Sirreras Fem

Presentado como parte de la Exhibición “Dissolving Borders II”.

Presented as part of “Dissolving Borders II” Exhibition.

Descripción

Sirreras Fem propone un desbloqueo, un giro, un reto a las barreras que limitan aquello que queremos ser. Esta performance es un rugido, no para imponer la ley del más fuerte, sino para reclamar un espacio de libertad del ser a través del trabajo de tres mujeres que se unen para decir este cuerpo, este lugar, esta comunidad somxs nosotras/es.

Esta es la primera colaboración de Arantxa Araujo, Verónica Peña y Yali Romagoza, miembros del New LatinX Art Collective.

Description

Sirreras Fem proposes an unlocking, a turn, a challenge to the barriers that limit what we want to be. This performance is a roar, not to impose the law of the strongest, but to claim a space of freedom to be through the work of three women who come together to say this body, this place, this community is us.

This is the first collaboration of Arantxa Araujo, Verónica Peña and Yali Romagoza, who are members of the New LatinX Art Collective.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Arantxa Araujo 

Arantxa Araujo is a Mexican artist with a background in neuroscience. Her work is essentially multidisciplinary, feminist, meditative and rooted in bio-behavioral research and technology. Explorations of gender constructions, performativity and identity, and the politics of migration are seen and experienced in her installations, which include new media, video, sound, photography, mapping, light, and performance.  Her work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, at the Radical Women LatinAmerican Art Exhibit, Grace Exhibition Space, Glasshouse Gallery, The Queens Museum, Art in Odd Places in NYC; RAW during Miami Art Week; Illuminus Festival in Boston, and SPACE Gallery and Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh; in Mexico, at Monumento a la Revolución and La Explanada del MUAC, during the Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro; also participated in Nuit Blanche Festival in Saskatoon, Canada.

Araujo is a Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art awardee, BAC and LMCC grantee and has received support through numerous residencies and fellowships including Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship, Creative Capital taller, ITP Camp and EMERGENYC. Araujo was awarded a full scholarship from Mexican Government Institution CONACYT. She holds an MA in Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in Theater Studies from Emerson College. // @ArantxaAraujo //arantxaaraujo.com

Verónica Peña

Verónica Peña (Spain/USA) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, curator,  and international-community advocate. Her work explores absence, separation,  and the search for human harmony through Performance Art. Her performance  installations combine underwater submersion, visual metamorphosis, and  audience participation to address global issues of migration, cross-cultural dialogue,  peaceful resistance, public liberation, fluidity, and women’s empowerment. Peña has exhibited and performed primarily in Europe and America. In the US: NARS Foundation (2021), Coaxial Arts Foundation (2021), Pioneer Works (*2020 postponed due to Covid-19), Grace  Exhibition Space (2020), Smack Mellon, Triskelion Arts, Queens Museum,  Hemispheric Institute, SAIC (Visiting Artist), Times Square Alliance, Armory  Show, Defibrillator Art Gallery, Gabarron Foundation, Dumbo Arts Festival, among  others. She is currently an artist-in-residence at NARS Foundation, was selected  for Creative Capital NYC Taller 19-20, and received a Franklin Furnace Fund 17- 18. She published “The Presence Of The Absent”, was reviewed by Donald  Kuspit, and on Hyperallergic. Peña leads Performance Art Open Call, an 18,500 members FB Community. She holds an MFA from Stony Brook University. //@veronica_pena_live_art //veronicapena.com

Yali Romagoza

Yali Romagoza is a Cuban-born multidisciplinary artist currently based in Queens, NY. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Fashion, Body, and Garment from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Art History from the University of Havana, Cuba. Her works have been included in the Gothenburg Biennial; Havana Biennial; Bétonsalon, Paris; Liverpool Biennial; Art and Social Activism Festival, NY; The Immigrant Artist Biennial, NY. Romagoza has performed at Links Hall Theater, Chicago; White Box, NY; Teatro LATEA, NY; Art in Odd Places, NY; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, NC; Grace Exhibition Space, NY; NY Latin American Art Triennial, NY. She has been granted awards and residencies, including Cátedra Arte de Conducta by Tania Bruguera, La Habana, Bétonsalon Centred’ art et de recherché, Paris; NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, NY; Creative Capital NYC Taller, NY;  Franklin Furnace Fund.