colectivo amasijo: a circular offering
presented by Active Cultures and The Brick
on the occasion of Live on Earth

March 21, 2025
Doors open at 12 PM
Performance and lunch to follow

Free to attend.
Registration for the performance and lunch is required as a separate ticket from the conference to account for capacity.

Join us on the rooftop of ArtCenter's South Campus for a gathering with colectivo amasijo, featuring a circular procession and communal meal to connect with the cycles of the Milpa, the three sisters, and the equinox. Through this action, the Mexico City-based collective seeks to recreate moments when land was common, and paths and biodiversity were cultivated for the milpa to flourish.

The artists invite us to intertwine with a 5000-year-old agricultural system and perform a dance that transcends time, blurring boundaries and reproducing a cycle that has been passed down through generations. They ask: How do we reweave ourselves with the territory? How do we make seeds trust that human hands will sow them again? What are the technologies that we must (re)create where our reproduction of life is interconnected to the forests, the pastures, and the wetlands?

colectivo amasijo guides us through an intimate performance, where we will touch, gather, and bind ingredients foraged from the Milpa and the hills of Pasadena. The performance will culminate in an offering of endemic foods harvested by the artists during their agricultural journey in the Yucatán and La Milpa, La Escuela (the site of their field work). The lunch offering also features tamales made by chef Fatima Juarez who sources heirloom maiz for her restaurant, Komal, here in Los Angeles.

This performance is the final project of ECOTONES, a collaboration centering eco-feminist practices and care from sister organizations Active Cultures and The Brick. It is also presented in conjunction with LIVE ON EARTH! Ecofeminism and Art: a PlanetarySymposium (Los Angeles - Den Haag - Seoul), which brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of thinkers and makers approaching systemic social and ecological justice concerns through the lens of art practice, art criticism, and art history.

To register for the symposium, RSVP here!