Descripción de la Exposición
Argentina Performance Art (APA) is a cultural project dedicated exclusively to the archiving, theoretical research, and dissemination of Argentine and Latin American Performance Art.
Established in 2018 as the first free and inclusive digital archive of Argentine performance art, it offers constantly updated content on artists and performative works. Serving as an educational resource, the platform provides academic, journalistic, and audiovisual materials for consultation on this discipline.
Over time, APA has expanded its goals and borders to also include multiple initiatives that promote Latin American performance art knowledge. This includes organizing cycles of conferences, talks, exhibitions, and live performances, within Argentina and internationally.
Our principal objective is to contribute to the preservation of cultural heritage through performance art. While providing a theoretical framework for its definition and understanding, we aim to valorize and legitimize this ephemeral medium within the historical development of contemporary art. By doing so, we enrich the Pan-American ongoing narrative and offer crucial insights into socio-political dynamics.
General information:
The exhibition “Rebirth of a Body” is organized by Argentina Performance Art in collaboration with the New York Latin American Art Triennial (NYLAAT), curated by Natacha Voliakovsky, Founder & Director of APA (Argentina Performance Art) The exhibition will take place at the NYLAAT House #18, Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York, NY 10004 (https://nylaat.org/) from July 6th to July 28th, 2024, from 2 PM to 5 PM.
Opening: July 6th from 2 PM to 6 PM.
Closing: July 27th, from 2 PM to 6 PM.
Important dates:
Saturday 6, 4pm
Performance by Sujetka Val Terkes (Perú/NYC) Live
Performance by Patricia Encarnación (Dominican Republic/NYC) Live
Saturday 13, 4pm
Performance by Damariz Damken (US-Mexico Border/NYC) Live
Performance by Elisa Lutterall (Argentina / New York) durational
Saturday 20, 4pm
Performance by Yali Romagoza (Cuba/NYC) Live
Performance by Elisa Lutterall (Argentina / New York) durational
Saturday 27, 4pm
Performance by Domenica Garcia (Ecuador/NYC) Live
Performance by Elisa Lutterall (Argentina / New York) durational
Curatorial perspective:
Rebirth of a body
Argentina Performance Art presents "Rebirth of a body" an exhibition that explores the performative narratives of Latin American and Caribbean women whose lives unfold at the intersection of migration. This exhibition seeks to portray the body of the migrant woman as a border in transit that carries its own cultural memory and resists erasure.
The exhibition offers a complex vision of migration as a continuous process of loss, adaptation, and rebirth. A body in constant performative response but that is deeply connected to the factors of its original lands. Here, the body is both a marker of absence and a presence that resists erasure, continually redefining itself across borders and generations. Being born in a new territory creates a realm of new meanings for the body of a migrant woman and this exhibition gives the opportunity to look at the passage of these bodies to form a collective memory that lives not in one, but in all of us.
The exhibition presents the works of: Yali Romagoza (Cuba / New York), Sujetka Val Terkes (Perú / New York), Patricia Encarnación (Dominican Republic / New York), Domenica Garcia (Ecuador / New York), Elisa Lutteral (Argentina / New York) and Damariz Damken (US-Mexico Border / New York). Through the spirit of their native culture, they explore the transformation of their bodies which take place through the process of belonging in a new territory away from their native land.
By Natacha Voliakovsky
Exposición. 31 oct de 2024 - 09 feb de 2025 / Artium - Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo / Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, España
Formación. 07 nov de 2024 - 28 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
