Performance Program for My Body My Rules exhibition
Saturday March 27 11am – 6pm @ Perez Art Museum Miami
Virtual Livestream & IRL Hybrid masked outdoor Event RSVP
We look forward to welcoming you to the museum or the virtual museum on Saturday, March 27, from 11am-6pm ET for an exciting hybrid event Performance 4 Ways: MY BODY, MY RULES. We are excited for a day of interdisciplinary performance focused around the group exhibition MY BODY, MY RULES, organized by Jennifer Inacio, PAMM Associate Curator. The performances will highlight four artists interpretation and expansion of exhibition themes that include women’s authority, power over their own experiences and mainstream ideals imposed on the image of the female body, while highlighting the power of various performance formats to make this message clear. Artists Yanira Collado, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, Sandra Vivas, and Poorgrrrl will present performances, activations, and video throughout the day.
Schedule:
11am-6pm Film: Side A by Poorgrrrl on loop in the Auditorium
11am-6pm Interactive Installation: Zafa: Preserving the Oral History by Yanira Collado on the Terrace
12pm-12:45pm Artists in Conversation: Coralina Rodriguez Meyer and Sandra Vivas moderated by Marie Vickles
2pm-2:30pm Performance: After Carmen by Sandra Vivas on the Terrace
3pm-5pm: Discussion and Workshop: Stitch n Bitch (https://lambastic.wordpress.com/2021/03/12/stitch-n-bitch-crip-virtual-irl-perez-art-museum-miami-3-27-2021/Crip) by Coralina Rodriguez Meyer on the Terrace
The free performances and activations can be experienced from a safe distance and with a mask outside of the museum on the terrace. This free program will also be offered remotely via YouTube Live. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here to ensure you don’t miss it! This RSVP is for the performance program only and does not grant admission to the museum. Find tickets to visit the galleries here: https://www.pamm.org/tickets.
Side A by Poorgrrrl
A song about longing and missed opportunities Side-A is performed and recorded LIVE for this video. The studio recording can only be found on vinyl through Miami-based [NAME] Publications. Performed live by Tara Long and directed by Cristine Brache the video is an unraveling of fetishized feminine narratives as depicted in mainstream media. An early gameshow rewarding the most pitiful story, a race for the best consumer, and a crooning mistress from what seems like another time come together in a dreamy montage revealing both the familiarity and toxicity of nostalgic notions of what it means or looks like to be ‘a woman’. Performed live
Zafa: Preserving the Oral History by Yanira Collado
Zafa: Preserving the Oral History is an ongoing multi-faceted project documenting and preserving folklore through the oral tradition.
The Dominican Republic is a country affluent in religious, spiritual, folkloric traditions that include supernatural phenomenon. These traditions make up cultural narratives that are deeply woven into the island’s fabric of everyday life. The intersecting origins can be traced back to the Taino Indians, European presence, and African roots through the middle passage. The project is focused on five mythical deities detailed here. First, The Baca a creature created to protect the home and bring wealth by making a pact with the “devil”. Second, El Cuco, a mythical creature designed to scare children into behaving. Third, El Galipote, the shapeshifter. Fourth, La Ciguapa, a long-haired female that lives in the mountainous forests. Her distinct backward feet make it impossible for most to track her down. Fifth, the myths of the Dominican Brujas (“witches”). The project, Zafa: Preserving the Oral History, proposes an archeological approach in documenting and researching through audio field recordings of various individuals including elders, farmers, community leaders, and spiritual guides in different geographic locations; Santiago de los Caballeros, Bonao, Jarabacoa, Sierra de Bahoruco and Corea De Yeguas. The goal is to record and preserve these first and secondhand accounts that may be lost or forgotten if not properly archived. It is a way to further maintain these legacies for future generations.
Both the Dominican Brujas and Las Ciguapas are myths that help perpetuate social structures that classify women’s sexuality or reposeful independence as inherently evil and otherworldliness. The temporary installation addresses these themes and is accompanied by an audio and visual account of these folkloric histories.
After Carmen by Sandra Vivas
After Carmen is a site-specific performance choregraphed and performed by artist Sandra Vivas that aims to reinvent the mythical figure of the free-spirited Carmen. The performance and costume use images taken from Carnival practices in the Caribbean, European Dance Maccabres, and illustrations of doctors during the Plague in the Middle Ages.
Vivas, born in Caracas, earned her BFA from Universidad Central de Venezuela and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Vivas is a video and performance artist with strong conceptual influences, questioning clichés about identity and the structure of power in relationships. Vivas works with multiple medias: including drawing, painting, video, live performances and most recently film. She has shown extensively in Venezuela and is recognized as one of the pioneers in the field of performance art as well as on feminism as a subject matter in her country of origin. Vivas has been living in Dominica, West Indies since 2009 and her work has been part of the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival in 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2016 Vivas made her debut as curator for the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival New Media event, showcasing experimental films by Venezuelan artists.
Stich n Bitch (Crip) by Coralina Rodriguez Meyer
Stitch n Bitch (Crip) invites the audience to perform their citizenship in an art therapy, Arpillera making salon with local and national disability justice leaders. Artist Coralina Rodriguez Meyer hosts a two hour quilt making and solidarity building session with participants featuring guest speakers from the Disability Independence Group where movement leaders are model citizens sharing their resistance practices, survival strategies, and coalition building efforts in our intersectional community. Participants create a new Cunt Quilt arpillera during the interactive discussion. Quilters learn democratic debate in community organizing from speakers whose direct-action work dismantles structural violence within and beyond institutions, professions, and intimate social settings. Spanning public policy, navigating ableism, and mutual aid during the pandemic; the hosts lead a layered discussion about how mental, physical, and civic health is central to the survival of disabled people.
Everglades born, Miami based Colombian American artist Coralina Rodriguez Meyer translates her role as a Quipucamayoc (a community organizer, cultural historian and urban designer) into American heirlooms that transcend the structural and intimate violence in colonial mythology. She engages vulnerable vecinos to perform their citizenship by rebuilding cities in their intersectional image. Coralina’s audience collaborations transform digital media installations, documentary sculptures and protest art into a humorous, accessible masterplan for survival called FEMILIA (City of Today for Feminine Urbanism). Raised queer between the rural US South and the Caribbean; Coralina weaves her Andino (Muisca-Inca), mixed-race, anchor baby heritage into environmental and social justice sanctuaries. FEMILIA was founded after Ferguson during the Great Recession in 2009, to propose intimate solutions for urban scale problems. Coralina is a mother and adjunct professor of Architecture, Landscape, Interiors and Urban Design at FIU.
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