Pawnshop at Thessaloniki Biennial

Sep 062011

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Pawnshop at Thessaloniki Biennial
18 September–18 November 2011
Typou 5
54625
Thessaloniki
Greece

Opening hours:
Wed/Thu/Sat/Sun 17:00–21:00, Fri/19:00–23:00, Mon–Tue: closed

T 30 2310522672
pawnshop@e-flux.com
www.thessalonikibiennale.gr

Originally established by artists Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle in New York in 2008, PAWNSHOP went bankrupt at the beginning of the world financial crises, only to re-open successfully in Beijing and, most recently, at Art Basel.
Structurally, a pawnshop is a short-term loan business, which retains a collateral object (a camera, a ring, a guitar, a gun, and in this case an artwork) in exchange for a cash loan—a small fraction of the object’s value that needs to be repaid with interest within a one-month period. If the owner of the pawned object does not return to collect it and repay the loan + interest within 30 days, the pawnbroker has the right to sell it.
What is of particular interest in pawnshops is the peculiar mixture of the illicit and the desperate, futurity and anticipation. The idea that the object is collateral for cash that might be traded back for the object during a set duration, could be put in other words, that works of art and money are just dancing in a choreography in which they might just circle back and meet again, and cancel each other out, but in fact rarely do.
All profits from PAWNSHOP have been donated to Doctors Without Borders.

PAWNSHOP Inventory: Lucas Ajemian, Armando Andrade, Florian Aner, Artemio, Michael Baers, Christin Berg, Bik Van Der Pool, Julien J. Bismuth, Chloe Briggs, Mike Bouchet, Svetlana Boym, Francois Bucher, Andrea Büttner, Etienne Chambaud, Herman Chong, Branka Cvjeticanin, William Diaz, NICO DOCKX, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Annika Eriksson, Köken Ergun, Jakup Ferri, Jean-Pascale Flavien, Harrell Fletcher, Iris Flügel, Egan Frantz, Peter Freidl, Jaime Gecker, Carmen Gheorghe, Barbad Golshiri, Sara Greenberger-Rafferty, Antonia Hirsch, Klara Hobza, Ralf Homann, Sejla Kameric, Matt Keegan, Christoph Keller, Staš Kleindienst, Runo Lagomarsino, Andriana Lara, Annika Larsson, Sebastjan Leban, Kit Lee, David Levine, Liz Linden, Nuno daLuz, Rodrigo Mallea Lira, Lucas Moran, Gean Moreno, Shane Munro, Sina Najafi, Trine Lise Nedreaas, Carsten Nicolai, Lisa Oppenheim, Ernesto Oroza, Bernardo Oritz Campo, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Marion von Osten, Olivia Plender, Bettina Pousttchi, Khalil Rabah, Manuel Raven, Fay Ray, Joseph Redwood-Martinez, Anri Sala, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Julia Scher, Jessica Sehut, Matt Sheridan Smith, Aaron Simonton, Shelly Silver, Lucy Skaer, Michael Smith, Nedko Solakov, Francesco Spampinato, Peter Spillman Franz Stauffenberg, Eric Stephany, Martin Stiehl, SUPERFLEX/ COPYSHOP, Jalal Toufic, Andra Ursuta, Gabriela Vainsencher, Costa Vece, Lawrence Weiner, Ana Wolovick, Haegue Yang, Florian Zeyfang, Andrea Zittel  New works by: Andreas Angelidakis, Uri Aran, Athanasios Argianas, Manfredi Beninati, Carolina Caycedo, Christina Dimitriadis, Jimmie Durham, Irini Karagianopoulou, Apostolos Kotoulas, Nikolaj Larsen, Carlos Motta, Theofanis Nouskas, Angelo Plessas, Mathilde Rosier, Tayfun Serttas, Socratis Socratous, Chryse Tsiota and others.   Forget the market! Forget the fair! Dollar is Low! Recession is Back! It’s time to shop… PAWNshop!  ***  ”Old Intersections-Make it New”  3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, Greece  18 September–18 December 2011
Opening:
September 18, SMCA, Moni Lazariston, 19:30
www.thessalonikibiennale.gr

September 6, 2011
Tagged with: 2011, collaborations, group show

Critical Strategies of Post-Utopian Cuban Art (Cuba-United States)

Sep 022011

Critical Strategies of Post-Utopian Cuban Art (Cuba-United States). Curated by Adriana Herrera
Houston Fine Art Fair, Sept. 15 – 18, 2011.

