ANALYTICAL CONVERSATIONS : ACTION in FOCUS > 1 of 3
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2023 – 17:00 ARGENTINIAN TIME (SPANISH)
VIRTUALvía Zoom + YouTube L IVE
LaColectiva (Colombia) – Jochi Muñoz (República Dominicana) – Ale Montiel (Argentina) – Domingo Mestre (España) – Lina Aybar (República Dominicana) – Fernando Costaa (Brasil) – Rossella Matamoros (Costa Rica)
Group conversations with artists who participated in the immediate previous edition, to deepen conceptual approaches and personal methodologies at the time of composing an action. Discursive interweaving of exhibitions, review of clips and other visual documents.
LaColectiva is a group of artists from the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia, who have been working on the artistic work in Santander and reflecting on gender and its socio-cultural implications; based on these concerns, a search for identity is initiated through artistic expressions that, in line with their own experiences, raise analysis, questioning and discussion of the roles assigned and related to the feminine, to generate knowledge and contribute to social transformations in the region.
contact:
thecollective.art
@the.collective
Born in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic, in 1954. Graduated Cum Laude in Industrial Psychology, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), and
He has completed the Official Master’s Degree in Performing Arts, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid. Trained in folkloric dance, ballet and modern dance, and with higher studies in music. He has taken several courses and workshops in the areas of stage and performance, and has several publications to his credit. He has participated in numerous international dance and performance festivals. Artist selected three times in the National Biennial of Visual Arts (2009, 2011 and 2013, winning PRIZE on the first occasion), and twice in the Eduardo León Jimenes Art Contest (2012 and 2014). He currently lives and works in Santo Domingo, where he develops his work as an independent creator of performing arts and performance art.
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contact:
http://piezasdejochimunoz.blogspot.com/
http://textosdejochimunoz.blogspot.com/
Ale Montiel is a visual artist who works around the concept of the body as the first territory, due to the fact that both carry the material, emotional and spiritual life history of people. She studied at the National University of Córdoba. She has made individual and group exhibitions since 1997. She received a scholarship from the Antorchas artist training program (2004) in Córdoba and from the virtual workshop “Cuerpo y acción” (Body and Action) given by artist Regina José Galindo, FUNBA Guatemala (2020). Participates in the Di Tella 2022-2023 artist training program.
She has participated in national and international projects and exhibitions, recently participated in the International Art Biennial of Rio Negro – Valcheta, resulting in third prize, participated in the Video Performance Cycle: “What grows after the fire” Rosario. Selected in the Salon 2021 Federico Klemm XXV, Buenos Aires. She recently participated in the Southern Biennial, “Memorias rebeldes”, at the Eduardo Minnicelli Museum, curated by Fernando Farina, Rio Gallegos, Argentina. Recently selected at the Salón Nacional Palais de Glace and at the Salón del Litoral, Santa Fe. Lives and works in El Calafate, Santa Cruz.
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contact:
www.alemontiel.com
@alemontiel.00
Visual artist and curator born in Spain, with a Master’s degree in Cultural Management from the University of Valencia (2012) and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (1992). He is currently collaborating with the Universidade Federal de Rio Grande (FURG) as a guest researcher at the Observatory of Public Art, Environment and New Genders in Rio Grande RS Brazil. He has been professor of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at the School of Art and Architecture of the European University of Madrid (UEM). Co-editor and co-director of the action art magazine Fuera de (banda), contributor to the Suplemento Cultural Posdata, writer of essays in cultural publications and author of monographs such as Arte, cultura e impostura. He has been a member of the organization team of the Intramurs Urban Art Festival in Valencia and Coordinator of the First Trovada d’Artistes per la Llibertat d’expressió Intramurs Eivissa. Member of the Scientific Committee and Adjunct Co-curator, for Rio Grande RS (Brazil), of the International Festival of Minimal Urban Video Performances. He recently curated, together with Janice Martins Appel, the group exhibition Duas Beiras/Dos orillas which was shown at the Sala Fantastik Lab in Valencia (Spain 2021), at the Instituto Cervantes in Porto Alegre (Brazil 2022) and is currently touring the different campuses of the FURG. Adjunct coordinator of the project Arte nos bancos, collective painting in the region of Rio Grande RS. Author selected in the official section of the International Festival of Urban (and Rural) Minimal Performances in Video (2022).
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contact:
http://contracensura.com
https://www.facebook.com/dmestreperez
http://observar.art
Lina Aybar. Dominican visual artist with 20 years of artistic trajectory and more than 15 years as a performance and action artist. Advertising graduate from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo.
