Sunday, May 6, 2018

Astrid Hadad


This week we discussed the work of Mexican artist Astrid Hadad. As professor Lopez Gaspar de Alba commented, Hadad is known for her performances from small local showings to large scale performances. Additionally, Hadad is famously known for her unique costumes. Astrid Hadad is a Mexican actress as well as performance artist who was born in Mexico and attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Hadad has performed in numbers of shows. One of the most popular shows Hadad took part of was the all female Mozart’s opera. Hadad has put a twist on performance, and has also added her own way of singing that does not follow the traditional expectation of women singing in very soft, low voices. This twist can be seen specifically in her famous “canto bravio.”


Hadad recently made a visit in 2017 to Westwood at the Hammer Museum for the Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 exhibition. This exhibition is important with its purpose of making visible the artistic practices of various women artist with Latin American heritage, and different performance works. Hadad’s performance at the exhibition was the “(De)Constructing Mexicanidad.” Hadad is famously known for fusing both Mexican and Latin Music, as well as engaging in topics such as machismo, corruption and Mexican hypocrisy as seen in her performance. In doing this Hadad also adds a feminist perspective to her works. In the (De)Constructing Mexicanidad Hadad contextualizes some of the most prominent Mexican symbols which are the flag, cactus and the border amongst others.

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