Eventos

The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU and Another Space are pleased to announce Carguen con sus muertos, a performance by Regina José Galindo (b. Guatemala, 1974). Building on Galindo's earlier explorations of necropolitics and biopolitics, this new performance addresses the Trump administration's immigration policies and the United States' long history of interventions in Latin America.

"Provoked by the intervention of the U.S., the war in Guatemala lasted until the end of the 1990s. In 1996, a peace accord was signed, but in Guatemala there has never been any peace. In the 1980s, thousands of Guatemalans migrated to escape the horror of the war. Then came the gangs, the narco-conflicts, and the string of corrupt governments, which have generated a migratory crisis without precedent. In recent years, thousands of unaccompanied children and adolescents have crossed multiple borders in order to reach the US. Thousands more have arrived with their parents and have been cruelly separated at the border, held in prisons and detention centers across the country. U.S. policies have produced too much pain for millions of individuals around the world. There have been too many deaths." (Regina José Galindo) With this new work, Galindo’s first street performance in the United States, the artist aims to directly confront viewers with the underside of America’s foreign and migratory policies.

Carguen con sus muertos by Regina José Galindo, was commissioned by the ANOTHER SPACE and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU in conjunction with the exhibition The Second Sex at ANOTHER SPACE. On view through October 31, 2018, The Second Sex takes its title from Simone de Beauvoir’s influential 1949 treatise and draws from the Daniel and Estrellita B. Brodsky collection to examine the work of Latin American female artists whose contributions are too often overlooked by the Western art historical canon. This exhibition includes a number of historic performances by Ana Mendieta, Lotty Rosenfeld, and Regina José Galindo, which explore notions of memory and the relationship between the body, landscape, and politics.

The performance will begin outside of 20 Cooper Square, move on to surrounding streets, and conclude where it began. A reception will follow at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University (20 Cooper Square, 5th Fl) from 5:30pm – 6:30pm.