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October 29 - 3.30 pm |
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El Levante
Lorena Cardona, Lujan Castellani, Graciela Carnevale, Mauro Machado |
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| El Levante is a workshop meant for young visual
artists dealing with production analysis and comparison. It reflects
on the works, relationships, interests, concerns and personal desires
of the subject in interaction with his/her peers and with the surrounding
context. Its aim is to bring to light the problems posed by the ways of building up theories and models amid the complex diversity of the present practice of art, as well as to legitimize artistic thought without losing sight of its social and political conditions while strengthening differentiation and critical thought. The workshop acts as the axis around which we have also generated an internship and exchange program and a space for exhibitions and debates. El Levante Internship and Exchange Project aims to generate and further exchanges between artists residing in our city with those in others, and to accommodate in Rosario artists from other places. It is believed that such an exchange will be mutually enriching, making for an approach to different experiences and realities as well as to other perspectives and viewpoints about art work. The project has been conceived as a temporal space for production where the selected artist may interact with the workshop, the space destined to exhibitions and, if this is what he wishes, the artist may join other kinds of activities held at institutions with which El Levante has entered into agreements and which are involved with assisting education, the community at large, or culture in general. http://www.ellevante.org.ar/ |
| October 29 - 4 pm |
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Arte Bío Bío-Polo de desarrollo
de arte contemporáneo
Luis Cuello Madariaga, Simonetta Rossi. |
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| Arte Biobío was established in 2003 with
the purpose of developing contemporary art in the Biobío area
(in the South of Chile). They foster critical thought and production
of the visual arts, organize national and international seminars,
hold art and curatorship workshops, and publish material related to
the visual arts. The work carried out by the Polo is an effort at
re-formulating the map of production that depicts Chile’s artistic
thought, historically centralized in Santiago, the national Capital.
The following lines of action are developed: - “Seminarios, nacionales e internacionales [National and International Seminars” (2003 “Arte y Realidad [Art and Reality], 2004 “Arte contemporáneo: Obra y Circulación [Contemporary Art: Works and Circulation]), a development of spaces that, through papers and revision of works, have facilitated the debate about problems concerning contemporary art. - “Clínicas de arte [Art Clinics] ” (2004, 2005) . Sixteen artists were offered to update and go deeper into their overall work by means of a curatorship that permits higher levels of reflection on their creations, thus aspiring to the consolidation of a group of artists from the local scenario so as to build up a script of exhibitions. - “Clínicas de Curatoría [Curatorial Clinics]” (2005), whose aim is to include 14 people from private and public institutions into a training process of curatorship. The institutions included are involved in installation and dissemination of the contemporary visual arts in the region. - “Ediciones de artes visuales [Visual Art Publications]”. Curatorial Clinics have written texts that are published in the Overlock Magazine, where it is possible to include inscriptive texts on works and to review analysis of political and artistic conjunctures both at the local and at the national and international level. Also, 6 numbers of “Animita” have been published. This is a visual work in its own right and enables circulation of artists’ visual works through various distribution strategies. - “Circulación de obra [Work Circulation]” These artists have held individual and collective exhibitions in Chilean circles; they have also taken part in urban interventions. For December this year they planned a collective exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario [Rosario’s Museum of Contemporary Art] and March 2006 will bring an exhibition by all artists involved in the project; i.e. the inclusion of 5 exhibition spaces belonging to Concepción’s Civic Center. |
| October 29 - 5 pm |
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Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo
Fernando López Lage |
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| FAC has been functioning in an itinerant fashion
for the last five years. They offer seminars and lectures by renowned
artists and teachers with the purpose of providing Uruguayan contemporary
art with an integral supportive framework. They are currently facing
the challenge of carrying out their activity in a structured, organized,
and visible way from a physical space open to the public. Artists
will be able to work on the premises. FAC’s seat stands in the
most dynamic, contrastive area of Montevideo with a view to encourage
artists to delve deeper into the creation of languages which reflect
the daily experiences of contemporary life. FAC will house an exhibition room open to Uruguayan and foreign artists. Curatorial activities will be privileged, so there will be seminars and courses to train and professionalize curators. The Foundation will also further international exchanges through the mode of artists’ internships all over the world. This aims at the internationalization of Uruguayan art as well as at a richer training of local artists. |
| October 29 - 5.30 pm |
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Proyecto Areal
María Helena Bernardes, André Severo. |
