Empathy and Prostitution
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Empathy and Prostitution is a conceptual and performative work of critical and
prostitute, and sought to empathise with her and with the moment of his own conception. Azcona offered himself naked to the galleries' visitors on a bed with white sheets, so that they could exchange intimacy or have sexual relations with him.[1]
Location
It was created and first performed in the Santa Fe Gallery,
Bogota in February 2013.[2] The work had a second performance at the Factoría de Arte y Desarrollo, an artistic space in Madrid, in November 2013, and there was a third performance at the Houston International Performance Biennial, in February 2014.[3]
Exhibitions
Photographs, drawings and documentation of the work were part of the Art Is Hope charity exhibitions in
Warhol or Azcona himself.[4] In 2017 there were also exhibitions in museums such as the Tulla Center in the Albanian capital Tirana. The Juan Gallery in Madrid, which specializes in performance art, included this work in a retrospective exhibition, The Extinction of Desire, which focused on works with sexual themes.[5]
Evolution
Following on with the same concepts as Empathy and Prostitution, the inaugural 2014 Queer New York Arts Festival was opened with a work by Azcona entitled Someone Else. In this, physical or even sexual contact with the artist was required to enter the venue of the event, which was held at Grace Exhibition Space and the
narcotics, so that the visitor could use it freely.[8]
Bibliography
- Huerta, Ricard (2019). Elementary Art. Pedagogías Contemporáneas - UOC. ISBN 978-8491805526.
- Peñuela, Jorge (2017). Anarchaegraphy of artistic thought (in Spanish). UD Creaciones. ISBN 978-9585434172.
- Group FIDEX, Figures of excess and body policies (2018). Technical-conceptual atlas of the Fidex research group: Micropolitics in contemporary research in Fine Arts (in Spanish). Universitas Miguel Hernández. ISBN 978-8416024711.
- Moya Gómez, Carlos (2016). A vision of gender through performance in today's Spain (PDF) (in Spanish). Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
- Silva Gómez, Norma Ángelica (2018). Abel Azcona: Of empathy as (im) possibility (in Spanish). Colegio de Saberes de México.
- López Landabaso, Patricia (2017). La performance como medio de expresión artística. Expresiones actuales en el País Vasco (PDF) (in Spanish). Universidad del País Vasco.
- Cano Martínez, Maria Jesús (2018). Escondido tras la piel: representaciones y afrontamientos del dolor y el sufrimiento desde el arte de acción (in Spanish). ISBN 9788491639541.
- Molina Ruiz, Irene (2016). El autorretrato como canalizador del dolor (in Spanish). University of Granada. ISBN 9788491258148.
See also
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- Performance art
- Installation
- Endurance art
- Prostitution
- Drugs and prostitution
References
- ^ G. Maldonado, Lorena (March 3, 2019). "Abel Azcona: "Sexuality beats in my work always from the critical spirit"". El Español. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
- ^ Peñuela 2017, p. 72.
- ^ Raggi, Adriana (October 9, 2015). "Abel Azcona: Empathy and Prostitution". Las Disidentes.
- ^ "Pride - Exhibition & Auction". Paddle 8. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
- ^ Recuero, Ricardo (November 13, 2017). "The Extinction of Desire". Contemporary Art Platform. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ^ Spanish Contemporary Art Network (20 September 2014). "Someone Else- Abel Azcona in New York". Spanish Contemporary Art Network.
- ^ Vartanian, Hrag (December 23, 2014). "Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows". Hyperallergic. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ^ Sahuquillo, Paula (November 2, 2016). "We went to see how people abused Abel Azcona's drugged body". Vice. Retrieved January 12, 2020.