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Hypertext Opening April 24, 2016 A collaboration between The Door and Intelligentsia Gallery With works by Ma Yongfeng, Deng Dafei, Song Xi, Ren Zhitian, Wu Ding, Yu Bogong, Jeff Miller and Drew Milligan, William Lee, Aoto Oouchi, OOCH, Alessandro Rolandi, Camille Ayme, Elsie Yi Shen, Li Tingwei, Yang Yuanyuan, Florian Kuhlmann, Jason Mena, Christopher Rey Perez, Yu Ying, Garcia Frankowski

Hypertext is coding-speak for telescopic links, images, icons and words that interlace with other references, instances, concepts. Hypertext connects via networks and associative trails parallel conceptual universes, hidden theories and potential stories.

Hypertext explores the symbolic, etymologic, philological, semiotic, ideological, and political imperatives of diverse forms of language in an era of hypercommunication. The exhibition presents works employing textuality, both as medium and end, whether through scripts or images, addressing the reader in many tones: aggressively, alertly, politically, subliminally, ironically, humorously, authoritatively, cynically.

Challenging the exhibition format as a space for passive contemplation, Hypertext instead invites the audience to engage in the act of reading. The exhibition space becomes an open book as works function like chapters of an unravelling novel or like components of a cadaver exquis.

Hypertext is both curatorial experiment and literary adventure, looking for Barthes’ pleasure of the text while exploring the endless connections of its hyper-activity.

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Failed States (Estados Fallidos) 2011, serie de 7 fotografías a color que documentan una acción donde el cuerpo se emplea como metáfora geopolítica, ha sido incluida en la publicación Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola UNAM Memoria 2013-2015acompañado por el ensayo Ay, felicidad suprema, suprema felicidad, p. 58-65 por Brenda J. Caro Cocotle.

La Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola Arte + Medio Ambiente estimula y difunde la creación artística y la generación de conocimiento vinculados al medio ambiente, como interacción entre agentes sociales, culturales, naturales y artificiales que condicionan la forma de vida de la sociedad. Sus programas privilegian la atención al público universitario y al que asiste al Bosque de Chapultepec y promueven el trabajo interdisciplinario y las prácticas en red, con dependencias universitarias, instituciones y personas afines.

Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola UNAM Memoria 2013-2015 Ensayo por Brenda J. Caro Cocotle, P.58-65 Ay, felicidad suprema, suprema felicidad Primera Edición, Mexico, Octubre 2015 Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola Arte + Medio Ambiente Centro Cultural Universitario Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM ISBN 78-607-02-7376-6

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The Materialist Postscript Galerie Philine Cremer GmbH Saturday, January 15, 2016 to March 15, 2016 Part of the fifth edition of the Duesseldorf Photo Weekend, February 12-14, 2016 Düsseldorf, Germany

Galerie Philine Cremer (Düsseldorf) in collaboration with Intelligentsia Gallery (Beijing) is thrilled to present The Materialist Postscript, a group exhibition with works by Jason Mena (1974, lives and works in Mexico City), Ju Anqi (1975 Urumqi), Ren Zhitian (1968 Xishui), Xiao Xiao (1984 Hunan), Oliver Haidutschek (1976 Vienna), William Lee (1985 Beijing), Camille Ayme (1983 St-Etienne), Garcia Frankowski (1983 San Juan & 1985 Dundee) and Lena Tsibizova (1988 Moscow), Olga Rodina (1982 Moscow) and Anastasia Soboleva (1989 Kostroma) of Troyka Union (Moscow).

With the re-appropriation by mass and social media of strategies and models previously associated with conceptual art, the perception of life has been reduced to the representational language of an artistic project. Materialism, the theory of the continuous flow and exchange of matter and its lingering ideological disputes has found a parallel allegory in the production and consumption of contemporary art. An ever expanding array of images propelled by technological and communication advancements seems poised to fulfill the philosophical promise of an aesthetic state ruled by the power of language.

The Materialist Postscript retakes Boris Groy’s thesis of a regime of linguistic bonds cementing a societal union and reformulates the question from the point of view of a contemporary theory of representation as objects, signs and symbols are subjects of matter exchange.

Revolving around semiotic preoccupations, the exhibition aims to reveal latent conflicts within and against ideological models of representation. Abstract codes of signification, symbolic avatars of culture and identity, paraphernalia of the victories, downfalls and suspended projects of dialectical materialism, and the visual codes of the world as matter exchange challenge preconceptions about the fundamental principles of language engagement in networks of global visibility, creating the template of a Materialist Postscript.

The Materialist Postscript presents works that through photography, moving image, painting, and installation re-develop a theory of language and representation in a globalized world.

