Curriculum Vitae
15.11.1973 Born in Junín in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina; lives and works in Argentina.
Education
2008 Performance Workshop with the Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo, Córdoba Spain Cultural Center (CCEC), Córdoba, Argentina.
2007 Seminar “International and Argentinian Contemporary Art”, MUMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2004 Performance Workshop with the Spanish artist Joan Casellas, Tacuarembó, Uruguay.
2001 Seminar “Organization events and staging”, Secretariat of Culture of Buenos Aires Province, Directorate of Extension and Cultural Promotion, MUMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1994-1997 Professor of History and Social Sciences, Institute 129, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1993-1994 Studies in Engraving and Experimental Graphic, Art School Xul Solar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2010 “Manifiestos visuales”, Galería Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba
2004 “Electrográfica – Obra gráfica experimental”, Sechiisland’s Micro Gallery, Río Claro (SP), Brazil
2002 “Homenaje a la nada” (installation), Architects Association, Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2002 “Mostra”, Cultural Centre “Ernesto Sábato”, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Group exhibitions
International Biennials, Festivals and exhibitions
2012
Torino Performance Art Festival, Torino, Italy
XI HAVANA BIENNIAL, Cuba
Fonlad #08 Online Digital Arts Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Magmart Video Under Volcano – VII International Videoart Festival, Naples, Italy
CEC The 7th Annual Carnival of E-Creativity, Sattal Estate, Uttarakhand, India
Fluxfest Chicago 2012, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
II International Meeting of Action Art at the Pumarejo, Weber-Lutgen Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
2011
4th International Video-Art Festival Camagüey, Cuba
IMERGENCIA International Performance Encounter, Lisbon, Portugal
“George Maciunas and beyond – Fluxus never stops”, 8th Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania
Square Eyes 3 & Direct Action Festival, CAZ project space, The Exchange, UK
Epipiderme 20 Encontros a volta da performance, Lisbon, Portugal
3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art “Old Intersections –Make it New”, Performance Festival, Greece
Latin American Meeting of Action Art ZAS! Buenos Aires, Argentina
Waterpieces Contemporary Art & Videoart Festival, Riga, Latvia
Videoholica The 4th Varna International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
Chain Letter, Samson Gallery, Boston, USA
Konnektor #4 “Sommerfest” – Direct Action Performance-Video Show, Konnektor, Forum für Künste, Hannover, Germany
Direct Action – Screenings of performance on.for.at. video, Institut für alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
“Independent Performances” International Video Art Activity, Valencia, Spain
Cologne OFF Cologne International Videoart Festival – Videoart in a Global Context, Ukraine
Urban Disturbances, BOX Gallery, Milan, Italy
Action A4 – The Other Genre, Río Claro (SP), Brazil
Visual Libros (2001-2010) Publications Retrospective Exhibition, Málaga, Spain
The Last Book, Aguilar Branch of the New York Public Library, NYC, USA. Curator: Luis Camnitzer
International Meeting of Action Art at the Pumarejo, Weber-Lutgen Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
2010
Transvideoplay – International Video Art Festival, Junín, Argentina
BODY & COPY – International Copy Art Exhibition, Centro Cultural La Grieta, La Plata, Argentina
International Biennial of Performance Art - PerfoArNet, Bogotá, Colombia
International Expanded Media Art Triennial, Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
ESCRITA NA PAISAGEM – Festival de Performance e Artes da Terra, Évora, Portugal
V1DEOPO3M4S – Videopoetry Online Exhibition, EXPOESÍA - II Biennial of Experimental Poetry, Euskadi, Spain
TAT-ORTE, kunsTTempel, Kassel, Germany
POÉTICAS PARA UNA VIDA II, Museo Verbum, Vigo, Spain
VISITORS International Video Art Activity, Canakkale, Turkey
Contemporary Art Festival / EMERGENZA videoarte, Venezia, Italy
The Last Book, Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland
FLUXUS NOW! Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival, Roanoke, USA
FASE X Festival – Neoist Apartment Festival, Junín, Argentina
2009
BODY & COPY – International Copy Art Exhibition, National Bibliotheque, Santiago, Chile
XIII Bienal Guadalupana, Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla, México
I International Biennial of Photocopy, Mendoza, Argentina
6th International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari, F.I.F.E, Muzeul Florean, Maramures, Romania
II International Video Art Festival, Camagüey, Cuba
ZAS! Performance Meeting – Hommage to Alberto Greco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Reliquaries of Empires Dust”, Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“OBSIDIANA”, Galería AFA, Santiago, Chile
BODY & COPY – International Copy Art Exhibition, Colateral Programme X Havana Biennial, Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, La Habana, Cuba
X HAVANA BIENNIAL, La Habana, Cuba
“On CDOs and Double Clubs”, London EAST Festival, August Art, London, UK.
X Bienal Internacional de Poesía Visual/Experimental, México D. F., México.
International Cycle of Performance Art - International Video Art and Video performance Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal
2008
The Last Book, National Bibliotheque, Buenos Aires, Argentina
VID: Itinerant Exhibition of Video-performance, Buenos Aires, Argentina
EXPOESíA ’08, Biennial of Experimental Poetry,Euskadi, Spain
5th International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari, F.I.F.E, Muzeul Florean, Maramures, Romania
Manif d’Art 4, La Biennale de Québec, Canada
Art in Woodstock Festival, The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, Oxford, UK.
