Waiting for the Bride as the Serpent Rises

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Jessica F. Cooke reactivates brid(g)e (2017), Guta Galli’s crawling piece devoted to female immigrant artists, performed in the streets of San Francisco. At 6:30pm F. Cooke starts crawling dressed as a bride towards the Chapel, where her progress will be live-streamed. Meanwhile, Galli performs Serpent God, F. Cooke’s new piece inspired by Galli’s pregnancy. In this performance, she embodies a ritual to honor the sacred elements that evoke the radical transmutation she goes through. When the bride finally meets the Serpent, an anthropophagic wedding begins, and thus the profane and the sacred devour each other.

INI TAT is a transdisciplinary performance collective founded by Guta Galli & Jessica Fertonani Cooke. The collective was born of fire in 2018 and is based between San Francisco, CA and São Paulo, BR. INI TAT chose a snake’s forked tongue as its core symbol. This body-based collective questions the intersections between language, race and culture while making critical commentaries on how the rise of the gig economy has impacted labor and the contemporary body regarding human relations. INI TAT highlights how radical informality has produced a capitalism that is fueled by brutal exploitation, especially in sexual and black markets. INI TAT combines conceptual thinking with rites of passage manifested through performance, sound, video and installation pieces.