► Video | Art Sessions | Cultural Exchanges | Elena Tejada Herrera
Thursday 5 December 2019
6:30pm: self-defence training session for women
8pm: talk
Proyecto AMIL
Lima
For the fourteenth edition of AMIL- Art Sessions, Elena Tejada-Herrera invites people who identify themselves as women to a self-defence training session, followed by a conversation with the artist. With an alternative and underground character, Tejada-Herrera’s work has focused on the creation of conceptual and formal structures for the collective and creative participation of the public. These pieces–to which the artist refers as “cultural exchanges”–condition and facilitate a critical posture by the audience, while providing platforms for the performance and implementation of socio-cultural dynamics alternative to those established in the framework of patriarchal-capitalist society. After the self-defence training, the artist will present her most recent projects and share with the public some reflections on how to sustain a critical artistic language that is not subjected to the forces of the market.
Admission to the self-defence training session is free, but access is restricted to women or people who identify themselves as such. The artist’s talk is open to the general public.
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.
Elena Tejada-Herrera (Lima, 1969) is a transdisciplinary and feminist artist. She produces hybrid, participatory and interactive artworks, where the public becomes a creative collaborator. In 2018 Proyecto AMIL published the catalogue Elena Tejada-Herrera. Videos of this woman: performance documentation 1997-2010, on the occasion of her homonymous exhibition. She has had solo shows in Peru, United States, France and Spain. She has received scholarships and participated in residences in institutions such as: La Cite Internationale Des Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Centro Fundación Telefónica Lima and Urra-Argentina. Awards and recognitions received include: James Nelson Raymond Fellowship (USA, 2013); Grand Prix at the Parnu XIII International Film & Video Festival “Best AV action piece” (Estonia, 2007); best video choreography at Lucksuz Festival of Cheap Fim (Slovenia, 2004); mention for best experimental work at the Virginia Center for Contemporary Art (USA, 2004); award for best video project in Werkleitz Gesellschaft (Germany, 2000); first place in Pasaporte para un Artista (Lima, 1999).