FLUX – Arte Postal e Poesia Visual, Río Claro, San Pablo, Brazil
ONE MINUTE 5th International Film & Video Festival, Aarau, Switzerland
PERFOMEDIA – Rassegna Internazionale di Performance, Ponte Nossa (Bergamo), Italy
Ars in actio / perfo-festival, Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
PERFOARTNET – International Performance Meeting for Internet, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Bogotá, Colombia / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela
LONDON BIENNALE, “Arrows” Project, London, UK.
AMAZE Event, Bau-huis-Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
2007
INPORT– International Video-Performance Art Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
4th International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari, F.I.F.E, Muzeul Florean, Baia Mare, Romania
III International Meeting on Urban Art "Arte Acción Plaza”, Centro Cultural Islas Malvinas, La Plata, Argentina
CONCENTRADO ACCIÓN Latin American Meeting of Performance, Plataforma – Centro MEC, Montevideo, Uruguay
FLASHFLOOD – International Video Art Festival, Museum for Polydimensional Research (MPDR), Tucson, Arizona, USA
Video Festival dell’ Aqua / The Water’s Festival, Campagna (Salerno), Italy
Sabores y Lenguas: Buenos Aires –Miralda- FoodCulturaMuseum, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA), Argentina
MUTACIONES – Chilean-Argentine Exchange Performance, IUNA (Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte), Buenos Aires, Argentina
CORPOLÍTICAS / Body Politics en las Américas – Formations of Race, Class and Gender - 6th Meeting of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics (NY), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
BIENAL B, Porto Alegre / RS – Brazil
Festival de la interferencia - In memoriam Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Artpool’s International Collection of Artist’ stamp / Artistamp Museum of Artpool, “Stamp Images Exhibition”, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Detroit’s 10th International Film & Video Festival, Museum of New Art (MONA), Michigan, USA
“A matter of urbanity, among other things” – OASIS Project, ARCO 07, Madrid, Spain
2006
NIVAF – Nagano International Video Art Festival, Japan
V Salón de Arte Digital, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Maczul, Maracaibo, Venezuela
VideoBardo – II International Videopoetry Festival, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
First International Biennial of Performance DEFORMES, Santiago, Chile
3rd International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari, F.I.F.E, Muzeul Florean, Maramures, Romania
Bienal do Ano 3000, Mac USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Visuell Poesi” – Biblioteket Väster, Lund, Sweden
RIAP -Rencontre Internationale d’Art Performance de Québec, Canada
“IMPRESSION” Mail-Art and Digital-Art, Grafisch Centrum HogeDRUKgebied, Rotterdam, Holland
ALBIAC International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Reserve, Almería, Spain
CUERPOS ESPECÍFICOS - Meeting of Performance, La Caverna - Space Research of Contemporary Art, Rosario, Argentina
IMAF 06 – 8th International Multimedial Art Festival, Odzaci, Serbia
LONDON BIENNALE, “draw_drawing_2” Project, The Foundry Gallery, London, UK
OUTVIDEO – 3d International Video-Art Festival in Public Spaces, Russia
CREATIVA 2006 – 7º Incontro per l’ Autoproduzione Artistica e Culturale, Rignano Sull’ Arno (FI), Italy
International Meeting Urban Art "Arte Acción Plaza", Mar del Plata, Argentina
18th “Independent Arts” Festival, St. Niklaas, Belgium
“A Terra Sacrificada” – 5e Biennale de la Photo et des Arts Visuels, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (MAMAC), Liège, Belgium
2005
XI BIENAL GUADALUPANA, Galería Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, México
Isola della poesía / Isola Virtuale – 51ma BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, online Exhibition, Collateral Project
International Biennial SIART, La Paz, Bolivia
1st International Turkish Grameen Micro-Credit Art Biennial, Ankara, Turkey
“Libro d’artista”, Spazio Arte Contemporanea Sperimentale, Quiliano (Savona), Italy
2do Ciclo de Performances de la Ciudad de Montevideo, Perfopuerto, Museo Juan Manuel Blanes, Uruguay
Exchange Japanese-Argentine of Performance Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
INCUBA, First International Electronic Art Festival in Patagonia Austral, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
“POÉTICA POSTAL”, Galería Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba
OUTVIDEO – 2nd International Video-Art Festival in Public Spaces, Ekaterinburg, Russia
VII International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, La Habana, Cuba
International Performance Festival EMBA – Zona de Arte, Escuela Municipal de Bellas Artes “Carlos Morel”, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Third International Detroit’s Film & Video Festival, Museum of New Art (MONA), Michigan, USA
2004
I International Festival of Electronic Art 404, Museo de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
“IN TRANSIT”, First International Performance Art Festival at the southern tip of America, Centro Cultural IMPA La Fábrica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
NONSTOP.MADRID.O4, Pabellón de la Pipa, FAIM 04, Feria de Arte Independiente de Madrid, Spain
EXCENTRA –International Laboratory of Performance Art, Tacuarembó, Uruguay
“LIVING” – International Artist’s Books Exhibition, Gallery SIDAC-studio, Leiden, Holland