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| Created by André Severo and Maria Helena Bernardes in 2000, Areal intends to fund and share artists’ works and publications with audiences. As a reference for the expansion of the ever more blurred boundaries of art as a specific field in our times, it resorts to the immensity of the lands, water, and sand to be found in Southern Brazil. The project funds art works that would hardly find sponsors among the institutional circuits and publishes an artist-conceived collection of books known as Documento AREAL, which brought out its 5th title in 2005. Areal was awarded the PETROBRAS ARTES VISUAIS National Prize in 2002, and it appears regularly at conferences held in universities, museums, biennials and other similar institutions in order to disseminate at least some of the contemporary artistic thought and production that is granted little visibility in institutional milieus. It is related to ARENA, a recently created NGO whose purpose is to protect and spread artists’ projects. |
| October 29 - 6 pm |
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La Baulera
Jorge Gutiérrez |
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| LA BAULERA. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo [Center of Contemporary Art] has been established by a civilian association devoted to independent artists’ training, cultural management and production issues to extend them towards the community and other artists. The Center deals with three projects: El Puesto, a hall for the visual arts that exhibits works by artists from the province and from other regions of the country; La Rosa, a multifunctional space and a back room where activities such as talks, concerts, and shows are organized, and El Fondo, a space for the arts related to the show category. They are currently working on a museum of contemporary art to exhibit small format works. All the activities as held on their premises: LA BAULERA, General Paz 1462, City of San Miguel de Tucumán. |
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October 30 - 3 pm |
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| CONART
Angélika Heckl |
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| 2002 saw the advent of I Conart, Bolivia’s first national contemporary art contest, followed by a second instance in 2004. Thus II Conart became an international biennial of contemporary art. The second event took place in the recovered former municipal slaughter house, and devolved into the creation of the multidisciplinary art association named N.A.D.A. (Nodo Asociativo para el Desarrollo de las Artes [Node Association for the Advancement of the Arts]). In March 2005, N.A.D.A. obtained a concession to make use of the former slaughter house to carry out a project named mARTadero, an autonomous initiative for the development and innovation of art and culture which has been going through its first stages since the second semester of the present year. Besides its characteristics as a biennial event, Conart is regarded as non-stop management process. It offers unprecedented training workshops, also within the framework of the redlap [Latin American Network of Art and Performance] experimental project held among Cochabamba (Bolivia), Córdoba (Argentina), Quito (Ecuador) y Santiago (Chile). Realidad Visual is an organization composed of artists, communicators and researchers into several fields. It intends to make an active contribution to the creation of spaces and platforms where artistic creation and cultural development can thrive. The Visual Reality and Cultural Development Area gathers a group of researchers interested in promoting participative, interdisciplinary principles and processes for the study, design, and implementation of public policies aimed at Peruvian cultural development. At present, the Area is developing a research/action program tending to the articulation of the Peruvian System of National Culture Consolidation Program (Ministry of Culture), an initiative that is mostly encouraged by the civil society. |
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October 30 - 3.30 pm |
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Realidad Visual
Mauricio Delfín |
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| Realidad Visual is composed by artists, communicators,
and researchers from various fields. Its purpose is to make an active
contribution to the establishment of spaces and platforms devoted
to artistic creation and cultural development. In Realidad Visual,
the Cultural Development Area has gathered a research team whose main
interest lies in promoting participative principles and processes
for the study, design, and implementation of public policies aimed
to develop cultural programs in Perú. This Area is currently
developing a research/action project to articulate the Program for
the Consolidation of the National Culture System in Perú (Ministry
of Culture), an initiative fostered mainly by the civil society. http://www.realidadvisual.org/ |
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October 30- 4 pm |
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Crear vale la pena
Inés Sanguinetti |
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| “Crear vale la pena” is a non-governmental
organization that was started in Argentina in 1993. Ever since its
creation it has developed programs of social inclusion integrating
education and art into social organization as a means to social and
individual advancement and development. By promoting social organization
together with various art forms, “Crear vale la pena”
seeks to redefine frameworks of thought and action that may succeed
in reverting the vicious circle of poverty and social exclusion in
Argentina. http://www.crearvalelapena.org.ar/ |
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October 30- 5 pm |
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| CEIA
Marco Paulo Rolla, Marcos Hill |
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| CEIA - Centro de Experimentación e Información
de Arte [Center for Artistic Experimentation and Information]- is
an artists’ independent initiative that started in Belo Horizonte
in 2000 out of the need to foster activities stemming from the appearance
and dissemination of the most recent forms of art. Among its objectives
are the organization of international events and the publication of
such works as enhance local production and make the global accessible.
