If I'm presenting a proposal and my knowledge as a person from a third world country,
It's not validated, as a knowledge of a first world person.
I think it's a great experience.
And I know what it is, exactly what it is to be discriminated, what it is to face stereotypes.
I know these things, first hand.
I think it is a privilege to come from Colombia,
To come from a country that is at war, because it is like living in a condensed capsule of human experience,
In six months here, I can experience what it would take me 20 years to experience in a first world country.
For me, as identity, third world is enough. I don' want to get into Catholic, female, Colombian...
Third World is enough.
The political aspect of the work relates also to the process of making the work.
We are all learning, we are in this same process. We are discovering things,
We are discussing, we are arguing.
It has to be a collective effort. I do real labor.
Especially for me, coming from the third world, I cannot simply use somebody else's labor.
That's not the way it is. That will destroy their sense of the piece,
If I were working from that perspective.
The role of the artist has been overrated. And I think it should be more humble.
We basically connect elements that are already there, that are already present.
In my case, events that already took place, stories that have not been told that already happened.
And the work of my assistants, ideas that are in books.
So I take all these and I simply connect all that.
I think it's a humbler role.
I am not a solo singer, and my studio, we are a chorus.