Tuesday 16 April 2019 7:30pm
Proyecto AMIL
Lima
For the sixth edition of AMIL- Art Sessions, the artist Amapola Prada directs the dancer and actress Moyra Silva Rodríguez in an adapted fragment of her most recent stage work: a person sitting for years is leaving to. The piece is born from the investigation of the latent and symbolic contents of the body, associated with personal and collective emotional memories. At the same time, it delves into the difficulty of expression and action of the social body, in the context of a violent city like Lima, which conditions and represses the bodies that inhabit it. The music for a person sitting for years is leaving to has been specially composed by Fil Uno and the lighting designed by Massah Lucar.
AMIL- Art Sessions is a series of monthly encounters at Proyecto AMIL aimed to expand artistic and curatorial practice beyond the temporal and spatial limitations of exhibition making. Throughout this series Proyecto AMIL seeks to promote alternative ways to talk about and experience contemporary art; as well as create a platform for exchange between artists, curators, researchers and our local audience.
Amapola Prada (Lima, 1978) lives and works in Lima. She is interested in investigating the processes through which emotional states, impulses and latent tensions, of the individuals that are part of a collective, can be expressed. Her primary sources of information are the memories of bodies, which host in a symbolic and non-verbal way the sensory and subjective processing of everyday experiences. Prada’s work has been presented at the San Francisco Art Institute (USA), Malta Festival Poznań (Poland), Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca (Mexico), Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, among others. She has collaborated with the artist MPA in actions at the New Visual Art Performance Biennial PERFORMA 11 and at the Whitney Museum of American Art (USA). Prada received a grant from the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art 2008-09 and her work is part of the Video Americas collection of the Kadist Foundation. In 2017, she was selected by the Mario Testino Museum (MATE) to carry out an artistic residency at the Delfina Foundation. She studied Social Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Moyra Silva Rodríguez (Lima, 1983) holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Sciences with a minor in Performing Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She works professionally in the field of performing arts as a freelance actress/dancer, director, movement researcher and professor both locally (Lima, Perú) and internationally. She has developed and implemented her own self-produced interdisciplinary projects based on collaborative networks, which has given her access to many different and experimental approaches to dramaturgy and performance. Particularly, she chooses to work in groups of women artists. Her performances create moments of reflection and critique between an engaged public, their social context and ecosystems. Independent and self-organized projects include: Panparamayo teatro (2010-2015); the solo project Reflejo Animal (2010-2015); and CorpusMedio performance duo (2010–ongoing) with North American composer and video artist Adele Fournet. Currently, they are developing Limas Utópicas, a site-specific video dance piece with non-dancers. She has also participated in international festivals, such as: Tanz im August (Berlin, Germany); Festival Itinerante de Teatro Latinoamericano (San José de Costa Rica, Salvador de Bahía, Lima)
