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This event occurred on Oct 30, 2025.
Performers:
Elia Arce
Pam Cohen
Rossana Pérez
Sara Aguilar
Speakers:
Elia Arce
Jackie Amezquita
Jasmine Magaña
Costa Rican performance artist Elia Arce presents "No Time to Mourn (An Excerpt)" followed by a conversation with artist Jackie Amezquita and researcher Jasmine Magaña. Arce’s performance continues her ongoing commitment to creating “living monuments,” works that approach memory as collective actions and communally-produced experiences. The conversation following the performance reflects on "No Time to Mourn" and its previous iterations, trace the evolution of Arce’s socially engaged performance art and activist theater in Southern California, and explore material and thematic connections between her practice and the work of a younger generation of artists from the Central American diaspora.
This event is organized by REDCAT and the Getty Research Institute’s Latin American and Latinx Art Initiative, which seeks to facilitate research on Latin American art with a focus on Central America and its diaspora.
https://www.getty.edu/projects/latin-american-latinx-art-initiative/
"No Time to Mourn" is part of the REDCAT curatorial research "Visions of the nahuales: shape-changers in real time" made possible by Teiger Foundation.
Courtesy of Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT).
Elia Arce is an artist working in a wide variety of media, including installation, performance, experimental theater, writing, photo, video, sculptural performance, and social sculpture. She is the winner of the J. Paul Getty Award, Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Performance Network National Endowment Fund Award, Durfee Individual Artist Award and was nominated for the Herb Alpert / CalArts Award in Theater. Arce also received an award from the Ford Foundation, where she developed a proposal for a new social sculpture project entitled Gulf Coast Art Corridor. In 2010, she received a Fulbright scholarship to teach a semester of Performance Art at the Theater School of the National University of Costa Rica. She has taught at different universities in the United States and Costa Rica and has taught performance workshops in Mexico, Brazil, Mali, Spain, Cuba, and Canada. Arce is the founder and artistic director of USEKRA: Center for Creative Investigation on the Caribbean area of Costa Rica, where artists, academics, anthropologists, sociologists, biologists and other international thinkers meet to challenge perspectives and create work that questions existing standards from Indigenous, Afro-descendant and/or Asian perspectives––cultures that are the pillars of the Talamanca region.
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The Getty Research Institute is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts and their various histories through its expertise, active collecting program, public programs, institutional collaborations, exhibitions, publications, digital services, and residential scholars programs. Its library and special collections of rare materials and digital resources serve an international community of scholars and the interested public. The Research Institute's activities and scholarly resources guide and sustain each other and together provide a unique environment for research, critical inquiry, and scholarly exchange.
Getty Research Institute: https://www.getty.edu/research/
This event occurred on Oct 30, 2025.
Performers:
Elia Arce
Pam Cohen
Rossana Pérez
Sara Aguilar
Speakers:
Elia Arce
Jackie Amezquita
Jasmine Magaña
Costa Rican performance artist Elia Arce presents "No Time to Mourn (An Excerpt)" followed by a conversation with artist Jackie Amezquita and researcher Jasmine Magaña. Arce’s performance continues her ongoing commitment to creating “living monuments,” works that approach memory as collective actions and communally-produced experiences. The conversation following the performance reflects on "No Time to Mourn" and its previous iterations, trace the evolution of Arce’s socially engaged performance art and activist theater in Southern California, and explore material and thematic connections between her practice and the work of a younger generation of artists from the Central American diaspora.
This event is organized by REDCAT and the Getty Research Institute’s Latin American and Latinx Art Initiative, which seeks to facilitate research on Latin American art with a focus on Central America and its diaspora.
https://www.getty.edu/projects/latin-american-latinx-art-initiative/
"No Time to Mourn" is part of the REDCAT curatorial research "Visions of the nahuales: shape-changers in real time" made possible by Teiger Foundation.
Courtesy of Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT).
Elia Arce is an artist working in a wide variety of media, including installation, performance, experimental theater, writing, photo, video, sculptural performance, and social sculpture. She is the winner of the J. Paul Getty Award, Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Performance Network National Endowment Fund Award, Durfee Individual Artist Award and was nominated for the Herb Alpert / CalArts Award in Theater. Arce also received an award from the Ford Foundation, where she developed a proposal for a new social sculpture project entitled Gulf Coast Art Corridor. In 2010, she received a Fulbright scholarship to teach a semester of Performance Art at the Theater School of the National University of Costa Rica. She has taught at different universities in the United States and Costa Rica and has taught performance workshops in Mexico, Brazil, Mali, Spain, Cuba, and Canada. Arce is the founder and artistic director of USEKRA: Center for Creative Investigation on the Caribbean area of Costa Rica, where artists, academics, anthropologists, sociologists, biologists and other international thinkers meet to challenge perspectives and create work that questions existing standards from Indigenous, Afro-descendant and/or Asian perspectives––cultures that are the pillars of the Talamanca region.
______________________________________________________________________
The Getty Research Institute is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts and their various histories through its expertise, active collecting program, public programs, institutional collaborations, exhibitions, publications, digital services, and residential scholars programs. Its library and special collections of rare materials and digital resources serve an international community of scholars and the interested public. The Research Institute's activities and scholarly resources guide and sustain each other and together provide a unique environment for research, critical inquiry, and scholarly exchange.
Getty Research Institute: https://www.getty.edu/research/
