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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

ALEJANDRO DE LA GUERRA (NICARAGUA)

Alejandro de la Guerra is a multidisciplinary artist, drummer and poet. He addresses the aestheticization of power, collective memory and monumental languages of public spaces, performances, sculptures, embroideries, and relational aesthetics– through an exploration of violence, healing, art- activism, and the effects of power on human relationships. He was part of the first art generation of Space for Artistic Research and Reflection (EspIRA). He is a co-founding member of the cultural zone temporary autonomy for Nicaragua and Central America MalaganaMácula, and has participated in residencies at the Josef & Annie Albers Foundation; Residency Unlimited New York, the Artist Protection Fund with the support of SFA and El Instituto of UCONN; URRA in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Câmera Sete Casa da Fotografia de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; and RAPACES in Central America. He lives and works between NYC and Managua.

CRACK RODRÍGUEZ (EL SALVADOR)

Crack Rodríguez survives and works in El Salvador. Artist and activist, he lives and works in La Libertad, El Salvador, he is a member of the art production company “The Fire Theory”, and of the artivist movement “Los Siempre Sospechosos de Todo”. The testimonies are intrinsically related to social, political and popular culture, from where they build ties with the public that reacts and/or participates in the resignified circumstances, not as passive spectators, but as accomplices of memory to catalyze the rituals of the social context. Beneficiary and participant of the Landings project by curator Joan Duran, Mérida, Yucatán-Belize platform.

VALERIA COBOS (HONDURAS)

Valeria Cobos is a multidisciplinary writer, creative writing teacher and literary manager. She is the coordinator of Letra Ele, a Honduran organization that promotes literacy for children and youth. Having studied art therapy, graphic design and creative writing, she has been invited to different national and international literature programs, such as the Las Lobas International Meeting of Oral Narrators, Los Confines International Poetry Festival, Catcher for America, Wembley Library Oral Poetry Festival and the El cuerpo y la ciudad Performance Festival. In 2023 she received the National Youth Award in the field of Artistic Expressions, as well as the Cultural expert training literary scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the South Korean government, in which he carried out all the stages of a literary project from Busan, Korea. In 2024 she was awarded the Community Solutions Program scholarship, from the United States Secretary of Culture and Education.

NATALIA DOMÍNGUEZ (EL SALVADOR)

Natalia Domínguez studied visual and multimedia arts at La Esmeralda National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving in Mexico. Her work transits between the biographical and cultural traditions, to represent metaphors about human problems. She had individual exhibitions at Museo Marte, 2019; Salarrué National Exhibition Hall, 2015; Area, place of projects. Group exhibitions in Puerto Rico include 2009-2010 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2021; Museum of Caguas, Puerto Rico 2010; Mocha. Taipei, China 2008; Museum of Art of the Americas OEA. Washington, USA 2007; Wifredo LAM Contemporary Art Center. Havana, Cuba 2007. She is the founder of Proyecto Ensayo y Error, El Salvador, and currently participates as a curator in the project Regional Residences of Curated Production in Visual Arts for Central America.