Festival SIGNES DE NUIT, Cinema Le Balzac, París, France
IV International Biennial Ex-Libris "The Butterfly", Zacatecas, México
“ArtExpo”, Solaris/ Observatorio – Centro de Arte Experimental, Michoacán, México
2003
I Concurso Centroamericano Artistas Emergentes, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, Costa Rica
eBent’03 – 3 International Festival of Performance, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona, Spain
X BIENAL GUADALUPANA, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapozalco, México
II Mostra Internacional de Artes Plásticas, Bauru, San Pablo, Brazil
5th International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari, Muzeul Florean, Romania
2002
IV Salón Internacional de Artes Plásticas de Chavantes, San Pablo, Brazil
Septième Festival d’Art Singulier, Roquevaire, France
5th International Meeting of Experimental Sound and Visual Poetry, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001
13th“Independent Music & Arts” Festival, St. Niklaas, Belgium
2000
12th “Independent Music & Arts” Festival, St. Niklaas, Belgium
1999
“Libertad en la Enseñanza de las Artes”, Escola d´Art I Disseny, Tarragona, Spain
1998
“Minimal Art Discount”, Echternach, Luxembourg
International Art Meeting Borges His 100 Years Old, Centro de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Institutions and archives holding works
Centro Cultural Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics – New York, USA
New York University: Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library – New York, USA
Museum for Polydimensional Research (MPDR) – Tucson, Arizona, USA
PERFOARTNET – Performance Art and Society Archive – Bogotá, Colombia
PAS Archive of World Performance – File of performance, investigation center for pedagogy, performance and performers diffusion – Bogotá, Colombia
Artpool’s International Collection of Artist’s Stamp / Artistamp Museum of Artpool – Budapest, Hungary
LE LIEU centre en art actuel – Québec, Canada
NIPAF Nippon International Performance Art Festival – Nagano, Japan
FoodCulturaMuseum, Archivo Miralda – Madrid, Spain
INPORT Video Archive – Tallin, Estonia
PLATAFORMA – Centro Mec, Montevideo, Uruguay
OPEN WORLD - Belgrade, Serbia
Artestudio – Linea Infinita Fundazione, Bergamo, Italy
LONDON BIENNALE – David Medalla Archive, London, UK.
MAS Gallery - Odzaci, Belgrade, Serbia
Turkish Foundation for Waste Reduction – Ankara, Turkey
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau – La Habana, Cuba
Museum Of New Art (MONA) – Detroit, Michigan, USA
Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo – San José, Costa Rica
Instituto Zacatecano de Cultura “Ramón López Velarde” – Zacatecas, México
Museo de Arte Satu-Mare – Romania
Centro de Arte Experimental Vigo – La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Muzeul Florean – Maramures, Romania
Books
2011 Internet y performance - Negociaciones entre cuerpo, virtualidad y telepresencia, Hotel DaDA editor, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Utopías de la proximidad en el contexto de la globalización. La creación escénica en Iberoamérica, AVAE Archivo Virtual de Artes Escénicas, Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha, Spain
2009 Integración y resistencia en la era global. Evento Teórico Décima Bienal de La Habana, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Cuba
2008 Performance Presente Futuro, Oi Futuro Foundation / Contracapa, Río de Janeiro, Brazil – Essays by Orlan, Stelarc, Ricardo Dominguez, Rosangella Leotte and Silvio De Gracia.
2008 New York ve Sakiz / New York & Chewing Gum, Artes Yayinlari, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Acontecimiento Plataforma, Centro MEC, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay
Curatorship
2012
“Out of limits” [version 2] Torino Performance Art Festival, Torino, Italy
“In excess/En exceso” FLYERS - Collateral Program XI Havana Biennial, Cuba
“Out of limits” FONLAD #08 Online Digital Arts Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
“Argentinian Dreamers” - CEC 2012 The 7th Annual Carnival of E-Creativity, India
LATINOS DE ACCIÓN Selección Latinoamericana de Video-performance, Weber-Lutgen Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
2011
“Argentinian Dreamers 2”, 4th International Video-Art Festival Camagüey, Cuba
“Insurgencias del cuerpo” – Mostra de vídeo performance da América Latina, Lisbon, Portugal
Urban Disturbance [Hyper Body 2], BIOS Art Centre, Athens, Greece
“Argentinian Dreamers” – Cologne OFF / Waterpieces Videoart Festival, Riga, Latvia
[Hyper Body] Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
TRANSVIDEOPLAY. Fase 5. Galería La Clínica Mundana, Valencia, Spain
“Argentinian Dreamers” – Cologne OFF Videoart in a Global Context, City Art Gallery Kharkiv, Ukraine
TRANSVIDEOPLAY. Fase 4 – “More Than Bodies” VisualContainerTV, Milan, Italy
“Urban Disturbance” Videoperformance in public space –[.BOX] Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010
TRANSVIDEOPLAY. Fase 3 – International Video Art Festival, Argentina
TRANSVIDEOPLAY. Fase 2 - Project Space Lab 39, South Korea
“More than bodies”, Örebro International Videoart Festival, Sweden
MAGMART Festival - under the volcano, Italy
2009
“Ar Detroy en Retrospectiva”, II International Video Art Festival, Camagüey, Cuba
X Bienal de Poesía Visual/Experimental de México, México
BODY & COPY – International Copy Art Exhibition, Collateral Program X Biennial of Havana, Cuba
“Electronic and sensitive”, ExhibitContainer on-line Gallery, VisualContainer, Italy
2008
