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Instagram: @natachavoliakovsky @intipujol

From Argentina, Natacha Voliakovsky, bio-hardcore performance artist, and Inti Pujol, artist-activist and teacher, present their first collaborative piece.

Pujol and Voliakovsky present a political-ritual work in progress. This piece combines the experience of direct action, noise improvisation, sudaca feminist theories and the performativity of political demonstrations in Argentina. Both artists put their bodies in the political struggle, in their lives and in their work.
In this action, bodies become cyborgs, pushing their limits through the digital ether, where there are no viruses, no scents. In this ghostly way and in the midst of a pandemic, where the notion of presence is constantly resignified, the artists seek to show the absence of victims of femicide as a result of patriarchal violence in Argentina. An act of poetic justice, this pieces brings those who are
no longer present to the present, while condemning a state that -by action or omission- is a participant in this massacre.

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From Argentina, Natacha Voliakovsky, bio-hardcore performance artist, and Inti Pujol, artist-activist and teacher, present their first collaborative piece.

Pujol and Voliakovsky present a political-ritual work in progress. This piece combines the experience of direct action, noise improvisation, sudaca feminist theories and the performativity of political demonstrations in Argentina. Both artists put their bodies in the political struggle, in their lives and in their work.

Instagram:@meloni_vero

For three years, I have been investigating the exercise of writing in real time in different spaces. Writing -as scene and scenario- through the daily action of sweeping. A drawing that can be read, followed and reinterpreted.

I’m interested in an experience of common expression, its unstable materiality as a violation of the conventional use of language. The materiality of writing, its poetics and visuality allow me to operate
with enough distance from the intimidating truth of words, but in the right proximity to show the power of poetic, ephemeral and shared gestures.

I’m interested in breaking down sensitive communication, an aesthetic, political, and poetic search between individual and shared experiences.

Sweep/write: everyday gestures detached from the principle of work, or as a symbolic dialectic between work and play, between something useful and something useless; a tension that generates an opening to another experience.
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Verónica Meloni (b. 1974 in Córdoba, Argentina) is an artist, performer, and teacher. She has presented her work at numerous exhibitions and festivals in Argentina and abroad. Meloni’s work is a complex assembly of language-related experiences, a means of accessing new forms of perception and gaining a better understanding of the world. Her performances construct moments in which language doesn’t seem enough to name what is happening, and create a shared sensibility among its participants, who become vehicles of trust and communal connection through basic and everyday actions.

Her artworks are featured in public and private collections in Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Panamá, Romania, Belgium and the Netherlands.
She lives and works in Córdoba, Argentina.

Instagram: @thigrra

Live performance in an apartment building facing the Paraná River.
Rosario. Santa Fe. Argentina. Latin America. World.
3 Thigras / 1 cameraman / 1 sound engineer / 1 guitarist / 1 white man / 1 translator / 2 percussionists.
Performative reading of our manifesto against extractivism in our region.
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A manifesto on stiff paper
The Paraná River seen from a 15th floor at ten o'clock at night is a black shadow One take that begins and ends in the body
A map of the wetlands drawn with a fiber
A translator who speaks a language that the three of us don't
and it’s the colonialist language
A white man calms and crushes everything
Water and land
Destructive and extractivist capitalism
Life is worthless
Life is worthy
We will not leave any surface unenunciated.
We want to tell the world.
This is what we want to tell the world.
We don’t want them to continue taking the Paraná River and everything that grows around We don't want water to go public
Mark the river
Find the river in our veins
The smoke heals what the fire burned
Flying ashes grows like seed
They still can't shut us up
They can't shut us up
not even with a mask on you can shut up what our bodies scream.

BIO
THIGRA in an artist collective from Rosario, Argentina. Its members are Ximena Pereyra (Rosario, b. 1984 in Rosario), Silvina Amoy (b. 1991 in Buenos Aires) and Marina Montinvero (b. 1990 in Rosario). They have worked together since 2017, creating collaborative pieces and educational programs that focus on performance training. The group organizes and teaches performance seminars, workshops and residencies throughout Argentina.