BIOGRAFÍA 

Silvio De Gracia. Nacido en Junín, Buenos Aires. Artista visual, performer, curador independiente, investigador y teórico. Ha presentado sus performances, conferencias y proyectos de arte público en Canadá, Italia, Serbia, Reino Unido, Grecia, Portugal, España, Japón y varios países de Latinoamérica en festivales y eventos como: LATITUDES International Performance Art Festival of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia [2018]; NIPAF The 22nd Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Japón [ 2017]; Acción! MAD16, XIII International Art Action Meeting, Madrid, España [2016]; 7th * 11th International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, Canadá [2016]; FAAC Festival de Arte Acción de Cuenca, Ecuador [2015]; 8th Encounter of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, São Paulo, Brasil [2013]; Performance Festival - 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Grecia [2011]; RIAP-Rencontre Internationale d'Art Performance of Québec, Canadá [2006]; Intercambio Japonés-Argentino de Performance, Buenos Aires, Argentina [2005].

Entre  2002 y 2015 fue director y curador de varios eventos de videoarte y performance en Argentina, entre otros: PLAY - Festival Internacional de Videoarte (2004/2006); INTERFERENCIAS - Encuentro Internacional de Arte Acción (2005/2007); man in transit - Festival Internacional de Video y  Performance (2008); y PARTICIPACIÓN - Encuentro Latinoamericano de Performance (2015).

Fue parte de numerosas exhibiciones colectivas como El Centro en movimiento, CCK, Buenos Aires (2017) ; You no speak Americano original, CAM_Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Napoli (2017) ; Otro setiembre sin JULIO, Centro Cultural de la Cooperación, Buenos Aires (2017) ; NOW! Contemporary Networking in Mail Art and Fluxus, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Library, Art Institute of Chicago (2016) ; FOCUS LATIN AMERICA: ART IS OUR LAST HOPE, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (2014) ;"The lying on the floor, abandoned to lie", Maerz Gallery, Linz, Austria (2013) ;The SECREt eXCHANGE, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, (2011) ; “George Maciunas and beyond – Fluxus never stops”, 8th Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania (2011) ;The Last Book, Aguilar Branch of the New York Public Library, NYC (2011) ; y “Reliquaries of Empires Dust », Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin (2009).

En 2004 fundó el proyecto  VideoPlay, una plataforma internacional para la colección y difusión de video-performance, iniciando una intensa actividad de colaboraciones e intercambios con diversas galerías internacionales, museos, fundaciones privadas e instituciones públicas alrededor del mundo.


Es miembro del comité de redacción internacional de la revista canadiense INTER Art Actuel, colaborando especialmente en la difusión de las prácticas de performance y arte acción de la escena Latinoamericana.
Ha participado en la Décima y Oncena Bienal de La Habana (2009 y 2012) y en la  3rd Thessaloniki Biennale - Performance Festival [2011].
 

BIOGRAPHY
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​Silvio De Gracia. Born in Junín, Buenos Aires. Visual artist, performer, independent curator, researcher and theoretician. He has presented his performances, lectures and public art projects in Canada, Italy, Serbia, United Kingdom, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Japan and various Latin American countries at festivals and events such as: LATITUDES International Performance Art Festival of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia [2018]; NIPAF The 22nd Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Japan [ 2017]; Acción! MAD16, XIII International Art Action Meeting, Madrid, Spain [2016];7th * 11th International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, Canada [2016]; FAAC Festival de Arte Acción de Cuenca, Ecuador [2015]; 8th Encounter of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, São Paulo, Brazil [2013]; Performance Festival - 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece [2011]; RIAP-Rencontre Internationale d'Art Performance of Québec, Canada [2006]; Japanese-Argentine Art Exchange of Performance, Buenos Aires, Argentina [2005].

Between 2002 and 2015 he was director and curator of several video art and performance events in Argentina, among others: PLAY - International Video Art Festival (2004/2006); INTERFERENCIAS - International Meeting of Action Art (2005/2007); man in transit - International Festival of Video and Performance (2008); and PARTICIPACIÓN - Latin American Performance Meeting (2015).

He was part of numerous collective exhibitions such as El Centro en movimiento, CCK, Buenos Aires (2017) ; You no speak Americano original, CAM_Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Napoli (2017) ; Otro setiembre sin JULIO, Centro Cultural de la Cooperación, Buenos Aires (2017) ; NOW! Contemporary Networking in Mail Art and Fluxus, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Library, Art Institute of Chicago (2016) ; FOCUS LATIN AMERICA: ART IS OUR LAST HOPE, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (2014) ;"The lying on the floor, abandoned to lie", Maerz Gallery, Linz, Austria (2013) ;The SECREt eXCHANGE, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, (2011) ; “George Maciunas and beyond – Fluxus never stops”, 8th Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania (2011) ;The Last Book, Aguilar Branch of the New York Public Library, NYC (2011) ; and “Reliquaries of Empires Dust », Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin (2009).

In 2004 he founded the VideoPlay project, an international platform for the collection and diffusion of video-performance, initiating an intense activity of collaborations and exchanges with several international galleries, museums, private foundations and public institutions from all over the world.
 
He is a member of the international writing committee of the Canadian magazine Inter art actuel, collaborating especially in the dissemination of the action and performance art practices of the Latin American scene.
He has been a special guest at the Eleventh Biennial of Havana [2012]; 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale - Performance Festival [2011] and Tenth Biennial of Havana [2009].
 

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