an authentic way of making art:
-multidisciplinary - culture and public art consultant - art facilitator -
- social interventions -
www.iamalejandro.com
Artist statement
I am an interrupter, a social activist, a post-modernist, a disrupt-or and at times a shape-shifter. Many personas and characters come alive for the participatory arts interventions I perform. It is my interest to formalize conversations about uncomfortable issues that most people don’t want to talk about .
My current interests are works that generally examines different forms of arts adapted to conceptual performances that question the battle between counterculture and mass manipulated perceptions. I adopt personas to challenge the oppressors and question normative standards. My body and characters become the main vessel to bring together anonymous interventions, human installations, social activism, cultural resistance, photography, painting and poetry.
The projects navigate concepts of identity, post-colonialism, prophecy, construction of paradigms, anti-prophecy and the perceptions of different realities. I want my work to be participatory, site specific and at times anonymous to challenge the idea of ownership and preservation. Some of the work only exists in the memory of those who participate and/or witness it.
I choose to not document my work as a reaction to the establishment and for self preservation.