The exhibition—featuring Consuelo Castañeda, Rubén Torres Llorca, Glexis Novoa, Ernesto Oroza and Gladys Triana—includes pieces (or re-mades) belonging to the period in which they lived on the island, and challenged the hegemonic system, along with artworks that are particularly strong in the production of a critical—and political, in a more general sense—vision of the United States. The exhibition is curated by Adriana Herrera, Miami-based independent curator and critical writer, and sponsored by Hardcore Contemporary Art Space, located in booth 602.

September 2, 2011
Tagged with: 2011, group show

Junge Szene Kuba

Jul 022011

Junge Szene Kuba
Pasinger Fabrik. Munich, 10.06.2011 – 24.07.2011.
Curated by Siegfried Kaden.

July 2, 2011
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ARCHETYPE VIZCAYA: a commission by Ernesto Oroza

Feb 142011

ARCHETYPE VIZCAYA: a commission by Ernesto Oroza (view images and texts )
March 4 – May 29, 2011
Thursday, March 3 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
3251 South Miami Avenue
Miami, FL

Archetype Vizcaya explores what happens when things are taken from their original context and given new purpose and meaning. Ernesto Oroza has created a “map” that invites visitors to discover things generally unseen. Through a provisional gallery on plexiglass, he challenges us to question what is original or authentic. And, in a compilation of amateur videos from the Web, Oroza shows how Vizcaya is “used” or appropriated by its visitors.

There will be a guided tour by the artist at 6:30 p.m. Reservations required for tour.

Please RSVP for reception and guided tour to susan.caraballo@vizcayamuseum.org or 305-860-8423.

The CONTEMPORARY ARTS PROJECT (CAP) is a commission program that invites artists to develop site-specific work inspired by Vizcaya, a public museum and National Historic Landmark located in Miami, Florida. The program is intended to reinvigorate Vizcaya with the creative dialogue that characterized its foundation, engaging artists whose practice can establish a dialogue or a critique with the physical and cultural contexts of the place.

CAP is supported by The Danielson Foundation, Harpo Foundation, Stella M. Holmes, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by: The Vizcayans; the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

3521 South Miami Avenue | Miami, Florida 33129 | www.vizcayamuseum.org | 305-250-9133

February 14, 2011

Voices: Ernesto Oroza at Gallery 400 – Chicago

Jan 222011

Voices: Ernesto Oroza at Gallery 400, Chicago
http://gallery400.blogspot.com/
Gallery 400 is a not-for-profit arts exhibition space at the University of Illinois at Chicago, founded in 1983 to exhibit and support art, design and architecture.
Main Location
Art and Design Hall, First Floor
400 S. Peoria Street (at Van Buren Street)
Chicago IL, 60607

January 22, 2011
Tagged with: 2011, talks

Cravate design for Hermès

Dec 022010

Cravate design for Hermès

‘Les cravates par Hermès’ competition (Hermès/designboom).

Third ex-aequo prize
‘cleverness patterned‘ in colaboration with Liliam Dooley
(more info)

Sold out.

: cleverness pattern tie

: cleverness pattern tie

: cleverness pattern tie

: original design

: cleverness pattern tie

December 2, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, collaborations

Visual | Dance | visual art & dance collaboration

Dec 012010

Visual | Dance | visual art & dance collaboration
Curated by Glexis Novoa & Heather Maloney at Inkub8; Wynwood, December 1-5, 2010.

Inkub8 alternative studio space is pleased to present Visual Dance, an event which will present works that, while formally classified as dissimilar media, share similar structural methodologies. A brief compilation of the work of contemporary dance developed at Inkub8 will share SPACE+TIME+EVENTS with works by visual artists who focus their interest on event- and process-based modes of production. The program will include a series of open sessions, titled Ethereal Labs, in which experimental collaborations between visual artists and dancers centered of the use of different scenographic media–light, projections, sound and actions–will take place.

Consuelo Castañeda is showing a work inspired by images from Andrei Tarkovsky’s films, and operating resources such as sound, light, video, film, internet terminals. Yali Romagoza and Hamlet Lavastida, artists who reside in Havana, will perform versions of works which first appeared at the 2010 Liverpool Biennial. Gustavo Matamoros, a sound artist and community organizer whose work was recently included in the New Works Miami 2010 exhibit at Miami Art Museum, will organize an extended duration sound environment designed to explore the acoustical signature of the Inkub8 space. Maritza Molina will perform “The Red Memories,” a piece which premiered and was originally created for the exhibit “Killing Time” at Exit Art in New York. The collaborative team Gean Moreno & Ernesto Oroza undertakes a site-specific, functional project for the space that induces the interaction of visitors.

