Eleonora Fabião:
Triptych Miami

Eleonora Fabião: Triptych Miami

In a program designated Triptych Miami, Eleonora Fabião presents three interrelated components. The action I Will Have a Conversation About Any Subject/Converso Sobre Cualquier Asunto finds the artist at various public locations over the course of three days, barefoot, sitting and facing an empty chair, and displaying a sign bearing the invitation of the work’s title. The artist also presents a lecture-performance about her practice; a workshop with young artists titled Performance Art, Artistic Strategies, and Political Imagination (New World School of the Arts); and Light Cloud, an action performed along with the workshop participants in downtown Miami. The unpredictable encounters that result from these open-ended situations constitute the works. 

Born in Brazil in1968, Eleonora Fabião is an artist and theorist who has performed actions in the streets since 2008. In 2011, she received the Arts in the Streets Award from the Brazilian National Foundation of the Arts and, in 2014, the Rumos Itaú Cultural Grant that resulted in the publication of the book AÇÕES/ACTIONS. Fabião is a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in the Theater Directing Undergraduate Program and the Arts of the Scene Graduate Program, where she chairs the artistic experimentation wing. Fabião is interested in the poetics and ethics of the strange, of the encounter, of precariousness. She considers the street actions as forms of knowledge and thought, and understands concepts and theories as sources of energy to keep investigating and inventing city, art, university, and writing. Her performance work has taken place in several venues including as part of Performa15 in New York in 2015, and at the Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica and the Museu Bispo do Rosário, both in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

Eleonora Fabião: Triptych Miami is part of Living Together, curated by Rina Carvajal, MOAD’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, and independent curator Joseph R. Wolin. Living Together is made possible by the generous support of Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council.

I Will Have a Conversation About Any Subject/Converso Sobre Cualquier Asunto 

January 22, 2018, 1:00–5:00 PM 
Domino Plaza, Calle Ocho District

January 23, 2018, 1:00–5:00 PM 
Government Center, Downtown Miami

January 24, 2018, 1:00–5:00 PM 
Lincoln Road, Miami Beach

“An Encounter at the New World School for the Arts, 25 NE 2nd Street, Miami, Building 5, Second Floor, Room 5217, Latitude: 25° 46' N, Longitude: 80° 11' W, Moon 62% Illuminated”

January 25, 7:30 PM 
New World School for the Arts, Miami Dade College

Light Cloud

January 27, 2018, 6:30 PM 
Downtown Miami