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A Great Event is in the Making. But No One has Noticed Co-curated by Hao Chen Intelligentsia Gallery Sunday, January 10, 2016 Beijing, China

Artists: Engel Leonardo (b. 1977 Bani, Dominican Republic), Li Tingwei (b.1989 Yantai, China), Jeff Miller (b. 1987 Rhode Island, USA) and Thomas Schmidt (b. 1980 Alberta, Canada), Ada Sokó (b.1994 Wrocaw, Poland), Pussykrew, William Lee (b.1985 Beijing, China), Shao Yinong (b. 1970 Qinghai, China), Alena Olasyuk (b. 1988 Ukraine), Ju Anqi (b. 1975 Urumqi, China), Matjaž Tan (b. 1982 Ljubljana, Slovenia), Alessandro Rolandi (b. 1971 Pavia, Italy) Meng Zhigang (b. 1975 Guilin, China), Yu Bogong (b.1970 Inner Mongolia), Wu Ding (b. 1982, Shanghai), Jason Mena (1975, Lives and works in Mexico City), Lena Tsibizova (b. 1988 Moscow), Olga Rodina (b. 1982 Moscow) and Anastasia Soboleva (b. 1989 Kostroma) of Troyka Union (Moscow), Garcia Frankowski (b. 1983 San Juan, b. 1985 Dundee), Oliver Haidutschek (b. 1976, Vienna) Ophelia S. Chan (b. 1985, Hong Kong), Ren Zhitian (b. 1968, Xishui), Xiao Xiao (b. 1984 Hunan), The Collective (Beijing), Camille Ayme (b. 1983, St Etienne) and Chen Xi (b. 1985 Wuhan)

In a “room filled with the radiance of festive illumination and the assembled company”, a sense of anesthetizing detachment kept the ruling class from perceiving an upcoming substantial event in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities. With a title eponymous to the last chapter of his unfinished novel, the exhibition explores the role played by the gathering of parallel stories unfolding while the establishment overlooks a looming threat. Away from the hegemonic constructions of market-oriented, nationalistic and academic imperatives, all-encompassing narratives, and opportunistic discourses, ‘A Great Event is in the Making. But No One has Noticed’, reclaims the vital ethos of enthusiasm and alertness, and proposes the underground space as conceptual incubator for the gestation of positions, discourses, ideologies, projects, discrepancies, disconnections, agencies, aspirations, performances and executions.

In occasion of its second anniversary, ‘A Great Event is in the Making. But No One has Noticed’ features 24 artistic positions in representation of each of the months since the foundation of Intelligentsia Gallery. Co-curated by Hao Chen, the gathering of works as a total installation proposes the exacerbation of the exhibition space as both container and action, contemplating a great event in the making, while no one else notices.

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colaboradores: JORGE DE LEÓN // JASON MENA // NORA PÉREZ // PABLO MURILLO // ELYLA SINVERGÜENZA // REGINA JOSE GALINDO // GUILLERMO VARGAS (HABACUC) // KARMADAVIS (DAVID PÉREZ) // EDER CASTILLO // EDINSON QUIÑONES // JEAN - FRANCOIS BOCLÉ // NÚRIA GÜELL

patrocina: POP POP difunde: Revista VACIO organiza + produce: FUEGO

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Embajadas, Refugiados y Manifiestos Martes 08 de diciembre 19.00 hs. Proyecto CasaMario ?Montevideo Uruguay

Proyecto Casamario en colaboración con Intelligentsia Gallery se complace en presentar “Embajadas, Refugiados y Manifiestos”, una exposición colectiva con obras de Oliver Haidutschek (n. 1976 Viena), William Lee (n. 1985 en Beijing), Ren Zhitian (n. 1969 Xishui), García Frankowski (n. 1983 San Juan y n. 1985 Dundee), Jason Mena (vive y trabaja en México DF) y Camille Ayme (n. 1983 Saint-Étienne).

Un diverso panorama de narrativas sirve de radiografía para diseccionar los posicionamientos discursivos de artistas que trabajan alrededor del mundo utilizando a Intelligentsia Gallery como espacio para proyectar sus exploraciones conceptuales. Estas perspectivas presentan una cartografía de conceptos y estrategias de pensamiento crítico, estético y filosófico que se materializan en diversos medios.

Operando bajo las consecuencias de una transformación a escala global en las infraestructuras y superestructuras de intercambio de valor, 'Embajadas, Refugiados y Manifiestos' explora la relación entre posiciones, estrategias y métodos de representación, difusión y discursos, en una época de torrenciales mediáticas, de cambios en los intereses globales y dogmas oscurantistas.

Con territorios geopolíticos e ideológicos secuestrados, bombardeados y ocupados por hegemonías ideológicas, ‘Embajadas, Refugiados y Manifiestos’ crea un perfil de tres estados críticos que potencialmente oscilan entre las narrativas aceptadas y estrategias conceptuales de subversión. Trabajando en formatos estandarizados, cada uno de los artistas explora los roles, metáforas, desafíos y potencialidades inherentes en la dialéctica del espacio expositivo en sus manifestaciones físicas y virtuales, mientras disecciona la fricción que existe entre la visibilidad y la representación, entre la construcción de discursos hegemónicos y la crítica ideológica. --- Intelligentsia Gallery es un espacio independiente de arte contemporáneo con sede en Beijing. Desde su fundación Intelligentsia Gallery ha hecho de su misión desarrollar una plataforma diversa y conceptualmente rigurosa para el avance de discursos y posiciones en el arte contemporáneo. Siguiendo objetivos y programas universales, Intelligentsia ha presentado la obra de más de 70 artistas emergentes y establecidos provenientes de más de 30 países de Asia, Europa, Oceanía, África y las Américas.