Visual | Dance is conceived as an “after-after Art Basel’s parties” late evening sessions consist of a program of contemporary dance performances, including works in progress, developed through Inkub8r (open-studio series) and repertoire pieces.

Artists

Ivonne Batanero
Letty Bassart

Lydia Bittner-Baird
Christine Brunel
Consuelo Castañeda

Liliam Dooley

Elizabeth Doud
Hamlet Lavastida

Heather Maloney

Maritza Molina

Gustavo Matamoros

Priscila Marrero & Carlota Pradera

Gean Moreno & Ernesto Oroza

Ilana Reynolds

Yali Romagoza

Cesar Trasobares

December 1, 2010

Fall Market at DCOTA Art + Design: The New Generation

Nov 082010

FALL MARKET AT DCOTA
ART + DESIGN: THE NEW GENERATION
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2010
To download the Fall Market Program (PDF): Click here
11:00 a.m. ArtNexus Keynote: Investigating art and design, what is now, with tastemakers of the new generation: Dror Benshetrit, Anna Busta, Ernesto Oroza and Gean Moreno. Moderated by Art Nexus Editor in Chief Celia Birbragher. Reception at Adriana Hoyos.
2:00 p.m. Design Miami Preview: This global forum for design opens in December. Enjoy a preview of objects and objectives with Wava Carpenter and Alexandra Cunningham of Design Miami/.
5:00 p.m. Showroom Launch Party: Celebrate teh launch of the new exclusve Andrew Martin showroom at DCOTA. THe Edgy-Brit brand makes its mark in South Florida this season. Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres served.
4:00-7:00 p.m. Design House Kick-off: Meet the designers and view the inspirations for this season’s upcoming DCOTA Design House, Film + Design The Golden Age of Hollywood at Brown Jordan.

Over 30 showroom programs and open house events. Visit dcota.com for full schedule.

November 8, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, talks

thetabloid.org and Design Miami 2010

Nov 022010

TABLOID BY GEAN MORENO & ERNESTO OROZA http://thetabloid.org/
Miami based artists Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza have created a designfocused tabloid in honor of Design Miami/ 2010, featuring interviews, sketches, posters and essays by important forces in the design world such as Andrea Branzi, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Martí Guixé and Jerszy Seymour. To go along with the free publication, which will be distributed at the fair as well as key points throughout the city, Moreno and Oroza have designed a limited run of bags and t-shirts that reinterpret the Design Miami’s trademark logo. (from Design Miami 2010 program)
Contributors: El Ultimo Grito, David Enon, Kueng Caputo, Catherine Geel, Martí Guixé, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Octavi Rofes, Jerszy Seymour, Jens Thiel
Download pdf

November 2, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, collaborations, thetabloid.org

A Better World by Design 2010

Sep 282010

A Better World by Design
Brown and RISD students converge to inspire international community for social change
Providence, RI to host annual “A Better World by Design” Conference October 1-3, 2010 October 1 – 3
Workshop: Technological Disobedience by Ernesto Oroza- Saturday from 5:30 to 7pm –
Petteruti Lounge in Stephen P. Roberts ’62 Campus Center – Brown

September 28, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, desobediencia tecnologica, désobéissance technologique, talks, technological disobedience

Generic Objects – E-flux Journal No.18

Sep 172010

GENERIC OBJECTS
Gean Moreno & Ernesto Oroza

“Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza articulate the world of generic objects sculpted by the brutally abstract flows of trade logistics, global exchange, and abject necessity. They key into a type of formal engagement that not only bypasses and supersedes modes of display, but also considers concrete object-production in terms of a kind of “meta-author” working at the intersection of small-scale need and worldwide processes of industrial standardization. “What is most interesting about the generic quality is that it clarifies objects as compressed and manipulable energy and information, free of the magical cloak of meaning and added value with which the fairy dust of sanctioned creativity wraps them.””

