Working with professional Mexican Wrestlers, Carlos Amorales will choreograph a one-off performance in the Turbine Hall for Tate & Egg Live.
AMORALES v AMORALES
9 May 2003 7.30pm
Free: no ticket required as this event is part of Tate & Egg Live:free
Working with professional Mexican Wrestlers, Carlos Amorales will choreograph a one-off performance in the Turbine Hall for Tate & Egg Live.
Amorales’ work examines identity, role-play, and spectacle in the contexts of dance culture and popular Mexican wrestling. Using masks and costumes, including ‘branded’ sportswear called ‘flames’ designed by the artist, Amorales explores the extent to which it is possible to play out fantasy and swap identity through costume and ritualized movement.
Drinks from the Egg bar.
Late opening of Tate Modern collection displays and exhibitions.
Carlos Amorales was born in 1970 in Mexico and now lives in Amsterdam.
The political implications of his work are explicitly apparent in his
installation titled ‘Flames Maquiladora’ at the South London Gallery’s
exhibition ‘20 Million Mexicans Can’t be Wrong’ (2002). Amorales set up
a sweatshop-like production line for the fabrication of wrestlers’
trainers. Playing with the notion that interaction releases audiences
from passive consumption, Amorales was in fact exploiting the Western
gallery as labourers.
Amorales’s performance and video has been included in solo and group
shows in Europe and Mexico, including Migros Museum, Zurich,
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, and recently in ‘Mexico
City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values’ at
PS1, New York, 2002. Carlos Amorales will represent Holland in the
annual Venice Biennale of art, 2003.
Tate Modern
Turbine Hall
Bankside, London