Performance

Esther Ferrer

L’art de la performance
théorie et pratique

20.03.18 — 19:00

CN D Pantin

Esther Ferrer has been performing since the 1960s, alone or with the ZAJ group (with Juan Hidalgo and Walter Marchetti). Her work is always focused on art/action, ephemeral practice, rather than art/production. To this end, in Spain in the early 1960s, she founded the first Free Expression Workshop with the painter José Antonio Sistiaga. In the 1970s, Esther Ferrer began focusing on the visual arts, reworking photographs, installations, objects and paintings based on prime numbers. Her work displayed a specific kind of minimalism that might be defined as the ‘rigour of the absurd’. In 1999, she represented Spain at the Venice Biennale. During her career as performer, she has taken part in festivals throughout Europe   (France, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain, Switzerland, England, Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, etc.) as well as in Canada, Japan, Thailand, Korea, Cuba, Mexico, the United States. She has given symposia on performance in universities all over the world. At the CN D, Esther Ferrer theorises and Esther Ferrer practices. Or the other way round, but she never repeats herself.