The next work was performed in La Plata, Argentina, 2009. Some of the drawings used during the ‘life collage’ where made by patients of the psychiatric institution Borda, in Buenos Aires.
This work was performed for the second time during a congress on 'Art and mental health' at the University of Medicine, Buenos Aires (UBA).
The performance consisted of three parts:
- Live made and projected collages
- Warp/shiny paper dress
- The Animals Song
WOLF – WOLF - WOLF
BIRDS – BIRDS - BIRDS
WOLF – WOLF - WOLF - WOLF
COWS – DOGS – BIRDS – WOLF
BIRDS – BIRDS - BIRDS
DOLPHINS
DOLPHINS
WOLF – WOLF - WOLF
COWS – DOGS – BIRDS – WOLF
WOLF – WOLF - WOLF - WOLF
WOLF – WOLF - WOLF - WOLF
WOLF – WOLF - WOLF - WOLF
COWS – DOGS - COWS – DOGS - COWS – DOGS
BIRDS - BIRDS - BIRDS
BIRDS - BIRDS - BIRDS
WOLF
THE SKIN OF THE OTHER
De huid van een ander (The skin of the other)
2009
The Skin of the other is a series of dresses made out of cardboard collected from the streets or both from the ‘cartoneros’ (people who collect cardboard from the streets in Argentina).
ZANON PROJECT
Patagonia Argentina | 2009
The next images where taken at the Zanon ceramics factory in Patagonia (Argentina). The factory was taken over by the workers in 2001 after an unexpected closure that left 380 men and women unemployed. Several years from then, after many struggles with the Argentinean government, law, and police, the factory is still working and considered as a new revolutionary social phenomenon inside of Argentina and abroad. The Zanon workers are totally self-organized, and have a very specific method of work, in which every function is rotary. There are no hierarchies; there is no boss, only workers.
The following images are a four minutes compilation from one hour RAW material.
Zanon Factory | Patagonia Argentina
Digital Photography
2009
Zanon Factory | Patagonia Argentina
Digital Photography
2009
Photographs from the performance based on Euripides Greek tragedy: Medea (who is condemned to exile by her own husband). This work was a collaboration whit Argentinean actress and director Jimena Kroucco. And was performed during March/April 2009 in Buenos Aires.
Gist Projectruimte, Brummen, The Netherlands | 2008.
In this work, the fabrics and wool used are coloured with hand made pigments, with a recipe from the Mapuche Indians, from Patagonia, Argentina.
Installation view, 20m2
Detail installation
Detail installation
Detail installation
Detail installation
Detail installation
Portrait Mix media
150 x 200 cm
DIAMONDS
Paraplufabriek Nijmegen, The Nederlands, 2008 Installation
50 m2
Detail
NOSTALGIA AND CHAOS PROJECT
Mediamatic, Amsterdam | 2008.
"Nostalgia and Chaos" was an interactive project on Argentinean culture. Within the frame of the exhibition ‘Gastarbeiders Dating’ at Mediamatic Amsterdam.
In this installation, I developed different activities. I took the role of the artist as well as curator using my own work but also inviting Argentinean artists to show their work. The ongoing activities varied: a workshop on Argentinean food, a debate on cultural identity with guest artists: Tiong Ang, Rini Hurkmans, and Mayura Subhedar. There was a library with Argentinean literature, projections and a performance: “Vaarwel Amsterdam” (based on a poem by Vicente Zito Lema; a farewell ‘song’ to the city of Amsterdam when he goes back to Argentina after seven years of exile).
After each activity, that what had happened, was represented written on the floor and the walls, and so covering all the space with texts by the end of the week.
This installation work was based on a research done in 2006/2007 in Patagonia, on ‘Popular Altars’. With all the information/material/impressions gathered, I started a parallel process of writing and working on an installation in which the viewer could see the process.
Different layers of handmade paint on the wall were visible under big (A0) photocopies of the altar pictures taken in Patagonia and drawings referring to the different myths and saints these altars were dedicated to.
Several texts whit stories and information about the altars where spread around in the installation, and could be taken away by the visitors.
My interest as a visual artist lies at the intersection of art and social reality, using this as a basis for my artistic practice, focusing on issues such as ethics, collaboration, marginal groups or political conflicts.
A family story between dictatorship and democracy, life between two countries, (Argentina and The Netherlands) cultures of wealth and poverty, are all elements I use as an archive, both personal and social. I do not always work through a static ordering of this archive, but more often through constant reassessment and rearrangement of the elements.
