Maria Jose Arjona
26th February 2025, from 6pm to 8pm
This online seminar draws upon “As It Is Inside, So It Is Outside”, a project exhibited at NC Arte in Bogotá (COL) in the wake of the pandemic. Emerging from a network of encounters, transformations, and visions, it reflects on the radical generosity that arises in times of crisis and the formation of temporary communities willing to embrace the unknown as a space of possibility. Spanning from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to Bogotá, New York, and Berlin, the project reimagined interactions between non-human entities and a gathering of alchemists, biologists, dancers, sound artists, architects, oracles, anthropologists, chefs, and designers.
Building on these explorations, this seminar invites participants into a space of collective reflection and speculation, where mystery unfolds in the unspoken transmission of movement, the affective architectures emerging between bodies, the vibrational resonance of voices, and the invisible yet deeply felt shifts in molecular motion.
This lecture will be conducted in English and the invited person will be present via video-conference.
Maria Jose Arjona
Maria José Arjona (1973) is a Colombian multidisciplinary performance artist whose work proposes through radical poetic gestures a unique form of political resistance. At a time when political art is understood primarily as political activism, Arjona instead treats the body as a site for subtle and complex re- articulations and questionings of normative conditioning and violence. She moves away from a focus on the identity of the artist to highlight the organic, expansive shared potential of the body, a body that in its centrality may not be individual or biographical, but collective and unconditioned.
Arjona is currently a fellow at the DAAD in Berlin and was a visiting scholar at the department of performance studies at NYU. Her upcoming and most recent exhibitions, seminars and talks include: “All possible forests” (Seminar) Princeton University, “Moving with Rocks” LASA 2025, “Rivers” Biennial Of Guatemala, “Silent but together” at The Museum Of Contemporary Art Of Barcelona, “The good life” at The Museum Of Modern Art Of Medellin, Zero Point Berlin , Art Basel Miami Beach, The international Biennial Of Performance (Argentina), “The Body As Archive” a (Talk) at Museum Of Latin American Art Of Buenos Aires (MALBA).
General information
Date
26th February 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00
Venue
Forum Dança – Espaço da Penha
Travessa do Calado, 26B, 1170-070 Lisboa
Free entry, subject to capacity.
Top photo © DR
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