Lucia Monge

Lucia Monge is a Peruvian artist, professor, and author currently living and working in Portland, Oregon. Her practice explores how people engage with other living beings through the intersection between art and science. For the past ten years she has organized Plantón Móvil, a yearly collaborative performance that takes the form of a “walking forest” [1]and leads to the creation of public green areas.

Lucia Monge
Alma materRhode Island School of Design, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Known forPerformance art, sculpture, teaching, lecturer.
Websiteluciamonge.com plantonmovil.org

Monge's recent Unearthing Futures project, in partnership with artist/engineer Xin Liu and the MIT Media Lab, launched 125 potato seeds to the International Space Station on March 7, 2020[2] . After 30 days in Low Earth Orbit, the Peruvian potatoes that travelled to space, were planted and grown by the artists on Earth[3]

Plantón Móvil

This ongoing project started in 2010 in Lima, Peru when Monge and 60 participants mobilized with plants that were then planted in a local park[4].  Since then, Plantón Móvil has been organized yearly in different cities including in Lima as part of the 2014 United Nations Climate Change Conference[5],  in London with the Whitechapel Gallery[6], in Providence, Rhode Island in collaboration with Rhode Island School of Design students, in St. Paul by Hamline University students[7] and in New York with the Queens Museum and NYC Parks[8].

Awards and residencies

In 2014, Monge was a Social Innovation Fellow at Brown University[9] and in 2018,an Eliza Moore Fellow at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation[10]. That same year she was the recipient of an Education Partnership Grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts[11] and participated in the School Residency Program at Whitechapel Gallery[12]. The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory selected Monge for their Art-Science Exchange Residency in 2016[13]. In 2009 she participated in the Artistic Residency Program for Latin American Creators sponsored by the Mexican Secretary Of Culture[14]. In 2019 Monge received the National Cultural Award for Artistic Production given by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture awarded to FIBRA art collective[15] and in 2020, the Support Beam Award from the Regional Arts and Culture Council[16].

Further reading
  • Vich, Víctor (December 13, 2019). Las humanidades por venir. Políticas y debates en el siglo XXI [The Humanities to Come. Policies and debates in the 21st Century] (in Spanish). Rosario: Humanidades y Artes Ediciones. ISBN 978-987-3638-37-4.
  • Hanashiro, Nae; Swanson, Ross (2019). Lucia Monge´s Planton Movil: Towards a New Notion of Democratic Citizanship, University of Toronto in Herrero, Carmen. Globalisation and coloniality of power in También la lluvia / Even the Rain: Exploring resistance and indigenous empowerment. Ottawa: Ottawa Hispanic Studies N° 29. pp. 155–176.
  • Monge, Lucia (2018). Planton Movil: Interspecies Collaboration in the Walking Forest. Global Performance Studies -GPS. pp. Vol. 1, N°2.

References

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    1. Steer, Emily (2016). 5 Questions with Lucia Monge. Elephant Magazine (published July 11, 2016). Retrieved March 13, 2020.
    2. "Unearthing Futures is a collaborative project to decolonize narratives of planetary futures through growing, shaping, and sharing potatoes". Unearthing Futures. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
    3. Xin, Liu (March 3, 2020). "Sojourner 2020: An international art payload to ISS". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
    4. Hare, Andrés (November 22, 2014). "El futuro arde". La Mula. Retrieved March 13, 2020.
    5. "Plantón Móvil". Lima Cop 20. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
    6. "Artist Talk: Lucia Monge - Plantón Móvil". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
    7. "Plantón Móvil". Digital Commons RISD. 2015. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
    8. "Plantón Móvil - Community Performance of Plant-Human migration and mobilization". Queens Museum. October 12, 2019.
    9. "Social Innovation Fellowship". Brown University. 2014.
    10. "Lucia Monge - Eliza Moore Fellow 2018". Oak Spring Garden Foundation. 2018.
    11. "Grant Recipients FY2018". Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. 2018.
    12. "Residency at Willow Brook Primary School". White Chapel Gallery. 2016.
    13. "The Art-Science Exchange at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory". RMBL. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
    14. "Project: Pañuelos de Despedida. Programa de residencias artísticas para creadores, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de México y AECID 2009". Gobierno de México - Cultura. 2008.
    15. "Premio Nacional de Cultura - Estímulos Económicos para la Cultura 2019". Ministerio de Cultura del Perú. 2019.
    16. "Support Beam Round Two Funded through PDXCARES Announced". Regional Arts & Culture Council. November 10, 2020.
    17. "July 2020 - C3: Papermaking Residency with artist Lucia Monge". Pulp + Deckle a paper experience. August 5, 2020.
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