Argentina
Gabriela Alonso is the co curator of Zonadearte Gallery, an artist run centre in Quilmes, Argentina. She has been an acting professor at the University I.U.N.A in Berisso, Argentina. She specializes in performance art, painting and drawing. She has exhibited and performed extensively throughout Latin America and Europe, including a recent intercambio (exchange) between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile. Gabriela Alonso has also presented her work in Québec City at Le Lieu.
Our approach to performance is always linked with the feminine, to life and love.
Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos
A co-presentation by Hamilton Artists Inc., aluCine and FADO Performance Art Centre.
This special evening includes a screening of performance and video compilations of works made by European and South and Central American artists programmed from the Zonadearte Gallery archives in Quilmes, Argentina; live solo performances from Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos, and an informal Q&A period, followed by a reception with the artists.
Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos work with materials related to their personal experiences in Argentina, and their encounters with the world as women. These materials include celebratory communal actions with balloons, the reinvention of symbols of militarism found in children’s games, the use of icons of domesticity such as milk, and other resistant references to violence against women, children and animals.
RELATED PROGRAMMING
Hamilton Artists Inc. presents: Peripheral Zones
Curated by Irene Loughlin
September 10–October 2, 2010
Peripheral Zones is an exhibition of performance work by Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos (Quilmes, Argentina), drawings by Zonadearte gallery artists, and a video compilation of Central and South American and European video/performance from Zonadearte Gallery.
Opening: September 10, 2010
Performances: 9:00pm by Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos
Hamilton Artists Inc., 161 James St North, Hamilton
Hamilton Artists Inc. and Ed Video present: Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos
Nuit Blanche, ED Video, Guelph
September 11, 2010
This fragrance opens us to the question, has the show started? It's winter, the theatre is colder than the street and the room is filled with people and all their winter smells: wet faux leather, down, too much shampoo, and beer breath. The atmosphere is a trickster. Am I late, am I early?
yellow mandarin, mimosa
honey, chamomile, salt
narcissus, guaiac wood, piss, beer