GARDENING #3

Over Eloy Cruz del Prado

Eloy Cruz del Prado (1992) is a visual artist and performer based in Amsterdam. He graduated in 2021 with a BA in Fine Arts and Design at Sandberg Institute. He works between the roles of resistance and self-reliance in the development of intimacy, sexuality, care, and love. His research focuses on these tools in creating non-normative identities allowing for the growth of new social imaginings and defiance.

“At the moment, I envision my time at the studio writing and experimenting with movement. Both disciplines in which I’m not trained are getting more important in my practice. In Gardening, I would like to exercise each one separately and combine them both. Coming from a visual arts background, the process would be fruitful too when it comes to speculating around the scenography or formal aspect of a future piece.”

Good Job, Good Boy (sketch IV) is an ongoing project. It is an in-process thought around intimacy, imagination, and class difference. Which weaved together personal recollections of youth, queer desire, and rurality. This composes an image that underlines a constant seek of validation. This quest is presented here with a perspective of labor as a tool within a capitalist, and therefore, patriarchal frame. The work dissects the apparatus that construct ideas of self-value, identity, or social belonging, making use of autofiction and repetition.”

Over Amparo González Sola

Amparo González Sola (1984) is a choreographer, a dancer, a teacher, and a researcher based in Amsterdam. She recently finished her masters at DAS Choreography AHK. Last year she premiered “If every rock is a hole” and she is currently working on a work named “The conspiracy of forms”. Her research has developed around the notion of “reciprocity” and is deeply affected by her experience within feminist activism, the ongoing process of contact with the cosmology of her ancestors, and her own experience of migration.                                        

‘For GARDENING I bring some choreographic procedures and intuitions that come from my current work “The conspiracy of forms” to observe which other paths they can open. I will be working around the gestures of eroding, dissolving, decomposing, recycling, digesting, exorcizing…. I will approach these gestures metaphorically and literally. I will take as material to explore them my own body, a dance I know, my voice, a song, an emotion, a few ideas.’