Sign , incessant accumulation of performance art, since 2010
Emilio Santisteban
Durational performance artist
Signal is a process ofceaseless accumulation of performancee, a regular performance for life that has been taking place since 2010 in the presence of passers-by, employees, customers, security agents and video surveillance networks of the financial system, inserting the gesture of drawing the sign of the cross on one's own body.
So far, it has been carried out in the following countries and cities:
Peru: Ácora, Arequipa, Asia, Barranca, Cusco, Ilave, Lima, Pomata, Puno, San Bartolo, Santa María del Mar, Trujillo.
Spain: Atienza, Barcelona, Donostia, Iruña, Lizarra, Madrid, Santo Domingo de la Calzada; Siguenza, Toledo.
Germany: Berlin, Braunschweig, Frankfurt.
Brazil: Salvador de Bahia, São Paulo.
France: Nantes, Paris.
Netherlands: Amsterdam, The Hague.
Austria, Vienna.
Belgium, Brussels.
Colombia Bogota.
Ecuador: Quito.
Mexico: Mexico.
Performance 35,000. 23.10.2021. Photos © Lizet Díaz Machuca.
Sign in Salvador de Bahía (Brazil) and Braunschweig (Germany) in 2010 and in Lima (performance 30,000, 12/08/2017) Photos © Daniela Félix, Juan Montelpare (Salvador de Bahía), Nadia Salom (Braunschweig), Lizet Díaz Machuca (Lima ).