C O N V E R S A T I O N among U S
Current, Recent, Historical Experiences
Collective performance – Collaborations – Joint work
About “PLURAL BODY : collective thinking
(actional developments in complicity)”.
AIDANA MARIA RICO CHAVEZ
Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1976. Lives in Buenos Aires Argentina. Artist, migrant and cultural manager.
She began her performance work in 2002 through written poetry, exploring the power of the poetic. She reviews and questions power relations as a mother, woman and migrant.
She has shown her work in public spaces, buses, galleries, cultural centres, museums and in the framework of different events and festivals in Chile, China, Ireland, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Dominican Republic, Czech Republic, Canada, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Some of these were: Site Festival-Brooklyn, Grace Exhibition Space-US, at Foutain Miami-US; Zas Festival de Performance, Varela-AR; Horas Perdidas, Monterrey-MX; Peras de Olmo-ARS CONTINUA, Buenos Aires-AR; Festival de performance CuerpAs – International Perfolink, Santiago-CL; etc.
She has given talks and workshops on performance, documentation and public art in different cultural spaces, galleries, universities and in the public space. She was professor of the Complementary Performance Workshop at the Universidad Experimental de las Artes (UNEARTE – Artes Plásticas) in Caracas, Venezuela. Together with Ignacio Pérez and Amira Tremond, founded PERFORMANCELOGÍA, an organization dedicated to the Archive and Dissemination of Performance Art. Together with Alexander del Re and Ignacio Pérez, she founded the Perfolink project. She did Independent Editions, house shows for a day. She has organized exhibitions, lectures and performance exhibitions.
She is a member of Maternidades Feministas, Espacio Cultural Comunitario Compamadres del Horizonte and CONTINUO LATIDOAMERICANO DE PERFORMANCE.
ANDERSON FELICIANO
Graduated in Dramaturgy (UNA- Buenos Aires), postgraduate in African and Afro-Brazilian Studies (2009) dedicated to dramaturgical writing, performance and curatorship. Coordinator of the Núcleo de Pesquisa em Performatividades Negras do Galpão Cine Horto and of the Curso de Teatralidades Negras da Escola Livre de Artes de Belo Horizonte. He participated in Mostra Dança do Fim do Mundo (2022), Festival de Arte Negra Kurice (Temuco / 2021), Festival Internacional de Artes Cênicas da Bahia (2021), artistic residency, Terrestre (February/2019) at Princeton University in New Jersey. He has texts translated into Spanish, English and Italian. As a performer he participated in festivals in several countries of Latin America, Europe and USA. From his research on the Poéticas do Tropeço he developed curatorial projects for Mostra Polifônica Negra, Festival de performance PERPENDICULAR (2021), the series Study Sessions: Field Stories, Festival Internacional de Teatro de Belo Horizonte (2018) assistant curator, Janela de Dramaturgia (2019): Edição Manifesto and the 2nd edition of Aquilombô: Um Arquipélago (2018). In 2020 Essay on fragilities received the Leda Maria Martins Award for best performance. He is the author of Tropeço (Javali publishing house / 2020), O início, with Mário Rosa (Caos & letras publishing house – Marginália/2022)
ANDREA CÁRDENAS
Argentine visual artist and performer (1970). Bachelor in Visual Arts UNA (Universidad Nacional de las Artes), with a professional development as a teacher and researcher in the Department of Visual Arts of that institution. Currently studying for a Master’s degree in Combined Artistic Languages at UNA. Teacher at the Faculty of Design and Communication, Textile and Apparel Area at the University of Palermo, at the Communication Area of the Fundación Universidad del Cine, FUC and at the Escuela Superior de Educación Artística Manuel Belgrano. Her artistic productions focus on the investigation of the crossing of languages, investigating performance as a creative and poetic bridge. She has participated in exhibitions in the field of visual arts since 1988 in painting, engraving, mail art, visual poetry, artist’s books, videos, photographs, objects and installations. Since 2004 she has presented her performances at national and international festivals and meetings. She co-organised performance festivals such as “Mutaciones” Chilean-Argentinean performance exchange in 2007, the Festival “Confluencias” in 2008, and was co-curator of the exhibition “Ciclos”, performance encounter at Peras de Olmo Ars Continua, directed by Graciela Ovejero Postigo, in 2013.
