Novoa Curation

CATALINA BAUER

Catalina Bauer has a BFA from Finis Terrae University and MFA from Universidad de Chile. Since 1999 she has participated in several group and solo shows in Santiago and other cities of Chile like Concepción, Talca and Valparaíso and abroad in Mexico, Brazil, United States, Australia, Spain, England and Russia. She has received several acknowledgments for her work, most notably an AMA grant (2011) that allowed her to pursue an art residency at Gasworks, London, The following year, the same institution invited her to a second residency in the framework of the Participation Program. Bauer is the co-creator and founder of BLOC workshops (2010), along with four other Chilean artists; Rodrigo Canala, Rodrigo Galecio, Gerardo Pulido and Tomás Rivas; with whom she has built a space for production and analysis of works as well as a meeting place for artists. She is the mother of Delia and Lucía, 13-year-old twins.

YENNIFERTH BECERRA

Yenniferth Becerra has a MFA from Universidad de Chile and BFA in Painting from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Postgraduate degree in Art Proposals and Contemporary Techniques from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She currently works as Coordinator to the Educational Area of Museo Artequin and as a teacher in Universidad UNIACC. Among her group exhibitions we find: Avistamiento, ejercicios para la Mirada (Sighting, exercises for the gaze), 6 public interventions in Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho (2013), her work for the residency Project South Project-Yogyakarta 2009 in Indonesia, 9ª Bienal de La Habana (Cuba, 2006), 4ª Bienal de Arte Joven Utopías de Bolsillo (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, 2006), among the selectionof Chilean artists for 4ª Bienal de Artes Visuales MERCOSUR (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile, 2004), Piel Artificial (Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile, 2002). Her solo exhibitions include Se cambia para llenar vacíos (It changes to fill gaps), Galería Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile, 2005, ¿Qué hace que los hogares de hoy sean tan diferentes, tan atractivos? (What makes homes of today so different, so attractive?), Centro de Extensión Universidad Católica, Santiago de Chile, 2002 y La Cuarta Categoría (Forth Category), Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago de Chile, 2000. Becerra has received the FONDART (National Fund for The Arts and Culture) grant in six opportunities and once from DIRAC (Department of Cultural Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs) for her participation in a project of intercultural exchange between Chile, Sweden and Germany (2003). She is mother to 11-year-old Renata and 6-year-old Nicolás.

AMELIA IBAÑEZ

Graduate of Dance Interpretation from Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano. As a dancer and choreographer she has participated in several projects, most notably Territorio Inestable, a 2010 FONDART (National Fund for The Arts and Culture) Project. During 2012 she founded the "Tres son Multitud" dance company with whom she presents Preparación para el Invierno (Preparation for Winter), in Centro Cultural Matucana 100 and Tejidos (Tissues) as guest emerging choreographer to a cycle at Sala Arrau of the Teatro Municipal de Santiago. She is a steady dancer in the company of the choreographer José Luis Vidal in dance pieces like Tramas y Dosmildoce (Wefts and Two thousand and twelve). Throughout her work she has constantly questioned dance, taking it to unconventional spaces while reflecting on the limits of the discipline when in dialogue with other arts. Ibáñez takes part in group exhibitions like Cómo Hacer de Algo otra Cosa(How to make something else out of something) in Centro Cultural Matucana 100 in 2009 and is the author of the video art work Nube (Cloud) in collaboration with SISA (Sala Telefónica and TripSpace Projects, London, 2014). She is currently working on an investigation alongside the artist Catalina Bauer. Amelia is mother to 2-year-old Féliz.

LORETO PÉREZ

Visual artist, BFA from Universidad de Chile, and co-founder of several artistic and cultural venues in Talca. In this city she has made a common practice of the founding of art collectives, thus bringing to life gravitating projects in the contemporary arts local scene: Laboratorio / Galería Reivindicación del siglo XXin 2001as well as the land seizure and the collective building of Galería Mediagua in Población Edén (2002). Her exhibitions, installations and interventions include: Un largo temblor (Long Tremble), group intervention, Talca (2014); We Tripantu performance, Madrid (2013); Canasta Familiar (Market Basket Measure) installation for Trienal de Chile 2, Galería Metropolitana, Santiago (2012); Privados de lo Público (Deprived of that which is Public), collective intervention MOP Talca (2011); Te arriendo mi sombra (I rent you my shadow), urban intervention and installation in Galería Centro and Edificio Caracol, Talca (2011); Albacea, o el Hábito de Contenerse (Executor or the habit to refrain), intervention with public collaboration, El Paraíso (Paradise), Talca (2009); Maule post sentimental (Post-sentimental Maule), group exhibition, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago (2000). Pérez participated in the collective curatorial work for the exhibition Cartografías de Localización at Galería Gabriela Mistral (2005). Under the same logic, the work included in New Maternalisms is a collective piece by the artist, Angélica Sánchez; her mother (1939) and Mariana Riquelme; her daughter (1990). She is mother to Blas (25), Mariana (23) and Joaquín (21).

