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Nicolas Dumit Estevez

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IMAGE 1 - USA Paradisiaca, 2001, performance/mixed media, various dimensions. - I host a comprehensive presentation on the plantain at a restaurant, while performing in collaboration with the staff. Guests join regular patrons of a Latino restaurant in Queens to sample what to many of them is "the other" in a dinner consisting of five dishes made out of a subtropical fruit, the plantain. In this piece the plantain and the immigrant are interchangeable subjects of a visual/edible presentation that warns the audience to watch out for the indelible stains that can result from handling this specimen.
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IMAGE 2 - The Flag, 2003-, performance/installation, various dimensions. - I create a proposal for the first Dominican York flag: a hybrid produced out of two ready-mades: the Dominican flag and the US flag. I include photographs and artifacts that relate to the making of "The Flag" as a mean to insert the project into the historical context of the aforementioned patriotic symbols.
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IMAGE 3 - He Surfs, 2002 and IMAGE 6 - He Dives, 2002, both screen prints, 40 X 5.5 in. - I create a series of postcards to advertise a fictitious tropical resort. - IMAGE 4 - Recuerdo de mis 15, 2001, performance/installation, various dimensions. - In Recuerdo de mis 15, modeled on a coming-of-age ceremony celebrated in Latin societies, I am the guest of honor, and conclude the performance by having the audience use their bare hands to help them devour an elaborate cake, suggesting a fetishistic relationship between the debutant(e)'s body and the dessert. - - IMAGE 5 - Consartcration/ Free art for sale*, 2004. - For this project I market my services as an artist, inviting an e-bay based audience to participate in a conceptual transaction in which, by means of a consecration act performed through the internet, I bless the highest amount bid as art. Winner is provided with a certificate signed by the artist, stating the amount 'paid' for the piece and confirming the authenticity of the artwork purchased. Certain conditions apply*
Nicolas Dumit Est'vez is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance art. His work has been exhibited in New York at P.S.1/Clocktower Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Cynthia Broan Gallery, Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Arts Center, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Queens Museum of Art, The Newark Museum, Dixon Place, P.S.122, Exit Art, Cuchifritos, HEREart,
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Longwood Art Gallery, DCTV and Smack Mellon, and at the Museo de Arte Moderno and Museo del Hombre Dominicano in the Dominican Republic. In 2001-2002 he was chosen to be part of The National Studio Program at P.S.1. Est'vez is currently the recipient of a 2003-2006 Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from Tides Foundation. Beginning in September 2004 he will hold a Cyber Residency at Longwood Arts Project in the Bronx.
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