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CENTRAL Performance Festival - September, October, November 2024 - presented at Grace Exhibition Space, a space for creative experimentation that has been dedicated to performance for more than a decade. In this festival, attendees will be able to see twenty performances and works by artists who work from immateriality and the creation of ephemeral experiences from the body; exploring themes such as violence, migration, diaspora, the abuse of power, identity and other problems intrinsic to the human being.

Curated by the Mexican artist Pancho Lopez, this festival seeks to build a bridge between the Central American region, some Caribbean islands and one of the most important global stages in the world in terms of art and culture: New York City.

Performances By

LEONARDO GONZÁLEZ (HONDURAS)

Leonardo is an artist and cultural producer since 2003, his work is developed through research on political practices, activism, economic, social and historical processes, through different disciplines to address urgent political and social issues in Honduras. He is the director and founder of LL Proyectos, a space dedicated to research and experimentation in contemporary art. He studied at the Tegucigalpa National School of Fine Arts and has a degree in Social Communication. His training includes residences in Lima, Valencia, Miami and New York. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, Cuba, Ecuador, Chile, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Morocco, Canada, Belize, El Salvador. He highlights his participation in the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Italy.

MARTON ROBINSON (COSTA RICA)

Marton Robinson is based in Toronto, Ontario. He is a Costa Rican artist and scholar who has an interdisciplinary background informed by his Integral Health and Visual Art and Communication studies. Robinson teaches in both the Art and Industrial Departments at Ontario College of Art & Design University. He creates installations and performances investigating modes of communication and translation –of history, culture, and identity– that challenge the conventions of blackness in art history, mainstream culture, and “the official national narratives” particularly in Costa Rica. In addition, the artist is interested in currencies of knowledge and informal economies based on informality to generate, redistribute, and obtain generational wealth.

HUMBERTO VÉLEZ (PANAMÁ)

Humberto Vélez studied Law and Political Science at the University of Panama and Cinematography at the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He is a visual artist, curator, educator, and has worked as an art and film critic. His performative work has been presented in international museums such as TATE Modern in London and Center Pompidou in Paris. In public spaces such as the Bridge of the Americas that crosses the Panama Canal, the canals of Venice or the floating pool on the Seine Josephine Baker. Vélez has been invited to the Panama Biennial in 2002, 2005, 2008 and to numerous international biennials, including Venice, Shanghai, Havana (four times), Paiz Art Biennial in Guatemala, Montevideo, Ireland, Liverpool, among many other international exhibitions. He currently organizes with the MAC Panama the first performance festival in the country: Panama Performa. In 2018 he received the French Senate Medal in Paris for his work in the arts.

CARLOS MANUEL RIVERA (BRONX / PUERTO RICO)

Carlos was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He is a poet, performer, actor, playwright and researcher. He is Professor of Hispanic Language and Literature at Bronx Community College, City University of New York. He obtained the International Essay Award from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture with his book, “So that we do not forget”. Interpretation essays of a marginal Puerto Rican theater (essay, 2014). He has also published the following books: “Puff Magical Nonsense” (poetry-performance, 2003); “Popular Theatre: The New Poor Theater of America” by Pedro Santaliz (Essay, 2005); Boululu. “Perfume and poison” (Poetry and performative texts, 2020); “Of intentions, intensities” (Poetry, 2022). He also recorded his poetry CD ASI MI NATION (2010).