
Pivô Satélite #5: Rita Ponce de Leon, Shinnosuke Niiro e Yaxkin Melchy Ramos integram a terceira parte de 'Conmoción total en mis células', com curadoria do coletivo Bisagra

In El espíritu está soñando, Rita Ponce de Leon continues her collaboration with poets Yaxkin Melchy and Shinnosuke Niiro. The artists have developed, physically, a xylophone of just over 400 claves – each with the inscription of a short phrase or word in Japanese, conceived from the question “what is a meaningful life?” In the installation, the artists proposed a kind of game between themselves and the public, creating small poems from this sonic and physical interaction. At Satélite, 20 poems conceived in this context and translated into digital will be gathered together.
Conmoción total en mis células is the title of the fifth edition of the Pivô Satélite programme. The project is curated by the Bisagra collective and also brings proposals by Gianfranco Piazini, Diego Vizacarra, Sylvia Fernández, Rodrigo Andreolli, Rita Ponce de León, Shinnosuke Niiro and Yaxkin Melchy. The artists will occupy the platform with proposals organized from the collaboration between two or three artists. The result will be an exhibition that invites the exchange of the creative universes of the invited artists.
The digital platform Pivô Satélite is a project room within the Pivô website. Its program is conceived by artists and curators invited by the institution and comprises artistic proposals in various formats, especially designed for digital media.
In 2022, instead of inviting independent curators to program each edition of the Satellite Pivot, we will invite institutions based in Latin America that, like the Pivô, act directly in the promotion and dissemination of an emerging contemporary artistic production in the region. In this new format we aim to create opportunities for exchange and circulation of Brazilian artistic production and broaden the dialogue with neighbouring countries. The second guest of 2022 is the Peruvian curatorial platform Bisagra, managed by Andrés Pereira Paz, Eliana Otta, Florencia Portocarrero, Iosu Arambaru, Juan Diego Tobalina and Miguel A. López
In Conmoción total en mis células [Total commotion in my cells] it seeks to “expand our understanding of the boundaries between human and non-human living beings and challenge the dichotomies between the personal and the social, life and death”. The curators urge us to question and admit the interdependencies and vulnerabilities of beings in relation to the world around them.
“Do our bodies really belong to us … do I have a body or am I a body? After two years of pandemic, our overlap with the world of the living – understood in a broad, non-anthropocentric sense – has become evident; revealing that we lack words and images that allow us to represent the porosity that constitutes us and runs through us as inhabitants of this planet.”
04.08 a 31.09 – Esteban Igartua + Genietta Varsi
01.09 a 28.09 – Gianfranco Piazzini + Diego Vizcarra
29.09 a 26.10 – Sylvia Fernández + Rodrigo Andreolli
10.11 a 30.11 – Rita Ponce de León + Shinnosuke Niiro + Yaxkin Melchy
about the curator
Bisagra is an art collective which aims to function as an articulation point in the fragmented world of the visual arts in Lima and Latin America, creating the conditions for art production while, at the same time, encouraging connections between art theory, pedagogy and activism. The project opened its doors to the public in 2014 as an independent and grassroot art space, privileging the creation of critical content around contemporary art through a varied public program constituted by workshops, symposia, residencies, publications, performances and exhibitions. Throughout its initial years, Bisagra’s program has always been context responsive, fostering alternative communities to contest the dominant homophobia, patriarchy and racism that, until today, shape the status quo in Lima. Currently the collective works as a nonprofit organization in which collaboration and hospitality are core values. Indeed, in alliance with different partners in crime we have focused in developing heterogeneous artistic platforms which respond and enact the epistemological, ethical and political horizons we wish would exist in Lima, Peru and beyond. Bisagra’s most recent endeavor is the “Programa de destinos y presagios compartidos” an experimental educational program directed to Peruvian artists and cultural agents. The collective is currently formed by the curators Miguel A. López, Florencia Portocarrero and the artists Eliana Otta, Iosu Aramburu, Andrés Pereira Paz and Juan Diego Tobalina.