2025
Participatory performance and mixed media
Variable sizes

In this second iteration of Letting Things Rot, Camila led a workshop and participatory performance at the Grant Street Studios in Phoenix, AZ. The workshop focused on composting, where participants were introduced to the concept of composting as a praxis. The group discussed the parallels between reflection/digestion and action/care in a dialogue. Sharing ideas around the similarities between digestion and reflection as metabolic processes that break down matter and separate nutrients from toxins, the dialogue catalyzed composting as a framework for digesting putrid ideological knowledge that no longer nurtures the maintenance of life. Caring for compost was emphasized as a habitual and embodied learning – composting as a way of knowing.

Participants were introduced to the concept of deep listening when caring for compost, an alternative way of caring by adapting to the composting body’s mode of communicating via it’s shifting smell, heat, humidity, and pH.  As an amulet for future  deep listening practice, Camila  incorporated the diapason into the workshop, also known as a tuning fork – used for tuning instruments and voice.  This tool,  used to tune into the frequency of a note,  becomes a tuning mechanism for the audience to dial into the frequency of care and listening of the composting body.