Latin America Action Art Tour A.G.I.S We are everywhere! Group (South Korea) ARGENTINA / URUGUAY (2008) Co-curator: KIM Kang (South Korea)
PERFORMANCE PRESENTE FUTURO, Río de Janeiro, Brazil
AMAZE Event, Bau-huis, Belgium
2007
2da Muestra Internacional de Video Performance EL CUERPO Y SU DOBLE, Valdivia/ Santiago, Chile
2006
NIVAF – Nagano International Video Art Festival, Japan
"El cuerpo mediatizado" Muestra de Videoperformance, Performance Biennial DEFORMES, Santiago, Chile
International Biennial of Performance DEFORMES, Santiago, Chile
VideoChannel – Selection 06, Cologne, Germany
VIII International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, La Habana, Cuba
2005
INSTALARTE III – Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Proyecto “República de Artistas”, Galería Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba
VII International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, La Habana, Cuba
Bibliography
2012 Oncena Bienal de La Habana. Prácticas artísticas e imaginarios sociales. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam / Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas, Maretti Editore, Cuba
2010 International Expanded Media Art Triennial, Sapient Graphic, Belgrade, Servia
2009 Integración y resistencia en la era global. Evento Teórico Décima Bienal de La Habana, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Cuba
2007 – INTER Art Actuel – Nº 96, Arts de la rencontre, Les Éditions Intervention, Québec, Canada
2007 CORPOLÍTICAS BODY POLITICS EN LAS AMÉRICAS Formaciones de Raza, Clase y Género (catalog-book), 6to Encuentro Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hemispheric Institute, New York
2007 Acontecimiento Plataforma, Centro MEC, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay
2006 RIAP Rencontre Internationale d’ art performance (catalog), Les Éditions Intervention, Québec, Canada
2006 DEFORMES – Diario de Performance y Arte Acción, Nº 1, Santiago, Chile
2004 - RAMONA – revista de artes visuales – Nº 46, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003 HETEROGÉNESIS – Tidskrift för Visuell Konst, Nº 45, “Utopins globalisering”, Lund University, Sweden
Conferences
2012
Insurgencias críticas y activismo en el contexto sudamericano, Evento Teórico Oncena Bienal de La Habana, Centro Teórico Cultural Criterios - Edificio ICAIC, La Habana, Cuba
2010
La experiencia electrográfica – Taller de copia creativa,Centro Cultural La Grieta, La Plata, Argentina
Internet y performance: cuerpos virtuales en el ciberespacio. International Biennial of Performance Art - PerfoArtNet, Biblioteca El Tintal, Bogotá, Colombia
La poesía visual/experimental latinoamericana, VI Feria del Libro, Junín, Argentina
2009
En el Bicentenario: Las preguntas por contestar.VI Jornadas de Intercambio Artístico: Nuestro Arte ante el Bicentenario, IUNA (Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Introducción al arte correo. El Copy Art y sus técnicas.Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, La Habana, Cuba
Entre la acción “contextualizada” y la acción como instancia estética. La encrucijada de la performance latinoamericana[Between the “contextualized” action and action as aesthetic instance. The crossroads of Latin American performance], Evento Teórico Décima Bienal de La Habana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
2008
En busca de una nueva performance latinoamericana. La interferencia como instancia de perturbación [In search of a new Latin-American Performance. The interference like instance of disquietude]), video-conference, Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá, Colombia
Desborde de los límites: Arte Correo y Poesía Visual. Especies Híbridas.Casarao da Cultura, Río Claro, SP, Brasil
2007
Entre la acción “contextualizada” y la acción como instancia estética. La encrucijada de la performance latinoamericana. Concentrado Acción – Latin American Meeting of Performance, Plataforma – Centro MEC (Ministerio de Educación y Cultura), Montevideo, Uruguay
2006
La escena sudamericana actual de arte de performance – Presentación del Proyecto Videoplay, [The South American current scene of performance art] Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile
Colloquium on performance art in Argentina - Videoplay Project, Le Lieu, centre en art actuel, Québec, Canada
2005
Reflexiones en torno a un arte portátil, Encuentro de Performance, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003
Videoarte: expresión de la posmodernidad,Escuela de Educación Media Nº 2, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Links:
http://hidvl.nyu.edu/video/000549477.html
http://hemi.nyu.edu/esp/seminar/2007/esp/perf_silviodegracia_esp.html
http://www.bienalhabana.cult.cu/bienaldelahabana/en/artistas-descripcion.php?idbienal=10&idartista=200
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4M67Z4Qk5Y
www.hemi.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/2007/eng/perf_silviodegracia_eng.html
www.pas-silviodegracia.blogspot.com
www.performancelogia.blogspot.com/2007/09/silvio-de-gracia-videoacciones-2003.html
www.imaf.org.yu/imaf_8/participants.html
www.inter-lelieu.org/riap06/degracia.html
www.sequence.qc.ca/artistes/performances06.html
www.artedigital8.cubasi.cu/english/video.php
www.bestonweb.net/wett.htm
15.11.1973 Born in Junín in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina; lives and works in Argentina.
Education
2008 Performance Workshop with the Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo, Córdoba Spain Cultural Center (CCEC), Córdoba, Argentina.
