No me pongan en lo oscuro (Do not bury me in Darkness)-Action #2, 2020, Public Action, 30 min
Join us on Friday, September 18, 2020 at 4 pm EST for a special live performance by Yali Romagoza, shared via our Instagram Live account (@efaprojectspace), as part of Project Space’s fall exhibition The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020: Here, Together!
No me pongan en lo oscuro (Do not bury me in Darkness)-Action #2 takes place outside the Whitney Museum of American Art. Two performers acting as Cuquita The Cuban Doll (Romagoza's alter-ego) stand still bearing simulated penises. The public action is part of an ongoing series of performances that raise critical questions about the exclusion and erasure of the Latina artist in the diaspora. As the artist writes, “The art system does not represent the Latina artist in all its diversity of cultures, identities, origins, and stories. Each new performance and public action will add a new Cuquita The Cuban Doll, creating the multiplication and expansion of the Cuquitas confronting various art institutions.”
Performers: Paola Martinez Fiterre, Yali Romagoza.
Photo credit: Mark Laubenheimer
The performance will be introduced by TIAB curator Katya Grokhovsky.
IG Live: @efaprojectspace
About the Artist
Yali Romagoza (b. in Havana, Cuba, based in NYC) is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose practice reflects on notions of feminism, identity, power and oppression and explores broader issues of migration, politics and social behavior. By constructing her artistic vocabulary through mining her own biography of dislocation and immigration, Romagoza's work examines the cultural displacement and alienation, through a combination of various mediums, such performance, video, installation, photography and conceptual costume. Romagoza graduated with an MFA in Fashion from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013-2015) and a BA in Art History from the University of Havana, (2001-2006). Her works have been included in the Gothenburg Biennial (2007), Havana Biennial (2009), Bétonsalon, Paris, (2009), Liverpool Biennial (2010). She has performed at Links Hall Theater, Chicago (2012), White Box, NY (2012), Teatro LATEA, NY (2018), Art in Odd Places, NY (2018), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, NC (2018), Grace Exhibition Space (2019), NY Latina American Art Triennial (2019). Romagoza has collaborated with Carmelita Tropicana and Ela Troyano in Post-Plástica, at El Museo del Barrio, NY (2012) and Schwanze-Beast, Vermont Performance Lab, Vermont (2015), UCRArtsblock (2017), Queens Museum (2019), Leslie-Lohman Museum (2019). She has been granted numerous awards and residencies including Cátedra Arte de Conducta by Tania Bruguera, La Habana (2007), Bétonsalon Centre d'Art et de Recherche, Paris, (2009), NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program (2017), NY, Creative Capital NYC Taller (2019), NY.
About TIAB
*The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here Together! 2020 is an inaugural multi-site project presenting works by 60+ US-based immigrant artists in September–December 2020. TIAB is Fiscally sponsored by NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts). EFA Project Space is presenter of TIAB’s central exhibition, made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by LMCC (the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council). Project Space programming is made possible through the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Performance events are supported by the women & performance: a journal of feminist theory public programs fund. www.theimmigrantartistbiennial.com