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ABOUT
Curated for INPA International Network of Performance Art, STRIDING BODIES: Procession as Performance Art is a survey program that focuses on performance art as a processional (march or parade) experience. The program explores procession as a social, political, economic and aesthetic approach to public performance and artistic collaborations produced by artists from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.
STRIDING BODIES: Procession as Performance Art is the continuation of Hector Canonge's research on the various aspects and modalities of the discipline of Performance Art. The 2 day program counts with the participation of artists selected from an international open call who will present and discuss their experience in the execution of their processional performative explorations.
ARTISTS:
Nicolas Aca (Philippines), Jana Astanov (Poland-United States), Vital Schraenen & Jo Zanders, (Belgium), Motoko Ohinata, (Japan), Andres Valenzuela (Chile), Ariadna Pastorini & Noelia Rivero (Uruguay - Argentina), Clyde Lepage, (Belgium), Sean Smuda (United States), Riccardo Matlakas, (Italy-United Kingdom), Dagmar Glausnitzer-Smith (Germany), Ras Sankara Agboka, (Togo), Gilivanka Kedzior (France), Dimple B. Shah (India), Yusuf Durodola (Nigeria), Zhon-Zhon Sandyr (Finland), Alonso Zuluaga (Colombia) and the collective projects: LUTO (Bolivia) and Caminatas de Luz (Argentina).
PROGRAM
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12th, 2 - 5 PM (EST-NY)
* Andres Valenzuela (CL), Procesión a Media Asta, Santiago, Chile, 2020.
* Gilivanka Kedzior (FR), All Along The Way, Morni Hills, India, 2018.
* Nicolas Aca (PH), Struggling Journey, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, 2020
* Dimple B. Shah (IN), Talking to the Holy Ganges, Kolkata, India, 2014.
* Yusuf Durodola (NG), Emi is not Just a Soul, Nigeria, 2019.
* Clyde Lepage (BE), Position des coudes, Brussels, Belgium, 2020.
* Sean Smuda (US), Gross Domestic Product, Minneapolis, USA, 2015.
* Zhon Zhon Sandyr (FI), Ethnostoking, Helsinki, Finland, 2018.
Collective projects:
* LUTO, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 2019.
* CAMINATAS DE LUZ, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13th, 2 - 5 PM (EST-NY)
* Jana Astanov (PL-US), The Personal is Political, New York, USA, 2018.
* Vital Schraenen and Jo Zanders (BE), BRUiTAL, Brussels, Belgium, 2018.
* Motoko Ohinata (JP), People in White & PITTA-YU, Nakanojo, Japan, 2019.
* Ariadna Pastorini & Noelia Rivero (AR), El Peso de la Fragilidad, Argentina, 2016.
* Riccardo Matlakas (IT-UK), The Last Soldier, Karabach, Armenia, 2018.
* Dagmar Glausnitzer-Smith (DE), Mowing Places 4, Braunschweig, Germany, 2018.
* Ras Sankara Agboka (TG), Injustice Social, Ville Lomé, Togo, 2019.
* Alonso Zuluaga (CO), La Muerte del Cubo Blanco, Bahia, Brazil, 2015. |
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STRIDING BODIES: Procession in Performance Art is the first program one in a series of explorations about Body, Territoriality and Embodied Experiences in Performance Art created by Hector Canonge for INPA International Network of Performance Art.
INPA - International Network of Performance Art: https://www.facebook.com/groups/internationalnetworkofperformanceart
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| ARTISTS BIOGRAPHIES: |
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Nicolas Aca is a visionary performance artist based in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. He received his Bachelor’s degree of Architecture at Cagayan de Oro College in 1995. Presently, he’s a resident artist and gallery curator of the Museum of Three Cultures in Capitol University and a member of the Cagayan de Oro City Cultural and Historical Commission. He is a prolific mixed media artist participating in group shows across the country and abroad. Nic was part of the "Siete Pesos Team" for Singapore Biennale 2013. As one of the Top Ten Mindanao artists of the Philippine Art Awards 2009 and a finalist for Philippine Art Awards 2019, he believes that the pursuit and production of true and good art require honesty of intention more than a truthfulness of perspective. His influence in the field of visual arts expanded when he first performed in 2005 with an act called “Cigarette Butts” — he picked up trashes during a ‘Meeting de Avanse’ in Matina Town Square, Davao City. Since then, Nic continues to grace the streets and other formal venues with performances that tackle environmental issues, poverty, local politics and peace.
