Fruits

(Video) Performances and Installations

Javier ORMENO, Greta

Video Performance (6 min. 18")

2022

Lima/Berlin



Remembering the Missing

Javier Ormeno

Performance

March 2023

ANFASEP Museum, Ayacucho, Peru.

Tea ceremony to remember people gone missing during internal armed conflict in Peru.

Clothes of missing people retrieved from relatives or unnamed tombs, photos, candles, tea tools.


The Invitation : Non-Stop-Motion

Javier ORMENO

Video Performance (4 min. 5")

2022

Lima/Berlin

Life recording of Non-Stop-motion with a hesitation. Essay about my idea of relationships during a Performance Art Studies workshop.

Tea and coffee-stained paper; Japanese cat charms; Turkish teapot; Japanese tea cup and plate from grandma; belt; #KLM Amsterdam house shaped bottle


Restoring Links

Javier ORMENO

Installation

2023 

NOS PUCP, Lima, Peru.

In a high transit area of a cultural centre, public will listen to tender songs by victims of armed conflict and are invited

to take some fruit and tea. While approaching to wall they would read the translations of the songs that depict terrible stories of abduction.

Suitcases and boxes used by Venezuelan and Peruvian migrants, tea, fruits, audio recordings of songs in indigenous

language.



Remembering our ancestors

Javier ORMENO

Performance

2021

Site Museum and Archaeological Sanctuary of Pachacamac, Lima, Peru

Tea gathering around the temples and sanctuary dedicated to the main deity of Peruvian coast. All participants and their forefathers have a relationship with the site .

Japanese Tea tools, traveling chest, Peruvian blankets, masks , Peruvian Food.



Tea for Peace

Javier ORMENO

Performance  

2022, August

La Carolina Park, Quito, Ecuador. 

Preparation of tea near a bell commemorating peace, remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

Japanese tea tools, Ecuadorian baskets and desserts.



Speaking from Silence

Javier ORMENO and Theatre of Transformation

Performance  

2017, November

UN Library at Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

World Future Council

Collective creation about water cycles around the world.

Traditional and non traditional outfits and clothes from around the world; song about missing and finding a love


Speaking from Silence

Javier ORMENO

Performance  

2017, June

St. Anthony College, Oxford, UK. 

Exploration of silence and talk at Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group Conference.

Peruvian Poncho, Amazonian Shakers, feathers.