MAMACOCA/COCAMAMA

Mamacoca / Cocamama is an immersive, itinerant performance and living installation that explores the sacred, political, and botanical memory of the coca leaf.

Centered around a main dancer embodying a living plant territory while wearing a heavy, 2.500-textile-leaf ecosystem dress and a vision-restricting ritual mask, the performance uses continuous movement, a specialized soundscape, and a fragile ceremonial ceramic vessel to challenge contemporary narratives around the leaf. Accompanied by the green-clad "Conejo" (Rabbit) from the Food of War collective who interacts with the audience by sharing sweet, edible coca leaves, the piece builds a sensory, multi-layered ritual of care, colonization histories, and resistance.