2007 Seminar “International and Argentinian Contemporary Art”, MUMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2004 Performance Workshop with the Spanish artist Joan Casellas, Tacuarembó, Uruguay.
2001 Seminar “Organization events and staging”, Secretariat of Culture of Buenos Aires Province, Directorate of Extension and Cultural Promotion, MUMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1994-1997 Professor of History and Social Sciences, Institute 129, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1993-1994 Studies in Engraving and Experimental Graphic, Art School Xul Solar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2010 “Manifiestos visuales”, Galería Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba
2004 “Electrográfica – Obra gráfica experimental”, Sechiisland’s Micro Gallery, Río Claro (SP), Brazil
2002 “Homenaje a la nada” (installation), Architects Association, Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2002 “Mostra”, Cultural Centre “Ernesto Sábato”, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Group exhibitions
International Biennials, Festivals and exhibitions
2012
Torino Performance Art Festival, Torino, Italy
XI HAVANA BIENNIAL, Cuba
Fonlad #08 Online Digital Arts Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Magmart Video Under Volcano – VII International Videoart Festival, Naples, Italy
CEC The 7th Annual Carnival of E-Creativity, Sattal Estate, Uttarakhand, India
Fluxfest Chicago 2012, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
II International Meeting of Action Art at the Pumarejo, Weber-Lutgen Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
2011
4th International Video-Art Festival Camagüey, Cuba
IMERGENCIA International Performance Encounter, Lisbon, Portugal
“George Maciunas and beyond – Fluxus never stops”, 8th Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania
Square Eyes 3 & Direct Action Festival, CAZ project space, The Exchange, UK
Epipiderme 20 Encontros a volta da performance, Lisbon, Portugal
3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art “Old Intersections –Make it New”, Performance Festival, Greece
Latin American Meeting of Action Art ZAS! Buenos Aires, Argentina
Waterpieces Contemporary Art & Videoart Festival, Riga, Latvia
Videoholica The 4th Varna International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
Chain Letter, Samson Gallery, Boston, USA
Konnektor #4 “Sommerfest” – Direct Action Performance-Video Show, Konnektor, Forum für Künste, Hannover, Germany
Direct Action – Screenings of performance on.for.at. video, Institut für alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
“Independent Performances” International Video Art Activity, Valencia, Spain
Cologne OFF Cologne International Videoart Festival – Videoart in a Global Context, Ukraine
Urban Disturbances, BOX Gallery, Milan, Italy
Action A4 – The Other Genre, Río Claro (SP), Brazil
Visual Libros (2001-2010) Publications Retrospective Exhibition, Málaga, Spain
The Last Book, Aguilar Branch of the New York Public Library, NYC, USA. Curator: Luis Camnitzer
International Meeting of Action Art at the Pumarejo, Weber-Lutgen Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
2010
Transvideoplay – International Video Art Festival, Junín, Argentina
BODY & COPY – International Copy Art Exhibition, Centro Cultural La Grieta, La Plata, Argentina
International Biennial of Performance Art - PerfoArNet, Bogotá, Colombia
International Expanded Media Art Triennial, Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
ESCRITA NA PAISAGEM – Festival de Performance e Artes da Terra, Évora, Portugal
V1DEOPO3M4S – Videopoetry Online Exhibition, EXPOESÍA - II Biennial of Experimental Poetry, Euskadi, Spain
TAT-ORTE, kunsTTempel, Kassel, Germany
POÉTICAS PARA UNA VIDA II, Museo Verbum, Vigo, Spain
VISITORS International Video Art Activity, Canakkale, Turkey
Contemporary Art Festival / EMERGENZA videoarte, Venezia, Italy
The Last Book, Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland
FLUXUS NOW! Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival, Roanoke, USA
FASE X Festival – Neoist Apartment Festival, Junín, Argentina
2009
BODY & COPY – International Copy Art Exhibition, National Bibliotheque, Santiago, Chile
XIII Bienal Guadalupana, Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla, México
I International Biennial of Photocopy, Mendoza, Argentina
6th International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari, F.I.F.E, Muzeul Florean, Maramures, Romania
II International Video Art Festival, Camagüey, Cuba
ZAS! Performance Meeting – Hommage to Alberto Greco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Reliquaries of Empires Dust”, Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“OBSIDIANA”, Galería AFA, Santiago, Chile
BODY & COPY – International Copy Art Exhibition, Colateral Programme X Havana Biennial, Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, La Habana, Cuba
X HAVANA BIENNIAL, La Habana, Cuba
“On CDOs and Double Clubs”, London EAST Festival, August Art, London, UK.
X Bienal Internacional de Poesía Visual/Experimental, México D. F., México.
