Artist talk - Erratic Interstices

Artist talk with Donna Huanca in conversation with Stefanie Reisinger and Jazmina Figueroa

In this talk, writer Jazmina Figueroa with curator Stefanie Reisinger and artist Donna Huanca will think about Huanca's work in performance and conceptual art canons of artists such as Gego, who is of importance to Stuttgart's cultural heritage, and worked in collaborations that included also performance and with metal, line-based compositions, employing techniques of making by hand.

There are considerable aesthetic contrasts between Gego's and Huanca's sculptural installations and performance collaborations. However, the artists are reminiscent of the other's working practices in their use of found materials, works made by hand that enact "erratic fluidity", and the non-mechanical constructions of space where the works unfold. Sharing the stage, the public arena, and cross-fertilization exist in both Huanca's and Gego's collaborative performance works that incorporate sound cultures and choreographic interventions to their working trajectories.

In 2017, the Fundación Gego in Caracas, Venezuela, where Gego lived and worked when she was displaced after her studies at the University of Stuttgart in 1939, agreed to a long-term loan of one hundred works by Gego to the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Jazmina Figueroa, writer, and current fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, invites Stefanie Reisinger, curator of Gego. The Architecture of an Artist at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, and Donna Huanca consider together the importance and atomization of the line between both Huanca and Gego within the ambit of performance.

Initiated by Jazmina Figueroa with support and cooperation by Akademie Schloss Solitude and ifa Gallery Stuttgart.

This event will be held in English.