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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.

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SUSANA GONZALEZ-REVILLA (PANAMÁ)

Susana Gonzalez-Revilla was born in Panama City where she currently lives and works. From a very young age, she traveled to different cities such as Melbourne, Bonn, Florence, and New York, and she began to develop her artistic experience through performance, conceptual art, installation, video, and painting. At the beginning of her career, Susana was motivated by reflection on meditation and the immediacy of the viewer’s reaction. Her art investigates based on personal concerns, reflecting on issues such as aggression, fear and the breaking of taboos. The fight for freedom can be observed in several of her works with the support of psychology. It is in painting where she finds her refuge, but her work is still restless and political. In recent years, through performance and installation, Gonzalez-Revilla has denounced violence against women, child abuse, corruption, and other social ills.

ILLIMANI DE LOS ANDES (NICARAGUA)

Illimani De Los Andes is an anthropologist, artist and curator. She is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies: Memory, Identity, Territory and Language from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and the Rennes II University (France), having done her curatorial internship at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. She is the winner of the Ernesto Fernández Holmann scholarship to study the Master’s in Curatorial Studies at the University of Navarra, Spain. Her awards include The William Bullock Award 2020, USC Fisher Museum of Art + Board of Contemporary Art AC, Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) and the Scholarship of Excellence by the Mexican Agency for International Cooperation, specializing in Contemporary Art in La Espira/La Espora. She is linked to artistic spaces such as the Inti Nicaraguan Art Workshop, today InterAction Art, and the counter cultural project Museo del Pobre y del Trabajador.

MILKO DELGADO (PANAMÁ)

Milko Delgado is a Panamanian transdisciplinary artist cueco (a derogatory term in Panama to refer to a homosexual person) and HIV+ mestizo of rural/popular/poor heritage, from that place they express. His cultural practice mixes different forms of research mostly from visual arts, video, performance, pedagogy and cultural management. His research navigates the intersections between the body and nature as a device that opens the way to dialogues related to identity, coloniality, extractive processes, health, pleasure, relationship with resources, community and others. Graduated from the EICTV International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His work has been part of exhibitions in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, Teorética/Fresh Milk, NYLAAT, La Bienal en Resistencia, Parentesis: Relatos desde la incertitude and La Banana Fever, among others.

ALICIA GRULLÓN (BRONX / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)

Alicia Grullón is a Bronx-based artist and organizer. Grullon’s social practice work extends to exploring how people relate to land in order to rally a transformation of our living by using performance and self-portraiture as a critique on the politics of presence, an argument for the inclusion of unde- rinvested communities in political and social spheres. She was a Moore Co- llege of Art and Design Walentas Fellow for 2020-2022, and teaches at Queens College. Alicia Grullón has exhibited work at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University; Bronx Museum of the Arts; and BRIC Arts Media House, all in NewYork, among others.