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contemporary art fair bogotรก 2008
La Otra catalogue
Staff contemporary art fair bogotรก
La Otra contemporary art fair carrera 5 # 26-28 bogotรก-colombia T : + 571 282 69 75 / 2437752 www.laotraferia.com
Director Jairo Valenzuela H.
Co-ordination of Exhibition Logistics
Artistic Direction and Symposium
Public Relations and Communications
General Co-ordination
Adriana Mejia
Conversing with La Otra Co-ordination of Symposium Logistics
Conversing with La Otra International Consultant
General Co-ordination of Mounting
Elisabeth Vollert
Ana Sokoloff
Juana Afanador
Antonella Capuzzo
Angela Carrizosa
Ernesto Restrepo
International Mounting Consultant
Naomi McLeod
Internship Co-ordination
Viviana Villamil Legal Consultant
Mauricio Gรณmez Sponsorship / Publicity
S&M group Jackie Merchรกn, Stefania Salocchi Content coordination and Translation
Erin R. Anderson
Print and Web Design
Felipe Castelblanco, Juan Camilo Fonnegra, Paola Gonzalez
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List of Exhibitors
La Otra ADN Gallery, Alcuadrado,
Galleries Barcelona, Spain 309
Bogotá, Colombia 304
BBVA Collection, Bogotá, Colombia 201 (floor 2) Bell-Roberts Gallery, Casas Reigner,
Bogotá, Colombia 313
Christopher Paschall, Die Ecke,
Bogotá, Colombia 305
Santiago, Chile 306
El Garaje Gallery,
Bogotá, Colombia 311
Full Dollar Gallery, GASP,
Cape Town, South Africa 310
Guayaquil, Ecuador 314
Boston, MA, USA 307
harto_espacio,
Montevideo, Uruguay 317
Kiosko Gallery, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia 308 La Cometa Gallery,
Bogotá, Colombia 312
Valenzuela Klenner Gallery,
Bogotá, Colombia 303
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Independent Spaces
La Perra Blanca,
Tunja, Colombia
Periférico Caracas / Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela Populardelujo, Bogotá, Colombia La Gata Cirko, Bogotá, Colombia
La Otra Projects Artes No Decorativas,
Quito, Ecuador
Avatar Architettura, Florence, Italy Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Pages,
Mexico City, Mexico
Teheran, Iran / Rotterdam, Holland
Torolab, Tijuana, Mexico Tranvía Cero,
Quito, Ecuador
WASH-lavandería de arte, Quito, Ecuador In Situ Projects,
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Bogotá, Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
La Otra Video Art / Sound Art Archivo ESCORIA nuevos medios ecuador, Quito, Ecuador European Media Art Festival,
Osnabrück, Germany
Centro Experimental Oido Salvaje, Quito, Ecuador El Colectivo Expresso, Adriana Cuellar,
Bogotá, Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
La Otra Publications Adbusters,
Vancouver, Canada
Arte al Dia,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Arte Marcial, BOMB,
Lima, Peru
New York, NY, USA
Cartel Urbano, Chimurenga,
Bogotá, Colombia
Cape Town, South Africa
Curare, Mexico City, Mexico Elniuton,
Bogotá, Colombia
La Silueta,
Bogotá, Colombia
Nolens Volens,
Madrid, Spain
Revista Exclama, Zehar,
Bogotá, Colombia
San Sebastián, Spain
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ADN Gallery Barcelona, Spain
Director Miguel Ángel Sánchez Assistent Director Susanna Corchia
www.adngaleria.com
Featured Artists (Democracia) Iván López Pablo España
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ADN Gallery was founded in 2003 with the desire to create a space through which to disseminate our generation’s artistic trends and ideas. ADN Gallery aims to serve as an open and dynamic space, showcasing current developments in art and fostering a dialogue among professionals, art lovers and the general public alike. Our program also includes other
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cultural expressions, such as performance art, contemporary dance and video creation, among others.
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Alcuadrado Bogotﾃ｡, Colombia
Directors Juan Gallo R. Gloria Saldarriaga P. www.alcuadrado-art.com
Featured Artist Jaime ﾃ」ila
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Alcuadrado is a gallery whose space changes settings constantly, in order to work in dialogue with the works of its artists. Each exhibition presents the artists with an opportunity to experiment with the place, both spatially and conceptually, and encourages the public to interact with different artistic contexts, thus generating new meanings of urban space and pushing the gallery to develop new ways of conceiving of and working with contemporary art. Alcuadrado has carried out 15 projects in locations as diverse as factories, theatres, abandoned hotels, colonial churches, hospitals and public spaces such as the Cali River, which served as a
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Installation Pyroxylin on glass Variable dimensions 2008
projection screen. The gallery participates in Art Basel Miami Beach and ARCO en Madrid.
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BBVA Collection Bogotá, Colombia
Curator Carlos Betancourt Artists in the Collection Rafael Ortiz, Liliana Sánchez, Milena Bonilla, David Peña, Nicolás Paris, Wilger Sotelo, Adriana Bernal, Juan Carlos Garzón, Camilo Echevarria, Libia Posada, Sandra Patricia Navia, Gabriel Antolinez, Carlos Montoya, Nicolás Cárdenas, Ana Adarve, Paulo Licona, y Verónica Uribe
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Founded in 2006, this project aspires to expand the spaces available for the development of contemporary Colombian art. Heir to the BBVA painting competition, of which three editions were realized, this Salón de Arte has established itself conceptually, methodologically and logistically as a new program. It seeks to revitalise the efforts of its predecessor, maintaining a sufficient openness so as to enable any artist in the country to participate, while articulating this participation through a curatorial terrain that showcases the distinct reflections of present-day Colombian art. The development of each one of the salones has involved an initial open call for portfolios, a pre-selection of artists based on an initial curatorial hypothesis, project visits and discussions in the artists’ workshops, and a collective show. The exhibitions “Topologies: Matter in transit” (2006) and “Operation Theatres: Zones in friction” (2007) have travelled to different spaces around the country, such as the Luis Ángel Arango Library, the Museum of Antioquia, Lugar a Dudas, the Tertulia Museum and the Barranquilla Museum of Modern Art. Each edition of the salon has concluded with the selection of a group of works for BBVA’s art collection. These artists comprise a shortlist, highlighting the talent of different generations that represent key aspects of contemporary Colombian art.
