Presented by: Agustín Pérez-Rubio When we speak of contemporary art, the museum has gone from being a receiving institution to a space that seeks to generate a curatorial discourse through exhibitions, research and public programs. The importance of generating local content that is in turn connected globally is one of the current challenges for most institutions. How to move towards a museum that decolonizes the structure of knowledge, what practices help us to trace this new concept of a non-hegemonic museum? Curator Agustín Pérez Rubio […]

Presented by: Paula Rodríguez JAAR, LAMENT OF THE IMAGES observes Alfredo Jaar’s creative process, as one of the most relevant contemporary artists. His works address big issues in different parts of the world, such as immigration at the Mexico and USA border, genocide in Rwanda o the military coup in Chile. Jaar believes that art is “the last place” of freedom in our society and from that trench, he displays his work as an act of resistance. This is the first film made about this […]

Presented by: Cecilia Vicuña Slow Down Fast / A Toda Raja (2019, Errant Bodies Press) is the latest collaboration between Cecilia Vicuña and Camila Marambio. In this brilliant intergenerational dialogue, curator Camila Marambio and Cecilia Vicuña, one of the most intriguing Indoamerican artists of our times, converse about mestizaje/miscenegation, ecological disaster, eroticism and decolonization in their multilingual, irreverent and humorous slang. The book, which they began working on in 2015 through recorded meetings that were then transcribed, is published in Berlin by Errant Bodies Press, […]

Presented by: María Berríos How to be in solidarity when there is no possibility of being solid or whole? I will tell two different tales of solidarity, one linked to a museum as a counterpropaganda campaign, rumor as a the poor’s bomb, a call to artists to bring in their work as support structures for the Third World. The second, on the use of storytelling as a way of articulating a language to fight against the systematic warfare of enclosure, a tale involving a group […]

Presented by: Aljoscha Begrich The worlds of visual and performing arts are quite separated. Different in way and time of perception, both developing different audiences, spaces and market. But how can they be brought closer? The Maxim Gorki Theater offers a way of combined parallelism in the so called “theater exhibition“ Berliner Herbstsalon. Visual and performing arts are not presented together in one piece or space, but connected by the topic. Vice a versa, the perception is influenced with daily discourses and by a diverse […]

Presented by: Enrique Rivera Between October and November of 2019 the 14th version of the Media Arts Biennial will be held, celebrating 26 years of existence. It has covered, in its 13 previous editions, through historical reviews, theoretical reflections and aesthetic practices mainly the relationship between art and science. In this coming 14th edition, named THE LOGIC OF VERTIGO, a collective uncertainty and instability (fundamental characteristics of the creative process in art) will be provoked and reflected. Our capacity for discernment, affected by the overstimulation […]

Presented by: Paz Guevara What does an exhibition perform? How exhibitions shape meanings, categories, narratives and periodizations? Through cases of historical and recent exhibitions, this presentation explores to what extend exhibitions shape aesthetic and political debates. From the cold war exhibitions at the intersections of cultural diplomacy, instrumentalization and mass individualism, the talk will present the critical artistic strategies and the role of artists in the generation of alternative exhibitions formats. Among them, the anti-imperialist art brigades and interational Solidarity Movement in the 1970s. Moderated […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]