International Cycle of Performance Art - International Video Art and Video performance Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal
2008
The Last Book, National Bibliotheque, Buenos Aires, Argentina
VID: Itinerant Exhibition of Video-performance, Buenos Aires, Argentina
EXPOESíA ’08, Biennial of Experimental Poetry,Euskadi, Spain
5th International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari, F.I.F.E, Muzeul Florean, Maramures, Romania
Manif d’Art 4, La Biennale de Québec, Canada
Art in Woodstock Festival, The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, Oxford, UK.
FLUX – Arte Postal e Poesia Visual, Río Claro, San Pablo, Brazil
ONE MINUTE 5th International Film & Video Festival, Aarau, Switzerland
PERFOMEDIA – Rassegna Internazionale di Performance, Ponte Nossa (Bergamo), Italy
Ars in actio / perfo-festival, Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
PERFOARTNET – International Performance Meeting for Internet, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Bogotá, Colombia / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela
LONDON BIENNALE, “Arrows” Project, London, UK.
AMAZE Event, Bau-huis-Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
2007
INPORT– International Video-Performance Art Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
4th International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari, F.I.F.E, Muzeul Florean, Baia Mare, Romania
III International Meeting on Urban Art "Arte Acción Plaza”, Centro Cultural Islas Malvinas, La Plata, Argentina
CONCENTRADO ACCIÓN Latin American Meeting of Performance, Plataforma – Centro MEC, Montevideo, Uruguay
FLASHFLOOD – International Video Art Festival, Museum for Polydimensional Research (MPDR), Tucson, Arizona, USA
Video Festival dell’ Aqua / The Water’s Festival, Campagna (Salerno), Italy
Sabores y Lenguas: Buenos Aires –Miralda- FoodCulturaMuseum, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA), Argentina
MUTACIONES – Chilean-Argentine Exchange Performance, IUNA (Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte), Buenos Aires, Argentina
CORPOLÍTICAS / Body Politics en las Américas – Formations of Race, Class and Gender - 6th Meeting of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics (NY), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
BIENAL B, Porto Alegre / RS – Brazil
Festival de la interferencia - In memoriam Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Artpool’s International Collection of Artist’ stamp / Artistamp Museum of Artpool, “Stamp Images Exhibition”, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Detroit’s 10th International Film & Video Festival, Museum of New Art (MONA), Michigan, USA
“A matter of urbanity, among other things” – OASIS Project, ARCO 07, Madrid, Spain
2006
NIVAF – Nagano International Video Art Festival, Japan
V Salón de Arte Digital, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Maczul, Maracaibo, Venezuela
VideoBardo – II International Videopoetry Festival, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
First International Biennial of Performance DEFORMES, Santiago, Chile
3rd International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari, F.I.F.E, Muzeul Florean, Maramures, Romania
Bienal do Ano 3000, Mac USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Visuell Poesi” – Biblioteket Väster, Lund, Sweden
RIAP -Rencontre Internationale d’Art Performance de Québec, Canada
“IMPRESSION” Mail-Art and Digital-Art, Grafisch Centrum HogeDRUKgebied, Rotterdam, Holland
ALBIAC International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Reserve, Almería, Spain
CUERPOS ESPECÍFICOS - Meeting of Performance, La Caverna - Space Research of Contemporary Art, Rosario, Argentina
IMAF 06 – 8th International Multimedial Art Festival, Odzaci, Serbia
LONDON BIENNALE, “draw_drawing_2” Project, The Foundry Gallery, London, UK
OUTVIDEO – 3d International Video-Art Festival in Public Spaces, Russia
CREATIVA 2006 – 7º Incontro per l’ Autoproduzione Artistica e Culturale, Rignano Sull’ Arno (FI), Italy
International Meeting Urban Art "Arte Acción Plaza", Mar del Plata, Argentina
18th “Independent Arts” Festival, St. Niklaas, Belgium
“A Terra Sacrificada” – 5e Biennale de la Photo et des Arts Visuels, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (MAMAC), Liège, Belgium
2005
XI BIENAL GUADALUPANA, Galería Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, México
Isola della poesía / Isola Virtuale – 51ma BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, online Exhibition, Collateral Project
International Biennial SIART, La Paz, Bolivia
1st International Turkish Grameen Micro-Credit Art Biennial, Ankara, Turkey
“Libro d’artista”, Spazio Arte Contemporanea Sperimentale, Quiliano (Savona), Italy
2do Ciclo de Performances de la Ciudad de Montevideo, Perfopuerto, Museo Juan Manuel Blanes, Uruguay
Exchange Japanese-Argentine of Performance Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
INCUBA, First International Electronic Art Festival in Patagonia Austral, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
“POÉTICA POSTAL”, Galería Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba
OUTVIDEO – 2nd International Video-Art Festival in Public Spaces, Ekaterinburg, Russia
VII International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, La Habana, Cuba
International Performance Festival EMBA – Zona de Arte, Escuela Municipal de Bellas Artes “Carlos Morel”, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Third International Detroit’s Film & Video Festival, Museum of New Art (MONA), Michigan, USA
2004
