Guadalupe Martinez Interview 3
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Guadalupe Martinez Interview 3
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| Titles | Guadalupe Martinez Interview 3: Clip 3 |
| Name | Guadalupe Martinez |
| Name | Dr. Joanne Leow |
| Type of Resource | sound recording-nonmusical |
| Genre | Interview |
| Identifier | Interview |
| Identifier | guadalupe martinez interview Clip 3 |
| Abstract | Guadalupe Martinez discusses her recent thoughts about embodiment, performance, and pedagogy. She asserts that embodied performance is a way to communicate a multiplicity of narratives in a single space that promotes a form of knowing more visceral than traditional / institutionalised learning. |
| Extent | 3:31 Minutes |
| Form | sound recording |
| Note | Joanne Leow: As an artist right now in Vancouver, what do you think are the most challenging, but also the most interesting things that you want to think through in terms of the waterfront development, in terms of the coastline, in terms of the crazy property market? What are some of the things that you’re thinking of as your role as an artist? (0:17) Guadalupe Martinez: I’m kind of becoming more and more obsessed with theories of performance and embodiment and the relationship between that and pedagogy. And when I say pedagogy, I don’t mean a formal framework for education in the institution, on the contrary. I’m really interested in embodiment and performance because I have this feeling that it’s kind of like this way to bleed into and through and be fluid when we speak about institutions. Being from South America, the relationship to the institution and the way they work is very different. They’re much more deteriorated and corrupted, and there’s so much inefficiency and lack of support and resources, but in a way that also allows for a lot of freedom in other ways, in terms of content and form, especially. So, here, where there’s so much regulation and control in many ways, I find that, for me, performance and embodiment have become this substance and space and territory where there’s a lot of allowance, and also, almost like invisible potential, I don’t know how to say, there’s so much that you can do that has an effect. (1:38) Joanne Leow: And I wonder whether it’s a question of temporality. Thinking about Vancouver as a kind of gentrifying, developing…time seems to be moving in one particular way. You were talking earlier about how here, there’s a sense of disorientation because everything that’s old keeps being renewed. So there’s this idea that there’s this forward cycle, but what you’re talking about with performance really strikes me. The fact that you were thinking about these little interventions, these little moments of spontaneity or things that you can’t—because the nature, when you talk about fluidity, the nature of performance is such that you really can’t—you don’t know what’s going to happen, how your audience is going to react, and how you’re going to be in that moment, so is that what you’re thinking of, or…? (2:13) Guadalupe Martinez: Yeah, I also think that the relationship to one’s identity, I think, is each person’s responsibility. But I do feel like performance, or just the body, proposes or invites a relationship to memory no matter what, and I think that that’s a really important element in my work, this relationship to memory in the sense that a lot of what we were talking about in terms of architecture and landscape has to do with history, right, and what are the histories that we understand and relate to. But there’s so many narratives that are not present, and those are personal and they’re collective, and I think that performance puts that in your face, in a way, and these spontaneous or less spontaneous interventions for me, have to do with that relationship to memory and to, and to narrative, like what has remained and what has been erased or vanished or been forgotten or…but in a way, in other cities where architecture is more permanent, those…you know, certain buildings, certain places operate as this kind of reminders, but here everything is kind of gone all the time. So I think that when the body’s present, you can’t erase those narratives. |
| Access Condition | Contact Dr. Joanne Leow |
| Subject Geographic | Pacific Ocean |
| Subject Hierarchical Geographic | North America--Canada------Vancouver |
| Subject Local Name | ----Education--Pacific Ocean----Performance Art--Poetic Intervention--Embodiment |