The Unwritten explores possible histories. It documents personal, and reconfigures collective stories by adding silent episodes, surprising prequels of what we know to have become official history.
With works by Adela Babanova, Zachary Formwalt, Annie Kevans, Gert Jan Kocken, Carlos Motta, Song Ta and Koki Tanaka.
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5 Years, 6 Works, 7 Artists, LOOP Awards 2010-2014
Garden of Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga // 30th AUG // 22h00
Programmed by CONRADO URIBE // LOOP
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Journey to a Land Otherwise Known (Laura Huertas Millán, Colombia/France, 2011, 22 min. In French with English subtitles)
Nefandus (Carlos Motta, U.S./Colombia, 2013, 13 min. In Spanish and Kogi with English Subtitles)
Ex It (Cao Guimarães, Brazil, 2010, 86 min. In Portuguese, with English subtitles)
Three visual artists reconsider the New World by advancing provocative alternative cartographies. Laura Huertas Millán’s Journey to a Land Otherwise Known was shot at a tropical greenhouse in Lille, France, and uses written accounts by European colonizers to construct a fake ethnography of the New World that is critical of its prevalent exoticization. In Carlos Motta’s visual essay Nefandus, an indigenous man and a Spanish-speaking man swap stories about acts of sodomy that took place in the Americas during the conquest, while Cao Guimarães’s Ex It (Ex Isto)imagines Descartes on a tropical journey through Brazil.
The screening is introduced by exhibition curator Pablo León de la Barra and concludes with a Q&A with artist Carlos Motta and Cinema Tropical cofounder Carlos Gutiérrez.
Screened as part of the film series Tropical Uncanny: Latin American Tropes and Mythologies and presented in conjunction with Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today.
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BY INVITATION ONLY
curated by Lucia Sanroman, Mexico City.
Opening the 9th of August, 2014 – 21hrs.
For 10 years IHi has looked outward from Franke’s home towards the conditions of her surroundings and the forms of living and building around her house. The 2014 edition, however, will look inward, towards the interior of her home and the possibilities offered by the domestic space to become another kind of microcosm, that of the nation-state as addresses its relationship to others, whether foreigners or nationals, friends or foes. Entitled “By Invitation Only” the exhibition I have proposed explores the concept of hospitality through its negative: exclusion, control, discrimination and social stereotyping.
Artist participating: Azra Aksamija (BiH – USA), Ricardo Domingues (MX – USA), Anja Franke (DK), Dor Guez (IL), Miki Kartsman (IL), Carlos Motta (CO – US), Camilo Ontiveros (MX – USA), Omar Pimienta (MX – US), Susan Silton (USA), Sergio de la Torre (MX – USA), Winter Studio (USA – MX – DK).
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EXHIBITION: PORT
August 3-9, 12h – 17h
Galerij Verbeeck-Van Dyck
Westkaai-Verbindingsdok 12, 2000 Antwerpen
PORT has selected a cargo of unconventional artists that will import different perspectives on queer topics in art. We will lift the veil on a large, Wild(e), and transgressive art world by unlocking the potential of various media, such as: photography, sculpture, installation, video-art, literature, and performance art.
Our dynamic, fathomless, idiosyncratic juxtaposition of art(ists) enacts the exhibition’s desire to break through mass-produced notions of what it means to be gay, lesbian, bi, or trans. PORT will tip your velvet and unlock your mind.
Norwegian artist Thomas Grødal is the curator of the exhibition of the Antwerp Queer Arts Festival. In the exhibition, he will show his own work as well as that of other artists working on sexual and gender identities: Kasper Bosmans, Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty, Rachid Laachir, Roberto Espinosa, Chrysanne Stathacos and Hunter Reynolds, Zanele Muholi, Yishay Garbasz, Carlos Motta and Matthias Herrmann.
Norwegian artist Thomas Grødal studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, Antwerp and the University of Birmingham. He made exhibitions in, among others, Middelheimmuseum (The Tiberius Principle) Turijn (Fondazione 107) and the M HKA (MUHKALUMNI). His language consists of paintings, sculptures and installations all referring to the inner turmoil he experienced growing up in a small, traditional Norwegian town surrounded by coast an pine trees. His most recent work revolves around this existential question; How can one be part of a community, and still be free?
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PinchukArtCentre announced 21 artists nominated for the 3rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. The art prize established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009 is a major international competition for artists up to 35 with a Main Award of $100.000 to discover and provide long-term support for a generation of emerging artists, wherever they live and work.
Following the open, free and democratic online application procedure, the 7 members of the Selection Committee, competent and global art-professionals nominated by the Jurors of the Prize, have arrived to Kyiv, Ukraine, and selected 20 artists from more than 5 500 applications coming from 148 countries, divided over all continents.
