In this talk, André Lepecki will address the relationships between action, corporality and art in our era, the era of “high performance”. Based on the work of artists from South America, the United States and Europe, some of them included in the exhibition The Gesture and the Invisible, presented by the Tamayo Museum, will discuss the way in which its proposals encourage us to ask questions such as: what is art for our time? , What are the actions and performance for our era? , What are the policies for art today?

André Lepecki is a writer, curator and editor. His research revolves around critical dance studies, performance theory, contemporary dance and performing visual arts. His curatorial works include his work as chief curator of the IN TRANSIT festival (2008 and 2009) at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin; his participation as co-curator of the Dance and Visual Arts archive since 1960s for the exhibition MOVE: Choreographing You, at the Hayward Gallery (2010); and his work as curator of the conference cycles Points of Convergence: Performance and Visual Arts (2014) and Off-Hinge Off Center: alternative histories of performance, for the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art (2014 and 2015).

In 2008, he received the AICA Award for Best Performance as co-curator and director of the authorized revival of 18 Happenings in 6 Parts by Allan Kaprow (commissioned by the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2006; presented at Performa 07). He is the editor of several anthologies on performance, dance, movement politics, and other topics.