I International Festival of Electronic Art 404, Museo de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
“IN TRANSIT”, First International Performance Art Festival at the southern tip of America, Centro Cultural IMPA La Fábrica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
NONSTOP.MADRID.O4, Pabellón de la Pipa, FAIM 04, Feria de Arte Independiente de Madrid, Spain
EXCENTRA –International Laboratory of Performance Art, Tacuarembó, Uruguay
“LIVING” – International Artist’s Books Exhibition, Gallery SIDAC-studio, Leiden, Holland
Festival SIGNES DE NUIT, Cinema Le Balzac, París, France
IV International Biennial Ex-Libris "The Butterfly", Zacatecas, México
“ArtExpo”, Solaris/ Observatorio – Centro de Arte Experimental, Michoacán, México
2003
I Concurso Centroamericano Artistas Emergentes, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, Costa Rica
eBent’03 – 3 International Festival of Performance, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona, Spain
X BIENAL GUADALUPANA, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapozalco, México
II Mostra Internacional de Artes Plásticas, Bauru, San Pablo, Brazil
5th International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari, Muzeul Florean, Romania
2002
IV Salón Internacional de Artes Plásticas de Chavantes, San Pablo, Brazil
Septième Festival d’Art Singulier, Roquevaire, France
5th International Meeting of Experimental Sound and Visual Poetry, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001
13th“Independent Music & Arts” Festival, St. Niklaas, Belgium
2000
12th “Independent Music & Arts” Festival, St. Niklaas, Belgium
1999
“Libertad en la Enseñanza de las Artes”, Escola d´Art I Disseny, Tarragona, Spain
1998
“Minimal Art Discount”, Echternach, Luxembourg
International Art Meeting Borges His 100 Years Old, Centro de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Institutions and archives holding works
Centro Cultural Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics – New York, USA
New York University: Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library – New York, USA
Museum for Polydimensional Research (MPDR) – Tucson, Arizona, USA
PERFOARTNET – Performance Art and Society Archive – Bogotá, Colombia
PAS Archive of World Performance – File of performance, investigation center for pedagogy, performance and performers diffusion – Bogotá, Colombia
Artpool’s International Collection of Artist’s Stamp / Artistamp Museum of Artpool – Budapest, Hungary
LE LIEU centre en art actuel – Québec, Canada
NIPAF Nippon International Performance Art Festival – Nagano, Japan
FoodCulturaMuseum, Archivo Miralda – Madrid, Spain
INPORT Video Archive – Tallin, Estonia
PLATAFORMA – Centro Mec, Montevideo, Uruguay
OPEN WORLD - Belgrade, Serbia
Artestudio – Linea Infinita Fundazione, Bergamo, Italy
LONDON BIENNALE – David Medalla Archive, London, UK.
MAS Gallery - Odzaci, Belgrade, Serbia
Turkish Foundation for Waste Reduction – Ankara, Turkey
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau – La Habana, Cuba
Museum Of New Art (MONA) – Detroit, Michigan, USA
Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo – San José, Costa Rica
Instituto Zacatecano de Cultura “Ramón López Velarde” – Zacatecas, México
Museo de Arte Satu-Mare – Romania
Centro de Arte Experimental Vigo – La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Muzeul Florean – Maramures, Romania
Books
2011 Internet y performance - Negociaciones entre cuerpo, virtualidad y telepresencia, Hotel DaDA editor, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Utopías de la proximidad en el contexto de la globalización. La creación escénica en Iberoamérica, AVAE Archivo Virtual de Artes Escénicas, Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha, Spain
2009 Integración y resistencia en la era global. Evento Teórico Décima Bienal de La Habana, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Cuba
2008 Performance Presente Futuro, Oi Futuro Foundation / Contracapa, Río de Janeiro, Brazil – Essays by Orlan, Stelarc, Ricardo Dominguez, Rosangella Leotte and Silvio De Gracia.
2008 New York ve Sakiz / New York & Chewing Gum, Artes Yayinlari, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Acontecimiento Plataforma, Centro MEC, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay
Curatorship
2012
“Out of limits” [version 2] Torino Performance Art Festival, Torino, Italy
“In excess/En exceso” FLYERS - Collateral Program XI Havana Biennial, Cuba
“Out of limits” FONLAD #08 Online Digital Arts Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
“Argentinian Dreamers” - CEC 2012 The 7th Annual Carnival of E-Creativity, India
LATINOS DE ACCIÓN Selección Latinoamericana de Video-performance, Weber-Lutgen Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
2011
“Argentinian Dreamers 2”, 4th International Video-Art Festival Camagüey, Cuba
“Insurgencias del cuerpo” – Mostra de vídeo performance da América Latina, Lisbon, Portugal
Urban Disturbance [Hyper Body 2], BIOS Art Centre, Athens, Greece
“Argentinian Dreamers” – Cologne OFF / Waterpieces Videoart Festival, Riga, Latvia
[Hyper Body] Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
TRANSVIDEOPLAY. Fase 5. Galería La Clínica Mundana, Valencia, Spain
“Argentinian Dreamers” – Cologne OFF Videoart in a Global Context, City Art Gallery Kharkiv, Ukraine
TRANSVIDEOPLAY. Fase 4 – “More Than Bodies” VisualContainerTV, Milan, Italy
“Urban Disturbance” Videoperformance in public space –[.BOX] Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010
TRANSVIDEOPLAY. Fase 3 – International Video Art Festival, Argentina
TRANSVIDEOPLAY. Fase 2 - Project Space Lab 39, South Korea
