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Neuenschwander in Cannibal Domino
09November

Neuenschwander in Cannibal Domino

An initiative by the Culture and Tourism Bureau of Murcia, Spain, engulfed in the PAC (2010 Murcia Contemporary Art Project) and commissioned by Mexico’s Cuauhtémoc Medina under the title of Cannibal Domino will feature Brazil’s Rivane Neuenschwander as its last but one guest.

 

In this project, each and every artist should make interventions on the creators that came before him or her in a sort of game to be played. Following consecutive interventions by Jimmie Durham, Cristina Lucas, the Bruce High Quality Foundation, Kendell Geers and Tania Bruguera, it will be Rivane’s turn and then it will be Francis Alÿs’ on Dec. 17, the same day the Cannibal Domino proposal will come to a close.

 

This time around, the Brazilian artist has decided to get a hold on spaces represented by the stables of well-known Latin American ex-votos and has transformed them into abstract ambiences by stripping those images off anecdotes, figures and objects. In recent years, Neuenschwander has every so often tried her hand at accidents and uncertainty in their tensions with those cultural practices that hope to administer or steer good fortune, desires and creeds. One of the topics related to this study is the way miracles tend to become the centerpieces of a Catholic visual product wielded by the Portuguese-Spanish colonization of the New World. Her projects, videos and installations operate in an effective or sensitive fashion, like an activation of action-driven modalities, credos and properly social participations in works that combine literality and surprise. By calling on the public, the notion of an engaging art pops up, an art in which a “participating consciousness” pierces all distinctions between the conceptual knowledge and the sensitive experience. In the case of Cannibal Domino, there’s a clear-cut intention to follow up on this trend by asking visitors to fess up –as the conceptual flip side of those popular ex-votos- their innermost fears.

 

A press conference and the grand opening of the project are scheduled for Nov. 11, and the exhibit will be open for the public the following day at the Veronicas Hall in Murcia, located in an 18th-century baroque-style convent and church. In addition, visitors will be offered didactical visits on Saturdays.

 

For more information, you may contact the organizers at info@pacmurcia.es

 

Sources: Press Conference, Urroz Proyectos