Blurring The Self (2021-24)

Verónica Peña

Blurring The Self (2021–current) is an evolving participatory performance and video art work, exploring the underwater metamorphosis of the self, as it strives for both individual and collective harmony. In this one-on-one experience, Verónica Peña invites participants to symbolically dissolve the barriers to human unity through an underwater headshake—a gesture that signifies disagreement in some cultures, affirmation in others.

As Verónica describes: “In the stillness of water, there is a profound place where we can shake off the boundaries that separate us. It’s in that moment of immersion that we find the possibility of unity.”

We welcome you to join this co-creative process of personal discovery and transformation. In appreciation, you will receive an underwater photograph capturing your immersion. 

To learn more about this project visit our website

Performance Assistant: Sara Cowdell

Date and Time:

Saturday 23rd of November, 11 am – 3 pm
Sunday 24th of November, 11 am – 3 pm

Location:

Tūranga Central Library, Creative Space/Garden

Trigger warnings:

none

Interactive, Interdisciplinary, Paid, Performance, Saturday, Sunday

About

VERÓNICA PEÑA (Spain/US) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, independent curator, and international-community advocate. Her work explores absence, separation, and the search for harmony through performance art, underwater submersion, and audience participation. Peña performs/exhibits primarily in Europe, and America: Museo Ex Teresa (Mexico City), Museo La Neomudéjar (Madrid), Satellite Art Fair (Miami Art Week), Queens Museum, Times Square, Armory Show, others. Peña received a FCA Grant 2022, Creative Capital NYC Taller 2020, Franklin Furnace Fund 2018, published “The Presence Of The Absent”, was reviewed by Donald Kuspit, and on Hyperallergic. She leads Performance Art Open Call, a +33,000 FB Community. She received an MFA from Stony Brook University.