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Jana Astanov is an interdisciplinary artist, a poet and an independent curator living in New York. Born in Poland she studied anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics in France, and arts in the UK. She is a founder of CREATRIX Magazine, a portal for creative expression focused on art, activism and spiritual practice. Her work includes photography, poetry, performance art, sound art, and installation. She describes her performance art practice as “mythology vs ideology” referring to her two main interests: the political & economic foundations of our civilization and mythological/ religious values. In her work, she utilizes spiritual traditions, dance movement derived from the Grotowski technique, sound art, ritualistic theatre and astrofeminism, a term she has developed through her character Yannanda The One Who Speaks With The Stars. Together with her partner Niko van Egten she co-created an electronic music group ASTRALOOP featuring her poetry in dark electronic arrangements. She has performed at Tate Modern, Smack Mellon Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, Venice Biennale, Documenta 2017, and many other galleries, festivals and independent venues worldwide. She is also the author of five collections of poetry: Antidivine, Grimoire, Sublunar, The Pillow Book of Burg, and Birds of Equinox.
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Yusuf Durodola is a Lagos-based multimedia Nigerian artist. His creative journey started at the age of five when his pattern construction was harnessed by his biological father who is a fashion designer. Durodola was encouraged by his brother to learn graphics at the age of eight. In pursuit of calligraphic skill, he attended an Islamic institution. He later obtained a Nigeria Certificate in Education from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka, Lagos, majoring in Painting and Graphics. He proceeded to the University of Lagos where he obtained a degree in Visual Arts. Yusuf is a prolific and versatile painter, graphic designer, art instructor, art administrator, calligrapher, experimentalist, and video/performance artist. He has participated in over 40 group and two solo art exhibitions. He has also taken part in a residency programme, workshops, seminars, solo and group performances. His works are displayed in local and international private spaces and galleries. He belongs to many art organizations, has chaired and served as a resource person, moderator and facilitator for many art shows. He has also served as a creative director for many art projects. He is a Guinness World Record Achiever (Largest Painting by Number) for Ecole de dessin, Lagos, Nigeria and won several awards to his credit. Since 2006 till date, he has worked as an art educator, especially for teenagers at different levels.
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Dagmar I. Glaunitzer-Smith graduated from Royal College of Art London in 2000 (MA),Goldsmiths' College in 1994 (BA). 2000-2003 Picker Fellowship Award Kingston University. Art foundation Germany 2005-2010, organizing international Performance Art Workshops/Residencies, producing international performance art event transitstation in London 2003, Berlin 2005, Edinburgh 2006 and Copenhagen 2010. 2002 – 2017 Senior Lecturer Kingston University, London specializing in Performance Art. Following projects had to be cancelled due to the global Corona Pandemic in 2020 ‘Live Activity 2020' of Dhaka Live Art Biennale, D’LAB, Performance Art Workshops /Live Performances, Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel Collaboration Live Performance/Installation, Croatia Residency, BBK 2020 Group Exhibition, Braunschweig Live Performance FBK October 2020 E.KA.TE selected Artist-Residency Cyprus, Nicosia Live Participation Live Performance Art, Installations and Exhibitions in USA, Germany, UK, France, Scotland, Denmark, Austria, New Zealand, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, China, Serbia, Netherlands, India, Hong Kong, Italy, Spain, Canada, Bangladesh Glausnitzer-Smith’s work concentrates in virtual/invented spaces as -Werftraum-, temporary floors, site-specific locations, the Public, Radio Interviews, Books and Publications, appointed situations and the process of organisation and curation of public live performance art projects/events, facilitation of international Performance Art Workshops
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Gilivanka Kedzior has been developing a more personal body of works since 2016. In her new ouvre in video, photography, installation and performance question incommunicability and the strength of paradoxes. Her performance art practice articulates itself during interventions in the public or institutional space - then leaving little or no trace -, in front of the video camera or photographic apparatus, and in a series of works on paper conceived from performative protocols of conditioned writing (Writings) in which she experiments through the repetition of a simple action the liberating paradoxes of the penitential dimension and of contemplation in action. She analyzes the inability/difficulty in communicating of the enduring body and its subdivision through time, echoing a constant reflection on woman condition, and thus confronts all authorities with their determinings of behaviors by using the body as a tool of resistance. In 2017, her video Être là. (Being There.) is exhibited at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain of Oran, Algeria, during the 4th Biennale méditerranéenne d’art contemporain Migration & Exode. In 2018, her work is shown in Canada, USA, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Hong Kong and Indonesia. In 2019, she receives a grant from the Institut français de Finlande to perform at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki.
