2023-05-18 00:01:45
Coinciding with the International Museum DayMAV (Women in the Visual Arts) organizes the performance cycle a downpour from May 18 to 21 in museums and galleries of Madrid. In this edition the participants are: Ana Beltrán, Estíbaliz Sadaba, Rossella Matamoros, Violeta Andreu, Art Brutes (Rocio Lopez Zarandieta y Eva Toro) y Assumption Requena.
Ana Beltran.
no more penelopes.
7 p.m. National Museum of Decorative Arts (C. de Montalbán, 12, 28014 Madrid)
No more Penélopes is a performance in which the artist starts from absolute immobility, impeded from action by some fabrics that surround her, and through a ritual movement she begins to untie that fabric to turn it into a new image. That weaving and unweaving accompanied by the rhythm of music, noise, words, shows hard work, it is the way to get rid of imposed attributes and assimilated norms; the action is full of relapses, “unweaving the fabric” and steps forward in the search for autonomy. This action is a path from a situation of imprisonment to the relief of work to untangle that reality and be able to observe it, recognize it and establish it with a new form.
Estíbaliz Sadaba. The garbage girl. Courtesy of MAV and the artist.
Estíbaliz Sádaba.
The Garbage Girl (Keeping Up the Art World).
6:30 p.m. National Museum of Anthropology (C. de Alfonso XII, 68, 28014 Madrid)
The Garbage Girl (Maintaining the world of art), is a performance part of the Manifesto to maintenance action by the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles.
The artist Estibaliz Sádaba Murguía enters the exhibition hall chosen for the performance, while some chords from Tchaikosky’s Waltz des Fleurs, Nutcracker Suite begin to sound.
The artist scrupulously and tirelessly cleans the different museum spaces in which the action takes place. With this action, Estibaliz Sádaba denounces the role of inferiority to which women have been relegated within the art system and, ultimately, in the cultural sector.
Rosella Matamoros. Development…? / Do you believe? Courtesy of MAV and the artist.
Rossella Matamoros.
Development…? / Do you believe?
8:00 p.m. Nobody, Never, Nothing, No (Calle de Arganzuela, 9, local right, Latina 28005 Madrid)
Development…? / Do you believe? is a performance by Rossella Matamoros on “femicides” as one of the most serious consequences of patriarchy. The chauvinism and misogyny of the “victimizer” make him affirm: If she is not mine, she is not anyone else’s!
The play talks about the cycles and steps of violence, guilt, doubt, anger and fear of the female victims. Cycles that are repeated systematically in society. An intimate, heartbreaking performance that screams from the silence of an intimate… uninhabited space. The lists, statistics and news that we see in the media.
In space, on the ground, 3 circles of 2 meters each, where the artist develops the performance. The first circumference will contain the names of the victims, and the months of the year. The second is the mental cycles and words that drill into the minds and hearts of the victims. And the perpetrators: who are generally known: brothers, stepfathers, uncles, ex-boyfriends, ex-husbands, brothers-in-law, etc. And the third, the denouement, the confinement of the woman/victim in a process of spiraling circular deterioration, falling into the void.
Violet Andrew. Recreation of the HIGH VISIBILITY performance “Lying down”. Courtesy of MAV and the artist.
Violet Andrew
High visibility.
12:00 pm Porto Warehouse (Av. de Pedro Diez, 25, Bajo izda, Carabanchel 28019 Madrid)
With the performance High Visibility, Violeta Andreu addresses the issue of making visual artists visible. The idea is to make their needs visible, promoting good practices focused on equality; promote support for contemporary artistic creation in Madrid’s museums and art galleries and encourage the participation and involvement of the citizens of this city. To do this, she uses her body postures; of the transformation of a cardboard; and high-visibility work vests that will give continuity to the performance, through photographs taken in situ, so that it continues on social networks.
Las Brutas del Arte (Rocío López Zarandieta and Eva Toro). Catch your guts, shark. ‘Pistols’. Courtesy of MAV and the artist.
Art Brutes (Rocio Lopez Zarandieta y Eva Toro).
Catch your guts, shark.
20:00 h Hidden Space (C. de Nicolás Usera, 27, Usera 28026 Madrid)
Guts, Shark is a performance by Las Brutas del Arte loaded with symbolism, where the “Shark” acts as a sexual dominator while the “Corazón de tripas” represents the symbol of oppression. A social and feminist language through humor and irony. Las Brutas del Arte -Eva and Rocío- present a performance where one dressed as “Shark” walks the other through the audience dressed as “Corazón de tripas” as if it were her pet. The shark will carry a knife in its hands with which it will cut the guts that serve as a leash, as if they were a trophy that is given away and that it will throw at the people present, shortening the separation distance, the heart tries to lengthen the distance but finally they are close and face each other with their guns. The guts as a symbol of the oppressed, while the shark is presented as domination.
Asuncion Requena. Take your place, Mask portrait 3. Courtesy of MAV and the artist.
Assumption Requena.
Take your place.
12:00 pm La Neomudéjar Museum (C. de Antonio Nebrija, S/N, 28007 Madrid)
Asunción Requena recreates and gives life to Ise Frank photographed by Enric Consemüller in the Breuer model club B3 chair. Take your place (Take your place) is a participatory performance that shows the duality between the concept of a vase woman at the Bauhaus, and their recognition for being part of an artistic milestone through the gender perspective and Feminism.
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