Legitimation, interdisciplinary performance 2011.
Emilio Santisteban
Interdisciplinary performance artist
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.



