Within MPA-Berlin.
Performative contributions about Migration and border regime (at okk)• 17.05.2014 (16:00 – 20:00)
• 18.05.2014 (19:00 – 22:00) “Performando” (curator: H. Canonge)
• 20.05.2014 (18:00 – 22:00)
Within:
http://www.mpa-b.org
We are glad to present:
17.05.2014 (16:00 – 20:00) Performances series.
Performative contributions about Migration and border regime
Performative contributions and reflections about the ontological constitution of physical borders, the unintentional gestures and the use of the daily objects. With Héctor Canonge, Juan Pablo Arce and Wahshi Kuhi.
Borders, Mobility and War are 3 inseparable Ideas to understand daily Topics about freedom, self-determination and the concept of Nation-State. Geopolitical moves and political/social constructions of identity determines also our daily live, mobility and interaction with others.
For “performative contributions about Migration and Border Regime” okk invites 3 artists, to present in cooperation with MPA-B a series of 3 performative contributions and reflections about the ontological constitution of physical borders, mobility, war, the unintentional gestures and the use of the daily objects.
3 Artists, 3 Performances, 3 Countries and 3 different experiences throw us a fragment of the landscape of mobility, identity and boarders with the works of Héctor Canonge, Whashi Kuhi and Juan Pablo Arce.
Héctor Canonge thematizes the construction of identity, gender roles, and migration policies. Challenging the white box settings of a gallery or a museum or intervening directly in public spaces, his performance mediate movement, endurance, ritualistic processes and interactive narratives that prompt public engagement, dialogue, and reflection.
Héctor is an interdisciplinary artist whose work incorporates the use of New-media technologies, physical environments, cinematic and performance art narratives. He explores and treats issues related to construction of identity, gender roles, and the politics of migration. His performances mediate movement, endurance, and ritualistic processes as well as the interaction with the public. He studied Comparative Literature, Filmmaking, and Integrated Media Arts in New York City.
http://www.hectorcanonge.net/
Wahshi Kuhi‘s Performance works issues of his own live experience as a kurdish human rights activist from Iran, who from more than 15 years as an active artist is living as a refugee in different countries. In his performance Wahshi thematize issues like nation, territory, live, war, physical/psychic Transformation and identity and incorporates the use of media and physical elements like oil, water, blood.
Wahshi is an artist and human rights activist from Kurdistan, Iran. He was born in Bokan in 1979 and grew up with war. Unlike the other children he was always frightened. All his family members were politically committed, his father went to jail two times. His family is today spread all over the world. For political reasons he had to flee from his native country at the age of 23. He studied Art at the Salahaddin University-Hawler (SUH) in Erbil, Iraq, and graduated in Plastic Art. Now he is living in Berlin. He works with installations and live performances.
http://wiryabudaghi.wordpress.com/
Juan Pablo Arce‘s performance is a reflection about the constitution of physical borders, the unintentional gestures and social behavior with different objects. In his Performance Juan Pablo Arce incorporates pictures, video and objects, wich reflect as well bureaucratic approaches and their processual rituals.
He is an autodidactic performance artist, studied philosophy and anthropology in Cochabamba (Bolivia). His work focus revolves around the experimental conjunction of symbolic rituals and actions situated in the everyday life in search of a dialectic between the time-space-conditions of rituality and common, political and artistic activities. These elements, forces and singularities are initially unveiled and activated, decontextualized and liberated to be found transmuted and reconfigured.
http://radioperdida.blogspot.de/
• 18.05.2014 (19:00-22:00)
“Performando” (curator H. Canonge)
PERFORMEANDO at MPA-B 2014 will feature artists whose work explore notions of identity, culture and geography. Selected artists for this special presentation at OkK include: Ian Deleón and Anabel Vázquez with “Pumpkin Magic” a performance Inspired by the historical relationship between the Spanish Caribbean and Germany through references to the tantalizing settler incentives of the 19th century, Allison Fuentes with “Race”, an engaging performance that motivates the public to question their culturally perceived notions of space and privacy with by satirizing the display of a racetrack, Verónica Peña presents “The Door,” a performance about love, desire, and separation due to immigration policies in the US, and Hector Canonge with “Ch’irmi” (from the Quechua word for Blink) a new work created while living for the past few months in South America.
ARTISTS:
Hector Canonge, curator of program. As an artist he thematizes the construction of identity, gender roles, and migration policies. Challenging the white box settings of a gallery or a museum or intervening directly in public spaces, his performance mediate movement, endurance, ritualistic processes and interactive narratives that prompt public engagement, dialogue, and reflection.
www.hectorcanonge.net
Ian Deleon‘s multidisciplinary practice explores the ways in which information media, popular culture, and consumer products serve to reinforce problematic colonial narratives, especially in the context of the Caribbean. Deleon received a B.F.A. from the Studio for Interrelated Media department at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
www.iandeleon.com
Allison Fuentes is a performance artist with an academic background in fine art photography. Fuentes’ work explores issues of gender and identity. As a female artists working in a male dominated medium Fuentes uses the gaze to her advantage as she questions the voyeuristic quality of photography.
www.allisonfuentes.com
Anabel Vazquez is an artist and independent curator. Her photography, film, and video, explores sociopolitical issues from an autobiographical perspective, and has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Vazquez studied Painting at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and Photography and Film at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
www.anabelvazquez.com
Veronica Peña is a multidisciplinary artist from Spain based in New York. Peña’s work explores the themes of absence, separation, and the search for harmony through performance art. Her recent work consists of experimental participatory performances that create shared moments amongst strangers.
www.veronicapena.com
• 20.05.2014 (18:00 – 22:00)
Documentations, talks and reflections with Héctor Canonge, Juan Pablo Arce, Wahshi Kuhi and other artists and projects about his contributions to the response of MIGRATION, BORDER, WAR AND MOBILITY. Drawing on their own social and political experiences of migration and border control.
Kontakt:
Juan Pepino Pérez
juan.p [et] gmx.de
MPA press:
Francesca Romana Ciardi
press [et] mpa-b.org