Grace Exhibition Space presents:

PERFORMANCE ART by ROCIO BOLIVER
"LA CONGELADA DE UVA"

Friday, July 10, 2009 from 7 - 11 PM

Free admission

Performing artist Rocío Boliver, better known as La congelada de uva (The grape ice pop) will perform at the Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn.

"Doing performances is the only way I can get my own back on life, which has me by the balls.
It’s my way of giving it the finger and mocking it; of losing my fragility and believing I can go beyond death. Taking courage, transgressing and not being afraid of anything, destroying the boundaries that hold me back.
How far can you go when you’re offered a space of complete freedom, how much are you prepared to go out on a limb? ‘Cos you’re on your own here.
Through Action Art, those outside see how you lay yourself bare, how you stumble, slip and slide, how you contagiously segregate adrenaline, fear, arousal, and your palpitations boil over into your audacity against a world that charges a high price for daring to be.
But the art of performance protects me, it’s my ally and punishes the meddling of censorship and reprimand or attempted castration by turning them all into part of the show.
If anyone dares to indulge in such actions during a performance, they’ll be devoured and end up being part of the furniture, thus enriching the transgression.
Performance swallows everything; it’s voracious, precise, skilful, categorical in the struggle against idiocy.
On Congelada de Uva’s constant references to sex:
If sex were accepted without further ado, I’d latch on other subjects, the forbidden ones, the ones that freak us out: hence the customary reference to sex, because I know it’s the big Achilles’ heel, a way of hitting the target, of turning into a surefire Ninja who flicks deadly poisoned stars from her sleeve to sink them into the most vulnerable parts.
What would you rather not talk about, for the Congelada to shout about it?
What are you all ashamed of, for the Congelada to show it?
What are you afraid of, for the Congelada to bring it out in the open?
What shouldn’t be done, for the Congelada to do it?
Those are the starting points of my Action Art."
 
www.congeladadeuva.com

Grace Exhibition Space
840 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY
(between Ellery and Park Streets)
J/M/Z train to Flushing Ave.
(646) 578-3402
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With the collaboration of the Mexican Cultural Institute and the Mexico Tourism Board