Versos de Porquería (pedazos)

This contribution brings together preparatory sketches, photographic records, videograms, and texts from the audiovisual work Verses of Filth production by Naomi Rincón Gallardo. The title Verses of Filth refers to the pre-Hispanic mortuary chant Tzocuicatl, a ritual with eschatological allusions that accompanied the putrefaction of the body, the purpose of which was to drain the stench from the body and promote a catharsis for the pain caused by the death of a loved one. In Verses of Filth, a bastardized Cihuateteo has become a scavenger/searcher, excavating archaeological remains and disembodied arms that resist being buried. Together with a band of indigestible vultures, the Cihuateteo recruits the arms and a legion of creatures from the underworld to revive from death. In its journey, the Cihuateteo unearths a hybrid figure between Tlaltecuhtli and a female body. Once exhumed, Tlaltecuhtli transports the bodies' energies, rapping and perreando, to the underworld, where mortuary creatures perform a collective ritual of care, ingestion, and horror to prepare a post-mortem revolt of body fragments that demand pleasure.