Session 30
Francisco-Fernando Granados in conversation with Margaret Dragu
On May 12, 2022 at 6 pm
Premiere on Facebook
This Session is presented in resonance with the exhibition proximity · pleasure · plasticity. looking at performance.
“... from the idea of moving through space, and using that as a way of generating documentation and metaphysical questions, the move into performance was very straightforward.”
The talk traces fifteen years of conversations, collaborations, and correspondences revolving around bodily practices of mapping and movement, both in public as well as through ongoing personal exchanges. Their parallel and often intersecting practices shift back and forth between migrations and their traces, proximity and distance, and the body and the image.
Francisco-Fernando Granados is an artist, writer, and teacher born in Guatemala. Since 2005, his multidisciplinary practice has traced his movement from convention refugee to critical citizen. Using abstraction performatively, site-specifically, and relationally, he creates projects which challenge the stability of practices of recognition. These projects extend from drawing into performance, installation, publishing, and public art.
Margaret Dragu works in video, installation, web/analogue publication and performance. Spanning relational, durational, interventionist and community-based practices, Dragu has shown in Canada, USA & Europe. An innovator and pioneer in Canadian art, she was the recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts in 2012.
Exhibition
proximity · pleasure · plasticity
looking at performance
From April 21 to June 23, 2022
Other events
Performances
Laurence Beaudoin Morin
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Camille Rojas
On May 19, 2022 at 7 pm
Performance
Mathieu Lacroix
On June 4, 2022 from noon to 5 pm
Dazibao thanks the artists for their generous collaboration as well as its advisory programming committee for its support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal.
Dazibao acknowledges that we are located on unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá: ka Nation and that Tiohtiá: ke / Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and today, is home to a diverse population of Indigenous as well as other peoples.