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The Young Art Lab hosts the first International Festival of Performance (11/12/2008)

The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, this morning's first International Festival of Performance to be held on 12 and 13 December at the Laboratorio de Arte Joven (Lab).

Different artists from China, Canada, France, Italy and Spain will carry out their creations in the contest, entitled '6 Bodies. "

The presentation ceremony was also attended by the director of the Institute of Youth in the Region, Veronica Lopez, and director of the Lab, Sergio Porlán.

This festival will be the scene of the latest proposals of the 'performers', which premiered at the Lab representations related to the body.

Cruz said that "International Performance Festival will continue to grow and become one of the most important actions of both the Lab and the Ministry", and stressed the "great interest in the study of the performance, a genre that does not end. "She announced that his department is working on" other projects to promote this art as the creation of an international school performance. "

For its part, the director of the Lab noted that "emerging productions will have a place in this festival, a genre that attracts great interest in the region."

From different perspectives, the artists put into practice their understanding of the performance, a discipline that, according to each approach, may approach or move away from the fictitious boundary between art and life.

They use mechanisms that take into account the presence of body, time and space.

These strategies have become common procedures protest movements and critics of feminism or cultural or racial identity.

Performance art also uses these events to address the awareness of political issues, commercial and other arguments concerning the contemporary subject.

The first International Performance Festival will begin tomorrow at 20:00 hours with the representation 'Penelope Syndrome', by Italian artist Michela Depetris, inquiring about the body through the performance and video.

Also Friday, Aisa Boaa, Murcia, perform 'To begin with, "a free performance of fiction and drama.

'Icarus' from French Mathieu Bohet closed the first day of the festival with a performance that is about the inability to find an absolute truth.

On Saturday it's the turn Canadian artist Francis O'Shaughnessy for 'Swimming' and 'Untitled'.

Two representations in which the author walks between two art forms in parallel, performance and installation to create a bridge between them.

On Saturday also involved Tania Garcia, the Canaries, with 'Blue', a work in which there is the search for a sensory space, and then analyze the most terrestrial of the subject. "Interartion ', the' performer 'Ko Siu Chinese Lan, puts the finishing touch to this international event.

This author has a broad concept of performance, which was considered an artistic way that gives a lot of freedom through which you can experiment.

The festival is curated by Bartolomé Ferrando, professor of performance at the University of Fine Arts in Valencia.

Source: CARM

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