Tania Bruguera, Replay Urgency, Artist"s Talk, 2009, re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Tania Bruguera
Replay Urgency

Tania Bruguera (*1968, Cuba, USA) is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist working internationally with such media as performance and installation art. Her political art both reflects and discusses her personal and national background – Bruguera was born and grew up in Cuba – by exploring matters of power, discipline, violence, exile and migration. She understands “art as an agent for social change” and proposes that it has “to be completely linked with life – and not a fiction or a virtual reality, but as alive as possible. My art has to have a real function for myself, to heal my problems, or to help other people to reflect and improve.” Interested in influencing rather than representing socio-political contexts, Bruguera has created long-term interventions such as Cátedra Arte de Conducta (Behavior Art School) – a school she founded in Havana with the pedagogical and artistic purpose of improving “the relationship between performative arts and politics and its implementation in society” – and the Immigrant Movement International, the formation and development of a political party.

artist's website: www.taniabruguera.com

In her artist's talk, Tania Bruguera looks at ways in which re-enactment has been performed in recent years in relation to the contextual urgencies that generated the source performance and its desired permanence or impermanence.

Format
Audio Document

Document media
Artist's Talk

Issue date
2009

To be seen in
re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 24.1.2009 / 12:15 pm