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CAPE / Bell-Roberts Gallery Cape Town, South Africa
Director Mirjam Asmal-Dik (CAPE) Brendon and Suzette Bell-Roberts (Bell-Roberts Gallery) www.capeafrica.org www.bell-roberts.com
Featured Artists Cameron Platter, Tanya Poole, Lyndi Sales, Stuart Bird, Nastio Mosquito, and Chike Obeagu
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CAPE Africa Platform (CAPE) is a not-for-profit company founded in 2003 with the mission to produce ground-breaking contemporary African art events for Cape Town, South Africa and Africa. It is CAPE’s mission to create innovative African art events that are rooted in the local, but global in impact.
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For the occasion of La Otra, CAPE has joined forces with Cape Town’s Bell-Roberts Gallery, established in March 2000. The gallery has hosted
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numerous solo and group exhibitions, many accompanied by catalogues, and remains committed to providing a forum for younger, cutting-edge African artists. Representing both emerging and established artists, its
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exhibitions cross the ambit of all forms of contemporary art practice: painting, sculpture, performance, installation, photography and new media.
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Casas Riegner Gallery Bogotรก, Colombia
Director Catalina Casas www.casasriegner.com
Featured Artists Adriana Arenas Wilger Sotelo Rosemberg Sandoval
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Rosemberg Sandoval VENUS.2000 – 2007. 1 Photograph 50 x 74.5 cm Single edition
Casas Riegner was founded in Miami in 2001. In 2004, the gallery embarked on an ambitious project: to disseminate contemporary Colombian art, not only at the local level but also internationally. Toward this end, the gallery opened its doors in BogotĂĄ in March 2005. The gallery project is grounded in the investigation and selection of artists, with a foundation in a clear curatorial concept: to present artistic approaches that are material reflexive exercises as much as they are conceptual.
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Adriana Arenas
Lo grande que es perdonar
(The importance of forgiving)
Canoe Variable dimensions Holographic Sculpture 2007
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Christopher Paschall Bogotá, Colombia
Director Christopher Paschall Featured Artists Raúl Marroquín León Trujillo Joel Grossman
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Raúl Marroquin Christopher Paschall Arte Contemporáneo (CPAC) was established in 2008, arising from the director’s need to realise projects that were different from those which, up to that moment, had been exhibited in the gallery entreArte. Although it continues to occupy the same space as entreArte, the artists and projects exhibited by CPAC focus on new trends and enable a more intimate connection to the production of contemporary art.
Superman y la torre de Pissa (Superman and the tower of Pisa) Installation and Video Variable dimensions 2004 2 Portrait of Philip Glass
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Die Ecke Santiago, Chile
Directors Paul Birke Ethel Klenner (Curator) www.dieecke.cl
Featured Artists Alejandra Prieto BenjamĂn Marambio Catalina Bauer Julen Birke.
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Alejandra Prieto Nike (model Marx) Lambda print on photographic paper. 1/3 58,5 x 85 cm 2008 2
Benjamín Marambio Mares
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(Seas) DVD Loop – 2 minutes 1/5 2007 3
Catalina Bauer
Corazón
(Heart)
Die Ecke, inaugurated in 2005 in Santiago, Chile, is an independent
Raffia and woven nylon thread 53 x 43 x 4 cm 2007
exhibition space whose fundamental objective is to contribute to the development, diffusion and commercialisation of contemporary artistic expression, with a special emphasis on the promotion of the new generation of Chilean artists. The gallery is directed by Paul Birke in collaboration with Ethel Klenner.
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(Project Honeycomb 2)
Mixed techniques 30 x 20 cm 2008 galleries
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Full Dollar Gallery Guayaquil, Ecuador
This project was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador in early 2004. A port with a population of 2,000,000 people, in recent years, Guayaquil has suffered from an accelerated process of major urban renewal. The gallery is conceptualised as an independent space that is spontaneously appropriated by the Full Dollar Corporation, a private organisation that dedicates itself to producing academic and artistic interventions that contribute commentary surrounding the problematic position of contemporary art in relation to urbanist agendas. The Corporation owes its name to a sign found in its original location, presumably the logo of a commercial payphone company. This iconography is maintained and utilised as a means of identifying the spatial locations of our distinct projects, those same projects that are now
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Director Enrique Soto Casas galeriaelgaraje@gmail.com
Featured Artists Camilo Calderón, Ana Belén Cantoni, Lía García, Carlos Mario Giraldo, Juan David Laserna, Aníbal Maldonado, Cristina Ochoa, Daniel Salamanca, Alejandro Sánchez, Gustavo Villa El Garaje Gallery was founded in Bogotá in March 2004. Its core objective is the diffusion and promotion of young artists, serving as a platform to support their artistic careers.
El Garaje Gallery Bogotá, Colombia
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GASP Boston, MA, USA
Directors M.M. Campos-Pons Neil Leonard www.g-a-s-p.net
At Gasp we believe Art is a powerful tool that enriches, reflects, and propels change that affects human experience. In the 21st century, art mirrors a world constituted by a tapestry of artistic languages and critical thinking that cross-pollinates and coexists in hybrid stages; from new languages of the digital age to new disciplines in art, the art of today is produced in a context where differences should be tolerated, distances are negotiated, 28
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Matthew Clearly Gasp is a portal of ideas originated by artists to further explore the relation and location of art production and the community/ies that inspire and fuel it, to construct through dialogue and openness a placement of the artistic practices that engage and provoke questions along with an awareness of our complex and fragile times. Gasp attempts to create a space for artistic exchange where artists will explore and propose new possibilities for contemporary practices, a site for collaboration between disciplines and fields in the contemporary cultural
Elementary Acrylic on vinyl 12” x 8” 2008 2
Disnarda Pinilla Unfinished Business Inkjet print on acetate, clear and mirror acrylic, sell-cast acrylic 10 editions of 24 drawings 9” x 7”, 10.25” x 7.5” 2008
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harto_espacio Montevideo, Uruguay
Directors Adela Casacuberta Antar Kuri www.hartoespacio.com
Featured Artists Balam Bartolomé, Dulce Chacón, Heráclito López, Mora Diez, Enrique Minjares, Jorge Sosa, Adriana Riquer, José Luis Cortes, Silvina Arismendi, Francisco Cunha, Nicolás Pupo, Ignacio Chincoya, Perdedores
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Balam Bartolomé
“Pacas de a kilo”
(Kilo sacks)
50 kg of grass maté and packing tape Variable dimensions 2007 2
Dulce Chacón “Tape master” (right) “Earth, wind and fire” (left) Watercolor and ink on paper 34.5 x 24.5 cm 2007
harto__espacio is a curatorial project based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Commencing its activities in 2004, it places an emphasis on the realisation of local projects and on their insertion into the international art circuit. harto_espacio currently represents artists from Mexico, Uruguay and Sweden. It has participated in festivals including MACO (Mexico City, 2007) and arteBA (Buenos Aires, 2008).
