Jasmine Mendoza
2019 Co-MISSION Artist-in-Residence
Jasmine Mendoza is a dancer and performance artist who is influenced by playful and grotesque imagery. She is fascinated by improvisation, nature, and the idea that something can be born, can appear, living and dying in a moment.
PROJECT AT LINKS HALL
in the darkness, she laid to rest | December 2019
in the darkness, she laid to rest investigates the artists' physical connection to the high deserts of New Mexico. Having completed a Summer residency in Carrizozo, Jasmine transformed and extended her human form to become elemental: of mountains, wind, and the sand beneath her feet. Mendoza's Co-MISSION project connects her desert investigations to the Chicago dance community. With this residency, she explored how to externally express the desert’s impact on the body and how it can be translated into a more traditional dance space.
Artist Credit
Sound: William Basinski