Salón de Belleza
Miguel A. López
22.10. - 02.11.2014
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Salón de Belleza (Beauty Salon) presents various pieces (photos, videos and performances) that explore techniques of body intervention, cosmetic rituals, and spaces where the body (or certain parts of it) get a “treatment”, associated with colonial history, migration, indigenous memory, affectivity, and queer beauty. This salon explores personal and collective fantasies of the self, questioning dichotomous conceptualization of gender and imagining a diversity of possible identities through the transformation of the personal appearance and/or of the destabilization of the visual memory of the so-called normal body.
Some of these pieces, such as the video The Defeated by Carlos Motta, the installation The Transvestite Museum of Peru by Giuseppe Campuzano and the photo series The Confeti of India by Andres Masseno, retrace the points of origin of history through androgynous-indigenous cultures and representation. Some other pieces such as the performance Beauty Salon by Sergio Zevallos, the performance with the Voz Files archive by Jaume Ferrete, the haircutting experience with a queer and trans friendly attitude by Open Barbers, the installation Studio Butterfly by Virginia de Medeiros and the video The Devolution of the Vucub Caquix Penacho by Sandra Monterroso, observe the overlapping of politics with the makeover of bodies, and how this transformation defines, ensures or modifies the identity of the person.
With Carlos Motta, Sandra Monterroso, Giuseppe Campuzano, André Masseno, Sergio Zevallos, Virginia de Medeiros, Jaume Ferrete, Open Barbers (Greygory Vass and Felix Lane).
Events
October 22, 7 pm
a listening performance with recordings from Voz Files project by Jaume ›Mal‹ Ferrete Vasquez.
October 25/26, 11 am – 6 pm
Open Barbers Pop-up Shop by Greygory Vass and Felix Lane.
Thanks to 25hours Hotel Wien for providing barber chairs for this event.
November 1, 3 pm
Beauty Salon performance by Sergio Zevallos, a performative research about politics, the body, the personal appearance and collective fantasies of the self.
Access only from the side entrance.