September 17, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, collaborations, e-flux journal, generic objects, writings/interviews

Off the record

Sep 162010

OFF THE RECORD at Edge Zones Art Center-Miami

Curated by Anonymous Curators
Pavel Acosta/ James Bonachea/ Carlos Caballero/ Celia & Yunior/ Ana Teresa Fernández/ Núria Güell/ Glenda León/ Yasser Piña/ Ernesto Oroza/ Katiuska Saavedra/ T10
Off the Record could be seen as an inventory of metaphorical illegalities. Coming from various backgrounds, these artists engage in a conversation with realities that often are not what they were meant to be. Their approaches range from mere documentations of daily situations to actually carrying out actions on the edge of what is permitted, either socially, culturally or politically in their respective societies. They all convey basic strategies of survival, while proposing a very particular visual imaginary and aesthetics, which updates the viewers to the “new times”.
47 NE 25th St., Miami
305 303 8852
SEPTEMBER 2010

September 16, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, group show

I International Caribbean Triennal

Aug 122010

I International Caribbean Triennal

Santo Domingo 2010
1st September to the 24th October 2010
more info >

August 12, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, architecture of necessity, arquitectura de la necesidad, group show

Gallery talk

Aug 082010

Gallery talk by Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza.

August 8, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, collaborations, mam, talks

The Infamous Chair

Jul 282010

220°C Virus Monobloc
The Infamous Chair

Editors: Arnd Friedrichs, Kerstin Finger
Texts by Hajo Eickhoff, Max Küng, Andrej Kupetz,
and Alice Rawsthorn
Language: English
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag (September 1, 2010)
Release: September 2010 Available Soon!
Price: € 29,90 / $ 45,00 / £ 27,50
Format: 17 × 24 cm
Features: 192 pages, full color, softcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-317-8

Monobloc is the established term for the ubiquitous stackable plastic chair that can be found on patios and in yards, snack bars and campgrounds around the globe. Although despised by design aficionados, it is arguably the most successful piece of furniture in the world. 220°C Virus Monobloc is an entertaining documentation of the love-hate relationship designers have with this chair. In addition to homage paid by renowned designers including Philippe Starck, Jerszy Seymour, Maarten Baas, and Konstantin Grcic, the book presents a range of work, photography, and art that is a tongue-in-cheek take on the phenomenon of this chair.

July 28, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, monobloc plastic chair, objects of necessity, publications

Cleverness patterned #2

Jul 132010

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Liliam Dooley and Ernesto Oroza’s design are being produced
for the french luxury brand’s spring / summer 2011 collection.
-more info: designboom

Organized by Hermès and Designboom.

3rd ex-aequo prize in collaboration with Liliam Dooley

Designboom: we are now revealing the first, second and third place winners, whose designs are being produced
for the french luxury brand’s spring / summer 2011 collection.

‘cleverness patterned #2’ by liliam dooley + ernesto oroza
designer’s words:
‘our design is inspired by – and it also reinterprets – both the symbolic universe and the
graphic concept of Hermès ties. the tie, like the umbrella, the paper clip, the digital typeface
and the razor blade, belong to a very particular group of objects that have become classic due
to the brilliance of their design. our project aims to synthesize the aesthetic pleasure that results
from a blend of cleverness, austerity and functionality that good design entails.’

July 13, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, cleverness, collaborations

Portugal Arte 10

Jul 082010

A Survey of Contemporary Art. July 16 – Agosto 15, 2010
Serendipity. Co-curated by Juan Delgado Calzadilla, Elvia Rosa Castro, and Nelson Herrera Ysla.

Description
Serendipity is an exhibition of Contemporary Cuban art that emphasizes the limitless approach to art making in the country. Serendipity displays a range of artists’ practices that result from the hybridization born out of colonial history. The exhibition relates to the history of Cuba as a Hispanic colony in the Caribbean, a geographic region where different cultures and ethnicities integrate with one another. Organized under the premise that Cuban artists express no material and cultural prejudices, and instead assimilate every cultural product indiscriminately, the exhibition attempts to chart out a course wherein artistic production in Cuba reflects its dynamic and controversial context. By making use of a deep sense of re-articulation and the appropriation of international artistic languages, Cuban art is capable of becoming a synthesis of local and global concerns. This is particularly poignant, in that international artistic scenes throughout the world are currently undergoing a radical reprisal of the ways in which public dialogue is made manifest in specific contexts.