Bearing in mind the significance of the globalization process and
of the harm and benefits originating from the stimulus placed on a
knowledge of art, we are bent on promoting a network that will lead
to communication at the local, regional, national, and international
levels. Such a possibility will, in turn, open an effective space
for the analysis of and reflection on contemporary art production.
Along these lines, information about new art developments and thought
may be shared by a larger number of people: it is perfectly possible
to access important contacts and interchanges through internet workshops,
lectures, exhibitions, and actions. Therefore, people who are interested
in different aspects of the field of art will be able to share in
CEIA’s activities and join their efforts to others who likewise
advocate the processes proposed by this initiative. CEIA is coordinated
by Marco Paulo Rolla and Marcos Hill, and is a member of RAIN, international
artists’ initiative network. http://www.ceia.art.br/ |
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October 30- 5.30 pm |
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Belleza y Felicidad
Fernanda Laguna |
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| Belleza y felicidad [Happiness and Beauty]
arose in March 1999 as an independent project funded by writer Cecilia
Pavón and writer and visual artist Fernanda Laguna. Since
2002 it is directed by Fernanda Laguna. ByF is an Art Gallery that
gathers a well-known group of artists who intend to be promoted
at both the national and the international level. Besides, it aids
novel Argentinean, Latin American, and European artists by funding
non-commercial exhibitions of a high cultural level. ByF also holds
music concerts, poetry readings, jam sessions, and literary readings.
The center is open to different kinds of proposals insofar as these
address experiments about the sense of art and personal experiences
between artists and their environment. It also has a bookstore of
authors’ editions and its own publishing house for poetry
and narrative fiction, created six years ago. |
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October 30- 6 pm |
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El Observatorio, Esfera Pública y Espacio Vacío
Jaime Iregui |
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| El Observatorio is an independent,
open, and collaborative project conceived in the spirit of permanent
construction and growth. It has been specifically devised to function
in the web, with public space as its general framework. It was created
in 2004, issuing a call for participation through the net, and to
date it has received about 50 contributions. The 2300 members that
have joined the project receive these contributions on a regular basis
via Internet. Most of the members have bonds with art and culture
milieus in Colombia and other Latin American and European countries.
Many of them are artists, students, teachers, managers, and researchers,
including a significant number of regular visitors to museums, art
galleries, and cultural events. Esfera Pública is an Internet space of discussion, established and edited by Jaime Iregui. Its main purpose is to encourage dialogue and critical thought as well as to highlight independent contemporary artistic processes. It was started in 1995 under the name Red Alterna, which was later changed to Momento Crítico. At present, it offers a space for artists’ exchanges, archives, documentation, and dissemination in an effort to draw attention to artistic practices, trajectories, and processes that can occur both in unconventional and institutional spaces. Its website allows access to an archive containing the discussions held in Esfera Pública. The space neither proposes nor decides which issues should be considered. The subjects for discussion arise from artistic practice and other events such as salons, biennials, and independent and institutional curatorships. Its 2400 members come from Colombia and other Spanish-speaking countries. When Espacio Vacío opened its doors to the public in the early days of 1997, it abstained from including restrictive manifestos, statements in support of styles or trends, and preconceived ideas about what ‘should’ occur within the space. With the passing of time, Espacio Vacío clearly appears as organic, open, and self-managed. It is in permanent construction, and is based on confidence in artistic undertakings, debate of ideas, and their influence on society and culture. A look at Espacio Vacío necessarily involves a look at the art milieu where it is installed, particularly since Espacio prides itself on its open-mindedness, which means that it is pervious to the milieu. http://www.elobservatorio.info/ http://laesferapublica.blogspot.com/ |
| October 30 - 6.30 pm: Schedule presentation
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