Martín Bauer / Alejandro Cesarco
Emilio García Wehbi / Gabo Ferro
Roberto Jacoby / Alejandro Ros
Jorge Macchi / Edgardo Rudnitzky
Nicolás Varchausky / Juan Onofri Barbato/ Matías Sendón
Leonello Zambón / Eugenia González
The academic platform of BP.15 is presented as a space able to provide itself feedback on its own potential questions. Its aim is to encourage reflection around issues related to the art world and the contemporary society from different angles, while proposing a place for thought that allows for the interaction between the different academic environments and the current artistic production.
In this regard, we offer different instances (seminars, workshops, crossroads, conferences) capable of generating the appropriate atmosphere to question and problematize the concept of performance -and its derivatives- in an attempt to link the universe of its praxis and the theoretical discourses surrounding it.
Even though the activities revolve around five specific focus themes, it is worth pointing out that the notion of performance has no fixed boundaries. By outlining a series of different paths, it is possible to display the complex dimensions of a topic and address it through multiple perspectives. Likewise, we wish to probe the different operational factors that cut through some of the unanswered questions regarding the notion of performance such as its untranslatability, the problem of discipline specificity, its understanding from a phenomenological standpoint, the time-space dimension of action in non-conventional spaces, the conflictive possibility of being reproduced, the assessment of the ephemeral against the stable, the transformation in the codes of representation, the presence of the body as vehicle of aesthetic conceptions, the shifts within the concept of gender, the performative aspect of culture, the relation between stage practice and socio-political practice, among others.
In the light of the different and countless interpretations of the complex interweaving of such terms as performance, performative and performativity, this platform does not claim to be comprehensive since it only focuses on some aspects of the matter. It should also be noted that many of these have already been addressed from heterogeneous perspectives, especially since performance studies have gained a central place in current reflections on the reconstruction of memory, the de-construction of sexuality and mainly, as a tool for critical analysis.
The biennial’s double articulation, artistic as well as academic, allows for a continuum of the two constitutive moments of the performative act.
This academic platform is coproduced by the National University of the Arts and the School of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA); with the support of the Department of Movement Arts (UNA), the Paco Urondo Cultural Center, UNA’s Association of Teachers and Artists, the Secretariat of Arts and Culture of La Plata University, the Centro Cultural España en Buenos Aires, the Institut Français in Buenos Aires, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Cuajimalpa (Mexico), and the Centro Patagónico de Documentación Teatral.
The performance as a new way of looking at art and of debunking the terminology related to traditional artistic disciplines. The aestheticization of everyday life. Performance as a trans-genre that springs from the articulation of different artistic practices (theater, dance, installations, body art, the artistic event, happenings) combining them and going beyond their limits. The democratization of the arts. The public sphere as an arena for cross-contamination between fiction and daily experience. Cartographies of drift: alternative city itineraries and processes of artistic creation based on randomness. Internet surfing and drifting. Performative dimensions of speech: oral and written aspects.
More info: Bienal de Performance Área Académica / UNA
Itineraries, crossroads, and centers:
Performance and public space.
Dr. María Cecilia Perea (Argentina)
After disciplines, art.
Prof. Sandra Torlucci and Ricardo Manetti, B.A (Argentina)
Drifting encounters.
Dr. Gustavo Blázquez and Prof. Belkys Scolamieri (Argentina)
Trash literature.
Performative writing lab.
Tálata Rodríguez (Colombia/Argentina)
with GEAM group (UNA-DAM)
Excess (mural art crossover).
Marcos López (Argentina)
The performance as an epistemological lens: the study of events as performances. The ontological question and the debate on the ephemeral aspect of performance: the performance is so in its disappearance or in its many ways of remaining? Archive fever and documentation processes: the encyclopedic urge versus the random, contingent and asystemic aspect of performance. Does the dematerialization of the artistic object necessarily mean its impermanence? Performance as a different way of remaining and as the means of reappearance itself: a form of archive. Discussing the technologies to document liveness. The body as a place of collective memory. Preservation based on body memory. Staging or embodying? A phenomenological approach to the performing arts.
More info: Bienal de Performance Área Académica / UNA
Phenomenology of the theatre scene.
Dr. Horacio M. R. Banega (Argentina)
Extending a Hand: Liveness, Documentation, Labor and Duration.
Dr. Rebecca Schneider (United States)
Presented by: Dr. Horacio Banega
Performativity and Theatricality.
Dr. Julia Sagaseta (Argentina)
Presented by: Dr. Horacio Banega
Sudando el discurso (Sweating the discourse).
Performative conference.
Aimar Pérez Galí (Spain)
Guest: Diana Piazza (Argentina)
Performance and scientific-technological revolution in the last decade. New horizons for interactivity: performance, corporealities and technological mediations. Alternatives to the documentary function of technology in multimedia performance practices: the role of technology in subjectivization processes. Digital world, hyperconnectivity and experimentation with virtual spaces: new ways of perceiving time and reality. Digital archive, hyperlinks, connection and e-publishing platforms. Science, aesthetics and technology. The biology of the possible: life as it could be. Artificial life. Biotechnology and biopolitics. Human-machine hybrids, Cyborgs. Bioart and transgenic art. Immersive worlds and robotic art. Apocalyptic narratives and science fiction.
