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Rocío Boliver (La Congelada de Uva) will be joined by John Bartel and Amelia Jones to discuss her performance practice. The conversation will specifically focus on two works performed in Los Angeles, her 2015 Valentines Day performance at HRLA with Thibault Delferière, The Sea Anemone and the Hermit Crab; and Where is the Beauty? a performance earlier this year at Catch One, organized by the Performance Art Museum.

Video of entire performance of The Sea Anemone and the Hermit Crab: https://vimeo.com/121222646

Rocio Boliver, Where is the Beauty, 2015, Photographs taken by Christopher Wormald courtesy of the Performance Art Museum

“If for some theorists the Performance is “the most radical of the arts”, the actions and themes that Rocio Boliver, La Congelada de Uva (Grape Iced Bar), has carried out during more than thirty years, places her in the most radical wing in the history of the called Art of the Body, in Mexico. Her body art explains how the Dadaist spirit of the happening and of the boutade, takes possession of Rocio Boliver’s personality until turning her into her more tenacious and brilliant emissary: La Congelada de Uva. Situationist leader of the Epiphenomenon of sexual character in Mexico, La Congelada openly exhibits her dangerous vision of the feminism, and places her exotic genitality in the center of her speech. La Congelada de Uva is a lasting icon of the underground culture in Mexico City. Besides being a fundamental piece for the full comprehension of this MeToo and movement, it is a fact that, at least, we already owe to her the creation of some of the most delirious and provocative images in the field of the Art in Mexico.”  –  Rubén Bonet