Cantus ignotus is an investigation into the meaning of healing in the field of performing arts. This notion explores the imperceptible or invisible wounds that people and the territory have through different approaches from the indigenous communities of South America.

The body in motion as an analogy for the wound, the journey and the path as an analogy for purification, and the tree as an analogy for regeneration-relief are three important aspects that are part of the transformative movement of healing from a decolonial perspective. The question of whether we can truly heal is directly linked to dimensions that question the meaning of ritual, songs, memory, collective fragility, and the sense of re-signifying and rewriting the sacred in a world that increasingly asks us to attend to more personal and collective woundedness.

Presented by Konstepidemin Scen in collaboration with the master’s program Contemporary Performing Arts, Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg.

Jenny Contreras

Jenny Contreras, is a visual artist, philosopher, teacher and researcher. She is currently doing her master’s degree in Contemporary Performing Arts at the Academy for Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg.
She understands art as a way of questioning the meaning of life in relation to others at an ethical and political level, but also as a way of probing the spiritual and existential sphere of people. She has worked as a teacher in formal and informal spaces, offering arts and reading workshops in schools and non-conventional spaces. She is a member of the collectives Cima and Catarata and of PLAPF (Plataforma de Pensamiento Fotográfico).