Intelligentsia Gallery fue fundada por el artista y arquitecto puertorriqueño Cruz Garcia y la artista y arquitecta francesa Nathalie Frankowski, miembros del colectivo Garcia Frankowski y directores de WAI Architecture Think Tank. Intelligentsia Gallery: www.intelligentsiagallery.com web : www.waithinktank.comartworks: www.garciafrankowski.com read the WAIzine and the WAIzine 2 Join WAI on Facebook for up to the minute updatestumblr: http://waithinktank.tumblr.com/

Proyecto CasaMario: Proyecto de gestión autónoma para el desarrollo de la producción colectiva artística y en colaboración; curadurías colectivas y procesos críticos... CasaMario - Piedras 627-629, Montevideo. Uruguay.

CasaMario es un proyecto de gestión autónoma para el desarrollo de la producción colectiva artística y en colaboración; elaboración de curadurías colectivas y procesos críticos en los modos de hacer. Esta enmarcado en el proyecto de investigación titulado “Modos de hacer colectivo en el arte uruguayo”, financiado por la CSIC-UDELAR. 2013-2015.

La cesión en préstamo de las casas forma parte del Programa de Apoyo a la Cultura de Casona Mauá buscando así potenciar el sector artístico dentro del ámbito privado.

Participan y colaboran inicialmente del proyecto:

LAC-Laboratorio Arti Civiche (Italia), Francesco Careri (Italia) y Matteo Locci (Italia)+ Colectivo interdisciplinar CRAC (Chile), Paulina Varas (Chile) y José Llano (Chile) + Colectivo Legoville, Anna Larocca y Niklaus Strobel (Suiza) + Espacio cultural La Dársena (Argentina), Azul Blaseotto (Argentina) y Eduardo Molinari (Argentina) + Proyecto IDEA-Z (Francia), Stephen Wright (Canadá) y Mabel Tapia (Argentina) + Ronda de Poetas, Martín Barea + Susanne Windelen (Alemania) y Jochen Fischer (Alemania) + Zone Utopiquement Reconstituée (Francia), Yoana Urruzola (Francia) y Stefano Canapa (Italia) + Proyecto Herr Nilsson (Alemania) + Colectivo Moxie (Alemania) + Núcleo en Cultura Visual e identidad, Fernando Miranda + Taller Sudamérica, Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) + Proyecto “Modos de hacer colectivo en el arte uruguayo”, CSIC-UDELAR + Casa del Inmigrante Cesar Vallejo + El ojo colectivo, Heinz-Norbert Jocks (Alemania), Dominique Garaudel (Alemania), Martín Craciun, Sebastián Alonso + Gabriel Calderón + Rita Fischer + Manuel Rodríguez + Gabriel Peluffo Linari + Maru Vidal + Florencia Ferrari + Tamara Cubas + Lukas Kühne (Alemania) + Ernesto Vila + Nandy Cabrera + Julián Peña + Silvana Juri + Javier Alonso + Claudio Burguez + Romina Acosta + Fernando Foglino + Silvestre Peciar + May Puchet + Virginia Cordovés Bella + Yaiza Ares (España) + Anaclara Talento + Eloisa Ibarzabal.

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Embassies, Refugees and Manifestoes Proyecto CasaMario (Montevideo) in collaboration with Intelligentsia Gallery is pleased to present ‘Embassies, Refugees, Manifestoes’, a group exhibition with works by Oliver Haidutschek (n. 1976 Viena), William Lee (b. 1985 en Beijing), Ren Zhitian (b. 1969 Xishui), García Frankowski (b. 1983 San Juan y n. 1985 Dundee), Jason Mena (work and lives in México DF) and Camille Ayme (b. 1983 Saint-Étienne).

A panorama of diverse narratives serves as a radiography to dissect the discursive positions of artists that work around the world projecting at Intelligentsia Gallery their conceptual exploration. These perspectives present a cartography of concepts and strategies of critical, aesthetic and philosophical thinking that materialize in diverse mediums.

Operating on the aftermath of a global shift of infrastructural and super structural systems of exchange and value, ‘Embassies, Refugees, Manifestoes’ explores the relationship between, positions, strategies and methods of representation, diffusion and discourses in an age of digital floods of information, shifting global interests and obscured dogmas.

With geopolitical and ideological territories sequestered, bombarded and occupied by hegemonic influencers, Embassies, Refugees, Manifestoes portrays three critical states potentially oscillating between accepted narratives and conceptual forms of subversion. Working on similar formats, each of the artists in the exhibition explores metaphoric roles, challenges and potentialities inherent on the dialectics of space on its physical and visual manifestations while dissecting the friction between visibility and representation, the construction of hegemonic discourses and ideology critique. --- Intelligentsia Gallery is a critically acclaimed independent contemporary art space based in Beijing. Since its inception Intelligentsia Gallery has made its mission to develop a diverse and conceptually rigorous platform for discourses and positions on contemporary ar. Following universal objectives and programs, Intelligentsia has presented the work of more than 70 emerging and established artists hailing from more than 30 countries from Asia, Europe, Oceania, Africa and the Americas.