“More than bodies”, Örebro International Videoart Festival, Sweden
MAGMART Festival - under the volcano, Italy
2009
“Ar Detroy en Retrospectiva”, II International Video Art Festival, Camagüey, Cuba
X Bienal de Poesía Visual/Experimental de México, México
BODY & COPY – International Copy Art Exhibition, Collateral Program X Biennial of Havana, Cuba
“Electronic and sensitive”, ExhibitContainer on-line Gallery, VisualContainer, Italy
2008
Latin America Action Art Tour A.G.I.S We are everywhere! Group (South Korea) ARGENTINA / URUGUAY (2008) Co-curator: KIM Kang (South Korea)
PERFORMANCE PRESENTE FUTURO, Río de Janeiro, Brazil
AMAZE Event, Bau-huis, Belgium
2007
2da Muestra Internacional de Video Performance EL CUERPO Y SU DOBLE, Valdivia/ Santiago, Chile
2006
NIVAF – Nagano International Video Art Festival, Japan
"El cuerpo mediatizado" Muestra de Videoperformance, Performance Biennial DEFORMES, Santiago, Chile
International Biennial of Performance DEFORMES, Santiago, Chile
VideoChannel – Selection 06, Cologne, Germany
VIII International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, La Habana, Cuba
2005
INSTALARTE III – Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Proyecto “República de Artistas”, Galería Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba
VII International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, La Habana, Cuba
Bibliography
2012 Oncena Bienal de La Habana. Prácticas artísticas e imaginarios sociales. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam / Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas, Maretti Editore, Cuba
2010 International Expanded Media Art Triennial, Sapient Graphic, Belgrade, Servia
2009 Integración y resistencia en la era global. Evento Teórico Décima Bienal de La Habana, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Cuba
2007 – INTER Art Actuel – Nº 96, Arts de la rencontre, Les Éditions Intervention, Québec, Canada
2007 CORPOLÍTICAS BODY POLITICS EN LAS AMÉRICAS Formaciones de Raza, Clase y Género (catalog-book), 6to Encuentro Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hemispheric Institute, New York
2007 Acontecimiento Plataforma, Centro MEC, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay
2006 RIAP Rencontre Internationale d’ art performance (catalog), Les Éditions Intervention, Québec, Canada
2006 DEFORMES – Diario de Performance y Arte Acción, Nº 1, Santiago, Chile
2004 - RAMONA – revista de artes visuales – Nº 46, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003 HETEROGÉNESIS – Tidskrift för Visuell Konst, Nº 45, “Utopins globalisering”, Lund University, Sweden
Conferences
2012
Insurgencias críticas y activismo en el contexto sudamericano, Evento Teórico Oncena Bienal de La Habana, Centro Teórico Cultural Criterios - Edificio ICAIC, La Habana, Cuba
2010
La experiencia electrográfica – Taller de copia creativa,Centro Cultural La Grieta, La Plata, Argentina
Internet y performance: cuerpos virtuales en el ciberespacio. International Biennial of Performance Art - PerfoArtNet, Biblioteca El Tintal, Bogotá, Colombia
La poesía visual/experimental latinoamericana, VI Feria del Libro, Junín, Argentina
2009
En el Bicentenario: Las preguntas por contestar.VI Jornadas de Intercambio Artístico: Nuestro Arte ante el Bicentenario, IUNA (Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Introducción al arte correo. El Copy Art y sus técnicas.Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, La Habana, Cuba
Entre la acción “contextualizada” y la acción como instancia estética. La encrucijada de la performance latinoamericana[Between the “contextualized” action and action as aesthetic instance. The crossroads of Latin American performance], Evento Teórico Décima Bienal de La Habana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
2008
En busca de una nueva performance latinoamericana. La interferencia como instancia de perturbación [In search of a new Latin-American Performance. The interference like instance of disquietude]), video-conference, Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá, Colombia
Desborde de los límites: Arte Correo y Poesía Visual. Especies Híbridas.Casarao da Cultura, Río Claro, SP, Brasil
2007
Entre la acción “contextualizada” y la acción como instancia estética. La encrucijada de la performance latinoamericana. Concentrado Acción – Latin American Meeting of Performance, Plataforma – Centro MEC (Ministerio de Educación y Cultura), Montevideo, Uruguay
2006
La escena sudamericana actual de arte de performance – Presentación del Proyecto Videoplay, [The South American current scene of performance art] Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile
Colloquium on performance art in Argentina - Videoplay Project, Le Lieu, centre en art actuel, Québec, Canada
2005
Reflexiones en torno a un arte portátil, Encuentro de Performance, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003
Videoarte: expresión de la posmodernidad,Escuela de Educación Media Nº 2, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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http://hemi.nyu.edu/esp/seminar/2007/esp/perf_silviodegracia_esp.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4M67Z4Qk5Y
www.hemi.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/2007/eng/perf_silviodegracia_eng.html
www.pas-silviodegracia.blogspot.com
www.performancelogia.blogspot.com/2007/09/silvio-de-gracia-videoacciones-2003.html
www.imaf.org.yu/imaf_8/participants.html
www.inter-lelieu.org/riap06/degracia.html
www.sequence.qc.ca/artistes/performances06.html
www.artedigital8.cubasi.cu/english/video.php
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