Rita Kamacho
Toronto, Ontario / Mexico
Vibrations Imprints
Performance Summary:
Rita Kamacho walks around the city with a wheelbarrow containing small glass bottles of water. Asking passerby to think of the words “Love” and “Gratitude,” Kamacho will label the bottles with these words and ask them to keep the water for a special time – although they can simply drink it if they feel thirsty or water plants if they wish. She encourages the audience to bless the water they use everyday, during unique occasions, to feel better, to heal themselves, to cook...
Biography:
Rita Kamacho moved from Mexico to Canada in 2001. She creates performance-based projects to research processes and relations that define to each other showing some of the paradoxes of our society. Her projects have been supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. Rita will have her first solo show at Women Art Resource Centre on September 2009.
Artist Statement:
The themes and materials that I select within my works are chosen to convey processes and relations that define each other and show the paradoxes of our society associated with ideas of borders and boundaries between disciplines, places and spaces. I work with elements of the daily life such as chairs, shoes, Christmas lights and diverse objects, modifying and situating them outside of their familiar contexts, to trigger new connotations and standpoints toward these common things. However their inherent meaning is something that I like to explore.
I have been exploring ideas of time and space, understanding space not as a container but as a product of society since living, acting, and working produce space. I have investigated the consciously irreversible condition of time. Capturing interactions, events, and encounters that happened in a distant and indefinite place to get through video, photography and performance the clarity intimacy and distance that these media provide.
Performance Date / Time / Location:
Monday September 21st / 12 - 2 pm / Beaver Hills House Park, Jasper Avenue at 105 Street