Intelligentsia Gallery was founded by Puerto Rican artist and architect Cruz Garcia, and French artist and architect Nathalie Frankowski, members of artist’s collective Garcia Frankowski and WAI Architecture Think Tank.

Proyecto CasaMario: Proyecto de gestión autónoma para el desarrollo de la producción colectiva artística y en colaboración; curadurías colectivas y procesos críticos...

CasaMario - Piedras 627-629, Montevideo. Uruguay.

The main objective of this project is to establish as a collective, a space dedicated to the discussion and production of art; exchange of artists as well as national and international works of art. Striving to become a cultural and artistic platform within the neighborhood, enabling the inclusion of diverse crowds and audiences and the realization of different events and exhibitions produced by the participants.

The aim is to work on the critical analysis of the construction process of these works from its inception, incorporating writers, critics and academic guests, and creating spaces for discussion and exchange of ideas regarding these processes. In this way promoting to collectivize the subjectivity involved in artistic creation, intending to reflect upon the following statement.

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From The Intangible To The Tangible Curated by Anne Brand Galvez Agency for Spiritual Guest Work Kunstraum Walcheturm Zurich

Artists: Mirjam Landolt (CH), Eli Stevick (US), Gregory Hayman (UK), Bjoern Drenkwitz (DE), Katerina Samara (GR), Liliane Puthod (FR), Moritz Wille (CH), Evariste Maiga (CH), Emilie McDermott (FR/US), Jonathan Ospina (CO), Fredy Solano Poker (SV), José Porras (MX), Ala Abu Asad (PS), Oscar Díaz (SV/USA), Anna Mikhailova (PL), Iris Pshedezki (IL), Mario Molina (GT), Joël Noël (CH), Michel Kessler (CH), Kleoni Manoussakis (GR), Andrea Dardón (GT), David Zender (CH), Stephan Theurich (DE), Emily, Radosavljevic (RS), Jorge Linares (GT), Roisin Beirne (IE), Louisa Zahareas (GR), Mauricio Sáenz (MX), Felipe Mujica (CL/US), Livio Baumgartner (CH), Eduardo Makoszay Mayen (MX), Paco Quijada (ES/DE), Jason Mena (MX/PR), Romeo Gongora & Rosa Berardo (GT/CA/BR), Eder Castillo (MX), Danielle, Zorbas (AU), Max Grau (DE), Monalisa Ali (JO/CA), Ernesto Bautista (SV), El?na Spura (BE), Noah Oliel (CH), Roland Farkas (SK), Veronique Simar (FR/GT), Sérgio Augusto (BS/ SE), Magdalena Cernadas AR Mauricio Kabistan (SV), Carol Neumann, Ivan Chiarelli & Victor Negri (BS), Laura Focarazzo (AR), Hanna Husberg (FI/SE), Asha Tamirisa (US), Melissa Guevara (SV), Jorge Oswald (CO), Victor Crack Rodriguez (SV), Chloé Jean Richard (CH), Ice trip & Victor Martínez (MX), Catarina Sosa (AR), Bene Andrist (CH), Tara Mahapatra (US/DE).

From The Intangible To The Tangible aims to compile visual art works in movement that evoke in their aesthetic, discurse, or technique the transitional aspects of materializing ideas from the symbolic to the real. From the wishes and desires to the corporeal, solid and concrete. From the gestural performativity to the materialized meaning. From the sensorial conscious or unconscious, perceived or imagined to the perceptible to the touch, palpable, physical and substancial.

The exhibit will take place the 27 and 28 of November 2015 at Kunstraum Walcheturm Zurich, in the context of VOLUMES 2015, The Independent Publishing Zurich Art Fair.

Agency for Spiritual Guest Work in the Service of Visualizing is a non-profit international association based in Zurich & Guatemala which aims to produce research projects oriented towards exhibitions and collaborations with cultural producers in different fields. The agency aims to involve a diversity of individuals & institutions to develop a network for sharing interests and generate a critical dialogue in different platforms and structures between the arts.

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Timeline BH Festival Internacional de Videoarte de Belo Horizonte 5, 12, 19, 26 de novembro de 2015 20:00 – Entrada Franca Museu Mineiro Brasil

Festival Internacional de Vídeo de Belo Horizonte é um evento que terá sua primeira edição em novembro de 2015 na cidade de Belo Horizonte no Museu Mineiro. Pretende-se com o mesmo promover as produções videográficas de diversos artistas que abordem a relação das novas tecnologias e a arte contemporânea, com uma especial incidência no manuseio dos equipamentos de vídeo e com ênfase na vídeo arte. Serão realizadas igualmente várias mostras especiais de festivais convidados.