Artists

Mauricio Abad, Iván Abreu, Juan Carlos Alom, Rewell Altunaga y Nayvis Pérez, Lidize Alvisa, Douglas Argüelles, Alexandre Arrechea, Magdiel Aspillaga, Belkis Ayón, Abel Barreto, Abel Barroso, Jose Bedia, Agustín Bejarano, Yaniesky Bernal, Alejandro Campins, Yoan Capote, Iván Capote, Los Carpinteros, Loidys Carnero, Elizabet Cerviño, Javier Castro, Raúl Cordero, Roberto Diago, Yoel Hugo Díaz, Humberto Díaz, Duvier del Dago, Roberto Fabelo, Antonio Eligio Fernández, Ernesto Javier Fernández, Adonis Flores, Diana Fonseca, José Manuel Fors, José Emilio Fuentes, Aymée García, Rocío García, Flavio Garciandía, Luis Gárciga, Luis Gómez, Jairo Gutiérrez, Inti Hernández, Octavio Irving, Ernesto Leal, Glenda León, Reynier Leyva Novo, Luis Enrique López, Alexis Leyva Machado (Kcho), Armando Mariño, Ibrahim Miranda, Antonio Margolles, Rigoberto Mena, Manuel Mendive, Carlos Montes de Oca, Orlando Montalbán, Arturo Montoto, Pedro Pablo Oliva, Ernesto Oroza, Marianela Orozco, René Peña, Rodolfo Peraza, Douglas Perez, Gustavo Pérez, Alain Pino, Manuel Piña, Eduardo Ponjuán, Carlos Quintana, Sandra Ramos, Ernesto Rancano, Ángel Ricardo Ríos, René Francisco Rodríguez, René Rodríguez, Santiago Rodríguez Olazábal, Rubén Rodríguez, Fernando Rodríguez, Eduardo Roca (Choco), Lazaro Saavedra, Alfredo Sosabravo, Esterio Segura, José A. Toirac y Ricardo G. Elías, Ruslán Torres, José Villa, Jorge Wellesley, José Eduardo Yaque

July 8, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, group show

NEW WORK MIAMI 2010

Jun 272010

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NEW WORK MIAMI 2010
July 18 through October 17, 2010

New Work Miami 2010,conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami’s artistic community, will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment. Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum’s recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition’s run.

The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum’s audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Jenny Brillhart, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Bert Rodriguez, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Humberto Torres, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Michael Vasquez, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.

Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist’s childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition’s gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors’ perceptions, such as Don Lambert’s Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of “Sketches” in space.

The exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project. To receive event invitations and reminders, sign up for MAM E-news, or find MAM on Facebook.com.

Exhibition Organization and Support
New Work Miami 2010 is organized by Miami Art Museum and is supported by donations to MAM’s Annual Exhibition Fund. It is curated by Peter Boswell, assistant director for programs/senior curator, and René Morales, associate curator.

RELATED EVENTS

Exhibition Preview: New Work Miami 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010, 6-9pm
MAM members free, non-members $20
Featuring a new performance by the TM Sisters: “With Out You, Babe.” Music by Oscar Fuentes
and the Gipsy Catz.

Tours
Public tours, free with museum admission, are given every Sunday at 2pm. Docent-led tours in English or Spanish can be scheduled upon request. Contact Miami Art Museum’s education department at 305.375.4073 for additional information.

June 27, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, group show, mam

XVII JORNADAS DE ESTUDIO DE LA IMAGEN

Jun 102010

XVII JORNADAS DE ESTUDIO DE LA IMAGEN
EL SUSURRO DE LAS IMÁGENES / 21 – 25 JUN 2010
Dirigidas por Aurora Fernández Polanco

“El susurro es el ruido que produce lo que funciona bien” (R.Barthes)
Como práctica de resistencia ante el inevitable ruido mediático, determinadas producciones artísticas trabajan estimuladas por las posibilidades políticas que procura el intercambio de imágenes en la cultura visual global. Para pensar con las imágenes hay quien se involucra en estrategias de redefinición, confrontación con los medios, deriva o re-montaje; hay quien decide escamotear la visibilidad y aproximarse a lo inframince; hay, por otra parte, quien intenta un tipo de resistencia sistémica que hace hincapié en el gesto desobediente. En todos los casos se ocupan de cuidar el susurro de las imágenes que compartimos como una forma saludable de conocimiento colectivo.

En esta edición las Jornadas estarán compuestas por: un seminario internacional de artistas y teóricos abierto al público; un forum de investigadores en teoría y práctica artística que presentarán su trabajo en las sesiones críticas de las Jornadas; y dos talleres de artista para un grupo reducido de participantes (los aspirantes deberán presentar un portfolio de trabajo).

