Around the Reservoir
2024
A.T.R. delves into the internal landscapes of mental health by taking a mental health walk around the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park. What begins as a stress-relieving walk becomes a reflection of her struggles with depression, OCD, and generalized anxiety, manifesting in disordered behaviors around food and exercise. Accompanied by a recorded psychiatry session where Libre discusses ineffective medication, the piece offers a raw portrayal of the often invisible challenges of living with mental illness. **A.T.R.** seeks to reveal the unseen burden of these conditions, offering a confessional of a disordered mind and challenging perceptions of mental health.
Total run time: 05:06
Media: Video Performance
Filmed on an iPhone
BUYME
2024
a metamodern interactive art project by Lola Libre that investigates the existence of digital colonialism and its role in perpetuating the exploitation of femme bodies both on and offline. The installation incorporates web-based art, installation, and performance activation to challenge our understanding of power dynamics in digital landscapes and encourage reflection on who and what receives protection online.
Total running time: 12:25
Media: Video performance
performed at CPR storefront gallery NYC
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2023
Who and what gets the right to claim humanity?
It is factual that humans all occupy and navigate their respective cities, but not all humans share the same experiences of navigating their cities.
Please question the role of female bodies in public spaces and the subjugation of these bodies to social hierarchy.
Total Running Time: 08:25Media: Video performance
performed in public space nyc
HOW IT FEELS
2022
A visual presentation of a body dysmorphic mind in the works. The body contorts – presenting itself disconnected from the mind – as its own entity. The mind does not fully comprehend the reality of body image – and is hyper-conscious of how they appear to the outside world. Body dysmorphic feels are kept inside, usually, until the person affected implodes – there is a catharsis in letting go of the feeling – this is how it feels to process the indigestible.
Total Running Time: 01:01Media: video performance
HOLD
2022
Space that carries the complexity of childhood trauma, coping mechanisms, and healing through reframing traumatic associations through artistic exploration. HOLD involves surrealist elements to ground the obscurity of childhood trauma. HOLD presents in a dreamscape setting, complete with participants and performer. HOLD explores the complicated relationship between childhood trauma and the brain’s attempt to cope in any way possible.
Total Running Time: 02:35
Media: video performance
COG DIS.
2021
The psychological impairments brought on by having co-morbid disorders: OCD and ADHD. ADHD overloads the senses – too many things going on at once – “structured chaos” as my split focus on tasks I should complete, but I always feel the need to complete everything at once. It feels like I am my biggest setback. I work to make an immersive performance to recreate what ADHD “feels like” – through immersive soundscaping.
The audio moves from minor disturbances to a magnification of distorted thinking patterns. The audio switches between left and right and always demands the participant's attention by layering new thoughts and feelings. COG DIS centers an MRI scan of the artist’s brain in proximity to fleeting appearances of the artist’s body. Cognitive distortions feel like a fight with physiology—it feels unnatural to disrupt cognitive distortions in motion—they feel cyclical and familiar.
Total Running Time: 1:20 minutes
Media: video performance
PAINT.
PAINT. (2017) Written and performed by Tiffany Zorrilla as a part of Perfect City's You're Next: two weeks of programming at Abrons, in their main gallery, and the Experimental Theater. The programming includes walking tours, live music, mapping exercises, and talks with activists/artists at a roundtable discussion.
Paint. is a performance narrative piece depicting this history of colonization on Dominican womxn's bodies. The institutionalized racism that exists in presenting Euro-centricity as "norm" against cultural "othering" or "otherness" / exoticization of BIPOC. White skin equates to privilege in Dominican culture and perpetuates the denial of blackness/ anti-black attitudes. It is a narrative that impacts/are central to Dominican identity. A conversation many chose to not acknowledge and see. It is the erasure of our struggles, denial of ourselves. Total Running Time: 5:26 min Media: Media: video live performance performed at abrons arts center NYC
