesticated space. In a series of experiments taking shape in different media, Pinheiro explores how ‘nature’ is violently entangled with ideologies of race and gender.
The Mimosa pudica plant is known for its rapid movement in reaction to touch: after being displaced and captured in greenhouses across Europe, the plant bent over in response to touch, playing dead. They learnt that the disturbance had no real damaging consequence. Starting from this fact, this project engage different practices of remembering, learning and forgetting through touch encored in the mimosa experiences.
Mimosa is a performance that explores nature as an undomesticated, disobedient ground that refuses to be silent, passive, a resource, or an abject matter.
Must we play dead to survive? How should we respond to touch?
Mimosa Experiment #2
Peformance, 40 minutes.
Language: English
May 15, 2025 - Inkonst Malmö
September 30, 2024 - Veem House for Performance
Mimosa Experiment #1
Performance instllation, 10 minutes.
Language: English / language no problem
November 1, 2024, Museumnacht, Arti et Amiticae
June 21, 2024 - Holland Festival
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