DESECRATION OR SELF-CENSURESHIP? 12:00 m. - 1:00 p.m. JILL MAGIDS EXHIBITION AT MUAC IN BIENNALE OR NOT TO BIENNALE MEXICO A look at the concept behind the 38th edition Examines the work The Proposal by Jill of EVA International - Irelands Biennial of Magid, an American artist, who made a Contemporary Art (April 2018) and a conversa- diamond with the exhumed ashes of the tion with one of the participating artists. Mexican architect Luis Barragn and tried to access his documents to create a body Inti Guerrero (Colombia) Estrellita B. Brodsky of works. The exhibition featured topics Assistant Curator of Latin American Art such as copyright, the commercialization at Tate Modern in London and curator of of archives, cultural heritage and intellec- EVA International. Jaime vila (Colombia) tual property. Participating artist at EVA International. Cuauhtmoc Medina (Mexico) Chief Curator at Museo Universitario de Arte PUBLIC RELATIONS Contemporneo MUAC. Pablo Helguera, Director (Mexico) 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. QUESTIONING AND ENCOURAGING THE PROBLEM IS CENSORSHIP, NOT THE HISTORY PAINTING: DANA SCHUTZS WORK AT This conversation presents the work of THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL African-American artist Dread Scott. What Examines the controversy surrounding the is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag? call for censorship at the Whitney Biennial (1988), questions the history of racism in New York over the work of Dana Schutz, that has generated social and economic an American artist. She painted the disfig- inequality in the USA. The artist will be in ured corpse of Emmett Till, a fifteen year- conversation with Steven Henry Madoff. old African-American who was lynched in 1955. Fusco explores the effects of Dread Scott (USA) Artist. Steven Henry censorship of an art work in the context of Madoff (USA) Curator, Art Historian and a biennial, in the actual politic and racial Founding Director of the Masters program climate in the US. in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Coco Fusco (Cuba / USA) Artist and Writer.
13 FRIDAY / October 27
12:00 m. - 12:30 p.m.
BOOK LAUNCH respond and reflect on the different points La imagen ardiente: Monografa sobre la obra of view of social networks and virtual publi- de Clemencia Echeverri by Sol Astrid Giraldo cations that frame artistic discourse. Escobar (Colombia) Irmgard Emmelhainz (Mexico) Theorist, researcher, and author of The Tyranny of PUBLIC RELATIONS Common Sense: The Neoliberal Restructuring Pablo Helguera, Director (Mexico) of Mexico. Vctor Albarracn (Colombia) Artist, curator and artistic director of Lugar 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. a Dudas, an independent artistic space in AMPLIFICATION AND DISTORTION Cali. Gabriela Rangel (Venezuela) Director This talk will discuss The 2007 Exposition of Visual Arts and Chief Curator for the No. 1 by Guillermo Vargas Habacuc in a gal- Americas Society in New York. lery in Managua, Nicaragua, which included a street dog strapped to a wall, supposedly to die of starvation. Sergio Villena documented 7:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. the phenomenon caused by Habacucs OMA AWARD work and will speak with the artist. Ceremony for the Oma al Arte Award
Guillermo Vargas Habacuc (Costa
Rica) Artist. Sergio Villena Fiengo (Costa Rica) Director of the Institute of Social SATURDAY / October 28 Research at the University of Costa Rica.
3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
ARQBO AT ARTBO CONTROVERSY, CRITICISM AND SOCIAL Camilo Restrepo, Director (Colombia) NETWORKS Partner Celsia Art critics and editors will discuss the role of virtual media and examine how they 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. define debates and artistic discourse. CURATING, EXHIBITING AND COLLECTING ARCHITECTURE Rosa Olivares (Spain) Director and editor Examines the role of museums in docu- of the photography magazine Exit, Imagen menting and exhibiting architects work, & Cultura. Hrag Vartanian (Canada) Critic thereby rescuing the professional legacy and Curator. Co-founder and Editor- of forgotten designers and validating in-Chief of Hyperallergic. Jaime Iregui recognized architects. (Colombia) Founder and moderator of the blog Esfera Pblica. Martino Stierli (Switzerland) The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture 5:30 p.m - 7:00 p.m. and Design at the Museum of Modern Art RESPONSES AND CRITICAL REFLECTIONS (MoMA) in New York. Camilo Restrepo Based on the presentations and discus- (Colombia). Founder of AGENdA, architec- sions, a group of artists, critics and curators ture agency.
14 SATURDAY / October 28 SUNDAY / October 29
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ARQBO AT ARTBO
EXHIBITING ART AND ARCHITECTURAL Camilo Restrepo, Director (Colombia) DESIGN AS INSTALLATIONS Partner Celsia This presentation offers a point of view that translates Mexican cultural values 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. into a local architecture with historical LECTURE 3/10 ties. This architectural perspective is This presentation considers the under- meant to empower the individual to con- standing of a building not as a static piece struct a new idea of public spaces. but in movement: a work of art that brings together the citys public and private Frida Escobedo (Mexico) Architect, Frida interest in order to build a landscape. Escobedo Taller de Arquitectura. Lorenzo Castro (Colombia) Architect, 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Castro Arquitectos. THE ART OF SHAPE This panel brings a critical dialogue 3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. between space and shape, both under- CONVERSATION: ARCHITECTURE stood as an object of exhibition. Includes EXPOSED the construction of venues, drawings, Architects with very different approaches urban plans, artistic research, and other to art through architecture come together elements. to discuss their work and values.
Nuno Brando Costa (Portugal) Architect, Conversation between Martino Stierli
Brando Costa Arquitectos. (Switzerland), Frida Escobedo (Mexico), Nuno Brandao (Portugal), Lorenzo Castro (Colombia) and Camilo Restrepo 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (Colombia). ARTECMARA AWARD Award ceremony for the Artecmara Award 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. supported by EL TIEMPO NEITHER COMFORTABLE OR UNCOMFORTABLE BUT THE OPPOSITE: THE SITE-SPECIFIC IN CONTEXT A critical, historical and contextual review SUNDAY / October 29 of site-specific projects and public spaces.
CELSIA'S BOOK LAUNCH Jaime Cern (Colombia) Curator and Las formas de lo natural of the artist Ricardo Deputy Director at IDARTES. Claudia Crdenas (Colombia) Segura (Spain) Curator and Director of NC-arte, Bogot. Felipe Guerra (Colombia) Architect, Estudio Altiplano. Rodolfo Acosta (Colombia) Musician, Composer, and Director of Ensamble CG.