Museu Mineiro Av. João Pinheiro, 342 Belo Horizonte, Brasil

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0.10 Saturday, November 14, 2015 Unicorn Centre for Art Beijing

Unicorn Centre for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Intelligentsia Gallery is thrilled to present 0.10, a group exhibition with works by Wu Ding (b. 1982, Shanghai), Jason Mena (1975, Lives and works in Mexico City), Lena Tsibizova (b. 1988 Moscow), Olga Rodina (b. 1982 Moscow) and Anastasia Soboleva (b. 1989 Kostroma) of Troyka Union (Moscow), Yu Bogong (b.1970 Inner Mongolia), Garcia Frankowski (b. 1983 San Juan, b. 1985 Dundee), Oliver Haidutschek (b. 1976, Vienna) Ophelia S. Chan (b. 1985, Hong Kong), Ren Zhitian (b. 1968, Xishui), Xiao Xiao (b. 1984 Hunan), The Collective (Beijing), Camille Ayme (b. 1983, St Etienne) and Chen Xi (b. 1985 Wuhan).

0.10 changed the history of art. In 1915, ten artists were selected to portray a new beginning. After the zero, a new society would emerge. A hundred years after, we are left amidst the promises of that new beginning.

0.10 reformulates the possibility of futurism today through images of anti-climax and anti-narrative. In a world in constant flux, with the endless crises of media, materialism, the end of history, the death and rebirth of god, the erosion of humanism, the collapse and consolidation of hegemonic systems, with the constant questioning of our existence and its deepest and most profound philosophical foundations, we are left wondering if a 0.10 is not only possible, but a human necessity.

Presenting installation, video, painting, and photography and mix media, 0.10 launches the works of international and local artists contemplating abandoned, failed and triumphant goals in the search of a new futurism.

Unicorn Art is a non-profit art organization set to open officially in January 2015 in Caochangdi, Beijing. In extensive collaboration with both established and up-and-coming Chinese and international artists, Unicorn Art will organize academic exhibitions and public programs, and commit itself to the dialogue of contemporary and international art, providing visitors with expositions of pioneering art and art professionals with a solid platform for interaction.

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Turn on the bright lights Curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates Kresge and Pascal Galleries Ramapo College New Jersey

The Ramapo Curatorial Prize exhibition Turn on the bright lights opens in the Kresge and Pascal Galleries at Ramapo College on Wednesday, November 4 with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. There will be a curator and artist’s talk at 6 p.m. The exhibition continues on view through December 11.

The Ramapo Curatorial Prize is presented each year to a second-year graduate student at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. The 2014 winner was Carla Acevedo-Yates. Artists featured in the exhibition include Damien Catera, Kajsa Dahlberg, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jason Mena, Trevor Paglen and Adán Vallecillo.

“Abstraction in the visual arts has often been misunderstood through the lens of the historical avant-garde and high modernism, whose utopian ideals of universality and humanism were intertwined with the totalizing ambitions of the social and political projects of Western modernity,” said curator Acevedo-Yates. “In contrast, the artists in the exhibition deploy abstractions – indeterminate geographies, image negation, abstracted soundscapes, and the monochrome – as a formal strategy and conceptual device to map and represent that which remains invisible.”

Exhibiting Artists

Damien Catera (b. Utica, New York, 1964)

Damien Catera is an interdisciplinary sound and media artist, and an electro-acoustic composer and improviser. Catera’s work reflects interests in critical analysis, experimental composition/improvisation, and transmission. The MYSTIC Way (2015) is an automated surveillance system, which continuously transforms captured audio into a constantly evolving, abstract soundscape. A reflection on bulk intelligence data collection and the blurring of boundaries between public and private communication, this installation system is always listening to and reshaping the space that it operates in, whether the listener notices or not.

Kajsa Dahlberg (b. Gothenberg, Sweden, 1973)

Working both individually and collaboratively, Kajsa Dahlberg is an artist whose work spans film, installation, and performance within the sphere of political representation and labor. In the video Female Fist (2006) Dhalberg researched how activist groups work politically while attempting to stay outside of already-existing political frameworks. The video features an interview with a queer activist from Copenhagen filmed with the lens cap on the camera.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Guálmaro, Cuba, 1957-1996)

Felix Gonzalez-Torres is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Using found objects and materials, he created sculptures and installations that deal with space, time, and affect in a personal and yet political way. In “Untitled” (North) (1993) the mythical North of immigration and longing is represented as a metaphor through light bulb strings that can be configured to form an abstract representation.

Jason Mena (b. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1974)

Jason Mena’s work explores the contradictions that exist within social formations, their visible and latent tendencies in both everyday life and the broader economic structure. His investigation has focused mainly on the Shadow Market, its relationship with state politics, global finance, and the impact these forces have on art production. The installation El Universal (2013) is part of the artist’s broader investigation into the black market in Mexico and its relationship with state politics and global finance.

Trevor Paglen (b. Maryland, U.S.A., 1974)

Trevor Paglen is an artist and experimental geographer whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. In The Fence (Lake Kickapoo, Texas) (2010) Paglen worked with a radio astronomer to map a vast and extremely powerful radar system surrounding the United States used to detect ballistic missiles, and made of electromagnetic waves invisible to the naked eye. In this work, the light from “the fence” was shifted into a visible spectrum.

