Andrea Coyotzi Borja

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Finland (residence), Mexico (citizenship) °1984
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Andrea Coyotzi Borja (b.1984, México) lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Her artistic practice focuses on everyday life encounters, observations, and daily occurrences with ordinary objects and situations. These find a form in the different mediums the artist works with, such as video, sound, installation, writing and drawing. In addition to her artistic practice, Coyotzi Borja  is actively engaged in research on the concept of the infraordinary as part of her artistic practice and doctoral studies at Aalto University. Her artwork has been exhibited in different countries, such as Mexico, the United States, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Bulgaria, and Finland.  

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  • TEXTORIUM: Collaborative Writing-Reading with/in Public Space (2023) author(s): Emma Cocker, Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Cordula Daus, Lena Séraphin, Vidha Saumya published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
    Textorium: Collaborative Writing-Reading with/in Public Space is a language-based artistic research project that explores collaborative score-based approaches to live, situated writing and reading practices, for attending to the experiential aspects of situated embodiment with/in public space. Between 30 May — 4 June 2022, five artist-writers (Emma Cocker, Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Cordula Daus, Vidha Saumya and Lena Séraphin) met in Vaasa, Finland, to engage in a process of observational and collective score-based writing-reading with/in public space. With its conceptual anchor in Georges Perec’s short book An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (1975/2010), this enquiry evolves a distinctive approach that foregrounds a corporeal, sensorial and bodily approach to language, where writing and reading are conceived as a collaborative undertaking rather than a solitary endeavour. Working with and through different language-based practices — including performative, poetic, and phenomenology-oriented approaches — the research explores the potentiality of emergent spaces (perhaps even of emergent temporalities, subjectivities and collectivities) produced through the interweaving of shared writing and reading practices, as the cyclical rhythms of writing/reading intermingle with the circulating movements, momentums and flows of public space. Through developing and testing various embodied, corporeal, sensorial, and collaborative approaches, this research enquiry advocates the transformative capacity of language-based artistic research for cultivating new “ecologies of attention” (Yves Citton, 2017). This shared enquiry explores the critical potentiality of our “linguistic bodies” (Di Paolo, Cuffari, and De Jaegher, 2018) as sites of both resistance and affirmation.
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