Chanti’s talk is called “Honoring Her Tongues: Art as the Language of the Liminal”
Women, marginalized populations, and “othered” cultures live hypnotized under Apollo’s overpowering spell of rigid rules and toxic masculinity. Unable to survive infinite amounts of persecution, oppression, and isolation, we might pack the little we have left and migrate away from the wisdom and sovereignty of the body. We can instead enter the psychodynamic portal of imagination and creativity, partnering with the mythic images of Dionysus and Olokun to express our wounds and explore the process of healing and integration through dismemberment, dance, and collaboration. Healing, a layered continuum central to soul-making, benefits from acknowledging those graven images—both numinous and grotesque.
This presentation invites you on a journey where the images—the art—share the psychic wound and the healing salve. It provides a space for art as a way of knowing, in and of itself. Perhaps we need new ways of presenting and sharing these images—which, too, is healing.
About Chanti
Chanti Tacoronte-Perez is a Cuban-American creatrix, ritualist, and author. She believes that images speak a profound language; her life’s work is as a translator of the unseen and advocate for the imaginal. She holds a Masters in Engaged Humanities and a Masters in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently working on her dissertation on the image of woundedness in relation to the imagination and the creative process as a portal to recovering the marginalized, forgotten, and silenced. Her work and teaching centers imagination, creativity, and deep rest. She teaches workshops and collaborative training focused on creativity, dreaming, intuitive movement, restorative yoga, and yoga nidra. Her passion and aim are to inspire all to rediscover their creative nature by weaving the blessings with the wounds while honoring the land and ancestors.