On Performing Nature, Performing Culture
@ SAIC | MacLean Center
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, September 15th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
We are super excited to present our inaugural event “On Performing Nature, Performing Culture” as part of Working Title’s Artists and Art Historian (AAH) Conversations series. Marco Guagnelli @mfguagnelli (MFA Performance, ‘24) will discuss his practice, followed by discussion led by Paula Yahaira Lopez @pauliepaulitics (MA Art History ‘24). We will engage with theater, penitentiary contexts, identity, and community as methods to touch upon environmental and human rights issues.
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“What does modernity reveal to us?
Can the contemporary body actually resist not only the impact of current forces but also the consequences of historical forces, and even facilitate communicative processes that could possibly lead to a new or renewed means of thinking community?
The answer relates to how communication should occur through the body, and the body’s relation to context, time and therefore to history. If an older aesthetics was concerned with deep memory and long tradition, what is the artistic capacity of the (reduced) contemporary body to engage with history.” — Marco Guagnelli
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Marco Guagnelli is a performance artist and Community Theater Director from Mexico City, Mexico. Since 2007, he has been creating stage interventions using various mediums such as theater, music, poetry, and performance. His work revolves around themes related to human rights, the environment, and gender. In recent years, he has been dedicated to developing artistic projects with specific communities, including migrants and formerly incarcerated people, incorporating testimonials from the protagonists into community-based theatrical productions. He received the prestigious Mexican grant Fonca in 2017 and 2019. In 2021, he was awarded with the Prince Claus Seed Award (Netherlands). Currently, he is a candidate for the Masters in Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2024).
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