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Clyde Lepage obtained her Bachelor's degree in Photography with great distinction at ESA on 75 (Brussels). Her graduation work, Rwanda-ises, was selected to be part of the collective exhibition "75 - Première" at the Palace (Brussels / summer 2019) and her photographic book was exhibited at the Lumix Book Day (LUMIX Festival for Young Visual Journalism in Hannover, 2020). During the summer of 2020, she was invited in residence at the Centre Culturel de Namur (Abattoirs de Bomel) and the result of this photographic mission of exploration of the territory was exhibited there in October. Author of poetic and documentary texts, she has also been published, notably in the magazine Soldes Almanach n°05 (2017) as well as in the collection of feminist texts Femzine - Elle te parle (2019). At present, Clyde Lepage continues her studies at the Ecole de Recherche Graphique (ESA ERG - Brussels), where she diversifies her artistic practices: performance, installation, video, sound creation. Her performance project "La position des coudes" (Elbows position) won first prize in the "Female Symbols and Urban Spaces" competition organized by Amazone (Brussels) and is currently exhibited there until January 2021. It was also presented at the Lama Center (Brussels) at the end of 2020. Since November 2019, she has been working with the performer artist Lucille Calmel on a research project supported by the FRArt (Fonds de la Recherche en Arts du FNRS), L'animal que donc je suis, which is about performance art with/for/by non-human animals. In the framework of this research, she presents conferences and co-animates workshops in different places in Brussels.
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Riccardo Matlakas is a London based multidisciplinary artist working internationally. He is best known for his multi-talented capacity in different art forms including performance, dance, painting and sculpture. He obtained a degree in Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Naples and an MA in Social Sculpture at Oxford Brookes University. Riccardo values the context he works in as the main inspiration for his work, finding a common ground with each culture he connects with. He creates cathartic actions and performances in the fore-front of current political, environmental and spiritual concerns by digging for the essence of humanity beyond race and custom. The artist often collects relics from his performances which later become objects of memory and contemplation. Riccardo Matlakas has performed and shown his work extensively in Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Palestine, Jordan, South Africa, Iran, Armenia, Russia, Myanmar, Mauritius and South Korea.
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Vital Schraenen is a creative jack of all trades and one of the artistic coordinators at MetX. Mainly active in the circuit of professional theatre, he works as a director, actor, playwright, scenographer, set and light designer and pedagogue. He also coordinates urban and participatory events, like Zinneke Parade, Cantania/Bozar and Fête de la Musique. During the 2018 Parade, he and guerilla percussionist Jo Zanders from Leuven create BRUiTAL. Vital also has a strong social engagement. He organises several events for the citizen initiative Hart Boven Hard, like La Grande Parade in 2015 and the Christmas variety show Tina & Tamara in 2018. Together with residents from the Brussels neighbourhood of Les Marolles, he creates projects like MegafoniX, la Fête de la Musique and the Mexican Dia de Muertos.
Jo Zanders is a self-taught percussionist and luthier. Driven by his passion for original grooves, mobile percussion and the street as a stage, he helped create groups like the Fanfakids, VelotroniX, DROM and BRUiTAL. At the 2018 Zinneke Parade, Jo teams up with scenographer Vital Schraenen to create BRUiTAL. Besides his work for MetX and its predecessor De Krijtkring (Saxafabra, Bagadski, VelotroniX), he is active in the folkscène (Göze, KV Express, Dazibao) and he plays for a young audience with Zannemie & De gang. He’s mainly active in his home base Leuven, where he’s the driving force behind De Batterij: a one-man organisation in which various percussion projects (DROM, LKMTiV, FabostatiX) and an instrument atelier are accommodated.