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Perdedores (Uzi Sabah and Antar Kuri) “untitled” Collage with slides Variable dimensions 2008
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Kiosko Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Director Raquel Schwartz www.kioskogaleria.com
Featured Artists Douglas Rodrigo Rada Roberto Valcรกrcel Raquel Schwartz Roberto Unterladstaetter Narda Alvarado
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Roberto Unterladstaetter
“Soy Nadie”
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(“I am Nobody”) Posters in a public throughway 2005
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Roberto Valcárcel
“Miedos”
(“Fears”)
Objects Enamel on wood 2002 3
Raquel Schwartz Photography from the series Illusion V “Comedor”
(“Dining Room”)
Kiosko Gallery is an independent space generated and directed by artists, which aims to disseminate, promote and give incentive to contemporary art in the region. Kiosko has two exhibition spaces with shows throughout the year and an international residency program. Alternatively, it generates projects for other spaces, indoor as well as outdoor.
Digital Print 2008 4
KILLING TIME / MATANDO EL TIEMPO Video performance in collaboration with the Escuela de Clavado De Dolphijns (6 min.) Amsterdam - Holland 2005 La Paz - Bolivia 2008 galleries
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La Cometa Gallery Bogotรก, Colombia
Director Esteban Jaramillo Florez www.lacometagaleria.com
Featured Artists Nadir Figueroa Cesar del Valle
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Cesar del Valle
Retrato III
(Portrait III) Pencil on paper 40.5 x 29.7 cm 2008 2
Nadir Figueroa De la errancia entre el nadir y el cenit Diorama 13
(Of the errance between the nadir and the zenith Diorama 13)
Acrylic, wood, glass, etc 77 x 76 x 80 cm 2008 3
Nadir Figueroa De la errancia entre el nadir y el cenit Diorama 8
(Of the errance between the nadir and the zenith Diorama 8)
Modern and contemporary art in a custom-made exhibition space. Colombian masters with well-established careers and a select group of young artists.
Acrylic, neon lights, glass, etc 54.5 x 54.5 x 21.5 cm 2007
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Valenzuela Klenner Gallery Bogotá, Colombia
Director Jairo Valenzuela H. www.vkgaleria.com Valenzuelaklenner@gmail.com
Featured Artists Liliana Angulo Milena Bonilla Raimond Chavez Wilson Díaz Victor Escobar Lina González Nicolás Paris José Alejandro Restrepo
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José Alejandro Restrepo
Relicario con hueso de craneo
(Reliquary with a skull)
(Video Still) 14” monitor, DVD Black and white, 6 min, 2008 2
Victor Escobar
Since 1989, the Valenzuela Klenner Gallery has developed a noteworthy approach to contemporary artistic expression. Its focus and content assume a critical commitment to generating reflections and enquiry surrounding current transformations and trends in the field. Specialising in contemporary Latin American art, it places a particular emphasis on exhibiting and promoting works that are produced in and that emerge from the Colombian context. The gallery utilises its two exhibition spaces, a project exhibition hall and an outdoor patio, to showcase its annual programming.
Serie “Traquira” (“Traquira” Series) Variable dimensions Fired ceramic, strass crystals, aluminium 2008 3
Nelson Vergara
MENEGUA Video installation (Ed. of 3) DVD 10’ (loop), 4 DVD portable sony 800 x 600 cm, sound in 3, set in wooden boxes, cable
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La Perra Blanca Collective Tunja, Colombia
Members HĂŠctor Monsalve Edgar Barrera Carlos CarreĂąo cachm76@hotmail.com
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Since 1999, La Perra Blanca has positioned itself as a sensitive space that seeks to examine itself from the perspective of the honest, everyday character of Boyacá; as semi-rural, semi-urban citizens; as the daughter of its time and space; as the product of the Tunja of the 20th Century and that which is entering into the 21st. Strategies for Disappearing from the Map of Boyacá This is a shared proposal that seeks to generate reflection on the setting of Boyacá as a territory and a context, arising from a sense of its disappearance. This State, in spite of its wealth of natural and human resources, has been perpetually relegated in the national sphere, always discounted as a result of being Bogotá’s back patio. It is the “land of servants and security guards,” along with the rest of those taunting nicknames that have turned it into the brunt of the jokes of its own people and others, thanks to wonderful people like Don Gediondo, the Boyaco and other “luminaries” bred by this Land of Liberty.