SENORITAGUARTE

Senoritaugarte is the pseudonym used by Alejandra Ugarte, multidisciplinary artist who approaches feminism through performance, video and installation. BFA from Universidad Arcis, BA in Education from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Postgraduate Degree in Visual Arts from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She has received two grants from the government’s Audiovisual Development Fund in 2006 for her installation and video work titled Deer Girl and another in 2011 for the video installation titled Play - House. In 2013, she participated in the performance Corpo-Reactivo (Reactive Body) with the collective La Pocha Nostra, Centro Cultura de España, Mexico DF, Mexico. In the same year, she took part in EXTRA!, 4th International Performance Festival with the work Fragments of Power, Curated by the Mexican artist Pancho Lopez. Several years ago her work took a turn that threatened the bifurcation of languages; on the one hand, towards critical actions in order to regulate bodies to later reflects on(her own) Motherhood, hierarchical and power relations established within this bond, the public / private space and education as imposture, taking elements of her and her daughter’s everyday life that represent and question these social institutions. Her daughter, Magdalena, is 4.

Performance-Based Video

ALEJANDRA UGARTE

GABRIELA RIVERA

Gabriela Rivera is a visual artists, feminist and animal rights supporter, BFA in Photography from Universidad de Chile and Graduate Diploma in Photography from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her work travels between the languages of photography and the audiovisual, often intertwined with performance actions, dealing with topics such as the abject as well as questioning identities and gender conventions. The critique to hetero-normative parameters of physical beauty in western society has become the central axis of her work. Rivera participated in the collective Miss 3 señoritas (Miss Three Ladies), from 2004 up to 2010 together with Senoritaugarte and Zaída González; three female artists gathered around the questioning of the limits and stereotypes in erotism and how the female figure is caricatured as an object of desire. Major exhibitions include: Post Mortem, La Petit Mort Gallery, Ottawa 2013); La Sombra de una sonrisa (The Shadow of a Smile), Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho (2011); Antología Visual de Jóvenes Fotógrafos (Visual Anthology of Young Photographers), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (2011); XXXII Concurso Nacional de ArteJoven (32nd National Young Artists Competition) , Sala Púntangeles, Valparaíso (2010); Mujer, Arte y Compromiso, ( Women, Art and Commitment) Museo Salvador Allende (2009); Handle with care / Mujeres artistas en Chile, (Handle with Care / Women artists in Chile) Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (2007); Quehaceres Domésticos (Housework), Galería Posada del Corregidor; Exposición XXVIII Concurso de Arte y Poesía Joven, (28th Young Arts and Poetry Competition Exhibition) Sala El Farol, Valparaíso (2006); Efímero, (Ephemeral) Centro Cultural de España (2005). She is the mother of Emilia (5) and Amanda (2).

Objects

CAROLINA HERNÁNDEZ

BFA from Pontificia Universidad Católica, further studies in Universidad Tecnológica de Monterrey, Mexico and a MFA from Universidad de Chile. Graduate in Education and arts administrator, currently PhD candidate of the Education and Multiculturalism Program at the Universidad de Santiago, Chile. Her work deals closely with issues in education in the language of installation and serial reproduction, and is linked to the collective everyday work with her own students in class. For the production of her installation work she uses easily-manipulated materials like paper, which will then conform her pieces of great dimensions. She takes part in Prueba de Autor P/a , a collective who, thanks to the support of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, had a show in Sweden and Germany andparticipated with the work titled This message is not flagged. She exhibits her work in Extremo Centro, 6 mts x 60 cm. in Galería Balmaceda 1215 and has a solo exhibition titled 480 piezas (480 pieces) in Galería Gabriela Mistral (2003). Her work is included in Handle with Care in Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Quinta Normal with the work 5000 plumillas (5000 Pen nibs) (2007), and in Orígenes árabes en artistas chilenos, (Arab origins in Chilean Artists) in Centro Cultural de España (2008), as well as in Avistamiento (Sighting) in Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho with a work placed in the public space called Resistencia (Resistance)(2013). Hernández currently teaches in Terra Nova school and in the Education Faculty of the Universidad Católica de Chile. She is the mother of 9-year-old Camilo.

