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The Body In The Substance

  • NARS Foundation 201 46th Street, 4th Floor Brooklyn, NY USA (map)
 
Image courtesy of the artist

Image courtesy of the artist

The Body in the Substance

 
 

August 27, 7pm

NARS Main Gallery

“The Body In The Substance” is a process-based ongoing performance art, and science project  that Verónica Peña started in 2015, in pursuing to confine the human body as a means to  achieving communion with others—either present or absent. For her first live enactment of the  project, until now only performed privately and online, Peña will fully submerge herself in a liquid  altered to coagulate. In her words: “The search for peace is an endless human endeavor. When  the substance coagulates, I am confined in the most beautiful stillness: as vulnerable as the  ones still in the womb—unable to move, talk, or see, unable to hurt others. Submersion is a  search for harmony, an act of resistance to counteract violence, fear, and injustice. Confined,  the self grows, the female body reveals strength, the immigrant body defies distance and  separation, the alive search for the absent. Submerged, each inhalation becomes an act of  hope, an inquiry of the unknown, a balm for the pain of loss”. 

Performance Assistant: Hae Won Sohn 
Sound by: Tara Gladden

Registration required. Please click below to RSVP:

This event will also be streamed live online at Franklin Furnace:

https://franklinfurnaceloft.org/the-body-in-the-substance/ 

Please note that this performance contains nudity. Viewer discretion is advised.

VERÓNICA PEÑA (Spain/USA) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, curator, and international-community advocate. Her work explores absence, separation, and the search for human harmony through Performance Art. Her performance installations combine underwater submersion, visual metamorphosis, and audience participation to address global issues of migration, cross-cultural dialogue, peaceful resistance, public liberation, fluidity, and women’s empowerment.

This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by The SHS Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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