Manuel Barón El Hoyo de la Papa (The Potato Hole) Photographic Documentation 2008
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Periférico Caracas / Arte Contemporáneo Caracas, Venezuela
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periferico_caracas@cantr.net
Featured Artists Alfred Wenemoser Gerd Leufert Jaime Gili Héctor Fuenmayor Juan José Olavarría Alí González Alessandro Balteo Juan Carlos Rodríguez Mariana Bunimov Miguel Rodríguez Sepúlveda Suwon Lee
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Since its creation, the principal objective of Periférico Caracas / Arte Contemporáneo has been to generate a community around contemporary art, not only in the sense of capturing diverse publics, but also in terms of the spheres of artistic creation, critique and thought. Following from this premise, Periférico Caracas seeks to encourage discussion surrounding the new context of artistic production in Venezuela. First of all, it constructs a history and a reflection on the recent memory of Venezuelan art, which takes into account different visions of artistic modernity, as well as strategies of silencing and/or the historical determination of languages of renewal. Another aspect considered as a part of Periférico Caracas’s curatorial criteria is the political context or conditions of production: Straight-on or oblique examinations of sociopolitical circumstances and events surrounding the discursive logic of the art, with a particular focus on analysing relationships of power, the market and authority. A third curatorial axis that grounds Periférico Caracas’s profile in an explicit purpose is its relationship to international art: the intertwining of perceptions, in which local dynamics come into confrontation
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Juan José Olavarría
Bandera quemada en Bolivia (Burnt Flag in Bolivia) Fabric, 90 x 30 cm 2008 Photograph by Rodrigo Benavides 2 View of the exhibition of Mariana Bunimov Un mundo feliz (A happy world) 2008 Photograph by Rodrigo Benavides 3
Miguel Rodríguez Sepúlveda Emergía (It Emerged) Performance during the First Latin American Encounter of Alternative Spaces 2008 Photograph courtesy of Ignacio Pérez
with foreign interpretations, re-emphasising the variations and definitions of the canon.
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Populardelujo Bogotรก, Colombia
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www.populardelujo.com
Featured Artist Arnulfo Herrada
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Populardelujo is an unfinished and interminable project, empirical and mutant, that takes the city of Bogotá as the principal object of its work. Populardelujo researches and collects information surrounding the culture of Bogotá; it produces texts, conferences and exhibitions, while linking and
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Mujer
(Woman)
50 x 70 cm Enamel
promoting like-minded initiatives that share common concerns. In this way, Populardelujo forms a dynamic centre of information, employing diverse formats and an accessible tone to integrate multiple visions of the ordinary, everyday Bogotá.
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Taladro (Drill)
50 x 50 cm Enamel
Populardelujo uses the internet as its principal publication platform, as well as its mechanism for co-operative functioning. The project’s website www.populardelujo.com receives approximately 10,000 visits every month, and its monthly bulletins are read by more than 4,000 subscribers around the world.
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Águila (Eagle)
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Frutería
The project is led by a group of individuals working in the fields of design
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and communication; it is enriched by the contributions of a growing number
70 x 70 cm Enamel
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La Gata Cirko Bogotรก, Colombia
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The first independent new circus company in Colombia, made up of artists coming from diverse perspectives and areas of action. For the past 10 years, it has investigated the relationship of body-movement from diverse contexts of the performing arts, its limits and its possibilities of dissolution and expansion. La Gata Cirko defines the circus as restlessness, an experimental and transdisciplinary territory of artistic creation. The circus requires a breadth of knowledge surrounding the interaction of multiple practices—of circus, theatre, dance and others—in its effort to articulate and produce understanding. Parallel to the development of the performance, La Gata Cirko contributes to this exploration of the body a practice of inhabiting—the construction of
concretizador i-real machine (concretizer i-real machine)
# 3. in corpo al-ambre Vinyl on wood, black barbed wire, red and green light, prints of shoes and hands on a wall 2mx4mx3m Intervention in the Hotel Nueva Granada 8th floor Festival Urbano de Artes Vivas, Audiovisuales y Plásticas. Bogotá, 2008 2
concretizador i-real machine (concretizer i-real machine)
# 4. eXperim Vinyl, cardboard, light, music, peanuts, grapes, coque, rafa, gus, supports, stairs, rodolfo… 8.35 m x 3.20 m x 2.50 m
spaces—through a dialogue generated by the place, the performers and the audience.
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Artes No Decorativas S.A.
Established in 1999 by visual artist Manuela Ribadeneira and composer
CrĂtica Readymade
Nelson GarcĂa, Artes No Decorativas S.A. is a legally constituted company
(Readymade Critique) a service of Artes No Decorativas S.A. briefcase, 100 stamps. sampler of stamps on paper. 2002
whose stated purpose is to develop, promote and produce all forms of expression within the field of contemporary art. At the same time, it seeks to support forums and publications that work to further the development of diverse aspects of contemporary art, as well as the relationship between
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artists, their work and the society in which they converge.
Avatar Architecttura
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Nicola Santini (Avatar Architecttura) Gabriele Manzetti Rather than a stable and rigid form, we prefer one that is open, provisional and elastic. We seek out a dynamic organisation that is diffused, delocalised
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and capable of taking on the permanent state of crisis in Italy as a positive element of continued transformation. Our research is oriented toward identifying design strategies that privilege action, eco-evolutionary logic, ecology, self-reliance, self-production of food, self-construction, total recycling, reversibility, anomaly and flexible and elastic systems. We set up experimental installations and projects, workshops and actions in order to test the feasibility of different visions of architecture and nature as they apply to architecture and society. Elastic Habitat is a project that Avatar Architettura started in 2005 for the
“2050… VIVRE ET HABITER AUTREMENT”
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Pneumatic Places exhibition in Vienna. The project was then selected for the Biennale Internationale Design 2006, Saint-Etienne.
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Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Bogotá, Colombia hemisferico_bog@unal.edu.co
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics gathers together institutions, artists, academics and activists who are dedicated to exploring the relationship between expressive behaviour (broadly defined as “performance”) and social and political life in the Americas. We consider “performance” to be distinct practices and events, such as dance, theatre, ritual, political protests and funerals, which include theatrical, predetermined and/or conventional behaviours. In addition to utilising textual archives, the Institute turns to “en vivo” practices and visual media (e.g. video, photography) in order to explore the manners in which these expressive behaviours contribute to the transmission of cultural knowledge and social memory. The program is embedded in the academic discipline of “Performance Studies,” in order to promote artistic and intellectual relationships that transcend geographic, institutional, linguistic and academic limitations. The 2009 Encounter of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, “Citizenship on stage: the performance and politics of cultural rights,” will gather together around 400 participants in a concentrated 1
space of experimentation, dialogue and collaboration, including speeches, performances, installations, roundtables, displays, exhibitions, video screenings, working groups and practical workshops. The Encounter will bring together academic, artistic and activist processes, generated from
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Adriana Mejía Movimiento los encuerados (Movement of the stripped) Photograph Mexico City 2008
Bogotá and Colombia for the benefit of the hemisphere. The approach will give rise to the seventh encounter, co-organised by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics with its headquarters at New York University, with expected participation by other national and international institutions. These encounters have served as points of contact for artists, academics, students and activists that investigate the relationship between performance and politics in the Americas.
