
Guatemala.
Here, a group of artists and curators have been using art as an effective tool for addressing past traumas, and as a way of building a alternative future. (As the CIA notes on their own website, the US was involved—along with the United Fruit Company—in supporting a 1954 coup against Guatemala’s democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz. This culminated in a civil war that paralyzed the country for 42 years, and which ended only with the peace accords of 1996). (Guggenheim)
Artist and Performance Art Groups
- Collectives
- Las Curanderas
- Ix Saq’il ik’
- Mujeres Ajkchowen
- Unresearched
- Margarita Azurdia
- Stefan Benchoam
- María Adela Díaz
- Hellen Ascoli
- Marilyn Boror Bor
- Edgar Calel
- Benvenuto Chavajay
- Manuel Chavajay
- Dario Escobar
- Wingston González
- Eny Roland Hernandez
- Benjamín Herrarte
- Marta Olga Herrarte
- Lucrecia Herrera
- Fernando Iturbíde
- Lucía Ixchíu
- Jessica Kairé
- Jessica Lagunas
- Aníbal López
- Byron Mármol
- María del Carmen Pellecer Mayora
- Sandra Monterroso
- Yoshua Okon
- José Oquendo
- Alejandro Paz
- Antonio Pichillá
- Ángel Poyón
- Proyectos Ultravioleta
- Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa
- Marie Joe Rochas
- Ever Rodas
- Maya Saravia
- Mario García Torres
- Emiliano Valdés
Aritcles
- Performing Localities: Recent Guatemalan Performance Art on Video Dario Escobar, Regina José Galindo, Anibal Lopez
- Brave New World: Young Artists From Guatemala
- Curanderas: Maya Women Resisting Violence through Theater and Performance
- Performing Localities: Recent Guatemalan Performance Art on Video Rosina Cazali, Oriana Baddeley, Julian Stallabrass
- Dispatch: Guatemala City
- Free Unions. Returning Souls (Popol Vuh [Wuj]), a Performance by Benvenuto Chavajay
- Guatemala Memory and Timeless Avant-Garde (book)
- Human Rights and Performance in Guatemala (class)
- In Guatemala, the Bienal de Arte Paiz Offers an Object Lesson in Community-Based Art Done Right
- Lucía Ixchíu: As an Indigenous Woman, Art Has Saved My Life
- Unflinching Arte Paiz Bienal Seeks Justice in Guatemala