UASD, with studies in Plastic Arts at the National School of Fine Arts, currently School of Visual Arts ENAV.
My works have been presented in the main national art venues, such as the Museum of Modern Art MAM, Cultural Center of Spain CCE, National Gallery of Fine Arts and Casa de Teatro. As well as in art and performance art festivals and events, both national and international. Some international events and biennials: International Festival Grito de Mujer / 2021. Women artists creative energy for peace exhibition, Division for Women’s Affairs, United Nations. N.Y. / 2018. Biennial of Corbera, Spain (for human rights), / 2013. Art Camp Colors for the Planet, Andorra / 2010. Solo exhibitions: Rompiendo el Silencio, Centro Cultural de España en Santo Domingo / 2022
Puerta Adentro, in the framework of the artistic project Hello Krisis / 2014.
In my aesthetics, balance and visual cleanliness prevail, combined with an experimental use of materials, especially those traditionally considered non-artistic. I address controversial and socially committed topics, taking my personal biography as a reference and transversal axis. I start from the existential to the universal.
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contact:
@urdimbre_linaaybar
Fernando Costaa was born in 1977 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, where he currently lives. He has a degree in geography from UFMG since 2008 and a degree in engraving from the same institution since 2019. He investigates the body in contemporary times through a critical reflection on colonialist ideology. In his works there is a dialogue between performance, photography, education, urban intervention, engraving and using collaboration, self-management, magic, affection, exchange, presence and encounter, mediation, the precarious, the common and the relationship between body-nature-cosmos.
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contact:
fcferreir.wixsite.com/fernandocosta
@griotdialetico
ROSSELLA MATAMOROS
“The Embrace (Long before the deathe of the last tree … a forest has already desapeared)” 2021 –
Photo: Orlando Vargas
Degree in Painting, UCR 1983. French Government Scholarship, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1988-89. Master of Fine Arts, George Washington University, USA. 1992, Fulbright Scholar, USA. Japan Foundation Scholarship, Kyoto Seika U. 1999-2000. She has worked for the Smithsonian Washington DC 1988-93. Aquileo J. Echeverría National Award 1998 and 2003. Participant in the Venice biennials of 2003 (installation) and 2017 (performances). Proartes 2010. Francisco Amighetti National Award 2020.
She has exhibited in more than 135 solo and group exhibitions over the last 30 years in Costa Rica, United States, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala and Peru.
Performances: Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, Colombia, Washington DC, Japan and New York. Biennials: Venice, Italy – San Juan, Puerto Rico – Tijuana, Mexico – Chapingo, Mexico – Bienarte, Costa Rica – Marte, Salvador – Idearte, Honduras.
Work: in drawing, sculpture, painting, installation, performance, video and costume dramaturgy and lighting design. Research topics: human development, trauma and recovery, civics and performing arts.
Latest exhibitions
2017 Translucent Seeds. On Costa Rican indigenous women of yesterday and today. Exhibition and performances. National Museum of Costa Rica. 130th anniversary of the Museum. Participation in the Venice Biennale # 57, in collective performances. At the Arsenale and in the Giardini.
2018 The Edge: Immigrants. National Gallery, Children’s Museum, Costa Rica.
2019 Did you hear? Have you felt it? Exhibition and performances. On adolescent mothers at high social risk. Museo Rafael A. Calderón Guardia, Project declared of “Cultural Interest” in Costa Rica, by the Ministry of Culture and Youth.
2019 Collective performance: Silver Spiders, Grace Exhibition Space, NYC.
2020 Collective: THIS WAY, at Museum of Contemporary Art & Design. My work in the exhibition and performances is entitled, How do we look in the mirror? Are we defending institutionalism? Francisco Amighetti National Award 2020.
2021 Matamoros won an Artistic Residency on climate change, collaboration with the Ministry of Energy (MINAE and DCC), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS). Video art “EL ABRAZO” which will be exhibited next April / June, at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC) in Madrid. Contemporary (MADC) in San José.
October 2021 to January 2022. Solo exhibition MESTIZO TERRITORIOS, Museo La Neomudéjar, Madrid, Spain.
October 2022- January 2022 group exhibition “El Corazón aúlla / Heart Hauls”.
8Th Floor Gallery New York
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contact:
www.rossellamatamoros.com
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2023 – 17:00 ARGENTINIAN TIME (SPANISH)
VIRTUALvía Zoom + YouTube L IVE
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