Marco Guagnelli: Living architectures
PLACE: Turku City Library courtyard, Linnankatu 2
DATE & TIME: Sat 6.9. at 13-15
DURATION: 2 hours. No pre-booking needed.
LANGUAGE: None.
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Living Architectures investigates the relationship between the body, clothing, and space focusing on “architectural prosthetics”. The artist has developed wearable human-size buildings that operate as extensions of his body allowing for unexpected experiences, actions, and gestures. The garments are playful tools to animate architecture and explore how we inhabit different built environments. The performance is site specific: it engages in a dialogue with the surrounding buildings and structures where it is happening — the library, the Maaherran Virkatalo and a bench— inviting us to pay attention to the everyday interactions, both material and spatial, occurring between our bodies and urban spaces.
Marco Guagnelli (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Chicago. Working at the intersections of performance, socially engaged art, and fashion, his practice explores themes of human-nature relationship, civil rights, and gender. He has over nine years of experience teaching in prisons, migrant shelters, and with youth in violent contexts across Mexico, and more recently in Chicago.
Guagnelli’s work has been presented internationally in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, the United States, and Spain. He earned his MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2024).