FROM WASTELAND: THE GREEN LION
Installation & Live Performance
Built from discarded materials found on site, the Wasteland Temple re-animates what has been forgotten. Through live performance, waste becomes an active agent; allowing the subconscious, discarded parts of psyche to come forth.
Over 45 minutes, performers guide a collective experience playing live: gong, violin, guitar, drums mixing with synthesizer, voice, poetry.
The space unfolds as a shared ceremony where visitors are invited to enter, listen, smell and sense how their presence shapes the work.
From Wasteland asks:
What if the sacred is not elsewhere: but here, in what we discard?
What happens when the unloved takes over the leadership?
This is an invitation to gather, to co-create meaning, and to step into an art work that aims to alchemy our sense of value.
Duration: 45 minutes
By Mina Büker
With Lila Collective
Built from discarded materials found on site, the Wasteland Temple re-animates what has been forgotten. Through live performance, waste becomes an active agent; allowing the subconscious, discarded parts of psyche to come forth.
Over 45 minutes, performers guide a collective experience playing live: gong, violin, guitar, drums mixing with synthesizer, voice, poetry.
The space unfolds as a shared ceremony where visitors are invited to enter, listen, smell and sense how their presence shapes the work.
From Wasteland asks:
What if the sacred is not elsewhere: but here, in what we discard?
What happens when the unloved takes over the leadership?
This is an invitation to gather, to co-create meaning, and to step into an art work that aims to alchemy our sense of value.
Duration: 45 minutes
By Mina Büker
With Lila Collective
Alejandro Chellet is a Mexican artist and curator whose work blends social practice, performance, and environmental activism. With an MFA in Performance from the Norwegian Theatre Academy, their projects explore food systems, radical hospitality, somatics, and shamanism. Alejandro is the founder of Casa Viva Gallery in Mexico City and co-founder of Rosekill Art Farm in New York. Spaces where art meets land, ritual, and collective creation
Eek Balam, the Black Jaguar, is an Anahuacan ritual artist. Ritual sound, performance, and ceremony merge to give shape to this ancestral project, in which the Black Jaguar seeks self-healing in order to help foster conscious connection with others. Through vibrations, unity, and the knowledge of different ancestral communities, he has received the medicine, art, and philosophy of Toltecayotl. Through drums, flutes, and a wide variety of ritual sound instruments, and accompanied by the sacred smoke of copal, these ritual sound ceremonies take form, together with the ancient words of our ancestors, which vibrate and remain in our hearts.
Giulia Anna Maria is a continuous researcher, nomad, student, and artist of life, exploring the world, cultures, somatic and embodiment practices, movement, sound improvisation, rituals, and ceremonies. She is the visionary behind Lila Collective, an open and radical invitation to explore collective, ritual, and creative experiences, and the artistic director of “Temples Voices”, a project activating nomadic gatherings, sacred spaces, and interactive altars in collaboration with diverse artists.Through dance, sound, improvisation, and symbolic installations, her work creates immersive experiences that honor indigenous and spiritual practices, celebrate community, and explore the interplay between perception, nature, and the unseen. She believes art is prophetic when it bridges the unspeakable and lived experience.
Felizitas Stilleke is a freelance dramaturge, curator and artist working in Berlin’s independent performing arts scene. With a background in German literature, pedagogy and cultural poetics, her practice moves between dramaturgy, ritual and artistic research. She is interested in joyful, activist-driven collaborations and in creating spaces where collective attention, storytelling and embodied knowledge can emerge.
For over five years, Felizitas has been working artistically with dreams as a research tool, exploring dreaming as a shared and narrative practice. Her work often investigates thresholds; between private and collective experience, between memory, imagination or political reality. Alongside her dramaturgical work for festivals, conferences, and independent productions she develops formats that connect performance with listening and care.
