PAC, PERFORMANCE ART ACADEMY, is an independent initiative launched by interdisciplinary artists Hector Canonge and Maria Fernanda Hubeaut. PAC is a series of weekly workshops touching on various topics that will give participants a better and broader understanding of Performance Art practice. Each session, or PAC’s module, has being designed to explore and treat topics to help artists and creative types in the creation and implementation of their work. Interested participants don’t need to have prior performance experience as workshops have been designed independently from traditional approaches to the discipline. Each PAC module takes place once a week for a period of 3 hours consisting of practical exercises and theoretical references. Participants don’t need to enroll in all of them, but if interested, they can follow the sequence to better sharpen their skills and practice.
Biographies:
Hector Canonge is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and cultural promoter based in New York City where he studied Comparative Literature, Filmmaking and Integrated Media Arts (MFA). His work incorporates the use of New-media technologies, physical environments, cinematic and performance art narratives to explore and treat issues related to construction of identity, gender roles, and the politics of migration. Challenging the white box settings of a gallery or a museum, or intervening directly in public spaces his performances mediate movement, endurance, and ritualistic processes. Some of his actions and carefully choreographed performances involve collaborating with other artists and interacting with audiences. His visual arts projects and performance art work have been exhibited and presented in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia. As cultural promoter, Canonge launched ARTerial Performance Lab, an initiative to foster collaboration among performance artists from the Americas, started the project PERFORMEANDO, a program that focuses on featuring Hispanic performance artists living in the USA, and created the series NEXUSURNEXUS presented by the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, BIPAF. As curator, Canonge organized the monthly artists’ program A-LAB Forum, directed the monthly independent film series CINEMAROSA, and created the annual Performance Art Festival, ITINERANT. His work has been reviewed by The New York Times, ART FORUM, New York Daily News, Manhattan Times, Hispanic Magazine; by major networks ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS, UNIVISION, etc., and online by Art Experience NYC, NYRemezcla, Turbulence, ART CARDS Review and NYFA News.
More information: www.hectorcanonge.net
Maria Fernanda Hubeaut is a performance artist, photographer and educator whose works have been shown nationally and internationally: New York, Boston, France, Czech Republic and Argentina. Her practice is based on visual arts, documentary and journalistic photography, and performance art. In addition to her individual practice, she has participated in collaborative projects. In her work and teachings, she is connected and has a deep humanist commitment as someone who studied and practices Eastern philosophies, using her training in Sufi and Butoh dances. Selected works have been presented in Performeando, Grace Exhibition Space, Panoply Performance Lab (PPL), Bushwick Open Studios (BOS), The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), The IMC Lab + Gallery, Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, English Kills Art Gallery, to name a few. She lives and works in New York City.
More Information: www.mariafernandahubeaut.com
PAC, PERFORMANCE ART ACADEMY, is an independent initiative of weekly workshops to awaken body, mind and spirit through movement, mediation, and creative practices.