The 21st nominee for the Future Generation Art Prize 2014 is Zhanna Kadyrova, the winner of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013, a national contemporary art prize awarded to young Ukrainian artists up to 35.
The shortlist of the Future Generation Art Prize 2014 includes: Neïl Beloufa, 29 (France), Rossella Biscotti, 35 (Italy), James Bridle, 33 (UK), Kudzanai Chiurai 33 (Zimbabwe), Cécile Evans, 31 (USA), Aslan Gaisumov, 23 (Russia), Ximena Garrido-Lecca, 34 (Peru), He Xiangyu, 27 (China), Jia Aili, 34 (China), Nikita Kadan, 31 (Ukraine), Zhanna Kadyrova, 32 (Ukraine), Mauricio Limón, 34 (Mexico), Adrian Melis Sosa, 28 (Cuba), Nástio Mosquito, 32 (Angola), Carlos Motta, 36 (Colombia), Jon Rafman, 32 (Canada), Cally Spooner, 31 (UK), Pilar Quinteros, 26 (Chile), Allyson Vieira, 35 (USA), GCC (Arabian Gulf region) and Public Movement (Israel).
The nominees for the Prize represent 17 different countries of birth. In terms of the continents 7 artists represent Europe; 5 – North America; 4 – Asia; 3 – South America; and 2 – Africa.
The exhibition of 21 shortlisted artists will open at the PinchukArtCentre on October 25, 2014.
Raphael Chikukwa, Chief curator of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Future Generation Art Prize 2014 Selection Committee chairman: “It was quite an experience looking at many images, videos and information of artists from around the world and to come out with 20 shortlisted artists in two days. As a result our process came out with the twenty finalists not based on geographical location but on merit. Future Generation Art Prize is a great opportunity for young artists to enter and be recognized for their outstanding works in the global art world.”
Bjorn Geldhof, Deputy Artistic Director of the PinchukArtCentre, Selection Committee member: “The third edition of the Future Generation Art Prize revealed not only a raise in a number but especially an amazing raise in the quality of the artists who applied. It showed the importance of the prize for a young generation of artists and emphasized the seriousness of our work, selecting only 20 positions. The final shortlist, after two days of intense discussions, represents a wide range of innovative and advanced artistic practices revealing a Future Generation.”
The respected international jury will choose and announce the winner of the main prize who will receive a generous prize ($60,000 in cash and $40,000 toward production of a new work) at the Award Ceremony in December 2014 in Kyiv (Ukraine). An additional $20,000 from the Foundation will be allotted to fund artist-in-residency programs to the special prize winner.
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Fecha del Programa: Junio 30–Julio 7, 2014
Fecha límite para enviar la aplicación: Abril 21, 2014
Este Junio, ICI en colaboración con la Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo presentará el Intensivo Curatorial en Ciudad de México, el tercer programa desarrollado completamente en español. El Intensivo Curatorial es el primer programa corto de formación para curadores sobre conceptos, logística y organización de exposiciones, eventos públicos y otros formatos discursivos. Los temas a discutirse incluirán el desarrollo del campo curatorial y el rol del curador, a la par que explorará iniciativas investigativas, proyectos independientes, colecciones y desarrollo institucional, nuevas arquitecturas financieras, entre otros temas.
El Intensivo Curatorial está diseñado para sumergir a los participantes en un riguroso cronograma de seminarios y presentaciones que apoyan el proceso de desarrollo de una idea a una propuesta completa de programa o exposición. El taller está dirigido a individuos proactivos, que trabajan de manera independiente o en instituciones, y que se beneficiarán de una semana de intensas conversaciones en torno a los temas y preguntas que involucran regularmente la práctica de la curaduría.
El programa ofrecerá a curadores de habla hispana la oportunidad de encontrarse con colegas de todo el mundo, compartir ideas de cómo ampliar los parámetros de sus prácticas y construir una red para futuras colaboraciones. Los aspirantes a participar deberán poseer un manejo fluido del español, dado que los seminarios y las discusiones serán sólo en este idioma.
El Intensivo Curatorial incluirá seminarios, visitas a instituciones culturales locales, reuniones individuales, y mesas de discusión dirigidos por un grupo de profesionales internacionales entre los que se incluyen: Bruce Altshuler (Director, Program in Museum Studies, New York University), Magalí Arriola (Curadora, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Ciudad de México), Manuel Borja-Villel (Director, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid), María del Carmen Carrión (Directora Asociada de Programas Públicos e Investigaciones, ICI, Nueva York), Patrick Charpenel (Director, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo), Juan A. Gaitán (Curador, 8th Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Berlín), Julieta González (Curadora, Museo Tamayo, Ciudad de México), Inés Katzenstein (Directora, Departamento de Arte, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires), Carlos Motta (artista, Nueva York), y Daniela Pérez (curadora independiente y co-fundadora, de_sitio, Ciudad de México).
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