Choreographer, artist and researcher, Aniara Rodado explores witchcraft and interspecific relations through plants, from a transhackfeminist and counter-colonial perspective. Her work questions ecological crisis, techno-scientific fetishism, and hegemonic systems shaping life, bodies, and knowledge. She creates performances, texts, videos and installations in open source, favoring low-tech and DIY. Rodado holds a PhD in science and art from École Polytechnique and teaches at ESAAA (École Supérieure d’Art d’Annecy-Alpes).

Yuca Brava is the third step in the Trilogy of Tired Soil and Exuberant Life, following previous work with Agave and Coca. These traveling plants, native to Abya Yala, thrive in poor soils and nourish complex worlds, sustaining knowledge, life forms, and resistance.

Through movement, video, cooking, drawing, writing, and a laboratory of material experimentation, the project accompanies collective processes that transform the poison of yuca brava into nourishment. From a radically situated listening, the work unfolds in spaces such as the Casa de la Yuca, chagras, kitchens, and schools, in dialogue with Indigenous leadership and embodied knowledge.

In the spirit of Buen Vivir and Buen Pensar, this artistic research does not seek to represent the plant, but to think with it. Born from centuries of silenced knowledge and scorched fields, the project embraces the framework of Around the Tree, which grounds the residency at MAMA—in both Inírida and Bogotá—allowing Yuca Brava and these trees to guide us.It is they who will shape the gestures, rhythms, and tones of our conversations.