Regina Jos\u00e9 Galindo, born 1974 in Guatemala City, lives and works in Guatemala. Galindo is a world-wide acclaimed performance-artist, reflecting issues of gender, power-relations, genocides and the relation of public and performer. Many of her performances are documented by the medium video, becoming art-pieces in their own means.<\/p>\n
IM SCHAUFENSTER presents three performances\/video-works from 2003, 2011 and 2013:<\/p>\n
Tierra,\u00a0<\/strong>2013 Marabunta,\u00a0<\/strong>2011 \u00bfQui\u00e9n puede borrar las huellas?<\/strong>, 2003
\n\u2013 \u201cThe army officers had been drinking in a bar called\u00a0The Three Little Monkeys<\/em>. In the small hours, when they were all quite drunk they decided to go and celebrate by killing people.\u201d
\n\u2013 \u201cHow did they kill people?\u201d asked the judge.
\n\u2013 \u201cFirst they ordered Garcia who was operating the bulldozer to dig a trench. Then the trucks loaded with people parked up opposite El Pino and one by one the people were taken out. They did not shoot them. Usually they were stabbed with bayonets. They tore their chests with the bayonets and then they carried them to the grave. When the grave was full the bulldozer covered the bodies with earth.”
\n(Testimony was heard during the genocide trial of R\u00edos Montt and Mauricio Rodr\u00edguez S\u00e1nchez, Guatemala City 2013)<\/p>\n
\nCaribbean Ants
\n“you imagine the caribbean sea like an anteater devouring the Antilles” (Homero Pumarol R.D.)
\nAn action that consisted of totally dismantling a car, on the public space and with Galindo as the driver inside. A team of 21 men approaches her when she \u00a0parks the car and begins to take it apart, piece by piece, until it has entirely disappeared.<\/p>\n
\nA long walk from the Constitutional Court to the National Palace of Guatemala, leaving a trail of footsteps made in human blood, in memory of the victims of the armed conflict in Guatemala, and in rejection of the presidential candidacy of the military, genocidal and former coup supporter, Efra\u00edn R\u00edos Montt, Guatemala 2003.<\/p>\n