“Solidly placed at the discursive intersection of art and artifact, the frictions between tradition and contemporary art are used as jumping off points through which the historical, social and economic relations intrinsic to the production, dissemination, consumption, or viewing of these cultural products begin to unveil themselves.” In the latest …
Speaker DAY 2: Questioning Notions of Mestizaje Although mestizaje has been widely questioned from the perspective of race and national identity politics in Latin America and the Caribbean, it is also a term that defines a space of social and political resistance, as in the context of Chicano culture. This …
RECORRIDOS NO EVIDENTES En una disertación sobre el movimiento y el mundo contemporáneo, el filósofo Gilles Deleuze afirma que ya no hay “un origen como punto de partida, sino como un modo de ponerse en órbita”. El asunto es “situarse en el movimiento”, insertarse en el flujo o en el …
Almost 30 years have passed since the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) took up arms against the Mexican federal government in 1994. The Zapatistas, as they are more commonly known, are an autonomous group based in Chiapas, Mexico that control much of the territory in Chiapas today. From the …
#OPENCALL EXPRESS at Abrir Galería in Lima, Peru Link: https://www.abrirgaleria.com/opencall-express
The Eternal Return of the New World The urgencies of our present warrant revisiting the processes of conquest and colonisation of the American territory. What mechanisms of domination have survived throughout our history? How to look at this legacy and our heritage for a better understanding of our present? Our …
A New Order. Breaking Down Borders Strictly speaking, borders refer to the territorial boundaries that mark the limits of property, nation, and identity. The notion of border can also be understood, in conceptual terms, as related to the ways in which our mind is structured and how we configure the …
Opening: Carlos Colín: La Cintura Cósmica del Sur (The Cosmic Waist of the South) April 10 – May 22, 2021 Fazakas Gallery, 688 E Hastings Street Vancouver BC V6A 1R1 Link to the exhibition: https://fazakasgallery.com/portfolio/la-cintura-cosmica-del-sur-2/
(In Spanish) Inaugurado el Primer Salón Virtual Incubadora Visual From “El Universal” Newspaper (In Spanish): Organizado por Incubadora Visual, AWA Cultura, el Centro Cultural UCAB, Proyecto Espacio Libertad y Cerquone Projects, el Primer Salón Virtual Incubadora Visual, muestra 13 proyectos de 15 artistas (12 individuales y uno colectivo), seleccionados a …
UNIT/PITT presents Lois Klassen’s artist book project, Reading the Migration Library for Art Book Month 2020, featuring Crista Dahl & Carlos Colín ~As part of Art Book Month 2020. This event launches the two most recent publications in the project, Crista Dahl’s The Migrators and Carlos Colín’s Tierra y Libertad …