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Bogotá 21-30 August 2009
Manuel Rocha Iturbide Mexico City, Mexico
www.artesonoro.net
In this composition for five channels, I attempt to explore the game of human voices narrating football games. Here, the games’ narrators are transformed into the players; it is a totally new game, which is played against others (not one-on-one but rather everyone against everyone). The interesting thing is that these announcers were chosen from distinct cultures (Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Scotland, France, Germany, India, Japan, etc). The possibilities of different languages and cultural styles of narrating are extremely distinctive, giving the work an expressive richness. The sounds of the stadium crowds and the referees’ whistles are also included in this virtual game, interacting
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with the multiple narrators. Finally, the work is structured like a football game: commentary before the start of the game, the first half, half-time (in which announcements and news are heard in diverse languages), and the second half. This composition formed part of an art exhibition in the city of Colon, Germany during the 2006 World Cup. The arrangement of the five loudspeakers is like the traditional 5.1 FL (front left), FR (front right), C (front centre), BL (back left), BR (back right).
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Pages Teheran, Iran Rotterdam, Holland Directors Nasrin Tabatabai Babak Afrassiabi Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi are artists based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2004, they together initiated a long-term project called photographer unknown Iranian students having seized the US Embassy in Tehran - November 4th 1979. From ‘Letters from the Embassy’, project by Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi, (c) Pages, 2008
Pages. Their work with Pages includes architectural proposals, video documentation and multi-disciplinary art projects. Through Pages, Tabatabai and Afrassiabi address art practice, urbanism, social and cultural issues. While maintaining a focus on the particularities of the Iranian context, they also examine possibilities for interaction and reflection between various local discourses. They continually search for conditions that may generate spaces of critique or instances of critical practice, and for ways to surpass predefined and geographically bound discourses of subjectivity, identity
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Torolab Tijuana, Mexico Featured Artist Raúl Cárdenas Osuna tunna7@hotmail.com
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Torolab can be understood as a workshop/laboratory collective of territorial research and contextual studies. Founded in Tijuana in 1995 by Raúl Cárdenas Osuna (Mazatlán, Sinaloa 1969), Torolab’s projects respond to politics and poetics ranging from social phenomena to urban space and artistic languages. Torolab carries out research with the aim to, at some level, improve the quality of life among the people involved. Its projects are developed in collaboration with other artists and/or experts in the fields that are being investigated.
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Raúl Cárdenas Osuna video still 120 hrs Mexican, 1969 LRPT La Región de los Pantalones Transfronterizos, prototipo (The Region of the Transborder Pants, prototype), 2005-2006 Image by Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, Bernardo Gutiérrez, Shijune Takeda 2
The themes Torolab has developed up to the present take research on identity in the frontier region as their point of departure, with projects ranging from housing and security to community-building and survival. These investigations leave traces that range from urban interventions, multimedia projects, construction systems and survival units, to everyday items like furniture and clothing.
Raúl Cárdenas Osuna Satélites Mexican, 1969 LRPT La Región de los Pantalones Transfronterizos, prototipo (The Region of the Transborder Pants, prototype) 2005 Image by Raúl Cárdenas Osuna projects
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Tranvía Cero Quito, Ecuador Members Pablo Almeida, Pablo Ayala, Luis Herrera, Omar Puebla, Ernesto Proaño, Sofía Soto, Samuel Tituaña, Paola López, Antonio Salazar, Adrián Balseca tranviacero@latinmail.com / zurich@hotmail.com arteurbanosur.blogspot.com 1
Tranvía Cero is an artist collective assembled in 2002. The approach of our collective is centred on the democratisation of public space, the interrelation and articulation of public space with the community, and, additionally, a constant critique of the interpretation and “museification” of culture, bringing into question the formal record and aesthetics of visual arts. We confront exercises of institutional and academic power, artistic circuits and the citizens of these establishments, with the aim of reformulating and reflecting from the perspective of an integral vision of artistic practice. The
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bringing together its visual languages, its spaces of communication, its
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diverse urban cultures – everything that generates tools and elements of
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political, social and aesthetic valuation and that enables us to approach the
Intervention Chimbacalle, Villaflora, 5 esquinas, Pobre Diablo, Chicago Chico 2007
metropolis and its inhabitants with creative, transformative and integrative
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independent and autonomous approach emergine from the necessity to
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Tianguez Exchange Action Plaza San Francisco - Dentro del marco de Arte Acción en la Plaza - Argentina 2007
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pragmatism that characterises this work allows us to interpret the everyday,
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processes. Tranvía Cero is a collective of contemporary art from Ecuador with an react to, confront and resist the official version of culture. Toward this end, it generates, supports and executes productions of material and visual art with an emphasis on the urban sphere, through capacity-building, consultancy and community work. In doing so, the collective creates and strengthens bonds with other social actors and organisations from different disciplines.
WASH-lavandería de arte Quito, Ecuador Members Pedro Cagigal, Dayana Rivera, Paúl Rosero, Diego Arteaga, Valeria Andrade www.wash-eltaller.com
WASH - lavandería de arte has served as an “unstable” collective in Quito, Ecuador since 2003; its members vary according to the needs of each project. It is characterised by its mobility. Conscious of the fact that it is in a constant state of transformation and exchange, it nourishes itself from the flow of participants, who come from fields such as graphic design, cinema, 1
dance, publicity, the social sciences and other areas. WASH employs collective artistic practices and creative, multidisciplinary processes to reflect on human relationships. WASH studies its context in order to intervene in it, transforming apparent difficulties into opportunities and rescuing forms of work based in feeling and emotion. It operates through mechanisms of production such as community work and exchange, while inserting itself into companies and institutions in order to work with their contradictions and negotiations to re-envision modes of contemporary co-existence. It defines itself through dialogues and targeted negotiations.