JAVIER SOBRINO
Argentine visual artist and performer. (1968). Bachelor in Visual Arts, teacher and researcher at the UNA – Universidad Nacional de las Artes, in the Department of Visual Arts and teacher at the Escuela Superior de Educación Artística Manuel Belgrano. He is currently studying for a Master’s Degree in Combined Artistic Languages at UNA.
His work has crossed multiple disciplines such as painting, objects, installations, visual and sound poetry, mail art, performance and video art, exhibited in Argentina and internationally: Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Spain, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Japan, and Uruguay. He was a member of Grupo Fosa, participating in all their performances. He is currently researching the crossing of languages, where performance is the axis of his productions. He co-organised the “1st International Performance Festival of the Southern Cone, In Transit” at IMPA la Fábrica in 2004, the “Argentinean Japanese Performance Exchange” in 2005, the “Mutaciones” Festival in 2007, the “Confluencias” Festival. Co-Curator of the exhibition “Ciclos” performance encounter in 2013 at the Peras de Olmo Gallery.
WAGNER ROSSI CAMPOS
Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais (Brazil) in 1966, where he currently lives, he is a Master of Arts at the School of Fine Arts of the UFMG – EBA. He has a degree in Printmaking, Drawing and Plastic Arts from the same school, as well as a postgraduate degree in Plastic Arts and Contemporaneity from the Escola Guignard – UEMG.
Multidisciplinary artist, his work prioritizes the reflection on the body in the current context of contemporary society: urban interventions, performances and processes of activation and bodily presence. Creator and director of PERPENDICULAR project, Wagner develops works in which the artist’s place unfolds in multiple identities: researcher, curator, healer, event organiser, performer, writer, shaman, etc.
He has organised and participated in events at Belo Horizonte – MG, Fortaleza – CE, Maceió – AL, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, São Paulo – SP and abroad: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Germany and Portugal.
Laboratorio Abierto de Performance is a collaborative and self-managed project, focused on the practice and dialogue of performance in the public space, enabling the encounter and exchange between its participants.
The project was born in January 2018 as a monthly instance, carrying out to date 25 working days and undertaking a process of shared learning that has led us to travel to different cities in the V Region of Chile. Occupying cultural centers, squares, streets and natural spaces.
Our work focuses on the development of open and collective performance in public space, constituting a space of experimentation for artists and enabling research into the discipline.
In our meetings, each participant works freely and independently, proposing his or her interests without a schematic structure on the collective. We seek to explore the connections that are generated in the same space of action, constructing an unexpected assemblage of situations in tension, inquiring into the limits of control and authorship. In the end, our meetings are made up of the sum of the contributions of each of the participants, how they approach live work, the elaboration of proposals and responses in real time, taking into account the conditions of each place.
Project members:
Hester Draycott, Elano Chaves, Jazmín Ra, Feña Quintana, Marcelo Díaz, Laura Bustamante, Gonzalo, Valentine Silvestri, Filipo Becerra, Pancho Díaz
JAZMIN RA
She is a performance artist, with a degree in arts from the University of Chile. She is a psychoanalyst specialized in gender from the same university. Her interests include theoretical and practical research on performance as a political, critical and feminist art. In her performance practice she has explored autobiographical and political themes with the interest of questioning, from a situated knowledge, the hegemonic discourse about the body, sexuality, family and the patriarchal institution.
PANCHO DÍAZ
Agronomist from Universidad de Chile, Degree in Management and Development of Innovation from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has studies in History of Performance and Photoperformance (Altaperfo, Argentina), Art, Science and Technology (Centro de Investigación, Innovación y Desarrollo de las Artes de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México) and Contemporary Art and Environment (Museo Amparo, Puebla México). Currently his interests have led him to work in the management of cultural projects, focused on art and its relationship with both the biological and social environment.
