Nelda Ramos

Nelda Ramos
Nelda at the National Library in Buenos Aires
Born (1977-10-04) October 4, 1977
Caballito, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Education National University of La Plata (UNLP)
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Nelda Daniela Ramos (born October 4, 1977 - Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine multidisciplinary artist and arts educator known for her performance art. [1][2] She is a co-founder of Zonadeartenacción Festival, a performance art focused event held in Buenos Aires.[1] Working with performance, object and photography, the dynamics of Ramos' works are often reflecting the essence and political issues of being a woman in the Latin American context. Her performance art work conveys a deep connection between nature, body and spirit, and often stimulate the audience to be fully involved into the hybridization occurring between nature and the artist.

Career

Ramos studied visual arts and teaching at the "Carlos Morel School of Fine Arts" (EMBA) in Quilmes and at National University of La Plata (UNLP),[2] as well as engraving and printed arts. She currently works as a teacher in several educational institutions and as coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Media and Technology for the Painting Production [3][4] at the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires (former Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte).

Works and projects

Nelda at the National Library in Buenos Aires

Since 2000, Ramos has participated in several events related to different disciplines such as performance art, mail art and ceramics. Her performances were shown in Canada, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, USA and Italy, including the Venice International Performance Art Week in 2012 and the Women in Action performances in Quebec City in 2007.[3][5] She also co-founded and directed, along with Gabriela Alonso, the Zonadeartenacción International Action Art Festival (also known as Zonadeartenacción or Zonadearte).[3][6] In 2010, Alonso and Ramos works were exhibited by Hamilton Artists Inc, an arts non-profit artist run gallery in Toronto, hosting videos, drawings and live performances.[7] In 2013 Ramos collaborated with Colombian artist Javier Vanegas for the art exhibitionYoung Latino Artists 18: Con/Juntos at the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas.[8][9]

Ramos explains most of her roots, influences and role as a self managed artist, in the Latin American context, in an online paper called "Arte de Acción. Agitación Cultural desde el Río de la Plata desde una perspectiva de la autogestión" (Action Art. Cultural Agitation in Rio de la Plata from a perspective of self-management) (In Spanish).[10]

Zonadeartenacción International Performance Art Festival

Gabriela Alonso, an Argentine artist, created Zonadearte, an art gallery which wanted to show the most innovative artistic expressions located in Quilmes, south of Buenos Aires. Nelda joined Gabriela in 2006 and they organized together the festival of action art and urban interventions. Zonadeartenacción, active until 2010, became a multi-disciplinary event that hosts exhibitions including the areas of design, clothing, object, mail art, installation art, urban interventions, visual and sonorous poetry. In spite of that, talented international and national artists participated in this festival, such as VestAndPage, Sinead O'Donnell, Irene Loughlin, and many others.

References

  1. 1 2 "Nelda Ramos". Venice International Performance Art Week. 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Nelda Ramos". Bola de Nieve (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Visiting from Argentina – Artists Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos". Hamilton Artists Inc. 1 September 2010. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Plan de Estudios Especialización en Medios y Tecnologías para la Producción Pictórica". Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  5. ↑ Carrizosa, Pedro Encarnacion. "Arte de acción y mujer". geifco.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "7° Festival ZONADEARTENACCIÓN 2012. - ARSOmnibus". arsomnibus.com. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Performance, Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos". FADO Performance Centre. 2010. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  8. ↑ Biczel, Dorota (17 July 2013). "Not Easy Togetherness. Young Latino Artists 18: Con/Juntos". Glasstire, Texas Visual Art. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "Main: Young Latino Artists 18: Con/Juntos (June 7- September 8, 2013)". Mexic-Arte Museum. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "Cultural Agitation in Rio de la Plata from a perspective of self-management" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-01-12.

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