Yuca Brava concludes the trilogy Tired Soil, Exuberant Life, centering on bitter cassava—a cyanide-laden root that has long sustained Amazonian communities. The work reflects on how toxicity becomes nourishment through collective knowledge and embodied technique. 
The installation brings together moving images and a material device central to the preparation of yuca brava. The sebucan—a tubular, handwoven tension apparatus used to press poison from cassava pulp—grounds the work in Indigenous Curripaco practices from the territory of Puerto Inírida. More than a tool, it embodies a sophisticated ecological knowledge system. Here, chemistry is not abstract science but lived transformation: a collective, time-based process of soaking, stretching, and releasing that converts toxicity into nourishment. Through tension and care, danger becomes sustenance, and technique becomes a form of intergenerational memory.

Echoing Lao Tse’s reminder that what is soft may erode the hard, the work approaches change as patient and relational. It proposes a hydro-cartographic logic—mapping through material processes rather than from a distant, extractive view. Cassava processing becomes a counter-gesture to domination, converting poison into sustenance through time and care.
In a landscape marked by mercury, dredging and rare-earth extraction, the installation considers how violence is metabolized across human and more-than-human bodies. Plant intelligence and inherited technique emerge as living technologies—modes of repair sustained across generations.

aniara rodado is a choreographer, artist, and researcher whose work explores witchcraft and interspecific relations rooted in the plant world, from a transhackfeminist and counter-colonial perspective. Her choreographic practice extends beyond dance and the human body to question the ecological crisis, techno-scientific fetishism, and hegemonic forces that standardize ways of living, bodies, alliances, and knowledge. She creates performances, installations, texts, videos, and drawings in open source, favoring low-tech, old technologies, and domestic DIY practices. rodado holds a PhD in science and art from École Polytechnique and teaches at ESAAA (École Supérieure d’Art d’Annecy-Alpes).

Her work has been presented at the Click Festival (Helsingør), the National Museum of Denmark, La Casa Encendida (Madrid), the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Andalucía, the Centro de Cultura Digital and the CENART (Mexico City), Festival El Aleph (CDMX), Un-Split Festival (Munich), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Musée des Arts et Métiers (Paris), Vanderborght-ULB (Brussels), Espace Multimédia Gantner (Belfort), Transpalette (Bourges), and TEA (Tenerife), among others. She co-curated Ou/Vert – Phytophilie, Chlorophobie & Savoirs Situés and received the Dance and New Technologies Prize at Festival Les Bains Numériques and an Honorary Mention from the 2025 Ars Electronica Prix. She holds a PhD in science and art and teaches at ESAAA in Annecy.