Yuca Brava is the third step in the Trilogy of Tired Soil and Exuberant Life, following previous work focused on 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, radically situated listening, cooking, drawing, writing, and a laboratory of material experimentation, the project accompanies collective processes that transform the poison of yuca brava into nourishment, in dialogue with Indigenous leadership and embodied knowledge.

Born from centuries of silenced knowledge and scorched fields, the project seeks to think with the plant, rather than to represent it: embraces the Around the Tree framework of MAMA, where the residency is grounded, allowing the trees to guide the artistic endeavour, shaping the gestures, rhythms, and tones of the conversations that will unfold during the residency.

«Plants, like us, bear colonial violence: counter‑colonial justice and repair are unthinkable without them. My projects follow the migratory routes of certain plants from the global South to the global North, tracing threads of forgetting, epistemicide, and resilience. I work with open‑access, household technologies grounded in reciprocity and commoning as gestures that resist extractivism, cultural whitewashing, and violence against racialized and feminized bodies».

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.