Nelly César

Four reactionary stories lit up by LEDs. This lecture consists of four performative stories dislocated in the interstices of the wounds of Mexico City. They are designed as an attempt to affectively channel critical
standpoints of reactionary social manifestations that
redefine territories, social practices, ontological turning points and affective transmutations - as living proposals of expanded realities in the here and now.

Photo Credit: Rachel Topham

Sound Verison in Episode 9 Link Below

Based on the 9 emotions described as the basic of human facial expression by Guillaume Duchenne. I identified these in the emoji-kamoji contemporary keyboard. Then dissmantled each figure and made a new configuration of universal mixed feelings. The re-inscription obscures the utilitarian purpose of the emoji turning it into a code.

This patchwork design was created during art show opening with pieces of clothing the artist collected during visits to 8 women who work actively leading independent projects on different fields. Its design and manufacture was coached by fashion designer Alejandra Licona creator of Nereo Brand. Could these women's efforts to build other forms of leading in the arts be the path to cracking the glass ceiling? This power coat is a collection of stories of struggle, emotions, life and empowerment.

Artist worked in construction sites in Vancouver to build 4x4 m. cube. Artist works inside the cube drilling it towards its destruction during gallery hours.

2009

Part of the "Procrastinación Curada" project by nohacernada.org , a selection of digital artwork where artists portray their relation to this practice.

2011

2009 / Imitate the behavior of a she dog.

2011/ Desk setting with binders collecting drilled paper.

2014 / Durational Performance / Printed photo 2x6m of the artist taking a selfie. Artist makes out, rubs and dances with the image while listening to techno and taking more selfies. Canvas is placed on the main entrance of Galerías del Palacio in Puebla City, eventually the image faded completely due to the transit of the gallery visitors.

2009
Variable size
Vinyl cut out

Emulating the myth of ostrich behavior of burying their heads. I spent one hour with my head buried and my naked body sticking out in my parents’ garden breathing from a tube.

Compilation of artist singing Mexican folk song Maria Bonita a cappella during a year. Sound piece is shown with headphone coming out of a pile of sand.

2014 / From the Series : 5 impossible interventions to completely change the landscape of the Monet Gardens in Giverny.

2012/ Destroy from the inside a 1x1m black cube inside a gallery fully painted in black.

2011 / Curatorial Work / TopDown ButtomUp, Vancouver CA
2014 / Seminar / Museo Jumex, MX

2013 / Durational Performance/ Artists tightly packs a pig's heart with plastic food wrapper. Artist would work on entombing the heart during gallery hours.

2014-Currently / Pandeo:The Multisocial Venue for Affective Health in Mexico City / Co-Founder & Project Manager

2013

2014 / Performance / Artist crosses on all fours the Burrard Bridge in Vancouver to meet fellow artist Emilio Rojas. Together they build a cocoon and finish crossing the bridge as a living sculpture.

Fun installations!! Duo with Paulina Marrón + other ocasional female artists. Sensorial, colorful, relaxing, selfie-friendly ;) <3 LOL

2011 / Installation / Pieces of Ikea Bed and fabric soaked in a solution of water and menstrual blood

2011 / Performance / with fellow artist Fizeck Ferenz, collaboration with the residents of the Jasdozsa (Hungary) Artist Camp 2011

2011 / Durational Performance / Artist traces borders around objects and people and connecting them to form a constellation / spiderweb

Sound & Digital Print / Photo taken outside the American Embassy in Mexico City, Sound is an overlap of artist singing Mexican folk song Paloma Negra and a recording of her mom singing the same song a cappella.

2008 / Installation / 3x3 m wall covered with piles of human hair / part of solo show "Body.Invasive" at La Luz de la Nevera in Mexico

2011 / Performance / Artist sing Mexican folk son Mi gusto es to a television playing a recording of her father singing the same song in his house in Mexico City

Participación en el colectivo Las Sucias surgido del taller de arte y género en Pinto mi Raya con la artista feminista Mónica Mayer.

2009
Wall intervention

2008/ Durational Performance / Hole dug using a spoon in a cold winter morning at the UBC campus in Vancouver.

2009 / Durational Performance / Artist collected materials on the streets of Buenos Aires and built a shelter, she spend a night there during Hacia un Arte de Encuentro, Centro Cultural Chilavert Recupera, Argentina

2011 / Installation / Public could freely penetrate mountain made out of papier-mâché and foam.

2009 / Durational Performance / Taking naps with stray dogs underneath buses in Cholula, Mexico

Text written after sampling dirt all over UBC campus in Vancouver. The Dirt samples were put inside the UBC Koerner Library in-between the books.

2012 / inside view

2009

2009 / Sketch for a sculpture of a stuffed dog wearing a plastic dildo horn.

2010 / Drawings of nest built in Argentina in performance 2009

2008 / Installation / Cage made out of hair. The Public can introduce themselves into the cage. Cage is the artist's size.

2009
52 x 52 in.
Real fresh grass carpet and white vinyl cut out

Translation: Spend the day inside a “bache” (Mexican expression that refers to street pot holes) with the head at ground level.
The word topo refers to the latin prefix topos attributed to physical places but also to underground animals known as moles. I spent a couple of hours inside a hole in a sidewalk I usually avoided on my way to work.