Paula Chaves Bonilla

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In «Omni Toxica», Paula Chaves Bonilla examines the history of the coca plant, using activist, forensic, spiritist and performative methods. How is it possible that this medicinal plant has been turned into a whitewashed, toxic substance, namely cocaine – the capitalistic success drug whose blood trails lead from Colombia to Northern countries everywhere? In a dystopic setting, the performers stand up to the «coca-cocaine-complex» and its politics of death. «Omni Toxica» confronts the unholy alliances of neo-liberal regimes with rigorous anti-colonial politics and aesthetics. (zts)