Adán Vallecillo (b. Danli, Honduras, 1977)

Adán Vallecillo’s artistic practice directly intersects with the context of its production, blurring the boundaries between the artistic, the personal, and the political. Whether participating in actions or collecting materials on-site to make artwork, Vallecillo’s work critically engages with the realities of the historical moment while addressing the art historical legacy of abstraction, object making, and found materials. In the action Pintura politica (Political painting) (2013), Vallecillo references and makes manifest the political aspirations of the historical avant-garde by inserting an abstract painting into a political protest.

About the curator

Carla Acevedo-Yates (b. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1978) is a curator, researcher, and art critic based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She earned a Master of Arts in Curatorial Studies and Contemporary Art at CCS Bard College, and a B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Cultures from Barnard College, Columbia University. Recent projects include Turn on the bright lights at the Hessel Museum of Art, Soy Isla at Artists Space Books and Talks, The Dialectic City: Document / Context at Laboratorio de Artes Binarios, and OB-R at ARTLAB753, a project that experimented with exhibition formats and collaborative production models. Her writing has appeared in Art Agenda, Artpulse, Mousse, La Tempestad, and South as a State of Mind.

This project is funded in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. The Kresge and Pascal Galleries are located in the Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts. Gallery hours are Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 1 to 5 p.m. and Wednesday 1 to 7 p.m. For more information, call 201-684-7147.

Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as fifth in the Best Regional Public Universities North category, Ramapo College of New Jersey is sometimes mistaken for a private college. This is, in part, due to its unique interdisciplinary academic structure, its size of approximately 6,000 students and its pastoral setting in the foothills of the Ramapo Mountains on the New Jersey/New York border.

Established in 1969, Ramapo College offers bachelor's degrees in the arts, business, humanities, social sciences and the sciences, as well as in professional studies, which include nursing and social work. In addition, Ramapo College offers courses leading to teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels. The College also offers eight graduate programs as well as articulated programs with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New York Chiropractic College, New York University College of Dentistry, SUNY State College of Optometry and New York College of Podiatric Medicine.

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Rastreadas Jueves 22 de octubre de 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Puerto Rico

En saludo a la 4ta Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan, América Latina y el Caribe, REM Projects estará inaugurando Rastreadas" en su nuevo espacio en Santurce Puerto Rico.

Artistas: Alexis Diaz "La Pandilla", Bik-ISMO, Chemi Rosado Seijo, Edgardo Larregui, Bubu Negrón, Jason Mena, Jorge "Rito" Cordero, Melvin Martínez, Omar Velázquez, Radames "Juni" Figueroa, Quintín Rivera Toro, Zilia Sánchez

REM Project Calle Canals Callejon Cultural #204 Santurce, PR 939-338-3118

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Huella o Desgaste Jueves 22 de octubre 7:00pm - 10:00pm 2BLEÓ Puerto Rico

En saludo a la 4ta Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan, América Latina y el Caribe

Artistas: Carlos Rodriguez, Rosell Meseguer, Bridget Quigley, Nora Maite Nieves, Kristine Serviá, Adán Vallecillo, Jorge Díaz Torres, Rafael Vargas Bernard, Marco Trevisani, Jason Mena

La esta muestra invita a reflexionar sobre la huella y/o desgaste como un grabado o grabación del tiempo. Como un mapa marcado por los procesos de vida. La huella y/o desgaste son elementos de estudio antropológico. En ocasiones la antropología puede presentarnos algo de ficción. El planteamiento es un juego libre entre los conceptos antropológicos, reales o ficticios.

2BLEÓ se fundó el 20 de febrero de 2013 como un lugar de taller y producción artística. También como espacio de exposición para muestras colectivas. El lugar tiene un área designada para realizar cortes de cabello nombrada La Silla “Barbería Ilícita”. En este espacio se han mostrado obras de importantes artistas locales, extranjeros y de boricuas que viven en la diáspora.

En el 2015 2BLEÓ recibió el premio como mejor espacio alternativo otorgado por la AICA (Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte).

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Periférico Espectacular: Madrid

Espacio PROA

Calle. C/ Saturnino Tejera 4. Metro Carabanchel, linea 5

Viernes 2 y sábado 3 de octubre de 20:00 a 23:00 de la noche, se estará proyectando en el ventanal de Espacio PROA en Madrid, el programa de video “Periférico Espectacular” en donde se presentan una serie de artistas de Iberoamérica y el Caribe.

“Periférico Espectacular” consta de una selección de videos de Iberoamérica (10 en total) y que se presentan en formato de proyección urbana que busca interactuar con el transeúnte y los públicos que circulen por la zona donde es proyectada.

Cada video es un registro audiovisual de una serie de acciones llevadas a cabo en distintos espacios de ciudades de estas regiones y que se desdoblan como una obra, ya sea en video o no, y que ha participado en exposiciones diversas en espacios públicos o institucionales en países como Guatemala, Colombia y Ecuador.

