Update: Thank you to all ove you who live-streamed and saw the performance in person. Check out my video of Mala Cara: Un Autorretrato. ☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽🖤🖤🖤
12-1-2020
I am pumped to be in this show! I have a special performance Sunday, Dec 19 from 4-6PM at ICOSA Collective as part of the performance art exhibition: Transmissions! My performance piece, MALA CARA: Un Autorretrato is a live rendering of a series of work I began in grad school at UC Davis in 2011.
Mala Cara is the skeleton hero that haunts an imaginary place Martinez calls Borderlandia; A colorful and vibrant land where people negotiate their place, where people thrive and struggle, and where people resist the idea of unjust borders. In this act, Mala Cara performs the rituals of painting a self-portrait and hacienda caras. She will transform ICOSA Collective’s window into an altar and a painting studio. For generations Latinas have pushed against gender norms and expectations in their own communities and continue today. When Latinas and women of color express anger, passion, or strong emotions, they are often encouraged to smile to make others comfortable. With one glance, they harness the power to confront these calls, set boundaries, and send warnings. Theorist, Gloria Anzaldúa wrote, “Among Chicanas/Mexicanas, haciendo caras, ‘making faces’ means to put on a face, express feelings by distorting the face--frowning, grimacing, looking sad, glum or disapproving.” For Anzaldua, “haciendo caras” was a politically subversive gesture, “the piercing look that questions or challenges, the look that says, ‘Don’t walk all over me,’ the one that says, “‘Get out of my face.’” Martinez is a visual artist living and working in Austin, TX. Martinez is a "border artist" not only because she grew up in the borderlands of South Texas but also because her paintings and performance art take the border and boundaries as their subject.
Transmissions, Curated by Terra Goolsby and Tammie Rubin
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Exhibition: December 4th - January 3rd, 2021
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There is disruption. We cannot physically interact, connect, or share experiences, so where does that leave the act of performance? Transmissions is a platform of investigation: What’s performance without the expectations of the traditional “live” shared experiences? How to create intimacy and connection mediated through limited audiences, projected, and virtual transmissions? Is it possible to trigger an emotive response through distance? By removing the audience from making, what will artists explore?
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Artists Terra Goolsby & Tammie Rubin posed the questions and the following artists answered the call; Urethra Burns, Veronica Ceci, Antonio Cueto, Chloe Curiel, Michael Anthony García, Jay Roff-Garcia, Ryan Hollaway, Delilah Rose Knuckley, Yuliya Lanina, Brendan Lay, Andrea Muñoz Martinez, Pamela Martinez, Gesel Mason Performance Projects, Teresa Moralez, Jessamyn Leigh Plotts, Alexandra Robinson, LaRissa Rogers, Ivy Roots, and St Celfer. Transmissions is an exhibition of diverse concepts and responses that encompass “performance.”
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Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12pm-6pm
Special morning performance December 4th from 6:30am-10:30 am
Special evening performances December 4th, 11th, 12th, 18th from 7pm-9pm
Special twilight performance December 31st at 10pm - January 1st at 3am
Special Sunday performance January 3rd from 12pm -6pm
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Coming Soon-
For Appointments: Use Eventbrite link or the ICOSA website, facebook, or instagram pages
For questions: email at icosacollective@gmail.com
Location: ICOSA, 916 Springdale Rd, Bldg. 2, #102, Austin, Texas 78702
Performance Formats: No contact, socially distanced, virtual, & projected performances
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Photo: Artist Yuliya Lanina - "My Dear Skeleton,” This artist’s project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
Transmissions, Curated by Terra Goolsby and Tammie Rubin
Exhibition: December 4th - January 3rd, 2021
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12pm-6pm
Special morning performance December 4th from 6:30am-10:30 am
Special evening performances December 4th, 11th, 12th, 18th from 7pm-9pm
Special twilight performance December 31st at 10pm - January 1st at 3am
For Appointments: Use Eventbrite link or the ICOSA website, facebook, or instagram pages
For questions: email at icosacollective@gmail.com
Location: ICOSA, 916 Springdale Rd, Bldg. 2, #102, Austin, Texas 78702
Performance Formats: No contact, socially distanced, virtual, & projected performances
Transmissions Artists: Urethra Burns, Veronica Ceci, Antonio Cueto, Chloe Curiel, Michael Anthony García, Jay Roff-Garcia, Ryan Hollaway, Delilah Rose Knuckley, Yuliya Lanina, Brendan Lay, Andrea Muñoz Martinez, Pamela Martinez, Gesel Mason Performance Projects, Teresa Moralez, Jessamyn Leigh Plotts, Alexandra Robinson, LaRissa Rogers, Ivy Roots, and St Celfer.
Curator Bios
Terra Goolsby is a Texas-based artist and curator living and working in Austin, Texas. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design where she acquired an MFA in Sculpture and remained a Presidential Scholar for the duration of her stay. She also conducted independent research at Brown University where she identified her obsession with de-construction of Meso American and contemporary mythologies. She also attended the University of Texas at Austin where she earned a BFA in painting and sculpture. She has been an artist in residence at West Dean College of Sussex University in Chichester, England, Vermont Studio Center, and I-Park Foundation in New Hampshire. Her work has been exhibited in Texas, England, New York, Rhode Island, Boston, and Connecticut. She continues to work out of her studio in Austin, Texas.
Tammie Rubin is an artist whose sculptural practice considers the intrinsic power of objects as signifiers, wishful contraptions, and mythic relics, while investigating the tension between the readymade and the handcrafted. Artworks explore the commingling of historical, familial, biographical, and fictional narratives paired with objects denoting time, transformation, and identity. Using intricate motifs, Rubin delves into themes involving ritual, domestic and liturgical objects, mapping, migration, magical thinking, and sensual desire. Rubin has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States, and her sculptures are part of public and private collections. A recipient of grants from Cultural Arts Division Austin, Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects Seattle, and an Artist Project Grant from the Illinois Arts Council. Her work has received reviews in online and printed publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Glasstire, Sightlines, fields, Conflict of Interest, Arts and Culture Texas, Ceramics: Art & Perception, and Ceramics Monthly. Born and raised in Chicago, Rubin lives in Austin, Texas, where she is an Associate Professor of Ceramics & Sculpture at St. Edward’s University.