Abstract
Location: Fundación Federico Jorge Klemm in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Festivals mark the rhythm of life and are as old as human society: harvest, sowing, prickly pear, water, birth, death. Leonardo Da Vinci was a great organizer of festivals, designing everything from the food to the costumes. The festival is a political art: the French Revolution was prepared years earlier at banquets.” -Roberto Jacoby, Revista Anflbia, 2018.
JARANA is a danceable archive, a collective and performative investigation into the cultural legacy of the margins, exploring the history of parties and dissident, wild nights that produce fantasies about alternative worlds. Focusing on the alternative scenes in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario, Jujuy, Montevideo, and La Paz. the exhibition, which featured numerous special performances, opened in 2024 at the Sala Bonino of Fundación Klemm.
With video projections by Agustín Ceretti, Le Brujx, Kumbia Queers, Violeta Castillo, Matt Montero, Onlypanks, El pelele, Daiana Rose, Mabel, Sofía Torres Kosiba, Roberto Jacoby, Sergio De Loof, Manuel Brandazza, Rodo Bulacio, and Franz Vicha, the exhibition’s spatial design was by Guzmán Paz, lighting design by Tornasol, and identity design by Alejandro Ros. Violeta Mansilla was the curator.
Additionally, there were performances and activities program held every Friday during the summer which featured: Daiana Rose, Sofía Torres Kosiba, Masi Mamani, Federica Baeza, Valentina Quintero, Mabel, Fede Armonelli, Quillay Méndez, Tiziano Cruz, Peter Pank, Vir Negri, Cecilia Palmeiro, Cosmiko, Gaby Bex, Santiago Sorter, Yarará, Hoco Huoc, Sofía Saunier, and Beatriz Herrera. Together with Caja Negra Editorial, two reading events, ‘RAVING,” were held by MCKENZIE WARK, and coordinated by Silvio Lang and Gabriel Giorgi.
Official website:
https://www.fundacionfjklemm.org/Exposiciones/Pasadas/JARANA
Citation
Mansilla, Violeta. 2024. 'JARANA'. Dispossessions in the Americas. https://staging.dia.upenn.edu/en/content/MansillaV001/
