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"PERFORMANCEAR O MORIR" and "IN SITU" CHIHUAHUA AND GUANAJUATO

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We consider that performative actions are characteristic of the human race, that each group has found through these actions the possibility of approaching their environment, of obtaining favors from it, of paying tribute to it through ritual; So the possible performative proto-actions now established in the order of the artistic, of the aesthetic, referred to something more extensive, significant and of greater repercussion and importance for all who lived it; Being in a manifestation of these magnitudes marked the participants, made them relive and feel that in them is the possibility of change. This link between actions and why, for what and for whom, we believe that they have been fading or becoming, the important thing is that now in the twenty-first century to answer this seems to make sense, perhaps for some moments is beneficial to the performance Remove it from all artistic embalming, undress it, and denudarnos all those that perform performance, with the intention of knowing that motivated us in the first instance to perform them, and maybe some will find that it was not festivals, congresses, or performance title Artist, perhaps like our ancestors we felt with the power to influence someone, to change something, that is to say that our representations did not stay in the order of aesthetic judgment, product of a rapture by the truth of what implies to be art .

 

In Raramuri culture, there is a phrase that we allow ourselves to change, it says "Dance or Die", we have changed it by "Performance or die", first the term "performance", which we attribute as totally Mexican, is the Which we refer to the action of doing performance, art action; In this way we become a verb to the performance, we resignify it, born the verb to perform, (verb = action) in this way we do not move away but we condense the postures and differences between performance and action, here it is a kind of interactive mixture, Between performance and action.

 

The ritualistic action and the transit in this bizarre daily life, influence the form and contents of those that make performance, permeated by a past / present and a present / future, marked contrasts and vicerales, thus we perform and we do not perform, we are performanceros Before being performance artists.

In this way we believe that the phrase "Performance or die" is not only a slogan, but the invitation to do a self-reflexive act and go to what first took us to be in the world of performance, which is behind Of all this from the personal, visceral and volitional point of view, that motivates us to continue doing actions.

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Links

http://performancearomorir.blogspot.com

https://www.facebook.com/insitu.es?fref=ts

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Magda Rivera Performance Artist and Psychologist.

Gustavo Alvarez Performance Artist and Anthropologist.