LiVEART.US - QUEENS MUSEUM, NEW YORK - USA. OCT 2018

LiVEART.US, independent Performance Art initiative hosted at the Queens Museum, continues with its Fall 2018 season with the presentation of the program “The Weight of Inheritance” featuring the work of artists whose work challenge physical, psychological, and geographical boundaries.

This month’s program, co-organized by Lisa Crossman, curator of the Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts, brings together three artists: Kledia Spiro (Albania-United States), Óscar Gavilán Ortiz (Chile), and Hector Canonge (Argentina-United States) creator of the monthly series. Through various modalities of Performance Art, the artists will explore the concept of inheritance as it relates to gender, class, race, ethnicity, and how these classifications fit within cultural and economic structures (e.g., art history, history, capitalism, politics). With an emphasis on process, they will collectively and individually consider how the body, movement, and objects carry the "weight of inheritance." Since the centrality of the body in performance art makes it a key form and creative instrument that critically engages the idea of inheritance each artist’s diverse practice and formative perspectives will enhance the address of “inheritance” and its “weight.”

Featured Artists: KLEDIA SPIRO (Albania-United States), OSCAR GAVILAN ORTIZ (Chile), and HECTOR CANONGE (Argentina-United States).