El GRUPO FOSA was an Argentinean collective of 7 artists that emerged in the mid-1990s, working together for a decade (1994-2004, Buenos Aires). Their productions focused on action art, performances: simultaneous, durational and installed, video art and video installations.
Since its beginnings, the group has actively participated in the circuit of Museums, Galleries and Cultural Centers, as well as in public and unusual places with spontaneous and always self-managed interventions.
In the social and political context, characterized by the superficiality and banality of the decade, the group distanced itself from the party, entering into proposals that showed a versatility of concepts, such as the body crossed by illness, gender, desire, the oneiric, the public and the private.
Its members were: Sandra Botner, Claudio Braier, Norberto José Martínez, Cecilia Nazar, Javier Sobrino, Ada Suárez and Anabel Vanoni.
ANABEL VANONI
Born in Bs. As. Argentina. She currently lives and works in CDMX, Mexico. Graduate in Visual Arts from the I.U.N.A. (now U.N.A.) and National Professor of Drawing and Painting from the ENBAPP in Buenos Aires. Since 1993 she has been dedicated to the research and experimentation of the work-work of her body in space: the Performance. From then until the present, her work has been moving through her own body, in dialogue with photography, illustration, video-art, installations, dance, object-art, textiles and design. From 1994 to 2004 she was a founding member of Grupo FOSA. She has participated individually and in groups in numerous exhibitions, events and festivals in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Canada and USA.
ADA SUAREZ
Born in Buenos Aires in 1972. She graduated from the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón. From 1995 onwards, she began to explore the relationship between body and space in her work, investigating the fusion of different disciplines. She was a member of the “Grupo Fosa”, articulating action art, installation and video art as the main axes of his discourse. Her individual and group work has been exhibited in different institutions in the country and abroad: Fundación Banco Patricios, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Cartagenino Rosario, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México Df, Museo del Chopo, Unam, México.
In recent years she was part of the projects: Performances de encierro, Argentina 2020- Cuerpo Urbano en acción-II Edición Internacional festival de Performances mínimas-España; Encuentro Internacional de Latidoamericano de performance -Argentina, among others.
CRONICA GROUP
GRACIELA OVEJERO POSTIGO (Abya Yala : Argentina/US. Born in Tucumán) is a transhumant and transdisciplinary artist and curator, currently focused on performance art. Founder-director of Peras de Olmo – ARS CONTINUA (2011), a space for performance and other arts on a temporary and face-to-face basis. Academic credits: MFA / UCSD US, Bachelor of Arts / UNT AR, Dance Teacher, social science studies. She was a solo dancer, independent choreographer and teacher (1973-1985 AR); member of Grupo Crónica (1984-85 Tucumán ARG); BAW/TAF Border Arts Workshop and the feminist collective Las Comadres (San Diego-Tijuana 1990-93 USA-MEX); Artistic Recommendations Committee at the Chicano Cultural Center in San Diego, CA (1989- 1995 USA); LoLas Crónicas, together with mother artist Magdalena Postigo and others (2005-2017); participated in several projects with artists of the WOMANIFESTO collective based in Thailand (2006-2008). Graciela has explored performance art since the mid-1980s in the context of Grupo Crónica, along with installations and objects of poetic-conceptual and political inquiry. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, some solo, and as a guest artist in International Performance Art Festivals; she has created nomadic artistic-curatorial projects, since 1983 in museums, cultural centers, independent galleries, studios and public spaces in AR, US, MX, JP, ES, PK, TH, TH, BR, EC, CO, CL, UY, VE, DE, CA, ID, SK, HU, PH, HK, TW. He helped shape and participates in the transnational performance collective CONTINUO LATIDOAMERICANO (2020). Recently, her work has been mentioned as part of the WOMANIFESTO collective’s documentation exhibition by ASIAN ART ARCHIVE from Hong Kong, at Documenta 15 Kassel 2022. Since 2011 he has lived mainly in Buenos Aires.
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