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680 Park Avenue
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6:00–7:30 pm
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Performance Series: Rosario Zorraquín’s Compression—Oruguismo
The Argentinian artist conducted an in-person performance as a part of Art at Americas Society's Performance Series.
6:00–7:30 pm
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York
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Overview
Americas Society is proud to present an in-person performance of Argentinian artist Rosario Zorraquín’s Compression—Oruguismo. This is part of Art at Americas Society's performance series.
Join us Thursday, April 20, 2023 from 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Americas Society
680 Park Ave.
New York, NY
Registration is required. RSVP HERE.
*Masks are encouraged to attend this event
More about the work
Rosario Zorraquín works with language and how it transits across physical, rational, and affective memories. Inspired by natural metamorphoses while investigating the transgressive potential of the formless, Zorraquín has developed rituals of exchange by which she methodologically officiates intimacy between herself and others. The sessions take place with the participant’s haptic reading of Glosario, a non-codified, sensory language created by Zorraquín that has guided her practice during these past few years. It serves as a means to dislocate the rational organization of language and memory.
The performance will show a part of the process of the reading of the Glosario. In this case, for the Performance Series at Americas Society, Zorraquín has invited Jade Manns, a dancer, as a participant to articulate this experience through choreographed movement.
About the Artist
Rosario Zorraquín (b. 1984, Buenos Aires, Argentina) studied at the Universidad Nacional de Arte. She was a Beca Kuitca scholar at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella and participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada; FAAP (Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado) in São Paulo, Brazil; and PAF (Performing Arts Forum) in St. Erme, France. Through an in-depth investigation involving experiments around language and the practice of recording human experience, Zorraquín seeks new spaces and synchronous worlds through her paintings and installations. Inspired by shamanism, magic, and psychoanalysis, the artist uses a self-made system of symbols to conduct rituals that verbalize the unvoiced thoughts of friends and strangers. Creating dialogues that become the inner narrat
Performance Series
This event is part of our Performance Series. Check out recordings of past performances and read about the series.
Funders
Americas Society acknowledges the generous support from the Arts of the Americas Circle members: Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Emily A. Engel, Diana Fane, Galeria Almeida e Dale, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Vivian Pfeiffer, Phillips, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Erica Roberts, Sharon Schultz, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, and Edward J. Sullivan.