Lucia Monge Explained

Lucia Monge
Known For:	Performance art, sculpture, teaching, lecturer.
Alma Mater:	Rhode Island School of Design, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

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” and leads to the creation of public green areas.

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. After 30 days in Low Earth Orbit, the Peruvian potatoes that travelled to space, were planted and grown by the artists on Earth

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.  Since then, Plantón Móvil has been organized yearly in different cities including in Lima as part of the 2014 United Nations Climate Change Conference,  in London with the Whitechapel Gallery, in Providence, Rhode Island in collaboration with Rhode Island School of Design students, in St. Paul by Hamline University students and in New York with the Queens Museum and NYC Parks.

Awards and residencies

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

Further reading

• Book: 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. Spanish. Rosario: Humanidades y Artes Ediciones. 978-987-3638-37-4.
• Book: Hanashiro. Nae . 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 Hispanic Studies N° 29 . 2019. Ottawa. 155–176. Swanson. Ross.
• Monge. Lucia . Planton Movil: Interspecies Collaboration in the Walking Forest . Global Performance Studies . Global Performance Studies -GPS . 2018. 1 . 2 . Vol. 1, N°2. 10.33303/gpsv1n2a8 . free .

References

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External links

• Tina Daheley (2018). "Art Against Climate Change." BBC World Service- The Cultural Frontline.
• Planton Movil 08.02.14 in Uneven Growth. Tactical Urbanisms for Latin America. Exhibition in MoMA’s Issues in Contemporary Architecture.
• Inspirando con el ejemplo: Lucia Monge
• Goethe-Institut Peru (2014).
• STEAM Rising: Part One (The Nature Lab)
• Footage of Plantón Móvil
• The Art-Science Exchange at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Retrieved 17 March 2020
• Xin, Liu (3 March 2020). "Sojourner 2020: An international art payload to ISS". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 16 March 2020

1. 1. Steer, Emily (11 July 2016). “5 Questions with Lucia Monge”. Elephant Magazine. Retrieved 13 March 2020
2. 2. “Unearthing Futures” https://www.unearthingfutures.org/ Retrieved 10 January 2021
3. 3. Xin, Liu (3 March 2020). “Sojourner 2020: An international art payload to ISS”. MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 16 March 2020
4. 4. Hare, Andres (22 November 2014). “El futuro arde”. LA MULA, lamula.pe. Retrieved 13 March 2020
5. 5. Plantón Móvil. Lima COP 20 http://www.cop20.pe/
6. 6. “Artist Talk: Lucia Monge”. Whitechapel Gallery. 20 June 2018
7. 7. Plantón Móvil. Digital Commons @ RISD. 2015
8. 8. Plantón Móvil. Community Performance of Plant-Human migration and mobilization Queens Museum. 12 October 2019. https://queensmuseum.org/events/planton-movil
9. 9. Brown University. Programs, Social Innovation Fellowship 2014 https://www.brown.edu/academics/college/swearer/programs/social-innovation-fellowship/11/fellows/lucia-monge
10. 10. Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Lucia Monge. Eliza Moore Fellow 2018 https://www.osgf.org/alumni/lucia-monge
11. 11. Grant Recipients FY2018. Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. https://risca.online/grants/grant-recipients-2018. Retrieved 17 March 2020
12. 12. Residency at Willow Brook Primary School https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/artist-talk-lucia-monge/
13. 13. RMBL. The Art-Science Exchange … https://sites.google.com/site/artscienceexchangermbl/ . Retrieved 17 March 2020
14. 14. Project “Pañuelos de Despedida”. Programa de residencias artísticas para creadores, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de Mexico y AECID 2009. https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=estimulo_fonca&table_id=34881 http://panuelosdedespedida.blogspot.com/
15. 15. Premio Nacional de Cultura, Ministerio de Cultura del Perú. Estímulos Económicos para la Cultura 2019. https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/pdf, Pag. 95
16. 16. Support Beam Initiative of the Regional Arts and Culture Council https://racc.org/2020/11/10/support-beam-round-two-announced
17. 17. JULY 2020 - C3: PAPERMAKING RESIDENCY WITH ARTIST LUCIA MONGE. 08.05.2020. https://www.pulpanddeckle.com/blog/july-2020-c3papermaking-residency-with-artist-lucia-monge