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To achieve these goals, parallel to its production as lavandería de arte, the collective joined forces with the collective El Taller, forming WASH+El Taller Estudio. From this platform, it dedicates itself to the production of graphic
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art texts and other forms of institutional and commercial camouflage. Aside
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distinct new areas. These negotiations and levels of exchange that involve diverse arenas are an indispensible part of WASH’s artistic practice.
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In Situ Projects Former headquarters of the Canal Ramirez Antares Lithograph Company - Bogotá, Colombia
Adriana Cuellar Bogotá, Colombia
Andrés Matute Bogotá, Colombia
Colectivo Expresso Bogotá, Colombia
Fernando Sierra Bogotá, Colombia
Fabrica Bogotá, Colombia
Luís Carlos Tovar Bogotá, Colombia
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Jorge Salcedo Bogotá, Colombia
Marcelo Mejia Bogotá, Colombia
Nicolás Guzmán Bogotá, Colombia
Sandra Bermúdez Bogotá, Colombia
Taller de Dibujo y Color Nicolás Paris and Camilo Villegas Bogotá, Colombia
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La Otra Video Art / Sound Art
archivo ESCORIA nuevos medios ecuador Quito, Ecuador www.archivoescorianuevosmediosecuador.com
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name: archivo nuevos medios ecuador (new media archive ecuador) surname: ESCORIA etimology: ESCORIA is a term used by the Mexican singer Paquita la del Barrio in a song called “Rata de dos Patas (“Two-Legged Rat”) birthplace and year: Quito, 2003 nationality: Ecuadorian commercial activity: none other activities: curation, exhibition, diffusion, conferences, conservation, fun and costumes experience: everything that an emergent context, tequila and two natural births can leave you with availability to travel: immediate payroll: 176 artists from Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca, Riobamaba, and Otavalo, as well as the immigrants that live in other parts of the world property: an orange shelf inside the wardrobe of my room that has around 300 video pieces, a desk, a chair, a Macbook and that’s all symbolic capital: legal status: money and people, independent criminal record: in progress references: Argentina: Graciela Taquini, Gabriela Golder, Daniela Mutis. Spain: Laura Baigorri Ballarín. Brazil: Arlindo Machado. Colombia: Martha Lucía Vélez telephone numbers of references: (593) 9 7799347 / (593) 2 2543040 hours of availability: you never know; you can leave a message in the discothèque El Aguijón. address: av. 6 de diciembre 2373 y la niña esq. departamentos Multicentro piso 18 dpto. 18I quito-ecuador-sudamérica person in charge: (?) maría belén moncayo position: general director, according to the gossip observations: god exists, but he is fed up with us and he’s completely right! (Matt Groening)
European Media Art Festival OsnabrĂźck, Germany
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ALONE AMONGST FRIENDS is an entertaining compendium of current international Media Art, reflecting the highly varied strategies and approaches of its artists. Included are three award-winning films: THE DELAWARE PROJECT, which won the EMAF Award in 2007; WIE ICH EIN FREIER REIÂŹSEBEGLEITER WURDE (How I Became a Freelance Travel Guide), which received the German Film Critics award in 2007 at EMAF and the Jury- and Audience Award at Hamburg Films; and the film FIRST ELECTIONS, which was awarded the Dialogue-Award by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Thematically, the tour program is based on films that deal with the individual and his/her relationship to the group, family, clique or to society as a whole. Even if they present themselves as individual and autonomous people, their emotions and behaviour are influenced by the group and its processes, which are, in turn, constantly redefined by these inputs.
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Centro Experimental Oído Salvaje Quito, Ecuador
oidosalvaje@yahoo.com / www.myspace.com/centroexperimentaloidosalvaje
The collective Centro Experimental Oído Salvaje was created in Quito in 1996 by artists coming from different media and geographies. As RAEL (Radio Artística Experimental Latinoamericana), it worked to develop laboratories, audio-forums and interventions. Between 1998 and 2000, it sustained an on-air sound art radio programme called “Navigators of the Ether”. In 2001, RAEL re-invented itself as the Centro Experimental Oído Salvaje, with permanent members including Iris Disse, Mayra Estévez and Fabiano Kueva, all of whom work simultaneously as researchers and producers of collectively generated projects and individual projects, as well as supporting like-minded artistic initiatives. The members of Oído Salvaje have received 15 international awards for their work and participated in art events at the international level. LA OTRA en ANTENAS _INTERVENCIONES (LA OTRA in ANTENNAS_INTERVENTIONS) ONLINE / ON THE AIR / IN SITU Project Concept and Co-ordination: Mayra Estévez Trujillo and Fabiano Kueva ANTENAS_INTERVENCIONES: Is a platform of intervention – transmission – listening, executed ONLINE / ON THE AIR / IN SITU using low technology, by composers, artists, curators and researchers in the areas of sound art, electro-acoustic and electronic music and international experimental radio activism. ANTENAS_INTERVENCIONES privileges critical practice and collective platforms for work and reflection, while taking on diverse aesthetic positions 64
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El Colectivo Expresso Bogotá, Colombia Members Yuly Raquel Enciso Cifuentes, William Fernando Montilla Niño, Juan Francisco Nicolás Martínez Franco Sonata Para Electrodomésticos (Sonata for Electrical Appliances) The auditory consciousness of human beings has developed from their interaction with nature; we encounter rhythms, such as the beat of a heart, breathing and all of the other bodily sounds. These sounds, considered natural, come into confrontation with unnatural sounds recognised as noise, a high percentage of which are produced by machines, those that play an important role in the daily life of man. These machines create a new ‘being’ between man and technology, extending the capacity of human beings by offering the body extensions with almost unlimited capacities, captured through the simple flick of a switch or programming of a computer. For this new human being with extensions of high technology, natural sounds become integrated with the noises produced by those machines that are within easy reach, machines called electrical appliances, transforming natural sound into constant, unstructured noise. Colectivo Expresso poses a hybridisation between noise-sound and mantechnology, turning unstructured noises produced by electrical appliances into a structured rhythm, one that is controlled by two people by means of an unnecessary and low-quality technological platform, making evident the chaos of technology, not only as a substance but also as a rhythmic structure of sound.
