Entre ejercicios de desplazamiento (Between displacement exercises) is the second activation of Antonio Monroy’s Hace Sombra project at Apoyo para artistas EART. It is a performative workshop that Antonio Monroy has co-mediated with Tania Libertad, which will take place at the Antic Teatre. Through exercises inspired by boxing, it activates the sculptural device as a space for exploration and inquiry to examine the memories inscribed in our bodies. This workshop is addressed to people over 18 with migratory experiences who want to move and sweat. No previous experience in physical training is necessary.
Antonio Monroy. He is a multidisciplinary visual artist who lives and works between the countryside and the city. He studied for a degree in Fine Arts at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. He was part of the first generation of the SOMA Educational Programme and took part in the 9th edition of the MACBA Independent Studies Programme. From a heterotopic praxis, Antonio seeks to question and subvert hegemonic-Western relationships regarding the notion of land and territory, provoking situations, spaces and discussions that transcend art. He is a founding member and co-director of the Tlatelolca Biennial. His work has been presented through video art, drawing, writing and installation in solo and group exhibitions in Norway, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, the United States, Costa Rica, Colombia and Mexico. Throughout his career, he has been the beneficiary of various scholarships and residencies.
Tania Libertad Ávila (Tegucigalpa, 1992). Dancer and performer. She studied contemporary dance at A.R.E.A. and Cobosmika SEED’S. She has a degree in Performing Arts: Dance from the University of Paris 8. She recently completed the ninth edition of the Programa d’Estudis Independents (PEI) at MACBA. As a creator, she is interested in observing gesture and its content, asking herself: How does structural violence shape gestures? And more encouragingly, from singular and collective bodies, how do we resist and heal together from our bodies and their expressions? She sees the body as a material for transformation that needs and projects the future, and dance/movement as one of its transmission media. Having spent five years formalising her residency in Spain, she has been immersed in the necrotic entrails of the structure. As a dancer/performer, she has toured with her solos Corpografías en esta piel and Preludio. She has also exhibited at the Anita Beckers Gallery in Frankfurt; collaborated with other performers on John Sanborn’s I AM; and presented her video performance Donde vengo muevo at the CED at MACBA. She has been involved in projects with John Sanborn, Aimar Pérez Galí, Christine Bastin, L’Êttre-Louve, Elisa Ortega Montilla, and the collectives LaCerda, Tixuem, and Dimpro. She has also collaborated in performances with other artists internationally at venues such as Mercat de les Flors, MACBA, Galería Souvenir, among others. She has been an artist in residence at La Poderosa (twice), La Visiva, L’Estruch, Nun’Art, La Bàscula, among others. As a teacher and workshop facilitator, she has worked on projects such as Te-dansa, Inund’Art by CobosMika Company, AraArt, ConArte, Tudanzas and LaCaixa Fòrum.
