Gustavo Alvarez

Born Mexico City  (1973) 

Alvarez plays with silence broken, using the generator performance as a ritual space (liminal space) where these are confronted by situations generated, always encouraging them to participate directly in the action, proposing a joint creation, where the surrounding atmosphere created with the permission of those involved; succeeded in creating what Hakim Bey refers to as Temporary Autonomous Zones, in which conventional rules of exchange and etiquette are at least problematized if not completely abolished.

Alvarez is a very effective public performer, one who skilfully plays with boundaries between what is private and what is public - tensions between what should remain private and what is perfectly appropriate to vent in a public realm.

His actions are intended to elapse at the end completes a kind of rite of passage for the present and the same performer.

He does enjoy interacting with people in public spaces that can exist inside galleries and even museums, but he prefers encountering unexpected spectators or ‘accidental audiences’, in each of their actions leaves remnants (symbolic objects) that are becoming just an altar installations. 

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