Participation in LAM / Land Art Mongolia Biennial
CATCHING THE AXIS –
Between the Sky and the Earth
Dates: 22 August – 20 September 2016
LAM 360° is a biennial art festival located in Mongolia. LAM focuses on Land Art as a form of spatial visualization of the relations between nature, culture and social policies.
ARTISTS
N. Amarsaikhan (Mongolia), D. Batkholboo (Mongolia), R. Chinzorig (Mongolia), T. Enkhbold (Mongolia), G. Enkhjargal (Mongolia), Lkh. Gankhuyag (Mongolia), M. Munguntsetseg (Mongolia), B. Munhksetseg (Mongolia), Lisa Batacchi (Italy), Edgar Endress (Chile/USA), Zhen + Qiang Gao (China), Severin Guelpa (Switzerland), Erica Masuya (Japan), Pekka Niityvirta (Finland), Camille Norment (Norway/USA), Romina Novellis (Italy), Benjamin Sabatier (France), Marc Schmitz (Germany), Jacek Tylicki (Poland/USA), Herman de Vries (Netherlands/Germany), Mabelle Williams (Haiti).
http://www.landartmongolia.com/
Art Radar Journal / link
Speaking at the Arts & Culture for Inclusive Cities Latin America – Europe 22 June ’16 —
BOZAR / CENTRE FOR FINE ARTS / Brussels, Belgium
Link: http://www.bozar.be/en/activities/114721-arts-culture-for-inclusive-cities
Cities in both Latin America and in Europe have become major global actors and strategic territories where tremendous social, political, economic, environmental and cultural changes are currently taking place. Both the EU and Latin America witness a myriad of public and private examples to regenerate public spaces and local communities. In that framework, culture and creativity can offer new perspectives and alternatives to challenges raised by social exclusion and urban development. This debate will discuss how the EU and Latin America can jointly address these issues to forge more inclusive and resilient cities.
The open debate follows a one-day experts’ seminar at BOZAR organized, jointly with Interarts, in the framework of the EU project ‘Culture and arts supporting social cohesion in Latin American cities - LAIC’ funded by the European Commission.
Speakers:
- Introduction by Paul Dujardin, BOZAR CEO, and Stefano Manservisi (TBC), Director General, DG DEVCO
- Carlos Uribe : Architect, cultural operator and historian, Colombia
- Edgar Endress : Artist, Chile/USA
- Myriam Stoffen : Director of Zinneke, Belgium
- Matteo Ferroni : Architect, Italy
Moderator: Mercedes Giovinazzo, Interarts
Exhibit Strange Landscapes
Arlington Arts Center
Strange Landscapes is co-curated by Blair Murphy, independent curator and partner at Field Projects in New York, and Karyn Miller.
Opening: June 25 - October 2
Reviews
Hyperallergic review by Alexis Clements / link
City Paper review by Erin Devine / link
The Creator Project blog / review
Washington Post Review / link
I will have the video: "How to Make it Rain" and the series of Prints "Santos" as part of the exhibit.
Still from Video "How to Make it Rain" b&w 9 min, 2016
"Santos" as Altar Piece, Prints Dimension Variable, color 2016
Photos by: Dawn Whitmore
Video "Passage" in exhibit: We Refugees - Of the Right to Have Rights
Group exhibit / curated by Anja Casser
The Baden Art Association (Badischer Kunstverein) Karlsruhe Germany
April 22 to June 12, 2016
Still from video "Passage", 2004 : 7 min
Co-organizer Creative Community Summit
CULTIVATE AMHERST!
AN INITIATIVE TO GROW A CREATIVE ECONOMY
APRIL 7 2016
This event, hosted by Second Stage Amherst, is to discuss opportunities and tools available to cultivate Amherst’s economy based on the region’s natural, creative, cultural and human assets, driving economic opportunities in our community.
http://www.cultivateamherstva.org/
Installation " Jouet Guidant le Peuple"
Olly Olly Gallery, Fairfax VA.
Exhibit "Domestic Territories"
Curator: Sarah Irvine.
Northern Virginia Magazine article / link
For Jouet Guidant le Peuple, I used children’s toys as a form of demarcation in the gallery because this is how my son, Ian, defines his personal space in his room. For him, toys become a source of emancipation and a passage into a new persona that leads to independence, growth and new knowledge. In the context of the gallery, I am used the toys to claim space, but they are on the ceiling. This rethinks the concept of creating territory for an individual, and transforms the conversation into a discussion about mass consumption, the plastic material of the toys and consumerism.
In Residency in VCCA
10 days residency in the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, organizing the Creative Community Summit in Amherst.
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, 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.
Unfriendly Skies: Birds, Buildings and Collisions
Group exhibit / October 29, 2015 to November 20, 2015
Project Land's End in Collaboration with Chris Rackley.
4 digital prints
Gallery, School of Art
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
Article in the City Paper
In ‘Unfriendly Skies,’ Bird Art Doubles as Environmental Message / link
3 prints in portrait Biennial, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
6th International biennial festival of portait organised by the International Gallery of Portrait October 2nd- Nov 2 2015.
Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Public lecture Flagler / Project Finding Baroque.
project “Finding Baroque” on April 15. organized by the college and the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, will be at 7 p.m. in the Gamache-Koger Theater in the Ringhaver Student Center, 50 Sevilla St.
link news paper article / The Record
Forum Transculturel d'Art Contemporain, 7e édition - 2 au 12 avril 2015 Port Au Prince Haiti
Participating in the "Forum Transculturel d'Art Contemporain", guiding a workshop, presentation, also developing a new project.
Organized by Africamerica.org
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
