The Museo Moderno presents Spinalonga, an intervention by Polish visual and performance artist, Joanna Pawlik. In this work, a first in Argentina, the artist uses her body to explore the historical exclusion of people marked by society as different, particularly those with disabilities and illnesses.
The performance evokes historical practices of stigmatisation like the bells worn in times of old by people affected by leprosy to announce their presence and the history of segregation on Spinalonga, the Greek island that was home to one of Europe’s last leper colonies. Wearing a belt fitted with bells, Pawlik transforms a marker of separation into an assertion of visibility and presence. Through sound and motion, she challenges the discrimination of disabled bodies and their exclusion from public spaces.
For the Museo Moderno, the Kraków-based artist will be creating a site-specific choreography in direct response to the Museum’s architecture. The performance re-affirms the presence of people with disabilities within artistic institutions and society at large.
Following the performance, there will be a public interview with artist Joanna Pawlik and curator Jarosław Lubiak, moderated by Patricio Orellana, Head of Curatorial Department at Museo Moderno.
Saturday 10 October
4.30 p.m. – Performance
6.00 p.m. – Public interview (with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish).
