Evaluator Rodrigo Arenas-Carter (artist)

Artist and researcher focused on performance art and Performance Studies. His work has been exhibited in USA, France, Belgium, Peru, Chile, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil and Colombia. He has been awarded with several grants as Residency for the Migrant Experience 2016-2017, Experimenta/Sur 2016, y Fondart Nacional​ 2019. Author of several papers and of the book “La Vital Precariedad. Poesía y Performance en América Latina y Chile”, published in Eurpoe by EAE.

Important Exhibitions Organized

Cuirpoétikas Yearly Exhibition, Guatemala City. 2016-2019.

Forma y Sustancia Central-American Performance Art Festival. Biennial event. 2017 (Guatemala City) and 2019 (San José - Costa Rica).

Publications

2019 - From manifesto to the Internet: Relationships between Written Text, Literature and Performance Creation in Latin-America. LA PALABRA, (34). https://doi.org/10.19053/01218530.n34.2019.9530
2018 - The Vital Scarcity. Poetry and Performance Art in Latin-America and Chile. Berlin: Editorial Académica Española. ISBN-13: 978-620-2-12713-4.
2018 - Performativity and Queerness.
2017 - Expected Encounters. Dialogues between Poetry and Performance Art. Nueva Revista del Pacífico, 67, pp. 25-39. . ISSN 0716-6346, ISSN (e) 0719-5176 DOI:10.4067/S0719-51762017000200025
2016 - Bodies in Scrutiny: Debating about Transraciality and Performance. Honorary Mention at Essay Contest Performance Art Theory (Mexico)
2016 - Practice and Poetics of Performance Art as Resistance in Latin-America. Available at Pensar a Contracorriente XIII. La Habana: Editorial Nuevo Milenio. 2017.
2015 - Migrant Readings: Literature as a Wardrobe of the Migrant\'s Memory and Identity. In book: 2° Concurso Internacional de Ensayos, miradas de Iberoamérica : memoria, migrantes y cultura. Publisher: Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación / IBER-RUTAS. Editors: Hugo Roca Joglar, Andrés Lasso, César Coimbra. 2015. ISBN: 978-987-3772-77-1
2015 - Religion, Family, and Spanglish: the Translated City in \"The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love\" by Oscar Hijuelos. ISSN 0719-5176 Nueva Revista del Pacífico, 62, pp. 7-27.

Talks and lectures

2019 - «Management, art and citizenship» in V Encuentro Experiencias de la Carne, Lima, Peru.
2019 - «Diversity» at FILGUA 2019 (Guatemala International Book Fair).
2019 - «Deux Ex Machina/New Technologies, Art y Ways of Explaining the World.Everybody Chats, No One Listens.» Symposium Pasos a Desnivel, Centro Cultural de España de la Ciudad de Guatemala.
2016 – Roundtable at ex-Céntrico Performance Art Encounter organized by Hemispheric Institute, NYU.
2016 – FILA, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, México.
2015 – XELA Book Fair, Xela, Guatemala.

Other important events and mentions

Grants/Residencies:

2019 - Exploring the Soundscape. Centro Cultural de España en Costa Rica.
2019 - Fondart Nacional​ 2019. Artes de la Visualidad / Creación - Nuevos Medios - Creación y producción. Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio - Gobierno de Chile.
2017 - Book/Object Commission. Fundación YAXS/Festival La Valiente.
2016 - Nonesuch One Second Residency para la ‘Experiencia Migrante’ Main&Station-Nonesuch, Nova Scotia, Canada. For Post Tenebras Lux project.
2016 - Experimenta Sur. Goethe Institut de Bogotá, Siemens Foundation y Mapa Teatro.
2016 - Coursera/MoMa for online certificate.