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Motoko Ohinata is an artist, and associate professor who lives and works in Gunma, Japan. She started solo performances recorded on video camera to reconsider herself as someone living in a different culture as a foreigner while studying abroad at the Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury in the United Kingdom. The People in White who she continues to present are a representation of herself. Currently, she is studying expression that combines physical and personal experiences while being involved in education.
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Ariadna Pastorini was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and currently she lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture and performance. Her work is framed by symbolic context applied to the performance as well as to the textile art, artist's books, video, films, and painting. In 2019 Pastorini published a book about textile art since 1986. She is a graduate of the Nacional de Bellas artes de Buenos Aires and has been working in the organization of annual events around the theme of death. From 2001 to 2008, she lived in Germany making films with other immigrants as the protagonists. Among her projects in 2020 are the virtual programs working with artists from 130 countries: "Performances de encierro" and "Caminatas de luz" about the confinement and death, two central themes in her explorations of this year. Pastorini collaborated with Noelia Rivero an Argentine artist, writer, and poet who teaches and focuses her work on issues of maternity nature and feminism.
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Zhon-Zhon Sandyr (Biography coming up) |
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Ras Sankara. Né à l’état civil au nom agboka kossi afeli il travail et vie au Togo. Avec 11 ans d’expérience artistique. Ras Sankara agboka comme nom d’art est un autodidacte multiples facettes. Du reggae, rap, peinture, photo à la performance il se définit comme le Messager et la voix du peuple.
Depuis 5ans il se concentre sur l’art de la performance pour dénoncer et apporter sa contribution à la société universelle surtout l’Afrique et le Togo en développant des thèmes comme ( l’injuste ,le viol des femmes, l’environnement la démocratie.)
Il est aujourd'hui le Pioneer de cet art de la performance au Togo .
Initiateur du festival emome art qui a pour vision de promouvoir l’art plastique et la performance. Il a représenté le Togo au Bénin Ghana, côté de ivoire, Chili, Serbie, France, Inde, Colombie, brésil et Mexique. Activiste politique et environnemental.
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Dimple B. Shah is practising multidisciplinary artist from Bangalore, studied in MS University, Baroda; She has been honoured with National & International Awards among them International Residency UK 2019, International Residency Germany 2017, India Foundation for the Arts grant project 560, 2014, Afiriperforma International Residency, Lagos, Nigeria 2013, First Gold Prix in 7th Engraving Biennale, Versailles 2009, National Award, Govt.2008, Commonwealth Arts & Crafts Award, UK 2005, Arunawaz Award 2004, Junior Fellowship, HRD, Govt.2000/2. She has worked in various residencies and is practising Live Performance art for last 19 years and widely performed in International performance Festivals and Biennales in Zurich, Paris, Munich, Gothenburg, Lagos, Colombo and Dhaka and many places in India. She had solo shows in Glasgow Print studio, United kingdom., Sumukha Art Gallery & Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad. And recently she had two-person show at The Art House United Kingdom and Manchester Contemporary and her Prints and performed at a show titled ‘The Weitere Weiterreichung' in Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin. In 2019 she participated in International Exhibitions like Hit | Haugesund International Relief Print Festival, THE 5TH BANGKOK TRIENNALE INTERNATIONAL PRINT AND DRAWING EXHIBITION , EIGHT INTERNATIONAL TRIENNALE, SOFIA,BULGARIA Dada Fest International Festival, Liverpool and Massachusetts USA.
