4th Ghetto Biennale. Haiti Dec 2015

 Project: The story of the institutions.

Collective project with / Adler Pierre, Calicien Banel, Rosele Rebecca Olivier, Rosele Henriquez

Charlemagne Peralte (image made of Stamps).

Fall Colloquium

Talking in:

[Re]Organizing the Arts

Creative coordination of people, money, and stuff over time.

Friday, November 13, 2015, 3:00 – 6:00 pm

Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016

It has become an assumption and a habit that complex arts activities require permanent organizations, corporate structures, and exclusive choices between for-profit or not-forprofit. But creative people are questioning that assumption, and breaking that habit. American University's Arts Management Fall Colloquium explores the options beyond traditional organizations for aligning creative people, money, and stuff over time.

Bon Dieu Bon project in Vox Populis (Philadelphia).

Vox Populi presents four solo shows by artists grappling with challenging issues of socio-political strife using non-pedantic, highly personal, and poetic means.  In coinciding solo exhibitions, Mark Stockton, Mary Patten, Catherine Pancake, an…

Vox Populi presents four solo shows by artists grappling with challenging issues of socio-political strife using non-pedantic, highly personal, and poetic means.  In coinciding solo exhibitions, Mark Stockton, Mary Patten, Catherine Pancake, and Edgar Endress explore image, power, and propaganda – examining environmental sensing, sociological traces, and political repetition – through photography, video, drawing, and text.   The exhibitions open on Friday, December 4, 2015 and run through Sunday, January 17, 2016. / link

 “Bon Dieu Bon,” a collaborative project with archaeologist, Lori Lee that addresses the extremely timely subject of immigration.  “Bon Dieu Bon” is a multifaceted and sensitive exploration of the residue of those in flight from tragic circumstances or political strife. The project begins with studio photograph portraits that were found near the shore of the US Virgin Islands, where they were thrown aside by their owners as they ran from migration police. These photographs become physical witnesses, transmogrified by the effects of salt water and exposure to the sun and rain. The combined effect pushes the topic toward an intensely sublime aesthetic. “Bon Dieu Bon” (God is Good), is a term used in Haiti to express the hope that even in the midst of struggle one can find a solution. 

 

La Bestia y el Soberano / MACBA

New Update / March 20 2015.

 The beast and the sovereign as been reopened to the public. Article News paper El Pais (spanish)

The exhibition is an exploration of how contemporary artistic practices question and deconstruct the Western and metaphysical definition of political sovereignty: their new way of understanding freedom and emancipation beyond individual autonomy, as well as the modern form of the nation-state.

 

Update of the Exhibit after the Censorship of the exhibit in Macba Spain.

Context : Newspaper article about the censorship:  English / Español / wkv-stuttgart (German)

Artist statement

As artists in the exhibition La bestia y el soberano we express our solidarity with the curatorial team and we hate and refuse the MACBA director's decision to close the exhibition, as authoritarian, and regressive.

We all were aware that we were participating in an exhibition which was a polemical intervention in political debates on sovereignty taking place these troubled days in Spain, on the verge of the most important shift in political hegemony in its recent history. Cancel the exhibition is thus suppress a project designed to encourage public, productive and progressive debate in such context. This unfortunate fact highlights the contradiction of promoting a project that the institution finally dare not assume.


Polemics and public debates are the essence of democracy and the mission of the museum is to contribute to that. With this decision  the museum is betraying its mission, but also its own history, characterize by an outstanding contribution to the radical reinvention of the museum as a public space.

Efrén Álvarez, Angela Bonadies and Juan José Olavarría, Peggy Buth, Ines Doujak and John Barker, Edgar Endress Oier Etxeberria, Banu Cennetoglu and Philippine Hoegen, Jan Peter Hammer, Julia Montilla, Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Jorge RibaltaWu Tsang, Viktor Vorobyev & Yelena Vorobyeva.

[Castellano]

Ante el cierre de La bestia y el soberano

Las y los artistas participantes en la exposición La bestia y el soberano queremos manifestar nuestra solidaridad con el equipo curatorial, así como nuestra oposición y rechazo a la decisión autoritaria y reaccionaria del Director del MACBA de cerrar la muestra.

Eramos conscientes de participar en una exposición que suponía una polémica intervención en los debates que sobre soberanía están teniendo lugar en el Estado español; discusiones que se enmarcan en un importante cambio en la hegemonía política de su historia reciente. Cancelar la exhibición es, pues, reprimir un proyecto concebido para alentar un debate público, productivo y progresista en tal coyuntura. Este infortunado hecho pone en evidencia la contradicción de promover un proyecto que la institución, finalmente, no se atreve a asumir.

Los debates públicos son la esencia de la democracia, y la función de un museo es contribuir a ellos. Con su decisión la institución está traicionando su misión. Pero también su propia historia, caracterizada por una destacada contribución a la radical reinvención del museo como un espacio público.


Efrén Álvarez, Angela Bonadies and Juan José Olavarría, Peggy Buth, Ines Doujak and John Barker, Edgar Endress Oier Etxeberria, Banu Cennetoglu and Philippine Hoegen, Jan Peter Hammer, Julia Montilla, Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Jorge RibaltaWu Tsang, Viktor Vorobyev & Yelena Vorobyeva.

 

The project Acts of Knowledge will be installed as part of the exhibit The beast and the sovereign

  • 19 Mar. - 30 Aug. 2015 Museum of contemporary art (MACBA) Barcelona

  • 16 Oct. 2015 - 17 Jan. 2016 Württembergischer Kunstverein (WKV) Stuttgart

     

Video "Prelude for Meditation" will be display in Cuba, as part of VIDEOARDE.

Inauguration  Casa de las Américas, March 27, 2015

Exhibition in Festival Internacional de Videoarte de Camagüey April 1st & 2nd

Link to watch video

The exhibition Videoarde. Critical video in Latin America and the Caribbean belongs to a three-part project Laura Baigorri is developing in Latin America and the Caribbean (2008-2011) with the support of the network of cultural centers of AECID (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development) and Instituto Cervantes.

Acts of Erasure part of the “RACIAL IMAGINARY” exhibit

 

Acts of Erasure in Exhibit

“RACIAL IMAGINARY” AT PITZER COLLEGE

at Nichols Gallery through December 5, 2014

Pitzer College’s exhibition, “Racial Imaginary,” the visual art component of a larger project that includes a book of essays, musings and poems, demonstrates the fecundity of race and identity for artists of all media and aesthetic proclivities. The featured artists primarily working in video, sculpture and photography, engage with the question of what it means to create race-based art in an era in which racial divisions are simultaneously dismissed as archaic but are more entrenched than ever.