Performance and art-action in Latin America

Josefina Alcázar, Fernando Fuentes, Clemente Padín [et al.]

Compilation and Introduction: Josefina Alcázar, Fernando Fuentes

CITRU / Ex Teresa / Ediciones sin nombre
México, 2005
194 p.

The collaboration of scholars from nine Latin American countries made possible this first inventory of performance artists and groups who have been protagonists in Latin America of that experimental mode, alternative and fleeting of stage and visual arts, which during the last four decades has been acknowledged as “performance” and “art-action”, among other terms. The compilation includes group historical panoramas and offers work logs exploring the currents, subject matters, meeting points, and specificities in each of the countries included in the map. Out of the chapter list: "The Art in the Streets", by Clemente Padín, from Uruguay; "What I Saw, What I Heard, What I Lived, What Brushed My Skin", by Carlos Zerpa, from Venezuela; "Performance for the Huge Minority", by Miguel González, from Colombia; "Frontiers of Latin Performance in California", by Karina Hodoyán; "Between Intimacy, Tradition and Heritage", by Rodrigo Alonso, from Argentina; "The Invisible Rope of Performance in Cuba", by Guillermina Ramos Cruz; "Face Your Icon", by Alexander Del Re, from Chile; "Fusion of Languages", by Paula Darriba, from Brazil; and "Art of the Cracks" on Mexican performance, by Josefina Alcázar and Fernando Fuentes, who are also responsible of the edition and introduction of the texts published.