La múltiple lucha was: an exhibition and publication project that showed the complex and explosively contradictory dynamics of performative constructions that inform ambiguities in lucha libre, rendering wrestling so completely fierce and volatile.
La múltiple lucha was: a series of photographies (Maris Bustamante, Rotmi Enciso, Lourdes Grobet, Tabea Huth, Gerardo Montes de Oca Valadez), videos (Maja Borg, Raúl Cuesta & Anaïs Huerta, Charles Fairbanks, Regina José Galindo, Israel Martínez in collaboration with Gerardo Montes de Oca Valadez, Michael Ramos Araizaga, Jesusa Rodríguez, Carla Pataky), remnants of a performance (Mariana Botey, Katia Tirado), drawings (Paola Picazo), a poster and an artist’s book (Martha Hellion), a cartoon (Mariel Rodríguez), a documentary (Arturo Peréz Torres), a presentation (Colectivo Acción Solidaria con México-Austria) and a publication (Heather Levi, Tabea Huth, Salvador Novo and the artists).
La múltiple lucha was: a versus of lucha libre and art. For as much as lucha libre has taken place both in and outside the arenas, and as much as it has taken place through artistic production and appropriation, it defies easy and simple categorization. Lucha libre is one of a whole string of forms that are characterized by fluidity and improvisation, intimacy and contact, immediacy and spectacle, parody and politics.
La múltiple lucha encouraged to question which forms of agency are developed and which powerful conditionalities and appearances take effect in and beyond lucha libre, the works and the texts presented.
length of the exhibition
March 31 – May 2, 2015 (VBKÖ)
March 31 – May 15, 2015 (IG BILDENDE KUNST)
supporting programme
Thursday April 2, 2015, 20h
SUPER AMIGOS (2007)
documentary film
(Spanish with English subtitles)
by Arturo Pérez Torres
TOP KINO, Rahlgasse 1, 1060 Wien
http://www.topkino.at/
Friday April 3, 2015, 19h
publication launch
with the Colectivo Acción Solidaria con México-Austria
VBKÖ, Maysedergasse 2/4. Stock (Lift), 1010 Wien
http://www.vbkoe.org/
Galerie IG Bildende Kunst
Gumpendorfer Straße 10-12
1060 Wien
T +43(1) 524 09 09
galerie@igbildendekunst.at
http://www.igbildendekunst.at/
VBKÖ
Maysedergasse 2/4. Stock (Lift)
1010 Wien
info@vbkoe.org
http://www.vbkoe.org/
with texts by Tabea Huth, Heather Levi, Salvador Novo in English, Spanish and German; and images by the artists
Rotmi Enciso, Regina José Galindo, Michael Ramos Araizaga, Maris Bustamante; Photo: Julia Gaisbacher
Charles Fairbanks, Michael Ramos Araizaga, Lourdes Grobet, Martha Hellion; Photo: Julia Gaisbacher
Lourdes Grobet, Martha Hellion; Photo: Julia Gaisbacher
Tabea Huth, Mariana Botey; Photo: Julia Gaisbacher
Mariana Botey, Tabea Huth; Photo: Julia Gaisbacher
Paola Picazo, Israel Martínez in collaboration with Gerardo Montes de Oca Valadez, Jesusa Rodríguez, Mariel Rodríguez, Paola Picazo, Isreal Martínez; Photo: Julia Gaisbacher
Jesusa Rodríguez, Katia Tirado; Photo: Julia Gaisbacher
Katia Tirado; Photo: Julia Gaisbacher
