Hi, my name is Coco Eva Luz Rainey Alcazar. I am a first-generation immigrant, a mother, an interdisciplinary artist, educator, forensic neurobiology theorist, and inventor working at the intersection of embodiment, memory, liberation, collective witnessing, systems inquiry, and artistic practice.

I Am AveMagnolia is not a brand or an offering. It is a body. A moving archive. A living interdisciplinary ecosystem where performance, visual art, movement, language, music, ritual, participatory inquiry, and political imagination converge.

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Through my work, I explore how violence, memory, grief, longing, race, gender, survival, desire, silence, sensory experience, and power move through individual bodies and collective systems simultaneously. I am particularly interested in the ways bodies carry histories that institutions, systems, and dominant narratives attempt to erase, discipline, fragment, pathologize, commodify, or silence.

My practice is deeply shaped by liberation pedagogy, participatory inquiry, trauma studies, neuroscience, movement practice, community knowledge systems, feminist and decolonial thought, and years of work in community education, advocacy, embodied healing spaces, and interdisciplinary systems analysis. I understand trauma not as an isolated personal wound, but as the intimate embodiment of collective rupture and systemic violence.

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Alongside my artistic work, I am the creator of SBVF, a forensic neurobiology framework examining violence, sensory processing, embodiment, trauma, and systemic harm through biological, relational, and social ecological lenses, as well as the founder of Alchemy Inventions, a company developing protective technologies centered on autonomy, sensory regulation, embodiment, and underserved human needs.

The body functions as a central site of inquiry throughout all of my work: not only as a site of injury, but as a site of memory, medicine, resistance, imagination, transformation, adaptation, and liberation.

I do not make art to soothe. I make art to witness, interrupt, remember, reclaim, redesign, and rehumanize.

 

I believe bodies contain knowledge systems too often silenced, violated, erased, pathologized, commodified, or forced toward disappearance.

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My work insists on their authorship.