BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS, THAT DEFIES CATEGORIZATION - RESIDENCE. OCT 24/26 2018
Residence - Boston Center For the Arts
El Peso de la Herencia - La Centralidad del Cuerpo en el Arte de la Performance.
Artists Hector Canonge (Argentina-United States), Kledia Spiro (Albania-United States), and Oscar Gavilan Ortiz (Chile) explore The Weight of Inheritance through performance art in the Mills Gallery. Inheritance refers to monetary or physical property that is passed from one generation to the next, as well as to the physical attributes and genetic qualities received from one’s parents. Yet perceptions of gender, class, race, and ethnicity make our heritage a variable gift or burden, or both, depending on the context. With an emphasis on process, these artists will collectively and individually consider how the body, movement, and objects carry the "weight of inheritance." The centrality of the body in performance art makes it a key form and creative instrument with which to critically engage this concept as it fits within cultural and economic structures (e.g., art history, history, capitalism, politics). Each artist’s diverse practice and formative perspectives will enhance the address of “inheritance” and its “weight.”
The program was organized by Lisa Crossman, Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum, in collaboration with Hector Canonge, director of the monthly program Liveart.us hosted at the Queens Museum in New York City.
