South-American Performance Art cycle @ New York City
The “South-American Performance Art” cycle @ New York City is a three-night program organized and curated by Argentina Performance Art (APA), founded by Argentinian performance artist Natacha Voliakovsky.
This cycle transcends Argentine borders to enrich the pan american artistic landscape. Using their bodies as vehicles of expression the selected artists address critical and essential southamerican issues, such as political turmoil, social inequality, gender, cultural trauma, and more. The purpose of this cycle is to highlight the power of performance art as a vehicle for cultural preservation, resistance, and transformation. The cycle will emphasize the interrelated nature of Latin American artists and their diaspora, building a connection of narratives braided with strands of memory.
Argentina Performance Art (APA) is a platform dedicated to the study and practice of Performance Art in Argentina. APA aspires to conserve the intangible heritage of past performances imprinted in collective memory by compiling and analyzing historical archives and saving them from oblivion. Its goal is not only to save but to keep building a future archive of Latin American art memory and culture, highlighting current performative representations from a non-heteropatriarchal perspective.
The “South-American Performance Art” cycle at @TeatroaLatea (Nov. 2) & @GraceExhibitionSpace NY (Nov. 10 and Nov. 17) will feature live performances by Arantxa Araujo (Mexico / NYC), Pancho Lopez (Mexico / NYC) Natacha Voliakovsky (Argentina / NYC), Salome Egas (Ecuador / NYC), Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra (Brazil), Mana Bugallo (Argentina / NYC), Carolina Muñoz Awad (Chile / NYC, Domenica García (Ecuador / NYC) and Siri Gurudev (Colombia / Texas) and videos by Amapola Prada (Perú), Marta Minujin (Argentina) and Alfombra Roja (Perú).
For more info, visit https://www.argentinaperformanceart.com/ciclonyc
NATACHA VOLIAKOVSKY (CURATOR)
Natacha Voliakovsky is an Argentinian performance artist based in New York. For over a decade, her pieces aimed to unveil and question social inequality, body autonomy and freedom.
Natacha’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries all around the world including: The Momentary Museum, Arkansas; the Museum of American Art, Arizona; The Center for Performance Research, New York; and Usina del Arte in Buenos Aires, among others. Additionally, she created NVMethod, a training technique for performance art, and is the director of Argentina Performance Art, the first research platform on performance art in Argentina.
PERFORMERS
Salome Egas (Ecuador / NYC)
SALOMÉ EGAS is proudly Ecuadorian: an interdisciplinary performer, arts educator and children’s books author who is permanently questioning her identity through multiple mediums: dance, theater, film and textile arts.
This year (2023), she’s a NYFA NYC Women’s Fund Recipient and The Opportunity Agenda’s Narrative Innovators Lab Fellow for her multidisciplinary project “Más que un Pétalo.” In 2022, she was a Brooklyn Arts Council grantee and an American Immigration Council fellow.
As a solo performer, she incorporates radical self-love and indigenization as tools to empower the ancestral knowledge carried by immigrant and femme bodies of color.
Salomé has performed nationally at several venues in NYC; and internationally in Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina and Canada. Salomé attended Creative Capital’s Latinx Workshop (2020), EmergeNYC (2018), obtained a Master’s from NYU(2018) and graduated from Skidmore College (2014). salomeegas.com
Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra (Brasil)
Anna Costa e Silva (Rio de Janeiro, 1988) works with constructed situations between people that challenge the limits between reality and fiction, self and other, experience and memory. Her projects happen in the intersections between visual, performing arts and social practice and unfold in installations, films, or ephemeral situations. Anna has won awards such as FOCO ArtRio, American Austrian Award for Fine Arts and was a PIPA prize nominee. In 2022, she was part of the Mercosul Biennial and winner of Terremoto Ubisoft artist residency and Franklin Furnace Grant. Her work has been shown at BienalSur (Buenos Aires), Art in Odd Places (NY), Pivô, Centro Cultural Hélio Oiticica, Oi Futuro, A Gentil Carioca (Rio de Janeiro), Ruby Cruel (London) Contemporary Art Center (Vilnius) among others and is part of public collections such as Rio de Janeiro Museum of Art. She teaches ArtLife Practices at Parque Lage School of Visual Arts.
Nina Terra is a Brazilian artist-therapist who lives in the city of Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Psychologist, Art Therapist, graduated in dance at Angel Vianna, Yoga instructor, specialist in Cooperation Pedagogy and Collaborative Methodologies. Creator of the Oracle Body, Creative Power Body and DANCE-RITO practices. She has been singing for over 12 years and practices body-voice connection. She facilitates experiences of connection, awareness and expansion. She creates relational artistic performances and rituals that explore the state of flow, body-voice and the present moment.
Mana Bugallo (Argentina / NYC)
Mana Bugallo is an Argentinian performance poet, singer, and writer based in Bushwick. Her work combines poetry, satire, and music and is now focused on the individual and collective consequences of what we had been told is normal. She created and performed her last two shows called Dónde (Where) and El País de las Cosas while navigating the challenges of living far away from home. Mana has performed at poetry and comedy festivals, book fairs, and basements in the United States, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Uruguay, and Switzerland. She’s a founding member of the duo Boca de Buzón, with Paula Maffia, and the artistic collective Sucede. She was also among the first to organize poetry slams in Buenos Aires. Mana has lived in El País de las Cosas since 2018.