The Zocalo will be the manifest scenario, a performative art meeting

The Constitution Square will be the stage for the fourth edition, artistic action focused on the performance, which will take place today in the context of the 700 years of the foundation of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, without being a thematic activity. A total of 50 projects, including video mapping, received through a call to youwill run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The initiative was born in 1993 as a Conceptual Manifesto of the opening exhibition of the then called former alternative art that had the work of Helen Escobedo, Felipe Ehrenberg and Marcos Kurtycz. It was repeated in 1997 with the participation of 37 artists, already with a Work methodology, in which we left the space to occupy the outside partsays Eloy Tarcisio (Mexico City, 1954), who was director of the enclosure assigned to the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature from 1993 to 1995 and from 1996 to 1998. For him, for him, for him Art should not be anything else for the specialized public that goes and seeks it, but we would have to face the artist from the general public.

In 2023, said III brought together 70 artists from various disciplines in an activity on Primo Truth Street, where the museum is located. “The experience of the 30 years of the Foundation of Ex Teresa – now former Teresa Current Art – and having made a festival in the street, in front of space, gave me a different vision of the artistic exercise in which the artists were working at the same time, at a certain time, so that they became public of their own works. It was no longer only to impact the public outside the art, but also to do an exercise of self -expected Tarcisio a The day.

Realized that There was a space that expressed the opinion of the artist outside the white cube, of the traditional artistic context framed in the museums, of the fairs, and concentrated rather on an audience from a commercial point of view. The restlessness of Some artists Regarding what was going to happen with Manifesta, it motivated Tarcisio to undertake a fourth edition. Besides, The 700 years of the Tenochtitlan Foundation gave us the opportunity to have the framework of another type of aesthetic experience.

– Why in the Zocalo?

– Because there are the four powers of the Federation, the Church, and there is an impressive amount of people. That artists work at the same time in the same place implies that viewers can circulate freely and find themselves fortuitously with an aesthetic experience.

The concerns of the participating artists cover from violence, ethics, wars and the problem of the environment, which makes it manifest becomes a space of multiple voices and aesthetic experience within a laboratory context. It manifests, then, is born as A cry and a celebration of what happens in our environment.

No project sent had to go through a jury, not a curatorial committee, because all were accepted under the criteria of Everyone who says artist is, and what he does as an art work becomes that. That is, there is no intention of legitimation. The space is not one that legitimizes, but is an open in which the artist does it for his work. If this is good, it will be noticed; If it’s bad, too. If it is consistent and impacts the public, it will be noticed. Otherwise, Solita will opt and be separated from the context of the same work.

–What is the future to show?

– It has become a horizontal work manifesto in which artists will have to work to maintain it. It is not a space that I am going to maintain, but opens to the voices of the creators with the aim of getting out of the white cube, of doing a job in front of the unconventional spectator, also in the use of spaces that are not designed for art.

For Eloy Tarcisio, the realization of performance It is one Philosophy of action, a direct contact exercise, whose intention is to evolve in the reflection of everyday life around human problems. Besides, The artist has the obligation to commit to his theme and to speak beyond the conventional exercise such as the gallery, the fair and the art market.

Remember that performance has ethics and responsibility. The artist has to be aware that he is an opinion leader and anything he says or does, will impact the viewer. If you are not aware of what you can cause with your action, the result can be inappropriate.