Los poemas que declamaba mi mama (The Poems My Mother Recited) / Karina Skvirsky

Los poemas que declamaba mi mama (The Poems My Mother Recited) / Karina Skvirsky

Computer disks

FA.B103.1772
Fine Art Collection
2014
Karina Skvirsky
performance art
Video of performance (via Vimeo)
DVD of performance video by Karina Skvirsky. Statement from the artist: In this performance, I re-stage my mother's poetry recitals when she was growing up in Guayaquil, Ecuador in the 1960s. Before falling out of favor in the late 1960s, the art of the poetry recital was integral to most cultural events in Ecuador. By revisiting this art form, I am highlighting its importance as an oral tradition in Latin America while also exploring how I assimilate my mother's transmission of feminine identity through an emotional and symbolic experience.