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Sean Smuda is an artist, curator, photographer, and writer, living and working in Berlin. He employs a variety of mediums including photography, sculpture, video, and performance. His projects and collaborations have taken place in Antarctica, Iraq, and Wall Street, and he has served as Cultural Liaison to Tours, France. His work is in the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center. |
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Andrés Valenzuela Arellano is a Digital Producer and filmmaker from Santiago, Chile. Co-creator of the Registro Contracultural proyect, a self-managed website about contracultural art and performance. His most recent work questions the politics of power relations between people and the government of Chile. Experimenting with the resignification and appropriation of national symbols departing from the reading of national identity, revealing the oppression, violence and inequality in contemporary society. |
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Alonso José Zuluaga Martínez es Maestro en Artes plásticas. Universidad de Ant. Colombia 1999. Estudios de dibujo en el Instituto de Bellas Artes de Medellín, Colombia, 1990, teatro en la escuela Popular de Arte de Medellín. 1993, 1995, Estudios de pintura con el Maestro Roel Vanderkoy, New York. 2003-2004. Asesor de integrado y grado en la facultad de artes Universidad de Antioquia, 2009 -2020, Docente en el instituto tecnológico de Antioquia ITM. 2013 – 2020. Exposiciones: Museo de Antioquia Medellín Colombia, Acciones a cielo abierto, ITINERANT, Performance Art Festival, NYC. 2019. Centre Polivalent D’Oliva, España 2018. Invitado especial en el 1er Festival de Performance-1er Acto, Universidad de Antioquia, (2015). 15 Salón Regional de Artistas, Centro Occidente, Medellín (2015). Osso Performances, Lencois Brasil (2015), Peras de Olmo, Buenos Aires Argentina, (2014); Bienal Internacional de Bucaramanga, Colombia (2011); Tercera Bienal de Performance DEFORMES –Santiago de Chile, (2010) Encuentro Internacional de Intervención Urbana, Quito, Ecuador. (2009); Exposición de Pintura,Greenbery Ran Naumann gallery, Nueva York, (2001). Ex - teresa Arte actual, México DF. (1999)
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LUTO is a processional performance created and directed by Hector Canonge. The execution of the project took place in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, in 2019. Continuing with his performative caravan series, Canonge collaborated with members of various community organizations, women collectives, and environmentalists. LUTO denounces the burning of the Amazon and the indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources in the tropical region of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santa Cruz, Canonge conducted the caravan through the streets of the industrial city stopping at various government institutions to denounce the issue and to acknowledge the presence of native populations in the Bolivian Amazonia. Participants: Isabel Jordan, Wara Urquiola, Nelly Vasquez, Dolly Pena, MacJob Paravabis, Ailet Dominguez, Andrea Fisher, Carlos Ortiz, Camila Gonzales, Paola Guzman, Nadia Callau, Paulo Alberto Gil Cuellar, Bernardo Boehme, Valeria Portillo, Daniela Giebel, Rhaisa Viana, Natalia Arteaga, Patricia Flores y Natalie Michell Leigue. Documentation: Carolina Rivero, Sandra Concepción, y Chibok Olmos. Assistant Coordination: Yadira Cordoba. Production Assistant: Paulo Alberto Gil Cuellar. Special Acknowledgements: Florencia Cadaihon Seleme, MAC.
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CAMINATAS DE LUZ is a project by Ariadna Pastorini with the technical colaboration of Machi Perez and 130 guest artists from various countries around the world. The video is a compilation of selected segments of the performances. List of featured artists in the video: Andrea Juan y Gabriel Penedo Diego, Cantabria, España- Makame Orozco, Mexico - Javy Moreira, Buenos Aires-Alejandra Gonsebatt, Munich Alemania- Claudina Jimenez-Ana Lea- Roger zu chin, Mexico -España, Valencia, Cristina Ghetti-Elia Torrecilla-Graham Bell-@nodos-@laherreriahouse-Buenos Aires, Luis Guillon- Ada Suarez-Liandro Carvalho- Simone Carvalho Suarez-Guillermo Varela- Zeky Galeano-Agustin Murias- Agustina Galeano. – San Telmo- Gustavo Daniel Rios, Alejandra Fenochio- Ana Lopez-Elena Blasco-Lu Catan -Gabriela Antezon-Ana Casanova-Augusto Zanela-Tais Lumblick- San Isidro Daniel Herce- Amalia Caputo, Miami- Gloria Dostal, Verona USA - Sofia Vera, Mexico - Cris Coll, Buenos Aires- Anabel Vanoni, Mexico - Mica Saconi, Tandil, Argentina- Marcela D Alessandro-Haedo, Machi Perez, Norberto Jose Martinez- Alejandra Bocquel- Mardel Plata,Argentina, Ignacio Mendia, Julieta Basso, Kika Garcia Lorente, Esteban Cuello y Bea Diaz. -Retiro, Buenos Aires, Cecilia Olariaga-Alfredo Peria- Mariela y Vovi Pastorini- Gustavo Bruzzone- -Villa Ortuzar, Ariadna Pastorini.
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