ABSTRACT
Coco Rico emerged as a liberating persona that created a nexus between the official and extra-official layers of quotidian identity, experience and reflection. In the hope of exploring the liberatory possibilities that emerge when the readers attempt to understand ourselves and our surroundings “with” (rather than through) the myriad species, the authors encounter in our quotidian life patterns, companion species toy poodle became a co-author/co-artist in the 2008 performance. Genetic donations (voluntarily donated) such as hair, skin cells, nails, from those who have influenced research and inspired in this lifetime, as well as nano intertextual media (images, books, websites, found objects) would become part of body, a surface to touch, and to transfer to another’s care at the onset of own corporeal evanescence.
