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Legitimation, interdisciplinary performance 2011.

Emilio Santisteban

Interdisciplinary performance artist

Arte de performance, arte da performance, performance art, Lima Peru Sudamérica América do Sul South America.

On a wall on the Via Expresa, located a few blocks away from the MAC-Lima, a graffiti by an anonymous author appeared in 2010, which read in black capital letters:

"MAC: SOCIAL PARASITES".

In 2011, the graffiti was imperfectly covered with dark blue paint. What remained at the entrance to the Zanjón and could be seen from the Metropolitano bus stop in Las Flores resembled a classic political street dispute on walls. On one side, a cry directed at a post-oligarchic institution of the local official art system; on the other, a stifling defense of said institution.

The obvious subject of the cries thus silenced was the location of the

MAC-Lima private museum in a public area claimed by

groups of residents of the Barranco district who are not part of the

interests of the art system. These neighbors were at the time

branded as "ignorant" by the groups interested in the

artistic system, ignorant of the legal, financial and community law issues under complex discussion.

This is a "found" performance that occurs in the urban ritual of the street, a ritual that establishes, in an interdisciplinary act of performance, a conflict of social illegitimacy that the artistic elite tries to ignore.

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