Toronto Performance Art Collective is pleased to co-sponsor Sur Gallery’s presentation of a new performance by Regina José Galindo:
Movilización (carguen con sus muertos) / Mobilization (carry your own dead)
Sur Gallery, 100-39 Queens Quay East, Toronto (East of Yonge Street)
Thursday, November 16, 7:30-8:30 pm
Canadian mining companies extract over seventy percent of the planet’s minerals, causing a devastating impact on Latin America and other continents. Canadian companies are responsible for human rights violations and environmental disasters all over the planet. Regina José Galindo’s performance entitled Mobilization (carry your dead) is an invitation to all Canadians to take responsibility for the damage caused by their government.
Doors open at 7 pm. Limited capacity, please arrive early.
REGINA JOSÉ GALINDO is a performance artist and writer. Galindo has had solo exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford (2009); Fundación Joaquim Nabuco, Recife (2011); Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California (2012); and Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (2013); among many others. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions such as: Arte ? Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960–2000, El Museo del Barrio, New York (2008); Under the Same Sun, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015); and I Have a Dream, Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art, Salonika (2013). She has participated in various biennials and has received prominent awards for her work. Regina José Galindo lives and works in Guatemala City and is considered to be one of the most subversive voices in contemporary art today.
This performance is presented as part Sur Gallery’s current exhibition, Vehemence, running from October 5 to December 2, 2017. For further information, see
Sur Gallery is Toronto’s first gallery space dedicated to the exhibition and critical engagement of contemporary Latin American art. Sur Gallery is a project of LACAP-Latin American Canadian Art Projects.
