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SUMMARY:Formations: Swan Song – an exploration of Cuban performance art
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free screening of a newly-translated documentary that explores the emergence of performance art in Cuba in the 1980s. The screening will be followed by a conversation with film director and artist Glexis Novoa. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 1980s was a decade where a new generation of young artists were introducing a radical new artistic language and testing the bounds of the possible and the permissible in the process. \n\n\n\nIn the late 1970s and the 1980s multiple approaches towards the role and aesthetics of art in a socialist Cuba abounded. One particular strand saw an emerging generation of artists seeking to break free from what they saw as the bureaucratic and ideologically-orientated institutional systems and their ideas about culture. This change in attitude gave rise to a new visual language that prized interdisciplinary practices\, multimedia\, appropriated and referenced popular culture\, religions\, regional history and embraced parody and satire. \n\n\n\nBy the second half of the 1980s the arts were a site of intense discussion about artistic freedom and the nature of genuinely revolutionary art. Performance art played a key role in the articulation of the ideas and concerns of a budding generation. \n\n\n\nPlease note\, this film contains some discussion of sex and nudity. \n\n\n\nThe film was initially made for the exhibition Losing the Human Form at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid\, which looked at art in the 1980s in Latin America. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTaking part as part of Bonington Gallery’s Formations programme in partnership with NTU’s Postcolonial Studies Centre. \n\n\n\n				\n					\n					\n					Bio – Glexis Novoa\n					\n						Glexis Novoa was born in Holguín\, Cuba in 1964. Novoa was one of the most radical influences in the vibrant art scene known as\, “The Renaissance of Cuban Art of the 80s”\, and was the founder of the Provisional group\, pioneers of performance\, political activism and collectivist practices.  \nNovoa established himself in Miami in 1995 and has been sharing his time working in Havana and Miami since 2013. He is recognized for his site-specific wall drawings and ephemeral projects around the world\, which exist on the border between ephemeral art and architecture. He frequently focuses on the architecture of power and community as the main subject.  \nNovoa’s work has been exhibited extensively around the world and is part of numerous museum collections.
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