Artistic practice:
Training and exchange

2000
• Meeting for the Analysis of art-work for artists in Rosario, Santa Fe province.
• Meeting for the Analysis of art-work for artists in Buenos Aires.
• Meeting for the Confrontation of art-work on Systems of construction of art-work, in Buenos Aires.

2001
Workshop for the research on art practice and its social projection, Buenos Aires.
• Series of debates "Networks, contexts, territories", Buenos Aires.

2002
• Workshop of research "Artistic Production and contexts of creation". Tucumán.

2003
• Workshop on Analysis and Development of art projects
, Mar del Plata. In collaboration with Fondo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo from Mar del Plata.


South-South interchanges

2000 / 2002 / 2005
Rain's Meetings
2000: Participation of Trama at the opening debates for Rain (Claudia Fontes and Leonel Luna). Haarlem, The Netherlands, June 2000.
2000: Participation of Trama at the evaluation debate of Rain (Claudia Fontes). Amsterdam, December
2002: Debate organized by Rain in Jakarta, Indonesia. Participants: artists Tulio de Sagastizábal and Pablo Ziccarello.
2005: Participation of Trama at Rain’s meeting. Represented by Claudia Fontes and Mauro Machado. México DF.

2001
Participation of Claudia Fontes –invited through Trama- at the debates "Visibility and invisibility in contemporary art", organized by CEIA, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

2002
Violence - Silence
Participation of Adriana Lestido at the Pulse's activities, Durban, Sudáfrica, invited through Trama.

2002 - 2004 - 2005
"Context project ". Traveling project of cooperation and exchange among artists in the working frame of Rain.
2002: "Point of view". Collaboration project amongst Germaine Kruip, Jorge Gutiérrez and Jorge Lovisolo in San Miguel de Tucumán as a first step for Context project. Co-ordinated by Carlota Beltrame
2004: México DF, México. Participation of artist Jorge Gutiérrez in second stage of project Context. Collaboration with Mexican artist Miguel Rodríguez Sepúlveda. Co-organized by Trama and El despacho, México DF July/August.
2005: Belo Horizonte, Brasil.

2003
Meeting of independent contemporary art organisations in Latin America and Caribbean. An activity co-managed by Duplus Project and Trama.

2003
Mariela Scafati at Workshop on photography and Bogolan painting. In representation of Trama, organised by Centre Soleil activities, Bamako, Mali.

2003 - 2004
Trama's collaboration in "Yo escribo esta pieza. Arte y cultural pop", a project by El despacho (México), in the working frame of Rain.
Participation of anthropologist Hugo Viggiano on behalf of Trama in “I write this song: Art and Pop Culture”. A project by el despacho (Mexico), in collaboration with Pulse, Trama, RuangRupa, CalArts, The Art Bakery, Rijksakademie, and Phil Beaumont.
http://www.eldespacho.org/yo-escribo/index-i.html

2004
Trama's collaboration in "Cabin baggage". a project by Open Circle. for the World Social Forum, Mumbai, India. Invited artist Leo Rocco as member of Taller Popular de Serigrafía (the Popular Serigraphy Workshop) who took part in representation of Trama.

2004
Research trips on independent management and artists’ initiatives in South America
Pacific: Chile, Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador. Artist representing Trama: Carlota Beltrame, San Miguel de Tucumán. September.
Atlantic: Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil. Artist representing Trama: Marina De Caro, Buenos Aires. July/October

2005
Trama's participation in the KO 1ST DURBAN VIDEO FESTIVAL, organised by Pulse. 20 argentinean Videos at KO, video festival in Durban, South Africa. October.

Online projects

Since proyectotrama.org. was created, we intended the development of spaces for participation and exchange online.
Today only the Register of Artists' iniciatives is still open for participation.

In other cases the contents have been saved in archives that can be visited in the in the Reading Room.

 

Artists’ management:
Training, exchange, and cooperation.

2002
• Workshop for the research in cultural management for artists I
.
An 8-day workshop to meet and confront Argentine and foreign artists’ initiatives.

2003
• Workshop on Cultural Management Research for Artists II.
An 8-day workshop to meet and confront Argentine and foreign artists’ initiatives.

2004
Regional Meetings of Cultural Management Analysis for Artists.
Meetings for emergent artists’ initiatives in 4 regions of the country: Salta, Bahía Blanca, Posadas and Córdoba, to exchange data, share strategies and get some advice from peers and coordinators/tutors: Carina Cagnolo, Daniel Besoytaorube, Gustavo López and Jorge Gutiérrez.
From 4 to 6 and from 18 to 20 March, 2004 in Bahía Blanca and Salta.
From 11 to 13 and from 25 to 27 March, 2004 in Córdoba and Posadas.

2004
Research trips on independent management and artists’ initiatives in South America. Countries visited: Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia.

2005
• Trama El Encuentro
Regional Conference for the Exchange of Views on Art Management and Cultural Cooperation Networks. Buenos Aires, October 29 – November 5

 


Presentations at international events

2002
Presentation of Trama and of the project "Context", Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten de Amsterdam, Netherlands. Performed by Claudia Fontes.

2004
Participation of Trama in InFest, an International Festival of Culture managed by artists, organized by PAARC (Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres) in Vancouver, Canada. Claudia Fontes represented Trama.

Participation at De Vloed (The flood), by invitation from Kabk, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, La Haya, Netherlands. Presentation of Rain and Trama by Claudia Fontes.

Participation of Trama in The Souht Project. Represented by Claudia Fontes. Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia, July 1-4.

2005
Participation of Trama at EIEI, Encuentro Internacional de Espacios Independientes (International Encounter of Independent Spaces), organized by Hoffmann's House. Florencia Cacciabue and Irene Banchero represented Trama. Valparaíso, Chile, from 20th to 31st March.

Participation of Trama at 15th VideoBrasil International Electronic Art Festival. Represented by Marina De Caro. September.

2006
Participation in Souht Project. Participation of Irene Banchero and Mauro Machado in the Third International Gathering, Santiago (2006): Crossing horizons: context + community in the south

 


Publicaciones

Trama 2000
Insights and context

Confrontation of speeches, debates, and other attemps at dialogue in Argentine contemporary art

Trama 2001
Society imagined

in contemporary art in Argentine

Trama 2002
Images, Narratives and Utopias

Experiencies and projects in Argentinean contemporary art

Trama 2003
The network as a common place

Participation and co-operation strategies in contemporary artists’ projects in Argentina

 


Cronology


Who participated in Trama
(last update: may 2004)