SESIONES CRÍTICAS
Compuesta de tres paneles:

1. Malversaciones mediáticas/Conversaciones artísticas.
Propuestas de y sobre artistas que reorientan el discurso de los medios y piensan el binomio experiencia-representación.

2. La accesibilidad sin fin: archivos, colecciones, acumulaciones.
Propuestas de y sobre artistas que se involucran en la promiscuidad de la imagen como práctica reflexiva y crítica.

3. Desobediencias sistémicas.
Propuestas de y sobre artistas que trabajan sobre los nuevos conceptos de propiedad, apropiación, imágenes pobres y bajo coste.

PROGRAMA DE LAS JORNADAS

LUN 21
10:00 – 18:00 Taller con Rosângela Rennó.

En esta sesión Rosângela Rennó desarrollará un encuentro-taller con artistas e investigadores. Tras una breve exposición de alguno de los trabajos de la artista, un grupo reducido de artistas e investigadores presentarán su trabajo y dialogarán acerca de aspectos centrales de su práctica. Se debatirá profundamente sobre temas relacionados con la obra de Rosângela Rennó y de los participantes, sus procesos creativos y planteamientos.

MAR 22
10:00 Inauguración de las Jornadas: Isabel Rosell, Directora General de Archivos Museos y Bibliotecas y Ferran Barenblit, Director del CA2M.
10:15 Introducción a las Jornadas. Aurora Fernández Polanco. Directora de las Jornadas.
10:30 La imagen afectiva y la imagen pensante. Ernst Van Alphen. Profesor de estudios literarios y director del Instituto de Disciplinas Culturales. Universidad de Leiden. Holanda.
11:30 Verdades excesivas. Ficciones profilácticas. Joan Fontcuberta. Artista. Barcelona.
13:00 Mirar también, Grez J. Hayes, Los Ángeles. Sesión crítica con Joan Fontcuberta.
14:30 Pausa comida.
16:30 El último aliento de la imagen, Rosângela Rennó. Artista. Brasil.
17:30 Fuera de los archivos: Olivia Plender y el “susurro de las imágenes”, Amy Budd, Londres. Sesión crítica con Rosângela Rennó y Ernst Van Alphen.

MIÉ 23
10:00 ¿Un arte invisible? Thierry Davila. Comisario del MAMCO de Ginebra y profesor de arte contemporáneo. Universidad de Ginebra. Suiza.
11:30 Culturas vernáculas y canibalismo sígnico, Ernesto Oroza. Artista. Cuba.
13:00 Archivo de una identidad falsificada. Bongore (José Luis Aguilera), Madrid. Sesión crítica con Ernesto Oroza.
14:30 Pausa comida.
16:30 María Cañas. Artista. Sevilla.
17:30 Image Anomique, Marko Stamenkovic, Serbia. Sesión crítica con Thierry Davila.

JUE 24
10:00 Counter Geographies, Ursula Biemann. Artista. Suiza.
11:30 Transformaciones en la era del Postcapitalismo, Daniel García Andujar. Artista. Barcelona.
13:00 Pintando China ahora (en calidad comercial, alta calidad y calidad museística), Ondrej Brody y Kristoffer Paetau, Praga. Sesión crítica con María Cañas y Daniel García Andujar.
14:30 Pausa comida.
16:30 La Construcción del miedo, Antoni Muntadas. Artista. Nueva York – Barcelona.
17:30 Parar la imagen Vasanthi Mary Mariadass (India). Sesión crítica con Ursula Biemann y Antoni Muntadas.

VIE 25
10:00 – 18:00 Taller con Antoni Muntadas.

En esta sesión Antoni Muntadas desarrollará un encuentro-taller con artistas e investigadores. Tras una breve exposición de alguno de los trabajos del artista, un grupo reducido de artistas e investigadores presentarán su trabajo y dialogarán acerca de aspectos centrales de su práctica. Se debatirá profundamente sobre temas relacionados con la obra de Antoni Muntadas y de los participantes, sus procesos creativos y planteamientos.

BREVES BIOGRAFÍAS DE LOS PONENTES

Ernst van Alphen es profesor de estudios literarios y director del Instituto de Disciplinas Culturales en la Universidad de Leiden. Entre sus publicaciones: Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self (1992); Caught By History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art (1997); Armando: Shaping Memory (2001) Literature, and Theory; y Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought (2005).

