“THE TRANSITION FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY CORRESPONDS TO THE IMAGE THAT DISAPPEARS IN THE PRINTMAKING PROCESSES (ETCHING) AND THEN REAPPEARS (PRINTED ON THE PAPER). MY WORK CALLS TO THE NEED FOR A SEARCH FOR JUSTICE AND TRUTH, WHICH BY NO MEANS IS FINITE OR TERMINAL, BUT RATHER AN INITIATIVE THAT EXISTS IN AND WITH TIME."
The Javelin Project, Performance still, Santiago, Chile, March 2021
THE JAVELIN PROJECT
This ritual-performance of 30 minutes with original music explores the concept of migration, resistance, and freedom through the history of the ancestral spear to the professional javelin. Inspired by sports, and more specifically on the javelin throw, the project seeks to reflect on issues of power and patriarchy through a choreography based on simple movements from the early aboriginal cultures to the capitalism system we inhabited.
Performance/installation with three screens, lasting 30 minutes. It includes the participation of five dancers, as well as ten hand-crafted javelins (made from wood and copper for the body, with stone, metal, and copper tips, and hemp, wool, and plant fiber bindings). The work also features a musical composition accompanied by three limited edition artist's book (three copies) with metal engravings on felt, fabric, and handmade paper.
The Javelin Project venues
exhibitions, screening and performances
"The Aesthetic of Information: No Olvidaremos", Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, (2023) (3 video channel screening)
"Geology of Memory / Geology de la Memoria", The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2023) (1 video screening)
El Gesto del Volumen, curated by Gallery Weekend, Fundacion Cultural Providencia, Santiago, Chile (2023) (1 video screening)
Proyecto Jabalina, Galeria NAC, Chile (2022), (exhibition with 3 video channel, performance and artist books)
LAartFair, DIVERSEartLA, Musuem of the Americas (AMA), Los Angeles, CA (2021) (projection)
Action Performance, One Moment Art, OMA, (2021) online screening
Queens Museum, (2021), (theater screening +Q&A) sponsored by a NYFA grant
Parquemet, Cerrillos, Chile (2021) original performance
Concept: María Verónica San Martín / Choreography: Jose Vidal / Music: Andrés Abarzúa / Dancers: Daniela Santibáñez, Benjamín Marchant, Tomás Riveros, Imanol Ibarra, María Verónica San Martín / Cámaras: Paula Leonvendagar, Martina Sivori video edition (short): Víctor Leyton / video edition (long) and javelins construction: María Verónica San Martín / Artist books: Maria Veronica San Martín / Acknowledge: Alejandra Herrera, Victor Trujillo, Mauricio Catalán / Performance space: PARQUEMET, Ex aeródromo de Cerrillos, Parque Metropolitano de Santiago Cerrillos-Chile
PRESS
The Javelin Project by María Verónica San Martín at Galería NAC, Santiago, Chile August 15, 2022
https://culturizarte.cl/proyecto-jabalina-por-maria-veronica-san-martin-en-galeria-nac/
Conversations with artists, "Transmisiones", Gallery Weekend Santiago, September 30, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1aSq0gXdRs
Newsprint, El Mostrador, March 23, 2023
https://www.elmostrador.cl/destacado/2023/03/12/artista-chilena-maria-veronica-san-martin-inaugura-muestra-sobre-la-memoria-en-eeuu/
Revista de Arte Contemporáneo, August 12, 2021
Decolonizando el Sur (y el ser) de California, Artishock,
Revista de Arte Contemporáneo, June 13, 2021
Action Performance, One Moment Art, Artishock
The Javelin Project, exhibition with 3 video channel, performance and artist books, Galeria NAC, Santiago, 2022
The Javelin Project, exhibition with 3 video channel, performance and artist books, Galeria NAC, Santiago, 2022
The Javelin Project, Performance still, Santiago, Chile, March 2021
The Javelin Project, Performance video, 1:30 min, Parquemet, Gobierno de Chile, Santiago, March 2021
The Javelin Project, One Monet Art, Matucana100, Stgo Cultura, 2021 (presented during covid
The Javelin Project, Performance still N1, Santiago, Chile, March 2021
The Javelin Project, Performance still N2, Santiago, Chile, March 2021
The Javelin Project, Performance still N3, Santiago, Chile, March 2021
The Javelin Project, Performance still N4, Santiago, Chile, March 2021
The Javelin Project, Performance still, Santiago, Chile, March 2021
The Javelin Project, Chile, 2021. Handcrafted javelins made of wood, copper, metal and wool. ph. Martina Sibori
Handmade javelins, wood, Cooper, metal, stone, resin, whool, cáñamo, vegetal fiber, leather. 2021
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The Javelin Project, Chile, 2021. Handcrafted javelins made of wood, copper, metal and wool. ph. Martina Sibori
Handmade javelins, wood, Cooper, metal, stone, resin, whool, cáñamo, vegetal fiber, leather. 2021
The Javelin Project, performance, Santiago, Chile, 2021. Maria Veronica San Martin y Benjamin Marchant. ph. Martina Sibori
The Javelin Project, research, Chile, 2021. Athletic trainer Alejandra Herrera and Maria Veronica San Martin. ph. Salvador E.
Español
The Javelin Project consiste en un ritual-performance de 30 minutos que explora los conceptos de inmigración, resistencia y libertad desde de la historia de la lanza ancestral hasta la jabalina profesional contemporánea. Inspirado en el lanzamiento de la jabalina de la antigua Grecia, el proyecto busca reflexionar sobre el poder y el patriarcado a través de una coreografía que transita por imágenes que van desde las primeras culturas aborígenes hasta el sistema capitalista que habitamos.
Sobre un paisaje vasto en tonalidades terrestres, la composición musical y arquitectónica nos invita a pensar en un viaje constante y continuo, intercalando elementos, espacios y percepciones como el viento, las olas, la sobrevivencia, el nomadismo, la escritura, la búsqueda, la traslación, el aislamiento, el confinamiento y la colectividad. La coreografía presenta temporalidades aleatorias y cambios de equilibrios, siguiendo un recorrido que busca un espacio cosmológico infinito. La jabalina gravita en el aire, abriendo nuevas posibilidades de narrativas en su caída hacia la tierra.
Medio: Performance/instalación de tres pantallas de duración de 30 minutos. Incluye la participación de cinco bailarines, además de diez jabalinas confeccionadas a mano (cuerpo de madera y cobre, puntas de piedra, metal y cobre, encordaduras de cáñamo, lana y fibra vegetal). El trabajo incluye también una composición musical acompañada de un libro de artista de edición limitada de tres ejemplares con grabados en metal sobre fieltro, tela y papel hecho a mano.
