Performance by Galia Eibenschutz activates Rita McBride´s piece “Arena” at the Museo Tamayo in Mexico
Museo Tamayo will present on February 8th at 1:00pm the performance “Studies of Space within Space; of Other Studies, of Other Spaces”, by Galia Eibenschutz, in collaboration with Hans Bryssinck and Víctor Muñoz.
This performance is a collective of kinetic sketches of Rita McBride’s exposition “Public Transaction”. The idea is to reactivate the different spaces proposed by the artist though trajectories and sequences of movement, using the body as a reference point, and as an element that defines the parameters of scale, the organic, functionality, and transit.
The performers’ inspiration comes from drawings and models by Le Corbusier, and the idea of inhabiting a strange world within another world. A performance piece inside a sculpture exposition, within a museum wing, based on a house. A house within a museum.
The memory of a domestic archeologist will be translated to a public space. The drawing will function as an element that transcribes what is happening, it will be a graphic mark that will extract the essential from actions and reflections, but that will also function as a measuring and registering system of the range of movement of the performance’s artists.
Galia Eibenschutz (México, 1970). Visual and performing artist, studied classical ballet and contemporary dance in Mexico, received a Bachelor’s in visual arts from the ENAP, UNAM, and has completed advanced theater and dance studies at DasArts Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her work is situated on the frontier between dance and the visual arts. The recording of movement and the passage of time, the scenic presence of the body and its architecture are the center of her projects, which she develops mostly through the mediums of drawing, video, and performance.
Her most recent performances are: “Walk on Cracked Land” (2013), Center for Visual Communication in Wynwood, Miami; “Paisaje abstracto” (2013) Museo Universitario del Chopo and Black Box CNA, Mexico; “Zona de penumbra” (2012) Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico; “Punto de fuga” (2010) Laboratorio Arte Alameda and Movimientos Fósiles (2009) Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros. She has participated as a performer for pieces by Carlos Amorales like: “Spider Galaxy” (2007), Museo Tamayo and PERFORMA, N.Y; “Wolf Woman” (2006) Chicago Contemporary Museum, Miami Basel, and Museo de Arte Moderno; and in “Una imagen mental” (2011) SITAC VII. She worked as a performer in the pieces: “Lines in the Sand” (2002) CNA, Mexico; and “Reading Dante” (2009) by the artist Joan Jonas; and in several choreographies by Andrea Chirinos’ group Mitrovica Danza Contemporánea.
Victor Muñoz was born in Mexico City in 1948, studied painting at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura y Escultura “La Esmeralda”. He has participated in a great many collective and individual expositions in Mexico and abroad, maintaining a constant critical and reflexive activity on contemporary art. From the late 70s atmospheres, installations, processes, events, and street actions have formed part of his artistic proposal. He was also a founding member of the Grupo Proceso Pentágono.
Hans Bryssinck is a visual artist who graduated from KASK, Belgium, with a Master from DasArts, Amsterdam. He has realized several projects that range from the performative and theatrical to video and installation pieces. Currently, he is working on a series of projects that have taken him to work in different places in Latin America. He is at the same time a founding member of SPIN, a project directed by artists for the support of independent artists with headquarters in Brussels.