GABRIELA RIVERA

ÁNGELA RAMIREZ

Ángela Ramirez is a visual artist, BFA in Sculpture from Universidad de Chile. Artist residency in Fine Arts Academy, San Juan Viejo, Puerto Rico. Awarded first prize in sculpture at the XV Concurso Nacional de Arte Joven, Universidad de Valparaíso in 1993 and travels to Cologne, Germany. The next year she studied marble sculpture at Laboratorio S.G.F. de Sculture (Carrara, Italia) and was accepted at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She later participated in several group exhibitions in Germany. In 1996 she received the grant Offenen Atelier Köln Salon e.V. in der Deutzerwerf (Cologne, Germany). She returned to Chile in 1997 for her exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno, and to work on her Pánicos en Blanco (Panic in White) project for a private apartment. Ramírez received a grant from FONDART (National Fund for The Arts and Culture) in 1998 for the Project Dos obras plásticas para el Hospital Barros Luco Trudeaux (Two art pieces for the Barros Luco Trydeaux Hospital) and in 1999 she received the same support for Dos obras plásticas para el Centro Penitenciario Femenino de Santiago (Two art pieces for the Women’s Prison of Santiago). In 2000 she participated in exhibitions in Casa Colorada and Galería Animal in Santiago. Her work, installations and interventions in public buildings evidence her interest and reflection on modern architectural structures and the way these interact with the urban landscape over long periods of time, as well as how they unconsciously affect the daily lives of individuals. She is the mother of Sofía (15) and Bruno (9).

XIMENA ZOMOSA

Ximena Zomosa is a visual artist with a BFA in Engraving from Universidad Católica de Chile. Her work has been exhibited extensively in Chile and abroad in events such as the Sydney (1998), Shangai (2004), Santa Cruz (2006), and Tijuana (2008) Biennials. She has held solo shows in numerous spaces in the contemporary art circuit in Santiago. Alongside four other Chilean artists, Zomosa has participated in Proyecto de Borde (Border Project) in Valdivia, Chile (1999), United States (Boston 2000 and New York 2002) and Australia (Sidney 2005). In 2012 and 2013, Zomosa, Paz Carvajal and Claudia Missana planned the route Fuera de Borde (Out of Border), which resulted in five exhibitions in Latin America. She is currently dedicated to her personal work and to Balmaceda Arte Joven Corporation, where, since 1998, she has done curatorial work and promotion of the work of several generations of young Chilean artists. She is the mother of Natacha, who is 18.

Loveless curation

ALEJANDRA HERRERA SILVA

BFA from Universidad de Chile and further studies in Valencia, España and Belfast, Ireland. Co-founder of PERFOPUERTO (Independent Organization of Performance Art, 2002-2007) with several grants from FONDART (National Fund for The Arts and Culture) and DIRAC (Department of Cultural Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Her practice is installation and performance based and through the explorations of her own body (gender) that reference the inevitable biological implications that the body has as a social and political being. In recent years, she has been working on the issue of maternity and domestic life. Her work has been presented in performance festivals such as: Trouble in Belgium, Anti in Finland, Staglinec in Croatia, 7A11D in Canada; and other countries such as Germany, Poland, Japan, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, United States, and Northern Ireland. Since 2007 she lives in Los Angeles, California. She is the mother of twins, Trinidad and Evelyn, 6, and Diamanda, 4.

LEENA KELA

Leena Kela is a Finnish performance artist whose work evolves from observing the everyday. She has presented her work in Finland and internationally in performance art festivals across Europe as well as in Russia and North America, including the Craft of Use Conference (London, UK), Art Nomade Festival (Chicoutimi, Canada), Le Lieu (Quebec, Canada), L'Arpenteur Festival (Les Adrets, France), Tromso Contemporary Arts Museum (Tromso, Norway), Month of Performance Art (Berlin, Germany) and Samtalkokkenet (Copenhagen, Denmark). She has an MA in Performance Art and Theory (Theatre Academy, Helsinki 2010) and a BA in performance art (Turku Arts Academy, Turku 2003). Currently, Kela is the regional representative of the Arts Promotion Center in Southwest Finland and the artistic director of the New Performance Turku Festival. Her daughter, Hilla, is 4.

