Morena Buser ~ Keywords: migrant cosmopoetics, clay technologies, living archives, storytelling, libertarian practices, performance, pedagogy, difference without separability, intermediate area of experience, refusal and border-dismantling thought, abolitionist practices, earth doer
Morena Buser is a good enough artist who has been plowing the idea of a migrant cosmopoetics as a practice of being, seeing and doing worlds. She has been working and researching closely, seriously and carefully towards the gesture of encounter and radical care. This situated knowledge opens up to potentialities and possibilities, giving rise to alternative ways of becoming. The process of creation can be stimulated, created and manifested through embodiment practices, performances, clay technologies and other storytelling practices, depending on the project and place, but always working ethically. She works with joy and curiosity, but not only.
Her path passed through Núcleo de Subjetividade in São Paulo, where she studied under Suely Rolnik and Peter Pál Pelbart, Pos-Graduate Program in Social Anthropology under Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, in Rio de Janeiro and received an MA from the Dutch Art Institute. At the moment she is a researcher on Formative Psychology with Stanley Keleman by Regina Favre.
She has been working with several community centers such as Lanchonete Lanchonete and Ação Gamboa in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Psychiatric Hospital Júlio de Mattos in Lisboa, Portugal and Avanza Citizeene in Belgium. She has been doing workshops in several institutions, among them the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
In 2023, she founded with Jelena Mair the association 'the earth doers'.
Learn more about Morena Buser's 20 minute performance earth doings for "tuttə (le) rottə - all (the) ways: unfixed" ~ Aeroponic Acts 2022 at Centrale Fies in Dro, Italy.
Learn more about Morena Buser's written MA thesis (DAI, 2024): Etel Adnan and Mount Tamalpais - notes for a migrant cosmopoetics.
Follow Morena's "Life after DAI" via Instagram