The Fight is a project that synthesizes a boxing, dance, and music performance created in collaboration with three boxing clubs from Southwark: Fitzroy Lodge ABC, Fisher Downside ABC, and Lynn ABC. This project includes five amateur fights featuring specially composed music by Mc Mic Assassin and a choreography created by the street dance company Flawless. Members of the boxing clubs arrive from the Millennium Bridge and the river Thames as two simultaneous processions gathering outside the Tate Modern before entering the building to perform on the bridge over the Turbine Hall. The performance The Fight is the culmination of a series of multidisciplinary workshops conducted by Panamanian UK-based artist Humberto Vélez. This project highlights the complexity of creating a new aesthetic language based on popular cultural images and icons. Through the juxtaposition of the fight, the music and the dance choreography, possibilities for understanding this expansion of the artistic are revealed in this project.
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[Bio c. 2011] Humberto Vélez studied Law and Political Sciences at the University of Panama and was awarded a scholarship from The Foundation of Latin American Cinema for studying Filmmaking and TV in the International School of Cinema of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, founded by Gabriel García Márquez. He has been an artist in residence in Vienna, London (Triangle Arts Trust-Gasworks), Sheffield (UK), London Southend-on-Sea (METAL) and Paris (Cite des Arts) and most recently the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada. In 2000, he presented his first solo exhibition “Instalaciones” (Installations) at the Museum for Contemporary Art...
Field, Studio, Lab was the third Ethnographic Terminalia Exhibtion. It took place at Eastern Bloc Centre for New Media and Interdisciplinary Art in Montreal.