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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
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<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=people_details&id=309" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=people_details&id=309</a></span>
Medium
performance art
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Santiago
Chile
Artist Statement
<span>Alejandra Herrera is a visual artist and performer from Santiago (Chile), currently living in Los Angeles. She has been an active organizer, artist and teacher in the field of performance art for more than a decade and has exhibited her work extensively, both in her native Chile and internationally. She has produced and organized visual arts shows, such as the Annual Showcase of Students of the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile, exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago, "Av-ant Perfo", the first international performance art show in Valparaíso, and "Perfo Puerto", the First Latin American festival of performance art in Chile. Her recent performances question bodily sensuality and materiality, with particular emphasis on gendered power relations. She is mother to three daughters, four-year old twins Evelyn and Trinidad, and two-year old Diamanda.</span>
Topic
sensuality
materiality
gendered power relations
motherhood
maternity
domestic life
body exploration
Exhibitions
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New Maternalisms
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Title
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Alejandra Herrera Silva
body exploration
Chile
domestic life
installation
materiality
maternity
motherhood
Santiago
sensuality
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Exhibition Archive
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Event Type
Exhibition
Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.com/2014-overview/" target="_blank">http://www.newmaternalisms.com/2014-overview/</a>
<a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.ca." target="_blank">newmaternalisms.ca</a>
Location
The location of the interview
Santiago
Chile
Curator
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/104" target="_blank">Natalie Loveless</a>
Soledad Novoa Donoso
Curatorial Statement
<div><span>New Maternalisms</span><span> is a multi-pronged project conceived of by art historian, curator, and conceptual and performance artist </span><a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/Faculty_and_Staff/Faculty/Natalie_Loveless.aspx" target="_blank"><span>Natalie S. Loveless</span></a><span> in 2010. It consists of three curated exhibitions (</span><span>New Maternalisms</span><span> in 2012, held at the </span><a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank"><span>Mercer Union</span></a><span>; </span><span>New Maternalisms Chile</span><span> in 2014, co-curated with</span><a href="http://www.artes.uchile.cl/noticias/40662/soledad-novoa-la-mujer-a-la-que-hay-que-tratar-con-cuidado" target="_blank"><span>Soledad Novoa</span></a><span>, and held concurrently at the </span><a href="http://www.mac.uchile.cl/" target="_blank"><span>Museo de Arte Contemporáneo </span></a><span> and the </span><a href="http://www.mnba.cl/617/w3-channel.html" target="_blank"><span>Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts</span></a><span> in Santiago de Chile; and </span><span>New Maternalisms Redux </span><span>in 2016, held at the University of Alberta’s </span><a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/fab_gallery.aspx" target="_blank"><span>FAB Gallery</span></a><span>), satellite events surrounding these (most notably the colloquium </span><span>Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene, </span><span>co-organized with </span><a href="http://sheenawilson.ca/" target="_blank"><span>Dr. Sheena Wilson</span></a><span>), an individual three-year artistic research project, </span><a href="http://www.maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank"><span>Maternal Ecologies</span></a><span>, </span><span>and publications (both catalogues and critical writings).</span></div>
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<div><span>The first <em>New Maternalisms</em> exhibition asked: Forty years after the intervention of feminist art, what is the experience of the daughters of that era who have become mothers? </span><span>What are the discursive and material differences between early maternal artworks of the 1970s and those being produced in the first two decades of the 21st century? How might a return to the discourses that shaped the birth of feminist art help reshape how to think about the contours of political and activist art in today's cultural climate? </span><span>Grounded in these questions, this exhibition brought together a group of artist who use performance to bring attention to the embodied, biological, and material enmeshment of early maternal practice in the context of feminist art theory and practice today.</span></div>
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<div><span>This second iteration of </span><span>New Maternalisms</span><span> was a co-curation with the Chilean curator Soledad Novoa. It brought together North American and European artist (curated by Loveless) with Chilean artists (curated by Novoa) to stage an international conversation on the status of the maternal in contemporary art. These works reflect the expressed need of many artists to find creative ways to integrate their practices as mothers, artists, curators, writers and teachers. By taking seriously the need to create from local conditions and materials, these practices give visibility and value to motherhood </span><span>in</span><span> art and </span><span>as</span><span> art.</span></div>
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<div><span>New Maternalisms Redux</span><span> is the third and last in the </span><span>New Maternalisms</span><span> exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). These exhibitions feature performance and project-based artists working with the maternal as a contemporary political and affective force. </span><span>New Maternalisms Redux</span><span> features five artists culled from the first two exhibitions, each of whom have been investigating the maternal, iteratively, for years. A three-day colloquium, </span><a href="http://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/colloquium" target="_blank"><span>Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene</span></a><span>, will be held in conjunction with the exhibition and include a number of prominent voices on feminist art and the maternal today (including Mary Kelly and Dr. Griselda Pollock as keynote participants). This colloquium, open to the public, brings crucial thinking on the anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change together with thinking on the maternal as metaphor, practice, and politics.</span></div>
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Artists
Catalina Bauer / Amelia Ibanez
Yennyferth Becerra
Carolina Hernández
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/160" target="_blank">Alejandra Herrera Silva</a>
Loreto Pérez
Ángela Ramirez
Gabriela Rivera
Alejandra Ugarte
Ximena Zomosa
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a>
Leena Kela
<a href="Courtney%20Kessel" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a>
Tanya Lukin-Linklater
<a href="Irene%20Lusztig" target="_blank">Irene Lusztig</a>
Hélène Matte
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank">Jill Miller</a>
Duration
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June 25th - June 28th, August 27th
Topic
feminist art
motherhood
maternity
maternal
mother/daughter relationship
political art
activist art
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New Maternalisms - Chile
Chile
feminism
feminist art
maternal
maternity
mother/daughter relationship
motherhood
political art
Santiago