Curated by Kathie Halfin and Fang-Yu Liu
April 18th & April 25th
“Re:Vive” is an online performance art series inspired by Women History Month. In the midst of this unprecedented break of live performances, ‘Re:Vive!” offers artists a virtual community platform that focuses on deepening the understanding of bodily representation. We bring together eight female-identified and queer artists: Arantxa Araujo, Erica Gressman, Gaby Bila Gunther, Jaguar Mary, Lariel Joy, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Murta Azul, Romina Gonzales. Please see our lineups attached here: April 18th:
Arantxa Araujo “Tiempo”
Jaguar Mary X “Phoenix Rising”
Lariel Joy Decolonization: “Symbols Are Skin Deep”
Gaby Bila-Günther aka LADY GABY
“Tracing Berlin”
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April 25th:
Erica Gressman “Dissever”
@Laura Hyunjhee Kim
“A-LIVE Virtual Lotioning Session “
Romina Gonzales Bauer
“Down Load Your Self”
Murta Azul aka @Kareen Labe Weber
“Una Vez A La Semana”
Our first day of Re: Vive! is April 18, 7-9 pm EST, and the second day will happen on the following Sunday, April 25, 7-9 pm EST.
The event will be live via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87986243729?pwd=N0F3Z0VjQjlWZEtic085RTZXK3RLZz09
Curatorial statement
Today we feel the urgent need to rethink the past and stories we tell about ourselves to the world and our place in it. The narratives about female and queer artists in history are often associated with erasure. Indeed, multiple stories are still silenced and invisible but they can’t be erased. According to Feminist Theorist Karen Barad, there is no inherently determinate relationship between past, present, and future. While rethinking causality Karen Barad makes a bold statement saying: ”The fantasy of erasure is not possible, but possibilities for reparation exist. Erasure is not what is at issue. The sedimenting effects, the traces of the past cannot be erased. The memory of materializing effects is written into the world.” The past, like the future, is open to changes. In this sense, the memory, which has always been seen as a matter of the past, will be recreated every time while it is invoked and we have an active role in it. Living in the present time gives us the mobility to review the traces of the past and to construct the narratives of the history and of experiences. This act of reconfiguring becomes our response-ability. While keeping in mind the importance of the current moment that we all live in and the weight of losses and realizations that took place last year we recognize that what is really at stake now is response-ability. Response-ability not as a right response, but rather a matter of inviting, welcoming, and enabling the response of “Other”.
Our fundraiser: Live Art Support Fund:
This month, we launch the Live Art Support Fund to further offer financial support to the artists and curators. We wish to compensate the artists for their labor, especially during these trying times. We would be grateful for your donation of any amount. Your contribution will support performance artists and ensure future events at The Hive Art Community. Please find the link here: https://gofund.me/afdb4c48
