Wednesday, October 12, 2016

So Proud of my Most recent Artist Statement~Elisa La Malicia y Venenosa, Pajarita Mariposa.

Performance ART; an alternate reality. The cultural context of being multi–racial/multi-ethnic 1st and 2nd -generation immigrant is seeded into my work. Memories and dreams become a pool of reminiscences of which to choose from, exploring gender roles, values, sex work, class, institutional struggle, financial challenges and power rituals.  Costumes of recycled materials, repurposed objects, and food as props, these art objects become symbols challenging the multiplicities’ of social engagement. Exploring vocal sounds through free-form experimentation with communication; the various tones and timbres of the human voice, language and the thoughts they provoke. Placing performances into social spaces, homes, public buildings, bars, streets, rooftops, exe., heightens the experimentation of the participatory. Blurring the lines of perception and bearing witness to the spectacle.
“ The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (chapter1, #4)
~ La Pajarita Urtiaga

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