COURTNEY KESSEL

Courtney Kessel is a mother, artist, academic, and arts administrator living and working in Athens, Ohio. Kessel has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including at FAMILY MATTERS: Living and Representing Today’s Family, Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy; the Tampa Museum of Art, Exit Art, New York, NY, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Art and with the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. Through sculpture, performance, video, and sound, Kessel’s work strives to make visible the quiet, understated, and often unseen love and labor of motherhood. Her daughter, Chloé, is 9.

HÉLÈNE MATTE

Hélène Matte is a Québec-based, artist whose work mingles the political and the poetic. She has shown extensively in performance, poetry, and gallery settings, including, most recently, Expoésie (France), Bogota International poetry Festival (Colombia), Mois Multi (Québec) and Manif d'art (Québec). A Ph.D. student in Literature and Stage Arts (Laval University), she is researching "the Gutenberg parenthesis" and its effect on non-written manifestations of poetry. Her son Lionel is 8 and her daughter Aurelie is 5.

Performance-Based Video

MICHELLE BROWNE

Michelle Browne is an artist and curator based in Dublin. She studied Sculpture at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Much of her work is performance based and she has performed and exhibited both nationally and internationally recently taking part in Belfast International Festival of Performance Art, University of Ulster, Belfast; IETM, Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Connections Performance Festival, Cordoba, Argentina and Santiago Chile; Subject to Ongoing Change with The Performance Collective, Galway Arts Centre; Labour Live Performance Exhibition by Irish Female Artists, Performance Space London, The Void, Derry, The Lab, Dublin. Browne has curated a number of performance exhibitions including Out of Site from 2006-2008, Between You and Me and the Four Walls for IETM at Project Arts Centre in Dublin and Tulca Season of Visual Art 2010, and in July 2014 will curate These Immovable Walls: Performing Power at Dublin Castle. Her daughter, Moya, is 4.

LENKA CLAYTON

Lenka Clayton’s work considers, exaggerates, and alters the accepted rules of everyday life, extending the familiar into the realms of the poetic and absurd. In previous works she has hand-numbered 7,000 stones; searched for all 613 people mentioned in a single edition of a German newspaper; filmed one person of each age from 1 to 100, and reconstituted a lost museum from a sketch on the back of an envelope. She and writer Michael Crowe are currently in the middle of writing a unique, personal letter to every household in the world. Her son, Otto, is 3, and her daughter, Early, just turned 1.

JESS DOBKIN

Jess Dobkin’s performance and curatorial projects are presented at museums, galleries, theatres, universities and in public spaces internationally. She was the 2011-2012 Guest Curator of Harbourfront Centre’s HATCH residency program and a member/co-curator of the 7a-11d International Festival of Performance Art from 2009-2012. She is currently developing a new performance through the Theatre Centre Residency program with the support of the Canada Council, and teaching performance art courses as a Sessional Instructor at OCAD University and Sheridan College. She is also a Fellow at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. Jess is the parent of an 8 year old.

MARNI KOTAK

Marni Kotak is an NYC artist who makes multimedia works in which she presents everyday life being lived. She is recognized for her “Found Performances”, or works based on daily activities, experiences, or accomplishments. In 2011, she received international attention for her durational performance “The Birth of Baby X”, where she gave birth to her son Ajax in an NYC art gallery. Since then, she has been working on the ongoing “Raising Baby X: Little Brother”, where she outfits Ajax with a small wearable video camera capturing the intricacies of his infancy and toddlerhood from his own perspective. Kotak has exhibited and performed at Microscope Gallery, PERFORMA, Momenta Art, English Kills Art Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, Thomas Robertello Gallery (Chicago), The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (Peekskill), Sama Tower, Abu Dabi, and the Open Realization Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, among many others. She received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Brooklyn College and is represented by Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, New York City. Her son, Ajax, is 2.