"Periférico Espectacular" es una propuesta de video que busca generar un momento de dialogo con la ciudad como un mecanismo de reflexión visual entorno a las problemáticas de actualidad y que se manifiesta como intervención en el espacio Público.

Artistas:  Jason Mena (Puerto Rico), Eder Castillo (México), Karmelo Bermejo (España), Guillermo Vargas "Habacuc" (Costa Rica), Nadia Granados "La Fulminante" (Colombia), Victor Hugo Rodríguez "Crack" (El Salvador), Andrea Mármol (Guatemala), Jorge Linares (Guatemala)  Artistas Invitados: Miguel Rodriguez Sepulveda (México) Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker (Panamá)

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Circulo A

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Naturaleza Inconciliable Exposición Colectiva Del 25 de septiembre hasta el 16 de octubre, 2015 Espacio Arterial Querétaro 99, Col. Roma Mexico D.F.

¿Puede haber algo más violento que la gran explosión del universo?

¿Hay algo que podemos considerar violencia antes de la humanidad?

¿Es posible que mediante la expresión artística generemos un esclarecimiento que nos haga mejores humanos a partir de autoreflexión?

Los alumnos de la Licenciatura en Comunicación y Gestión de la Cultura y Artes, en colaboración con Espacio Arterial y la Universidad de la Comunicación, tienen el agrado de invitarles a la exposición colectiva en torno al tema de la violencia "Naturaleza Inconciliable"

Naturaleza Inconciliable presenta la obra de nueve artistas visuales: Ornella Delfino, Nelly Ruzic, Marie - Christine Camus, Adela Goldbard, Iván Trueta, Moris, Renato Garza Cervera, Andrés Orjuela y Jason Mena.

La inauguración se llevará a cabo el 25 se septiembre del 2015 dentro de las instalaciones del Centro Cultural Espacio Arterial ofreciendo un coctel de 20:00 a 23:00 hrs.

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Paper Manifestoes September 23 - October 3, 2015 Exhibition and Symposium The Factory, Dawailangying Hutong 8, Dashilan

Forum with authors including Matjaz Tancic and Luka Yang, moderated by Geisel Cabrera and WAI Think Tank

For the second year, Paper Manifestoes will present a selection of artists’, and architects’ books, journals, zines and photobooks during the 2015 Edition of Beijing Design Week.

The Second edition of Paper Manifestoes explores space in its multiple dimensions (architectural, geopolitical, domestic, utopian, urban, rural, peripheral), and reflects how it affects, influences, and informs artist’s practices around the world. Ranging from comic strips, to collaborative editorial efforts, ethnographic research and monographic surveys, the exhibition presents publications produced for and as exhibitions, but also as mediums and as ends in themselves.

Curated by WAI Think Tank and Geisel Cabrera, Paper Manifestoes will be presented on a site-specific installation on the factory at the centre of historical Dashilar District in Beijing.

A digital catalogue will be published on the occasion of the exhibition together with a symposium with artists, authors and publishers on the exhibition.The publications presented in Paper Manifestoes will be included as public resource in the collection of Condenser, an experimental space for architecture, art and spatial investigations based in Beijing.

Featured Publications:

Arkanum (Berlin) Boredom 2000 (Paris0 Common Plan: Public-Private (Santiago de Chile) Concrete Flux (Beijing) Hong Kong In-Between (Hong Kong) House with Doors and Windows (London / Nijmegen) Intelligentsia Zine (Beijing) In Visible Cities (Beirut) Ganko (Milan) Lens of an Idea (Shanghai) 10 Days in Krakow (Beijing) The Indigenuity Project (Sápmi) The Story of the Little Girl and The Sun (Beijing) Those aren't your memories, they're somebody's else's (Berlin) Timekeepers (Beijing) NBDBKP – Volume One (Berlin) Niemandsraume-eine utopische spurensuche (Graz) No One Hurry Anyone (Beijing) Pink Republic (Beijing) Poetry for Architects (Beijing) Product Placement (Beijing) Pure Hardcore Icons (London) Rational Reality (Beijing) Shapes Islands Text (Sevilla) Sheep (Rotterdam) What About It? (Beijing) X (Mexico City)

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Periférico Espectacular: Programa de video de artistas de iberoamérica y el caribe 18 y 19 de septiembre de 18h a 21h Sono Centro Cultura Calle Borrero 6.83 y Presidente Córdova Cuenca, Ecuador

Artistas: Jason Mena / Puerto Rico Eder Castillo / México Karmelo Bermejo / España Habacuc Guillermo Vargas / Costa Rica Nadia Granados "La Fulminante" / Colombia Victor Hugo Rodriguez "Crack" / El Salvador Andrea Marmol / Guatemala Jorge Linares / Guatemala

Artista Invitado: Miguel Rodriguez Sepulveda / México

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Las apariencias engañan Exploraciones a partir de la fotografía en México En el marco de FOTOCIMÉXICO 2015 Curaduría: Irving Domínguez

Selección de obras y artistas para quienes la fotografía es un campo de articulación discursiva, una arena para la construcción de representaciones que interactúan a través de dispositivos bidimensionales, tridimensionales, ausentes de movimiento o inmersos en las convenciones del lenguaje audiovisual. En todo caso, se trata a la fotografía como un espacio de investigación y experimentación, más que mero dispositivo visual.