Ursula Biemann, artista, comisaria y teórica cuyo trabajo está centrado en el género, las migraciones y la economía global. Su trabajo ha sido expuesto internacionalmente y es autora de numerosas publicaciones. Es investigadora en el Instituto por la Teoría de la Universidad de Artes de Zurich.
www.geobodies.org

María Cañas, aka “La Archivera de Sevilla”, caníbal audiovisual, salvaje mediática, peliculera, cibergarrula, zensualista… dirigewww.animalario.tv, un lugar dedicado al reciclaje, el apropiacionismo y la experimentación artística.
www.animalario.tv

Thierry Davila, comisario del MAMCO (Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo) de Ginebra. Es profesor de arte contemporáneo en la Universidad de Ginebra y autor de numerosos libros sobre arte moderno y contemporáneo. Su próximo libro, que será publicado en septiembre está dedicado al infrathin, término acuñado por Marcel Duchamp.

Joan Fontcuberta, aparte de su trabajo artístico, ha desarrollado una actividad plural como docente, ensayista y comisario de exposiciones. Es profesor de fotografía en la Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona y entre sus publicaciones más recientes se encuentran La cámara de Pandora, La fotografí@ después de la fotografía y A través del espejo.

Daniel García Andujar cuestiona, mediante la ironía y la utilización de estrategias de presentación de las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación, las promesas democráticas e igualitarias de estos medios y critica la voluntad de control que esconden detrás de su aparente transparencia. Miembro de irational.org, fundador de Technologies To The People y director de numerosos proyectos en Internet.
www.danielandujar.org

Antoni Muntadas aborda en su obra temas sociales, políticos y de comunicación, como la relación entre el espacio público y privado dentro de determinados marcos sociales o los canales de información y la forma en que son utilizados para censurar o promulgar ideas. Su obra se ha expuesto internacionalmente.

Ernesto Oroza es un artista y diseñador cubano. Es autor del libro Objets Réinventés. La création populaire à Cuba (2002) y de Desobediencia Tecnológica (2009). Ha sido profesor invitado en Les Ateliers, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Creation Industrielle (ENSCI), Paris, y profesor del Instituto Politécnico de Diseño de la Habana.

Rosângela Rennó estudió Bellas Artes en Guignard College y Arquitectura en la Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Es doctora en Arte por la Escuela de comunicaciones y arte de la Universidad de São Paulo. Su trabajo ha sido expuesto internacionalmente.

June 10, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, CA2M, talks

DRIFTWOOD

May 312010

Driftwood – Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Miami-Dade Public Library System – Main Library
101 West Flagler Street Miami, FL 33130

Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza’s collaborative works question, test and “act out” ideas about the function of and tensions between objects, cities, exhibition spaces, art, architecture and design. Often visually simple and sparse, their projects for exhibition spaces have many layers.

These projects challenge the premise of design and artistic production, complicating our understanding of the relationships between makers and users. How do cultural influences, economic necessity, or any number of social, natural or political forces lead to new and unanticipated uses of places and things? What can we learn from the way ordinary people make use of milk crates, stereo speakers, buckets? What do we understand about changes in a city by looking at its salvage yards and civic auditoriums? Who or what makes a particular use or design official?

The artists write about these observations and publish them in newsprint tabloids that they distribute publicly as well as in art journals for specialized audiences. The ideas in these texts inform their visual/design projects; the tabloids become part of installations. These ideas also trouble the connections between the materials in the gallery or art journal—validating spaces—and their counterparts in the city and society outside.

The objects and materials in Driftwood act as double (or triple, or quadruple) agents. The wallpaper, screen structures, event posters and glass “paintings” extend or bend the energies at work in a Miami salvage yard and urban patterns of use: they are both art objects and salvaged/functional materials. They also modify the space, laying bare its functions: an institution has decided to use a space designed to be an auditorium or meeting space as an art gallery.

The patterned wallpaper is also a vehicle for discussing ideas. It folds into a tabloid containing an essay with images, Thirteen Ways to Look at a Salvage Yard, and a page that collapses into yet another publication, Freddy: examining the process by which a mass-produced object gets “derailed” for new uses. You’re invited to pick these up and take them with you—to read or to use for something else.

Denise Delgado.
Curator.Art Services and Exhibitions
Miami-Dade Public Library System

May 31, 2010
Tagged with: 2010, collaborations, driftwood, solo show, thetabloid.org

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