Tobias Feltes is a musician, producer, and sound designer based between Berlin, Ibiza, and Mexico City, working across psychedelic rock, Indian classical music, and long-form immersive performance. As vocalist, guitarist, and producer of Suns of Thyme, he helped pioneer "Krautgaze", a fusion of space rock, shoegaze, and post-punk. Studies with Indian classical masters Pandit Subroto Roy Chowdhury and Pandit Rabindra Goswami reshaped his understanding of melody, space, and duration. His practice centers on pure improvisation and collective creation, sounds generated entirely in the moment through close interaction between musicians. Rather than performing in the traditional sense, he crafts environments for deep listening, often spanning many hours, where the boundary between stage and audience dissolves. His approach is guided by restraint over virtuosity: not a flurry of notes, but finding the right one for the right occasion.
Dasha Aki is a DJ and electronic music producer based between Berlin and Paris. She explores the sacred dimension of music and its impact on the psyche, seeking to take listeners on deep journeys through atmospheric soundscapes. Her sound creation is a constant search for new rhythms and unconventional textures. Through electronic sound, gong, and singing bowls, she explores frequency and vibration, and the way sound can gently shift perception and awareness. Her inspiration is deeply connected to spirituality. For several years, she traveled in South America and India as part of her personal journey—experiences that have enriched her understanding of sound and its transformative power. Today, whether through ambient music or the gong, she approaches sound as a way to create moments of presence.
Melanie sees the world as metaphorical mirror and aims to explore what it means to relate with her beyond a logic which follows ideas of hierarchy and supremacy.
The alchemical process happens within her body, through which she translates, what she perceives, into the spoken. Those words intend to bring down the armour of bodies for them to remember. She sees her work as a therapist, as much as her poetic performative art as forms of landing with sacredness within the ‚mundane‘. The remembrance is a devoted co-creation with the unseen, without assumption nor outcome fixation.
Gibran Contreras A.K.A Tigre is a performing artist from Oaxaca, Mexico. He trained professionally in Mexico City, earning a BA in Performing Arts from Casa Azul Argos in 2020, while also expanding his studies through programs at ENAT and UNAM’s CUT. After working as an actor in national productions and joining ANDA, his path shifted toward a deep personal investigation of ritual performance and live art. His work explores a non-conventional stage language, rooted in physical metaphors and expanded states of perception, dissolving the boundaries between reality and fiction. He incorporates live music, dance, masks, costume dramaturgy, and natural or architectural elements. He has presented his work throughout Mexico and internationally in cities such as New York, Paris, Berlin, Rome, as well as in Poland and Switzerland, participating in high-level artistic spaces and festivals.
Regina Alatorre Zesati is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist based in Mexico City, who focuses on exploring pain and deconstruction through her own flesh. Born and raised in Zacatecas, her first incursion into the art world was participating in national oratory competitions as a child, thanks to this she developed her writing skills and her creative career started. Beyond her work as a painter, performer, and writer, Regina specializes as a set designer for the audiovisual industry, bringing four years of experience to film and commercial productions.
Eek Balam, the Black Jaguar, is an Anahuacan ritual artist. Ritual sound, performance, and ceremony merge to give shape to this ancestral project, in which the Black Jaguar seeks self-healing in order to help foster conscious connection with others. Through vibrations, unity, and the knowledge of different ancestral communities, he has received the medicine, art, and philosophy of Toltecayotl. Through drums, flutes, and a wide variety of ritual sound instruments, and accompanied by the sacred smoke of copal, these ritual sound ceremonies take form, together with the ancient words of our ancestors, which vibrate and remain in our hearts.
Giulia Anna Maria is a continuous researcher, nomad, student, and artist of life, exploring the world, cultures, somatic and embodiment practices, movement, sound improvisation, rituals, and ceremonies. She is the visionary behind Lila Collective, an open and radical invitation to explore collective, ritual, and creative experiences, and the artistic director of “Temples Voices”, a project activating nomadic gatherings, sacred spaces, and interactive altars in collaboration with diverse artists.Through dance, sound, improvisation, and symbolic installations, her work creates immersive experiences that honor indigenous and spiritual practices, celebrate community, and explore the interplay between perception, nature, and the unseen. She believes art is prophetic when it bridges the unspeakable and lived experience.