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Adriana Cuéllar Bogotá, Colombia
Encuentros Sonoros (Sound Encounters) Edificio Imprenta Canal Ramírez Antares The project focuses on the development of an audio tour of certain places in the Canal Ramírez Antares Printing building, through the voices of people who have inhabited it at different stages. The spectator-listener is invited to follow these speakers through the memory of the building and its affects. In addition to the research material, the experience is comprised of the physical space of the building at the moment of listening, where the stories that guide and contribute to its comprehensive meaning converge. 1
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Adriana Cuéllar Installation Variable duration Audio devices, headphones Edificio Imprenta Canal Ramírez Antares, Bogotá 2008
place in the building is related to a corresponding segment of narrated experience that was created especially for the individual tours to be carried out at the exhibition. Thus, this ‘work in progress’ establishes a resistance in the face of forgetting, rescuing unheard voices, memories and personal impressions that speak of inhabitancy as an essential human characteristic.
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La Otra Publications
Adbusters Media Foundation (called Adbusters or the Media Foundation) is a not-for-profit, anti-consumerist organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. “We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we live in the 21st century�. To this end, Adbusters Media Foundation publishes Adbusters magazine, operates a
Adbusters Media Foundation Vancouver, Canada
website and offers its creative services through PowerShift, our advocacy advertising agency. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters is a not-forprofit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial
www.adbusters.org
forces. Our work has been embraced by organizations like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, has been featured in hundreds of alternative and mainstream newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows around the world. Adbusters offers incisive philosophical articles as well as activist commentary from around the world addressing issues ranging from genetically modified foods to media concentration. In addition, our annual social marketing campaigns like Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week have made us an important activist networking group. Ultimately, though, Adbusters is an ecological magazine, dedicated to examining the relationship between human beings and their physical and mental environment. We want a world in which the economy and ecology resonate in balance. We try to coax people from spectator to participant in this quest. We want folks to get mad about corporate disinformation, injustices in the global economy, and any industry that pollutes our physical or mental commons.
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Arte al DĂa Interational is a vehicle for the diffusion of Latin American art, with a focus on the material arts and a 28-year track-record of leadership in the market. Arising out of his passion for art, Arte al DĂa was founded by Jorge Augusto Costa Peuser in 1980, thus carrying forward a long family tradition of publishing. This tradition began with Casa Peuser, which was founded in 1967 by his great-grandfather Jacobo Peuser and is recognised in both the local and international markets as a pioneer in the graphic arts industry of Argentina and South America.
Arte al DĂa Buenos Aires, Argentina
Six issues are published annually, and it is distributed through museums, cultural centres, and specialised art galleries.
www.artealdia.com
Arte Marcial positions itself as a terrain of encounters, of implications, explanations, arguments and judgments. At the same time, it emerges as a source of information and exchange for professionals, academics and all those interested in artistic creation. We tolerate the intolerable. We firmly believe in the urgent need to create new spaces for discussion. Manodura, the team that edits Arte Marcial magazine, is comprised of curators, historians and highly-experienced artists. Its mission is to fill a void in our media, aiming to encourage reflection and critical dialogue on contemporary art. Core members of Manodura include: Walter Carbonel, Daniel Contreras and Juan Peralta.
Arte Marcial Lima, Peru www.artemarcialonline.com
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BOMB Magazine, a nonprofit organisation, represents the artist’s voice through in-depth interviews with visual artists, writers, composers, directors, architects… BOMB’s mission is to reveal artists’ ideas, their thoughts and creative processes, as well as their progress, through carefully developed dialogues—now and for posterity.
BOMB New York, NY, USA
BOMB first launched in 1981 as an artists’ and writers’ quarterly because its founders saw a disparity between the way artists talked about their work among themselves and the way in which it was described by critics. Since then, BOMB has re-invented the question-and-answer format, publishing
www.bombsite.com
conversations that delve deep into theory and practice, allowing for complex discussions on art and life to emerge.
CARTEL URBANO is a monthly, free-distribution magazine, a window into urban culture, an alternative and unbiased look at the diverse expressions of youth. It is a full-colour publication with cutting-edge design, top-rate photography and articles written in an urban dialect. Uninhibited, this magazine opens the eyes of the capital as a showcase for talent, as a seeker of unheard stories that are not raised by other media. CARTEL URBANO is a liberated space, a medium about the lifestyles, thoughts, dreams, psychoses and creations of the youth of Bogotá and the world. ed 23_lucho.curvas_indd.indd 1
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CARTEL URBANO addresses topics such as music, design, humour, art,
CARTEL URBANO Bogotá, Colombia www.cartelurbano.com
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parties, fashion, technology, opinion, bizarre characters of Bogotá, cinema, cuisine, sex and other elements that define the urban spirit. We present this avalanche of information and witticisms in the form of notes, features, photographs, illustrations, articles, opinion columns, reports and interviews. In its 52 pages, CARTEL URBANO appeals to irreverence, seduction, surprise and humour, but also to solidarity and respect for difference.
Chimurenga, a pan African publication of writing, art and politics, has been in print since March 2002. It was founded by Ntone Edjabe. The journal is published in hard-copy three times per year, online on a monthly basis (www.chimurenga.co.za) and through themed performances called “Chimurenga Sessions”. Side-projects include the Chimurenga Library (www.chimurengalibrary.co.za), an online archive of pan African magazines; the Pan African Space Station (www.liquidfridge.co.za), an annual, monthlong music intervention in Cape Town via radio and live performances; and the African Cities Reader, an annual compendium of writing and art about African cities. The intellectual project has snaked from a Miltonian swamp
Chimurenga
of murky morality and “paradigms lost” into, if not a Garden of Eden, at least
Cape Town, South Africa
a more lucid landscape where intellect, integrity and humanity are valid tools for growth.