La intención es proponer un intercambio de interpretaciones, abordajes y conceptualizaciones sobre la imagen que incorporan fotografías o elementos propios de ese medio para ser procesados, resignificados y devueltos como parte de una lectura crítica tanto desde la perspectiva formal como en el ámbito de los signos, sus diversas caracterizaciones (índice, icono o símbolo) y las implicaciones que éstos revelan al espectador a través de los temas que alimentan cada una de las propuestas de los artistas participantes.

La muestra estará conformada por obras de artistas mexicanos y residentes en el país provenientes de diversas generaciones. Hay un énfasis en la producción de creadores del norte de la República, así como en la diversidad de soportes que conforman la selección de piezas.

Participan: Colectivo Estética Unisex (México – Colombia); Edgar Durán (Ciudad de México, 1982); Lorena Estrada Quiroga (Nuevo León, México, 1970) y Futuro Moncada (Colombia, 1971); Julie Escoffier (Francia, 1989); Carlos Iván Hernández (Ciudad de México, 1984); Alfredo Káram (Sonora, México, 1980); Ilán Lieberman (Ciudad de México, 1969); Michael López Murillo (Colombia, 1973); Jason Mena (Puerto Rico, 1974); Fabiola Menchelli (Ciudad de México, 1983); Andrés Felipe Orjuela (Colombia, 1985); Miguel Ángel Ortega Bugarín (Jalisco, México, 1982); Marta María Pérez Bravo (Cuba, 1959); Roberto Salazar (Nuevo León, México, 1978); Pavka Segura (Ciudad de México, 1971); Wolfgang Scholz (Alemania, 1958); Isaac Torres (Ciudad de México, 1982); Marco Treviño (Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, 1986); David Vera (Sonora, México, 1989).

Galería Rampas Inauguración: 10 de septiembre de 2015, a las 19:00 hrs. Entrada libre

Irving Domínguez (Ciudad de México, 1976). Curador y crítico de arte. Realizó sus estudios en el Centro de la Imagen (CONACULTA), en Teratoma, AC., y en la Colección/Fundación JUMEX. Estudió fotografía (teoría e historia) en el Centro de la Imagen y la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH).

Esta exposición fue posible gracias al apoyo de CONACULTA, a través de la Comisión de Cultura de la Cámara de Diputados.

Texto de presentación Las apariencias engañan. Exploraciones a partir de la fotografía en México 

¿Dónde concluye una imagen fotográfica?, ¿en el margen blanco de la impresión?, ¿por los bordes donde coincide con el soporte rígido?, ¿en todo lo exterior al marco que la contiene? ¿Y por qué discutir sobre un aspecto tan lejano del plano simbólico? ¿Por qué apartarse de esa base teórica que interpreta las relaciones de este medio con las experiencias sensoriales del mundo?, ¿aún necesitamos diferenciarla tanto de los demás soportes de la expresión artística? 

La materialidad constitutiva de la fotografía es una característica poco relevante en las lecturas curatoriales sobre la producción mexicana y por ello resultó uno de los ejes principales para articular esta exhibición. Sin embargo, no se trata de ofrecer un catálogo de casos raros o excepcionales, sino un interés por demostrar un uso recurrente, una metodología certera para representar. La misma que permite involucrarse, y fundirse, con otros códigos provenientes de tradiciones artísticas bien cimentadas, a través de los cuales lo fotográfico se continúa, expande y reconfigura. 

El carácter híbrido de buena parte de las propuestas aquí reunidas está animado por una postura crítica hacia el avasallamiento de imágenes que saturan nuestras relaciones sociales, políticas, inclusive históricas. De ese torrente se han tomado puñados de imágenes que se cancelan, se reinterpretan, se yuxtaponen a través de sutiles veladuras o literalmente se queman. Otra sección apunta hacia las interconexiones entre la presencia aludida y su manifestación espacial. 

Una más juega con la presentación de conglomerados donde las convenciones del audiovisual, y la música, se enlazan con el principio de la toma fija, acercándose a lo contemplativo. También se encontrarán intromisiones en el ámbito editorial, una modalidad de distribución sumamente cotizada ahora entre los fotógrafos emergentes de todas partes del orbe, y un ejercicio congruente con el actual programa curatorial del MUCH. 

La presente enunciación de la fotografía realizada en México toma distancia de pautas bien conocidas: Una relacionada con la puesta en escena y su cruce con las referencias autobiográficas. La otra, un pretendido canon donde la vida social y sus conflictos han forjado lo que se considera representativo de la historia de la fotografía mexicana. No es mi interés crear una nueva “trinchera” sino señalar un conjunto de obra, congruente a los intereses de los artistas seleccionados, quienes desde las particularidades de un sistema de representación visual abrazan la diversidad del arte y sus posibilidades de traducción infinita. Irving Domínguez, curador de la muestra

Prensa:

Repeating Islands 

Serendipia

Revista Código

Foto CI Mexico

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