Ed. Varie is pleased to present Las Curanderas Oasis, a performance by Alva Calymayor and Jen Dunlap, offering healing energy sessions to friends, artists, and fair-goers. Las Curanderas Oasis will run for One Day Only, Friday December 4th from 10am - 6pm, at the Island Cabana, Fontainebleau Miami Beach. RSVP and bathing suits are encouraged.

As the number of annual events grow, fair-goers claim to experience fair fatigue, as curator Shamim Momin of the Whitney Museum of American Art states, “One problem I have with fairs is how much energy they take on the part of galleries and their artists”. And Michaela Neumeister, Senior partner at Phillips de Pury laments, “Whenever I hear about another fair starting, it’s almost physically painful to me [...] When I entered Art Cologne last month, I suddenly felt I had an art hangover—it seemed like the paintings were all melting into each other in front of my eyes.”.

In an effort to protect from potential leeching and negative energy, and to embrace and share positive engergy, Calymayor and Dunlap will present a series of healing and spiritual actions inspired in the work of Lygia Clark, psycho-magic therapy of Alejandro Jodorowsky, intertwining the dynamics of art, bodies, and culture from Coco Fusco along the research and practice of the Meso-American Culture and Chontal groups.

Each healing energy session will begin with a sound-guided therapy, gaining the ability to eliminate chatter and noise in order to dig deep into the desired spiritual and energy goal. Calymayor and Dunlap have collaborated with sound artists and musicians, Anais Blondet, Brian Jacobs, Erick Lodwick, Will Rahilly, Brandon Seabrook, Erika Spring and Reggie Watts, to develop tracks tailored to each one of the five therapies offered at Las Curanderas Oasis. Visitors may choose a healing or spiritual energy sessions based on their own personal art fair goals, desires, and experiences.

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EXTRACTION
extract bad vibes,
art fatigue,
and
bad air removal.