I take an active role in the investigation/research, by traveling or getting involved in a certain situation I’m interested in.
I’m not bound to any specific medium and deploy those methods and strategies that are most adequate to an individual issue I seek to address.
Curriculum Vitae Aimée Zito Lema
Aimée Zito Lema, born in Amsterdam in 1982, grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Studied Art at the ‘EBARY’ (Escuela de Bellas Artes Rogelio Yrurtia), the IUNA (University of Arts Buenos Aires), the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and at the Wimbledon College (University of the Arts) London. She works with performance and installations, and has hade various shows at museums and gallery’s from Europe and Argentina.
In 2009 she organized several performance workshops at different art schools in Argentina, and the University of Buenos Aires.
In the same year she has shown her work at the Sivori Museum (ARG) as part of a collective exhibition organized by Amnesty International, has also been invited to participate in a debate on Cultural Identity, (organized in Buenos Aires at the PROA Foundation, by the Mondriaan Stichting and The Prins Claus Fonds), and has been honored with a subsidy from the FBKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture).
From September 2009 she is following a Master Course Artistic Research at the Royal Academy in The Hague (NL).
Lives and works between Amsterdam and Buenos Aires
2009: Participate in a debate on Cultural Identity, organized in Buenos Aires by the Mondriaan Stichting and The Prins Claus Fonds at the PROA Foundation.
2008: Proyecto Universales. Collective show organized by Amnesty International. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Museo Sivori. (ARG)
Honoured with a Productiesubsidie from the FBKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture).
Member of the MudPie Artistic Research group for the Lectoraat Kunst in de Openbare Ruimte from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
MudPie Presentation, at Gallery W139, Amsterdam (NL).
Solo exhibitions:
2009: Invited for a solo show at the WM Gallery, Amsterdam (NL).
2008: Onschuld en wreedheid. Kuntur Gallery, Amsterdam (NL).
2008: Nostalgia and Chaos. Interactive project on Argentinean culture. Mediamatic Post CS, Amsterdam. (NL)
Other group exhibitions, performances and collaborations:
2009: Performance at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires. During an event on art and mental health. (ARG)
Worked on the production, stage settings, and art in the theatre project ¨Apuntes sobre Medea¨. (ARG)
2008: Curriculum Cero. Group Show. Ruth Benzacar gallery. (ARG)
Group show 1141 Magnetic Field curated by artist Christiaan Bastiaans. Gist-projectruimte, Brummen (NL).
Group show De Mystificering van het Nu. Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen (NL).
Performance: Would Art be easier if you could eat it? at the Andy Warhol event at K-Swiss, Amsterdam (NL).
The Lucky Traveller’s Hotel, group exhibition from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam) and the Academy of Fine Arts (Maastricht) Landbouwbelang, Maastricht (NL).
2007: Graduation show. Rietveld Academy (NL).
Wimbledon Erasmus Show. London (UK).
Rietveld Exhibition at the Oude Kerk Amsterdam (NL).
Project Aware. Amsterdam (NL).
2006: Group show. P///AKT Gallery. Amsterdam (NL).
Group show at IUNA. (In Memoriam of the military coup of 1976 and the 30.000 missing people) (ARG).
Performance: Dutch Flag, at the Horse Move Project Space. Nacht Kracht Festival. PostCS Building. Amsterdam (NL).
Le Petit Festival. Museum Vlaho Bukovak. Dubrovnik (CROATIA).
Performance at Club Odeon. Amsterdam (NL).
2005: Costume and set design for the theatre play El Bronce que Sonríe by Vicente Zito Lema. Buenos Aires (ARG).
Installation at The Sugar Factory. Amsterdam. (NL)
2004: Participates in a FLUXUS performance evening, held at the Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam (NL).
2002: Costume and set design for the theatre play Una Carretilla de Música by Vicente Zito Lema. Universidad Popular Madres de Plaza de Mayo (ARG)
2000: Collective exhibition at the Centro Cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires. (ARG)
Art Studies:
2008: Participates in the ‘art discussion’ (clinica de obra) classes given by Argentinean artist Luis Felipe Noé.
2003-2007: Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Fine Arts department. Amsterdam. (NL)
2007: Erasmus exchange at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts. London. (UK)
2004: Participates in an art performance workshop by FLUXUS group.
2000-2003: IUNA. (National Arts Institute) Buenos Aires. (ARG)
1995-2000: EBARY. Secondary School of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires. (ARG)