Felizitas Stilleke is a freelance dramaturge, curator and artist working in Berlin’s independent performing arts scene. With a background in German literature, pedagogy and cultural poetics, her practice moves between dramaturgy, ritual and artistic research. She is interested in joyful, activist-driven collaborations and in creating spaces where collective attention, storytelling and embodied knowledge can emerge.
For over five years, Felizitas has been working artistically with dreams as a research tool, exploring dreaming as a shared and narrative practice. Her work often investigates thresholds; between private and collective experience, between memory, imagination or political reality. Alongside her dramaturgical work for festivals, conferences, and independent productions she develops formats that connect performance with listening and care.
Tobias Feltes is a musician, producer, and sound designer based between Berlin, Ibiza, and Mexico City, working across psychedelic rock, Indian classical music, and long-form immersive performance. As vocalist, guitarist, and producer of Suns of Thyme, he helped pioneer "Krautgaze", a fusion of space rock, shoegaze, and post-punk. Studies with Indian classical masters Pandit Subroto Roy Chowdhury and Pandit Rabindra Goswami reshaped his understanding of melody, space, and duration. His practice centers on pure improvisation and collective creation, sounds generated entirely in the moment through close interaction between musicians. Rather than performing in the traditional sense, he crafts environments for deep listening, often spanning many hours, where the boundary between stage and audience dissolves. His approach is guided by restraint over virtuosity: not a flurry of notes, but finding the right one for the right occasion.
Dasha Aki is a DJ and electronic music producer based between Berlin and Paris. She explores the sacred dimension of music and its impact on the psyche, seeking to take listeners on deep journeys through atmospheric soundscapes. Her sound creation is a constant search for new rhythms and unconventional textures. Through electronic sound, gong, and singing bowls, she explores frequency and vibration, and the way sound can gently shift perception and awareness. Her inspiration is deeply connected to spirituality. For several years, she traveled in South America and India as part of her personal journey—experiences that have enriched her understanding of sound and its transformative power. Today, whether through ambient music or the gong, she approaches sound as a way to create moments of presence.
Melanie sees the world as metaphorical mirror and aims to explore what it means to relate with her beyond a logic which follows ideas of hierarchy and supremacy.
The alchemical process happens within her body, through which she translates, what she perceives, into the spoken. Those words intend to bring down the armour of bodies for them to remember. She sees her work as a therapist, as much as her poetic performative art as forms of landing with sacredness within the ‚mundane‘. The remembrance is a devoted co-creation with the unseen, without assumption nor outcome fixation.
Gibran Contreras A.K.A Tigre is a performing artist from Oaxaca, Mexico. He trained professionally in Mexico City, earning a BA in Performing Arts from Casa Azul Argos in 2020, while also expanding his studies through programs at ENAT and UNAM’s CUT. After working as an actor in national productions and joining ANDA, his path shifted toward a deep personal investigation of ritual performance and live art. His work explores a non-conventional stage language, rooted in physical metaphors and expanded states of perception, dissolving the boundaries between reality and fiction. He incorporates live music, dance, masks, costume dramaturgy, and natural or architectural elements. He has presented his work throughout Mexico and internationally in cities such as New York, Paris, Berlin, Rome, as well as in Poland and Switzerland, participating in high-level artistic spaces and festivals.
Regina Alatorre Zesati is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist based in Mexico City, who focuses on exploring pain and deconstruction through her own flesh. Born and raised in Zacatecas, her first incursion into the art world was participating in national oratory competitions as a child, thanks to this she developed her writing skills and her creative career started. Beyond her work as a painter, performer, and writer, Regina specializes as a set designer for the audiovisual industry, bringing four years of experience to film and commercial productions.