More info: Bienal de Performance Área Académica / UNA
Biopolitics in art, science and technology.
Dr. Iliana Hernández García (Colombia), Dr. Gabriela D’Odorico (Argentina)
and Dr. Jorge La Ferla (Argentina)
Possessive Symptom : Breaking up forms of the Caribbean-archive.
Mg. José Rafael Álvarez Colón (Puerto Rico)
Technological body- device: limits and interactions.
Lic. Gabriel Gendin (Argentina)
Locative virtual interventions.
Body, image and sound resonances.
Mg. Alejandra Ceriani (Argentina), Lic. Fabián Kesler (Argentina),
Fabricio Costa Alisedo (Argentina), Mg. Javiera Saez (Chile)
La Maquina Hölderlin. El hombre es un rey cuando sueña
y un mendigo cuando reflexiona.
(The Hölderlin Machine. Man is a god when he dreams
and a beggar when he thinks.)
Arq. Eli Sirlin and Lic. Gabriel Gendin (Argentina)
Land-e-scape. Performance conference.
Mg. José Rafael Álvarez Colón (Puerto Rico)
Latin America: changes in the experience of social protest and the use of art as a political weapon. Liminality: theatricality and performativity as extra-artistic socio-cultural discursive devices. Performative strategies in the struggle against State terrorism, neoliberalism and social injustice. Performances as a tool for political protest of Human Rights movements. Resistance practices against strategies of invisibilization. Trauma in the social body. The concept of the “desaparecido” and its representation. Funerary rites and acts of mourning. Broken bodies and phantasmagoria. Necro-theater and necro-performance. Mass media and theatrical representations of violence in public spaces. Bodies in protest: contemporary activism in situ and on the web. The digital culture of protest. Digital versions of street demonstrations. The redefinition of performance as an embodied event and its intervention in transnational digital capitalism.
More info: Bienal de Performance Área Académica / UNA
Performativities and theatricalities to give death/
to imagine a place in life.
Dr. Ileana Diéguez (Mexico)
Liminalities and communitas to cry death
and to imagine life.
Dr. Ileana Diéguez (México)
Presented by: Lic. Laura Papa.
Erinyes in mourning. From grief to dignified rage.
Dr. Ileana Dieguez (México)
Including the presentation of Dr. Diéguez’s book Cuerpos sin duelo.
Iconografías y teatralidades del dolor (Unmourned bodies.
Iconographies and theatricalities of grief.) by Dra. Ana Longoni
with the special participation of its editor Gabriela Halac and the
visual artist Erika Diettes
De-centered marginality as creative resistance
(Víctor García and Juan Carlos Uviedo’s passage through Portugal).
Dr. Ricardo Seiça Salgado (Portugal)
Presented by: Ana Longoni
Every day. Collective stage exercises.
Leandro Tartaglia (Argentina) with GEAM group (UNA-DAM)
Ethnography and Practices in the Performing Arts.
Dr. Ricardo Seiça Salgado (Portugal)
Presented by: Dra. Ana Longoni
Instructions for nothing.
Laura Kalauz and Dr. Federico Baeza (Argentina)
Performance and dissidence: bodies that escape and resist the norm. Subjectivity as a political fiction inscribed on the body: sexual identity/ies. Visibilization of abject bodies. Reflections around the pathologization of difference. Bodies under construction, reproduction, resistance, resignification, and transformation. The inventions of freedom. Queer theory. Gender studies. Postporn modernist. postpornography. Feminism and trans-feminism. Connections between city, art and sexual minorities. The city as a configuration regulating bodies according to sex-gender. Dissident geographies: deviated use of public spaces. The drag scene and the theatralization of gender. Transvestism and exhibition of political rhetorics in conflict. Monstrosity and animality. Gender as a coding criteria to separate the human from the inhuman.
More info: Bienal de Performance Área Académica / UNA
Engaging the body.
Performance and political action in the 80s in Latin America.
Dr. Ana Longoni, Dr. María Laura (Malala) González
and Mg. Fernanda Carvajal (Argentina/Chile)
Emancipated sensitivities.
Performance, feminism, and political disruption
of bodies in art in Latin America.
Dr. Andrea Giunta (Argentina)
Presented by Dra. Graciela Morgade
Working with uncertainty:
the 49 Nord 6 Est Collection at Frac Lorraine.
Béatrice Josse (France)
Presented by: Dr. Andrea Giunta
Performative practices around dissident bodies.
Crippled post-porn activism, transfeminists.
Grupo POST OP: Elena Urko and Majo Pulido (Spain)
Empowering ourselves from monstrosity.
Grupo POST OP: Elena Urko and Majo Pulido (Spain)
1st Performance Biennial
April 27 thru June 7, 2015
Argentina 2015
2015 Biennial