Performance

MFA Fine Arts presents an online endurance performance by Dulce Lamarca (MFA 2020 Fine Arts) in conjunction with the exhibition “Dread/Dream” at the SVA Chelsea Gallery.

Live-streaming from Uruguay on Thursday, January 12, 6:00 – 8:00pm, Lamarca will enact a silent two hour-long endurance piece, Desde El Rancho (2023), performed specifically for the guests of the opening reception of “Dread/Dream” and for Zoom participants. Access the Desde El Rancho performance here. 

Dulce Lamarca is an Argentinian-born interdisciplinary artist and educator currently living and working in New York. She holds a BFA with orientation in painting and arts education from Regina Espacio de Arte (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and an MFA in fine arts from SVA. Her experience working at a hospice with terminally-ill patients and her background as a cellist deeply informs her work and her interest in time as a material.

Mainly through video and performance, Lamarca explores different ways of perceiving time, longing and desire. Her work is a reflection of personal memories, interpretation and meaning using curiosity as an ideology, humor and technology as a tool and participation and playful improvisation as a foundation for her practice. 

Dulce is currently working on a 16mm film shot in Uruguay during the summer of 2022. She recently reviewed the footage for the first time during an online performance titled Can you here me? which was hosted by Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand. 

Performance times:

New York time: Thursday, January 12 , 6:00 – 8:00pm 

Buenos Aires time: jueves 12 enero, 20:00 – 22:00hs

Terms of engagement:

Participants can join and leave at any time. Participation is encouraged but not required. Participants are invited to engage through audio or chat. Participants’ videos will be automatically turned off when joining the meeting. The Zoom meeting will be recorded.* 

*No recordings of participants’ voices will be later used or published without their consent.