RADICAL AND FRAGILE BODIES (PERFORMANCE LAB – SUMMER 2023)
An introduction to performance art

Thursdays, 6PM – 9PM,
June 15 – August 17, 2023

HB Studios
120 Bank St
New York, NY 10014

This performance lab is about creative processes using the body as an aesthetics and political tool. This introduction to performance art is targeted to artists from different artistic mediums. It is for those who would like to face a challenge, to explore your own body as political expression, and to make a reflection on power and fragility. Guided by Alejandro De La Guerra, a performer, teacher, and multidisciplinary artist.

Radical and fragile bodies is a creation of multiple tasks designed by De La Guerra, using references from art history performance such as Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramović, Ana Mendieta, Chris Burden, Regina Jose Galindo, Zhang Huan, David Nebreda, Rosemberg Sandoval. Additionally, De La Guerra will invite some performance artists such as Pancho Lopez and Natacha Voliakovsky to collaborate and direct a few classes with the participants. The Lab will be offered in ten sessions with a final presentation open to the public.

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Alejandro De La Guerra is a multidisciplinary artist, drummer, and poet. Currently he is Saft Haven Artist resident at Westbeth.

Born in Managua, Nicaragua, De La Guerra lives and works in New York City. He is sponsored by the Residency Unlimited RU with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and is a participant in The New York City Safe Haven Program, a coalition led by ArtistSafety.net, Artistic Freedom Initiative, Artists at Risk Connection and Westbeth Artists Housing.

De La Guerra addresses the aestheticization of power, collective memory, and monumental languages of public space. performance, sculptures, embroideries, and relational aesthetics, through an exploration of violence and healing, art-activism, and, relations of power on human relationships.

Alejandro De La Guerra Bio

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