Week 1: 16 and 17 January
Week 2: 23 and 24 January
5pm – 8pm
Proyecto AMIL
Lima
In the context of Yoko Ono. Universo Libre, the first retrospective of Yoko Ono in Peru, Proyecto AMIL is pleased to invite you to Feeling and Leaving the Body: Paths Towards Performance, a seminar lead by the art historian Gisselle Girón. Based on Ono’s work, during the seminar two dimensions of performance art will be analysed: the body as a tool of meaning and the Instructionsas a participatory medium. Likewise, the work of seven fundamental performance artists from the 1960s onwards will be revised (Mieko Shiomi, Alison Knowles, Shigeko Kubota, Adrian Piper, Coco Fusco, Regina José Galindo, Sandra Monterroso). The seminar will culminate with To Love and Accompany, a performance / conscious action by the artist Kathryn Páucar.
Feeling and Leaving the Body: Paths Towards Performanceaims to motivate a discussion about performance, its resources and geographic spaces. Through selected texts by authors like Kristine Stiles, Coco Fusco, Emilia Barbosa, among others, the seminar will propose a reflection on the different bodies involved in the production of performatic practice, enabling a genealogy that takes into consideration the body as social, local and felt materiality.
Feeling and Leaving the Body: Paths Towards Performanceis free, but capacity is limited. To enrol in the seminar write to [email protected] attaching a narrative biography of maximum 100 words and an expression of interest of maximum 400 words. It is important that participants commit to attend the four dates of the seminar.
General Program:
Week 1:
Wednesday, 16 January
Yoko Ono, Mieko Shiomi, Alison Knowles, Shigeko Kubota and the legacy of Fluxus performance. Reading: Stiles, Kristine. “Between Water and Stone: Fluxus Performance: A Metaphysics of Acts.”In the spirit of Fluxus(1993): 63-99”.
Thursday, 17 January
Adrian Piper, Coco Fusco and the dynamics of racism and ethnic stereotyping.
Reading: Fusco, Coco. The other history of intercultural performance. TDR(1988-), 1994, vol. 38, no 1, p. 143-167.
Week 2:
Wednesday 23, January
Regina José Galindo, Sandra Monterroso and the body as an index of invisible labor.
Reading:Barbosa, Emilia. “Regina José Galindo’s body talk: Performing feminicide and violence against women in 279 golpes.”Latin American Perspectives41.1 (2014): 59-71.
Thursday 24, January
To love and Accompany, a performance / conscious action by the artist Kathryn Páucar.
Gisselle Girón (Lima, 1992) Graduated from the University of Essex (UK) in 2015 where she obtained a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Art History and Theory. Girón is a co-founder of Gifggenheim, a digital platform based in Lima and the curatorial project Victoria Sánchez. She works as a researcher and curator on contemporary art history in Latin America. She can be found from Monday to Friday in the M20 Office located at the former Hotel Savoy in the Historic Center of Lima.
