Saturday 27 October 2018
7-9pm
Proyecto AMIL
Lima
The Lima carnivals were one of the most popular festivities that the Peruvian capital held. Introduced since the colonial times, its celebration lasted for three days, during which the social hierarchies were temporarily erased and interactions otherwise unthinkable in the public space of a highly stratified city became legitimate. During the republic the carnivals were systematically repressed and domesticated, until they finally turned into the most moderate holiday we know today.
For the first edition of AMIL- Art Sessions, artist Gabriel Acevedo proposes a recovery and reactivation of the carnival as a utopic space for inter-cultural tension liberation, inviting the public to participate in a collective experience in which elements –choreography, music and clothing– of traditional Andean-colonial festivals and the world of contemporary sports and its “global energetic” imagery come together. An exercise of ludic affirmation of citizenship and production of culturally agglomerated contents from the body. A proposal for the reactivation of the Lima carnivals will be conducted by Julio Siancas, who for more than 7 years has been directing public aerobic sessions in the district of Miraflores. Bring comfortable clothing and be prepared to move!
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.
Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (Lima, 1976) After spending different periods in Mexico City, Sao Paulo, New York and Berlin, he is currently based in Lima. His most recent individual exhibitions include: Paranormal Citizen at Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid, 2013), Interruptions on decrees and stages at Mori Museum (Tokyo, 2014), Quorum Power at Museo Carrillo Gil (Mexico City, 2009), Cone Flow at Modern Art Museum at Fort Worth (Texas, 2010). He has participated in the following group exhibitions: Lyon Biennial (2011), Sao Paulo Biennial (2010), Corruption – Everybody Knows (e-flux NY, 2015), among others.
