Image: Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, or MAMM, has announced ‘Tororoí Resiste’, a participatory geocoreography with artist Carolina Caycedo set for Tuesday, August 4, at 4:30 p.m. in the museum’s Plazoleta. The free event opens registration for participants and invites others to attend as spectators, bringing Caycedo’s collective form of art-making into a public setting focused on the protection of the tororoí de Urrao, an endemic bird of Antioquia.
According to the museum, the action is being developed in collaboration with the Sociedad Antioqueña de Ornitología, or SAO. Participants will use their bodies to form a “living image” in the territory, making visible a call for the protection of the tororoí de Urrao, identified in the museum’s materials as Grallaria urraoensis. The species is described as inhabiting the cloud forests and high-altitude bamboo groves of the Páramo del Sol and as facing threats linked to the transformation of its habitat.
MAMM frames the action as part of Caycedo’s geocoreographies, collective performances that use the body as a poetic and political tool to create living images of landscape. The museum says these works are developed with communities, organizations and other participants, and respond to ecosystem changes driven by extractivism and other pressures that threaten human and more-than-human life. In this case, the emphasis is on a bird species and the fragile habitats that sustain it.
The museum’s description says the event will culminate in the phrase ‘TOROROÍ RESISTE’, formed collectively and recorded from the air. That image is presented as a gesture of defense of biodiversity and support for conservation initiatives. The participatory format places the audience inside the work itself, while also allowing the action to be seen as an image that can circulate beyond the museum grounds.
The event sits alongside the final weeks of ‘La luz, el fuego y la ceniza’, which is on view in rooms B and C through August 9. Curated by Ana Ruiz Valencia, the exhibition is built around food as a political, cultural and spiritual axis, and the museum says its public program includes performances and actions inside and outside the museum. The exhibition’s roster of artists includes Caycedo among many others, linking the participatory event to a broader curatorial framework already in place at MAMM.
A second Carolina Caycedo-related event follows later the same evening. At 6:30 p.m., the museum will hold ‘Conversación con Carolina Caycedo’ in the Nave central, with curators Marielsa Castro and Ana Ruiz Valencia. The museum says the discussion will address Caycedo’s practice and the themes running through her work and the exhibitions ‘Nos habitan pájaros y montañas’ and ‘La luz, el fuego y la ceniza’, and will also include the presentation of the official catalogues for both exhibitions. Both events on August 4 are listed as free admission.