TANYA LUKIN-LINKLATER

Tanya Lukin-Linklater originates from the Native Villages of Port Lions and Afognak in the Kodiak archipelago of southwestern Alaska. Based in northern Ontario, Canada, her practice spans experimental choreography, performance, installation, text, and video. Linklater’s works have been performed/exhibited at Images Festival + Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto), VI Mostra Internacional de Videodanca Sao Carlos (Brasil), Open Space (Victoria), Museum of Contemporary Native Art (Santa Fe), Latitude 53’s Visualeyez (Edmonton), Grunt Gallery (Vancouver), Culver Center of the Arts (California), Expanse Movement Arts Festival (Edmonton), Near North Mobile Media Lab + White Water Gallery (Ontario), and TRIBE (Saskatoon). She studied at the University of Alberta (M.Ed. 2003) and Stanford University (A.B. Honours 1998), where she received the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship & Louis Sudler Prize in Creative and Performing Arts. Linklater was awarded the Chalmers Professional Development Grant in 2010. She was nominated for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award in Dance in 2011 and received the K.M. Hunter Artist Award in Literature in 2013. She has two daughters, Mina (14) and Sassa (6).

IRENE LUSZTIG

Irene Lusztig is a US-based filmmaker, media archeologist, and amateur seamstress. Her film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings in order to reframe, recuperate, or reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. Using hybrid formal strategies and combining visual textures (including digital video, Super 8 and 16mm film, and found / archival materials) her work investigates the production of personal, collective, and national memories. Lusztig received her BA in filmmaking and Chinese studies from Harvard and completed her MFA in film and video at Bard College. Her work has been screened around the world, including at MoMA, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archive, IDFA Amsterdam, and on television in the US, Europe, and Taiwan. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, Massachusetts Cultural Council, LEF Foundation, and New York State Council for the Arts and has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Harvard's Film Study Center. She teaches filmmaking at UC Santa Cruz where she is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media. Her son, Max, is 7.

GINA MILLER

Gina Miller is an emerging visual artist, who lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. Miller graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2012. Her work explores themes around birth, organic growth and regeneration, utilizing a formal vocabulary informed by the history of biomorphic abstraction. Drawing on her previous history as a scenic painter for film and television, Miller's recent solo exhibition “Bliss Points” at Kokopelli Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., gave Miller the opportunity to consider the gallery space as an installation venue and backdrop for the kind of storytelling she previously explored through her work in video. Gina is currently editing footage gathered from conversations with her three sons, now 8, 9 and 15.

JILL MILLER

Jill Miller is an art practitioner who works collaboratively with communities and individuals. Her recent work explores motherhood through a lens of feminism and performance, and her work takes shape across many forms and disciplines. In past works she searched for Bigfoot in the Sierra Nevada, inserted herself into the art historical work of John Baldessari, and became a private investigator who performed surveillance on art collectors. Born in Illinois, she received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles and her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, in English. Miller’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, and has been collected in public institutions worldwide including CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She has taught at California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute and Carnegie Mellon University. She is the mother of two sons, Paxton (8) and Argo (4).

VICTORIA SINGH

Victoria Singh is a European/ East Indian trans-disciplinary artist currently based in New Zealand. Her 25-year practice has been dedicated almost exclusively to performance art. Her recent work is concerned with “life/art”. The ephemera of her investigations includes paintings, creative writing, photographs and video documentation. She has shown her work in Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the USA and is a former curator of Performance Art at the Western Front in Vancouver, Canada. Singh has a BA (Victoria University, New Zealand) and a MA (Simon Fraser University, Canada). She has curated and collaborated with many internationally acclaimed artists including Linda Montano, Annie Sprinkle, STELARC, Perry Hoberman, Rebecca Belmore, Paul Wong and Margaret Dragu. Singh received a generous arts grant from Creative New Zealand to present a 3 week long public interventionist performance/installation: “Waiting Room” - March 9-March 30, 2014. This work was reviewed in Art New Zealand magazine and Art Forum. Her son, Kurtis, is 10.

Symposium Interlocutor

JENNIE KLEIN

Professor Jennie Klein teaches a variety of courses included Contemporary Art, Gender and Representation, Modern Art, History of Photography, Performance Art and Theory, and Queer Theory and Visual Representation. Professor Klein also chairs the Art History Area and is the Director of Studies for the Honors Tutorial College Art History Program. Professor Klein’s primary areas of research lie in contemporary art, art criticism, feminist art, and performance art. She is a contributing editor for Art Papers and a member of the editorial board of Genders. She has published in Feminist Studies, Art Pulse, PAJ, n.paradoxa, Art History, New Art Examiner, and Afterimage. Professor Klein has presented on her work, both nationally and internationally. She was recently a presenter at the MACAA Conference in Detroit, the 10th anniversary of the ANTI Festival in Finland, and the UAAC Conference in Montreal. She has also presented on her work in Ljubljana, Glasgow, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. She is the mother of a 14-year-old girl, Madeleine, and a 16-year-old boy, Victor.