First International Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory

Exchanges in Contemporary Art

THURSDAY JANUARY 24

CHRONICLES

These sessions will deal with projects that have had an innovative impact on contemporary cultural activities. They will also take up the situation of projects that have proved to be controversial or debatable, according to the circumstances that surround their operations and the consequences they unleash. The discussion of these projects will attempt to enrich and update the experience of the participating public about practices that subvert any mutilating or ÒanesthetizingÓ complacency. It is an opportunity to discuss the lapsing of certain vocabularies, rules or conventions that do not adapt to the intensity of new uses of spaces called for by contemporary artistic expressions, nor the expectations of an increasingly better- informed and demanding public regarding the quality of museographic projects.

Michelle Marxuach
Mary Jane Jacob
José Kuri / Mónica Manzutto
Virginia Pérez-Ratton
Moderator: Francisco Reyes Palma

Hans Ulrich Obrist
Carmen Cuenca / Michael Krichman
Magali Arriola
Moderator: Guillermo Santamarina

CONTROVERSIES IN CONTEMPORARY CURATORIAL DISCOURSE

Curating: How, by whom, for whom? Curating for exhibitionism and mythification, for learned colleagues in the field, for passive publics that are misinformed or lost regarding their own heritage? For a reconsideration of our indifferences or our neglects, or for what? Curatorships, as interpretive options for creating new audiences, unpublished approaches that clear up doubts and open horizons in the appreciation of culture, can through conscious, intelligent interaction dynamize and foment a depuration of the observable imperfections in practice. Expositions problemize subjects that, together with the public opinion of interested people who visit them, observe them, and analyze them, allow us to deduce their effectiveness, their secretiveness or their discursive emptiness.

Yu Yeon Kim
Anda Rottenberg
Eduardo Abaroa
Moderator: Olivier Debroise

Rosa Martínez
Olu Oguibe
Moderator: Karen Cordero

BRIDGES

This panel will focus on reflections about what to do to have an interested and active public, open to artistic creativity, and no longer needing bridges to make the museum a collective undertaking. This will allow us to develop alternative experiences for approaching the arts so that every art lover may have the freedom to select with judgment and rigor what has value and can discard with certainty what does not convince him.

Anna María Guasch
Vanesa Fernández
Manray Hsu
Joseba Zulaika
Moderator: María Inés García Canal