Projects in recents books;
1/ Acts of Knowledge, 2/ Whitening Identities, 3/ Scream at the Economy
The project “Acts of Knowledge”
Book: Digital Society and Postmodernism
Edited by Dayee Jeong
Humanist Publishing Group in Korea.
humanistbooks.com
The project “The mask of the shoe shiner” and “Whitening Identities”, will be part of:
Book: The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind – March 24, 2015
by Claudia Rankine (Introduction), Beth Loffreda (Introduction), Cap Max King (Introduction)
http://www.fenceportal.org/?page_id=5662
The project “Scream at the Economy” by Floating Lab Collective part of:
Book: Global Activism
Art and Conflict in the 21st Century
Edited by Peter Weibel
The MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/global-activism
Atlas Book by Akademie Schloss Solitude
Original Image contributed to the Atlas
The Solitude Atlas publication will be a collection of short texts from former fellows of the Akademie, Stuttgart-Germany.
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.
Exhibit Performance Biennial
El Milagro Chileno, by Floating Lab Collective
Exhibit:
The project “El Milagro Chileno / The Chilean Miracle”,
V Bienal Internacional de Performance DEFORMES
Valdivia, Chile – December, 2014
Current Exhibit
Gallery All We Art
Exhibition: New Art Resolutions
Opening Reception: January 15, 2015
1666 33th St NW - Georgetown
Washington DC 20007v
January 15 - February 19
Current Research Project
Finding Baroque / St. Augustine FL.
Baroque was at the forefront of the Spanish colonial enterprise. Baroque is an art synthesis created as a Catholic response to the Protestant insurgency–a counter- reformation aesthetic and ideology. Since its incipience in the New World, Baroque was an instrument of colonization and it was vigorously implemented across the Spanish colonies. Masters like Sebastián López de Arteaga or the Italian Jesuit Bernardo Bitti in Cuzco, Peru, were brought to the Americas to train indigenous people to fulfill the need of disseminating religious art and also to create content for churches and other Christian institutions, such as monasteries and educational institutions.
But Baroque was an aesthetic form that works in a contradictory manner allowing in its “horror vacui” (fear of empty space) the insertion of critique disguised in the image-saturated canvas. Baroque worked poorly as a colonizing instrument. Its visual and verbal forms are ample, dynamic, porous, and permeable. In the New World, it immediately began to incorporate the cultural perspectives and iconographies of the indigenous and African laborers and artisans who built and decorated Catholic structures. Cultural heresies often entered unnoticed.
More info in: www.findingbaroque.wordpress.com
Selected for the residency by Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA).
June 1st to June 30
Selected for one of the fellowships supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for community-based, socially engaged or relational artists.
http://www.vcca.com