María Berríos, director of Curatorial Programmes and Research at MACBA, will hold a conversation with Dana Michel about her practice. The artist presents YELLOW TOWEL as part of the Festival’s program.
BIO
Dana Michel is a live artist. Her works interact with the expanded fields of improvisation, choreography, sculpture, comedy, hip-hop, cinematography, techno, poetry, psychology, dub and social commentary to create a centrifuge of experience. Before graduating from the BFA program in Contemporary Dance at Concordia University in her late twenties, Michel was a marketing executive, and a competitive runner and football player. In 2014, she was awarded the newly created ImPulsTanz Award (Vienna) in recognition for outstanding artistic accomplishments, and was highlighted among notable female choreographers of the year by the New-York Times. In 2017, Michel was awarded the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale. In 2018, she became the first ever dance artist in residence at the National Arts Centre, Canada. In 2019, she was awarded the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art (Kuopio, Finland). Based in Montréal, Michel is currently touring four solo performance works: YELLOW TOWEL, MERCURIAL GEORGE, CUTLASS SPRING and MIKE.
María Berríos is sociologist, editor and curator, María Berríos’ work focuses on contemporary art and culture in Latin America, with a special interest in collective cultural experiments and Third World movements during the 1960s and 1970s. She is cofounder of the editorial collective vaticanochico and has been invited as a guest lecturer to many academic, cultural and independently managed institutions in Europe and Latin America. Her most notable curatorships include Desvíos de la deriva at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2010) with Lisette Lagnado, El cuerpo del arquitecto no es el de un solo hombre at MAVI (2017) with Amalia Cross, the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020-21) alongside Renata Cervetto, Agustín Pérez Rubio and Lisette Lagnado, and En la selva hay mucho por hacer, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (2022-2023). Berríos currently serves as director of Curatorial Programmes and Research at MACBA.
DISCURSIVE PROGRAM
The discursive program of the Sâlmon 2024 Festival articulates conferences and conversations by way of rehearsal, study and encounter. The proposals that are part of the program have been conceived by their authors in response to and in dialogue with the public program of the festival, and convene situated aesthetic and political sensibilities, arising from a critical position within the framework of contemporary artistic practices.
MACBA hosts two sessions of the discursive program of the Sâlmon 24 Festival, within the framework of the project Song for Many Movements (February 9 to March 31), an ephemeral experiment in which the museum’s ground floor is transformed into a stage for meetings, conversations, and shared listening, curated by María Berríos, Sabel Gavaldon.