www.chimurenga.co.za
Founded in 1991, Curare magazine is a space characterised by the collaboration and participation of historians, curators, art critics and artists. It is dedicated to analysing the cultural and artistic landscape of Mexico, in addition to other international topics. Curare’s efforts have been, in part, centred on a historical review of Mexican art, as well as proposing a variety of critical readings, understood as modes of reflection and theory-production rather than schemes to promote trends or markets. In this sense, Curare is an open and pluralistic platform, removed from linear or binary thinking; through collaborative work, it seeks to shape
Curare Mexico City, Mexico curareac@yahoo.com
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Elniuton is a Colombian collective that explores, promotes and disseminates cultural projects related to the emergent movement that fuses Science, Technology, Art and Design. At the same time, the collective works from the premise of seduction – appropriation and mobilisation. It doesn’t just review artistic work, but rather brings the reader into the work of the artist, encouraging a greater degree of interaction that enables one to redefine the present aesthetic problem based on one’s own sensibilities. However, Elniuton goes further than that, not only producing conventional
Elniuton Bogotá, Colombia
texts and information, but also exploring and proposing interventions of urban spaces with electronic graffiti and stencils. In this way, Street Art transforms itself into an interactive space where technological experimentation by means of sensors, LEDs and alarms contributes a new
info@elniuton.com
dynamic to the appreciation of the city.
The publishing group LA SILUETA was established in 2007, defined by the following editorial concept: to provide a space for books about the world of images, design, art, photography and other themes related to culture to become materialized in printed form. Our publications are conceived as special objects with individual technical specifications developed for each text. While high-quality publications (hardcover, special inks, etc.), the prices are reasonable, in an effort to make the books accessible to the greatest possible number of people.
La Silueta Bogotá, Colombia nfo@lasilueta.com
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Nicolás París, Doble Faz (Double-sided) This book was developed as a collaborative project with artist Nicolás Paris. The publication aims to be as faithful as possible to Paris’s original drawings, which transform themselves in the hands of the observer with the simple fold of a page. In order to achieve this result, the book was printed with a special ink and the folds of all of the pages were done by hand.
Nolens Volens aspires to operate in the field—little-developed in the scope of contemporary art publications in Spain—of publishing present-day art projects. The objective is to articulate this artistic production through a theoretical frame that tackles controversial themes relevent to the practice. Thus, the format is defined by the selection of a monographic theme to address each edition of the annual periodical. Nolens Volens is edited by the Art Department of the Superior School of Art and Architecture at the European University of Madrid. We consider this context, the university, to be a space particularly suited for taking on this type of project, which, because of its specialised and non-commerical nature, doesn’t interest other spheres of editorial production. In contrast, this format sparks a strong interest among professionals, researchers and
Nolens Volens Madrid, Spain
an informed public, establishing itself as fundamental in the continuing development of contemporary art.
www.democracia.com.es
Revista Exclama is a periodical that opens up a space for trends and culture, dedicated to art and aiming to present content that is open, dynamic, clever and engaged. Its pages contain stories and materials that break with convention in order to become future points of reference. The quality of the magazine’s writing and images enables the reader to transform daily sustenance into pleasure, and its pages demonstrate that the primary creative premise of cultural activity is to generate new points of view. The world of Exclama inspires a movement of the spirit in synergy with a spectrum of good ideas.
Revista Exclama Bogotá, Colombia www.revistaexclama.com
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Zehar is a publication dedicated to contemporary art and culture, published in three languages: Basque, Spanish and English. It is published biannually in hard-copy, while maintaining open forums for uninterrupted discussion and reflection through its electronic format. Online, users can reference texts and images published in the hard-copy format, contribute commentary about the content and take part in discussion forums.
Zehar San Sebastiรกn, Spain www.arteleku.net
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Conversing with La Otra Circulation, emerging markets and new geopolitics in contemporary art.
Programme
SATURDAY october 18 New geopolitics in art: Decentring the gaze?
Among the topics to be discussed in this panel are the ways in which current geopolitical changes are displacing the gaze toward emergent artistic practices, thus generating a reconfiguration of exhibition spaces, circulation strategies and modes of collecting emergent contemporary art.
Panelists Mirjam Asmal-Dik, founding member of CAPE Africa Platform, Cape Town, South Africa Guillermo Santamarina, independent curator, Mexico City, Mexico Yona Backer, consultant and producer in the fields of contemporary art, film and fashion; co-founder of Third Streaming; previously Senior Program Officer at the Andy Warhol Foundation, New York, USA Moderator: Jamie Ceron, independent curator, Bogotรก, Colombia
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SUNDAY october 19 Artistic activism: Political art or politics in art?
This pivotal theme will turn toward the dimension of politics and action, exploring those contemporary artistic practices that are, in diverse ways, generating models for change in the social and environmental spheres.
Panelists Maria Fernanda Cartagena, independent curator, Quito, Ecuador Alejandro Meitin, founder of Ala Plรกstica, La Plata, Argentina Will Brown, Art Director and Lauren Bercovitch, Social Marketing Manager, Adbusters, Vancouver, Canada Moderator: Susana Wappenstein, Sociologist, PhD, University of California; Professor in the Department of Languages and Socio-cultural Studies at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotรก, Colombia.
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MONDAY october 20 Emerging markets: A challenge to the hegemonic gaze?
Among other topics, this panel will discuss the current demands of contemporary art and the ways in which they have stimulated a reconceptualisation of various biennials and art festivals, constructing new platforms that are not exempt from critical discourse and reflection.
Panelists Jesús Fuenmayor, director of Periferico Caracas / Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela Christian Viveros-Faune, art critic and writer; art fair manager of Volta New York and Edge, Chicago Samuel Tituaña, member of collective Tranvia Cero, Quito, Ecuador Moderator: Francisco Reyes Palma, Historian, critic and independent curator, Mexico City, Mexico
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THURSDAY october 21 Geographies in tension and territories in conflict: A common ground for contemporary artistic practices? The topics addressed by this panel will relate to physical and conceptual territories, their complexities and their aesthetic-political dimensions.
Panelists López and Pablo España, Democracia, Madrid, Spain Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi, Pages, Teherán, Iran / Rotterdam, Holland Raul Cárdenas Osuna, Torolab, Tijuana, Mexico Moderator: Zenaida Osorio, Theorist of the visual image in urban environments; Professor in the Art Department, Universidad Nacional of Bogotá, Colombia
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