22 Sep performative conversations: performance, coloniality and garbage //
Exhibition of the performance documentation and conversation with the 22cubic resident artists Frank Trobok and Garbage Guerrillera and the directors of MATERIC.ORG, Marina Barsy Janer and Isil Sol Vil. In the conversation, we will delve into the processes that allow a performance artwork to emerge, grow, and be shared. Based on post-performance reflections (whether there is such a thing as a post or simply that the action is a continuum of existence itself), we will discuss the processes experienced by the artists during these months of artistic residency.
Through a constellation of questions, reflections, and experiences, we will discuss the creative process as a pluriverse where art and life merge.
Some possible reflections include:
-What does it mean to have a space to express oneself?
-Why open up and reveal oneself from a vulnerable perspective?
-What is it like to carry out a creative process in Barcelona, within the framework of performance art, coming from colonized territories?
-Party, ritual, and waste as expressive and rebellious acts.
-Performance art as a transformative act.
-Performance and how it cracks reality.
TIME
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ENTRANCE
FREE
PLACE
Sala Calidoscopi, Convent Sant Agustí
Pl. de l’Acadèmia 3, Barcelona
PARTICIPANTS
GARBAGE GUERRILLERA
(Colombia)
I went out to look for things, I stopped at every corner. The thought was always: “What if I build a little house with the neighbor’s rubble and stop going to the DIA to buy vegetables wrapped in plastic?” There is a little market on Saturdays, healthier, but I am a salaried worker, and sometimes I can’t organize my schedule so much while I wait for them to buy my trash.
Mondays are for translating applications in Catalan, Tuesdays for sewing clothes for my friends who believe in me, Wednesdays for sending fake CVs to see if one day they hire me, Thursdays for pretending that I am not haunted by the thought: “Will I ever be an artist?”, Fridays for running away or falling into FOMO, Saturdays for regretting and Sundays for taking out all the clippings of the week and sticking them in the logbook, to remember why we are alive.
I found this little letter in the wastepaper basket. Who could it be from?
FRANK TROBOK
(Chile + Catalonia)
They/She
Multidisciplinary artist, curator, performer and manager of performing arts practices and social action. Their work explores the hybridization of artistic languages, developing a divergent corpus between performance art, pre- and post-colonial Andean dances, the art of visuality/objectuality and expanded writing developed in collective and collaborative contexts. Their disruptive performative practice listens to the body and its becoming, delving into dissident memories and queer existences beyond the human. All these configurations become the backbone for creating a narrative corpus, contemporary decolonial aesthetic and perspectives.They have studied Performance and Performing Arts. Undergraduate degree in Curatorial Studies from the Biennial SACO (2023). Graduate degree in Performing Arts and Social Action from the Institut del Teatre (2021). Masters in the Arts, Theatre Direction from the University of Chile (2014) and Performing Arts from AIEP (2006). Currently they are running a creative residency in L´Estruch (Sabadell) with multiple artistic projects, creative of the Asociación Culturas Diversas Transoceánicas (@perúdiversiva), and curator/creative of the artistic collective DACS.
In recent years they have carried out different research, production and creation residencies, as well as curatorships, audiovisual collaborations and performances:
(2024) Curatorship “Esglaó a la fam (A)” installation with the artistic collective DACS, during the visual arts exhibition GRIS PLOM, Museu d’Art Sabadell. She participates in FES Cultura with her performance/exhibition project ABIGARRADAS, co-curates Sustainable Challenge`24, MODA FAD “Carnaval de costura insurrecta”. Queer Stage Creation Residency, Balandra Residence, El Sortidor Civic Center. (2023). Performance “Extracción”, exhibition/performance Emerging Art, Sabadell. Audiovisual “As if an infinite return” Directed by Agustín Ortíz Herrera. Bordering Plants exhibition, Akademie der bildenden kunste Wien. (2021). LOOP Festival, City Screen Barcelona, Audiovisual project and performance «Machona, el despertar de las monstruas postapocalipshit». (2020). International residency in HANGAR, Centre for Artistic Production and Research. Project «Proyecto Machona, viajes desviados».
MARINA BARSY JANER
(Puerto Rico / Catalonia)
Artist, pedagogue, and independent curator. She holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex and an MA in Curating Latin American Art. She teaches undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Puerto Rico in Gender Studies, Fine Arts, and Cultural Management. She co-directs MATERIC.ORG, a performance art space. Her publications include the chapter “Border Movement” in American Cultures as Transnational Performance (2021, Routledge). Her artistic work develops forms of “aesthetic activism” in its attempts to decolonize body-geography. It has been presented at various festivals, museums, and universities in Abya Yala and Europe.
ISIL SOL VIL
(Catalonia)
Artist, curator, researcher, and performance art pedagogue. Higher Technician in Visual Arts and Design for Industrial Modeling. Co-director and founder of MATERIC.ORG – performance art space and of the international performance festival EMPREMTA, co-curator of the Caribbean performance art encounter MAR DE ISLAS. After tracing different, strange, and extreme paths within and outside the world of art and activism, they stumble upon the name and universe of performance art or action art, becoming their space of comfortable discomfort. Their work blends rawness, extreme bodily processes, critical and activist character, resistance, sincerity, rebellion, subversion, margins and the bodily border: performance. They have presented work in Europe, Abya Yala, and Asia.
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