Author: kaphoorn

Presented by: Daniel Punzón From that anthological punch that Jack Kirby gave Hitler through Captain America, to the German comedy about the more up to date Führer, “Er ist wieder da,” the Third Reich has been a recurring theme in our popular culture. What can we learn from the way in which our societies handle this theme through art? On a journey through Hollywood, Soviet cinema, comics, South Korean youth, Star Wars, Broadway or B-series cinema. We will try to answer those questions and understand […]

Read More… from Tertulia 9: The Third Reich in popular culture – Between image and memory

Speaker: Oscar Ardila Moderated by: Teo Lagos A review of how fine arts have recently been able to shape and consolidate informal spaces of participation in urban and rural settings in Colombia. These spaces have acknowledged the urgency of implementing devices to promote democratic participation; setting up a frame for minimum standards of citizen behaviour or the strengthening of representative platforms for collectivities framed in a time of post-conflict. Oscar Ardila Luna: (Bucaramanga – Colombia, 1977) Artist and art historian who’s work revolves around the […]

Read More… from Tertulia 8: DECENTERED Informal practices in the public space

What does it mean to be a cultural knowledge producer in a the devastated landscape of creative economy and in a new era of global fascism? Speaker: Constanza Mendoza In today’s paradigm of cognitive capitalism – where all knowledge becomes merchandise and where science and economies plan and control all subjective life without the necessity of governmental control – is there any chance that art can be still effective for subverting the structures of experience and perception? Under the intent of imagining the relationship between […]

Read More… from Tertulia 7: Devastated landscape of creative economy

Speaker: Alejandra Ruddoff and Nikolaus Nowak Moderated by: José Délano It has already been proven that in sculpture and modeling the coexistence of different temporal dimensions is possible. But how does the infinite works?The artist and the journalist present us with a brief interdisciplin ary analysis that takes us into the thoughts an reflections that allow us to approach, unveil or decode a formal language that is present in literature. Alejandra Ruddoff Studied sculpture at the University of Chile and graduated in 1985. In 1993 […]

Read More… from Tertulia 3: Nevertheless they move – sculpture and the fourth dimension

Speaker: Daniela Labra moderated by: José Délano Desde los ultimos meses la escena artística y cultural brasileña ha recibido ataques de grupos conservadores moralistas que han logrado cerrar exposiciones y criminalizar a artistas por exponer sus cuerpos desnudos en performances o incluso en dibujos. Instituciones son acusadas de comunistas, pedófilas y pornográficas mientras la situación de corrupción en la política explota. Después de 30 años de democracia, el fantasma de la dictadura, ahora en ropas neoliberales, se asoma y la idea del arte como resisténcia […]

Read More… from Tertulia 2: DESNUDOS OTRA VEZ? Censura, arte político y política del arte en el Brasil actual

Speakers: Juan Almarza y José Délano En esta primera tertulia, y con el propósito de generar una discusión abierta y participativa, los expositores abordarán en forma crítica aspectos fundamentales relacionados con el status del arte contemporáneo. Desde su interpretación como medio de expresión de realidades y problemáticas socioculturales contingentes, a su lectura como vehículo de significaciones de orden trascendental y universal, la conversación estará orientada a generar un debate constructivo en torno a conceptos que permitirán aportar fundamentos teóricos al ejercicio de la práctica artística, […]

Read More… from Tertulia 1: Entre la belleza y el compromiso – una discusión en torno al rol del arte contemporáneo