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
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
Carolina Muñoz Awad (Chile/NYC)
carolina muñoz awad is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Santiago, Chile, in 1993. She has a background in architecture and science, previous to her studies in Fine Arts at Parsons, New York, which she completed in 2022. Her practice focuses mainly on the questioning of her human body in space and what different environments and materials provoke. carolina has used her own body as the main experimental subject since 2020 and has shown her installation and performance work in Santiago, New York, and Albany. She is interested in the raw perception through our senses and in the abstraction of improvised and instant reactions in the physical and emotional realm. carolina’s work interweaves English and Spanish language, as it deals with her presence in society; as a feminist, queer, migrant body–one that lives in a continent called America, and in a country that might never allow her to be called American.
Domenica García (Ecuador)
Doménica García is an Ecuadorian multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her work delves into a process of introspection, exploring the personal and discovering the universal. With the use of a hyperbolic language and the juxtaposition of the radical with the ordinary, she gives greater relevance to the day-to-day experience. García’s multimedia approach, particularly merging performance and digital art, allows her to manipulate the perception of reality, facilitating a fantastic and surreal experience within the rational world.
Siri Gurudev (Colombia/Texas)
siri g is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, scholar, and ritual maker from Bogotá, Colombia, occupied Muisca territory. siri explores the meaning of being incarnated in a "human" body via thought, performance art, and spiritual healing practices.