Tag: Guatemala

Yasmin Hage

EN

Yasmin Hage (Guatemala, 1976) lives and works in Guatemala. She took part in projects such as Octubre Azul, Colloquia, Landings, Image Factory Art Foundation, Contexto (Cinismo, Milenio, Libertad), Lo que hay es lo que hay (DSII), Días Mejores, 2003 (Rosina Cazali), V Bienal del Caribe 2004, 16 Bienal de Arte Paiz 2006 (Nelson Herrera Ysla), “Esbozo para la creación de una sociedad del futuro” 2007, (Laboratorio Curatorial 060) con el proyecto en sitio aldea modelo, pequeña historia,1984, “CulturvaVersusCultura” (Marivi Véliz), “Habitart” y “Campo y Ciudad” (Emiliano Valdés), Ciudad de la Imaginación (Pablo Ramírez), 17 Bienal de Paiz 2010 (José Roca), 8va Bienal Centroamericana (2010), Ultravioleta (bla.bla.bla), The Street Files 2011 (Bienal del Museo del Barrio en Nueva York) y Geopoéticas, Bienal de Mercosur 2011 (José Roca), La Ruleta, Diablo Rosso (Me asusta pero me gusta), Serie Revisiones 2012 (Excéntrico, E. Valdés), Lenguajes Contemporáneos desde Centroamérica (2013, editorial Turner) y Todos tenemos derecho a ser honestos en Espacio Mínimo, Madrid, 2014 (Luisa Fuentes Guaza), la 19 BAP, Transvisible (Cecilia Fajardo Hill). Her work is shown in the collection of the Blanton Museum – Austin, Texas, the Ortiz Gurdián Foundation – León, Nicaragua, Le Plateau – Paris, France, Empresarios por el arte – San José, Costa Rica, Colección APT – México, Colección Quinto-Lojo Guatemala and Colección John Gody, Guatemala.

Statement Yasmin Hage:
“I have a strong relation to drawing which during time slowly transplanted to other forms of art. Through drawing and through the act of representation I acquired a sense of rigorousness, of working on relations, of considering the plane of an art work as a small universe, form and overflow at the same time. Still, my recent work has changed and I now use notions of interchange, orality and negotiation to reconstruct my work with more porous and elastic structures; in some circumstances site specifics and/or in galleries, combining traditional and conceptual languages depending on a new materialization, how it reconfigures after the act, after the document, after the anecdote.”

Visit her project for Guatemala Después, “El olvido que no sabe que es olvido”.

ESP

Yasmin Hage (Guatemala, 1976) vive y trabaja desde Guatemala. Ha sido parte de proyectos como Octubre Azul, Colloquia, Landings, Image Factory Art Foundation, Contexto (Cinismo, Milenio, Libertad), Lo que hay es lo que hay (DSII), Días Mejores, 2003 (Rosina Cazali), V Bienal del Caribe 2004, 16 Bienal de Arte Paiz 2006 (Nelson Herrera Ysla), “Esbozo para la creación de una sociedad del futuro” 2007, (Laboratorio Curatorial 060) con el proyecto en sitio aldea modelo, pequeña historia,1984, “CulturvaVersusCultura” (Marivi Véliz), “Habitart” y “Campo y Ciudad” (Emiliano Valdés), Ciudad de la Imaginación (Pablo Ramírez), 17 Bienal de Paiz 2010 (José Roca), 8va Bienal Centroamericana (2010), Ultravioleta (bla.bla.bla), The Street Files 2011 (Bienal del Museo del Barrio en Nueva York) y Geopoéticas, Bienal de Mercosur 2011 (José Roca), La Ruleta, Diablo Rosso (Me asusta pero me gusta), Serie Revisiones 2012 (Excéntrico, E. Valdés), Lenguajes Contemporáneos desde Centroamérica (2013, editorial Turner) y Todos tenemos derecho a ser honestos en Espacio Mínimo, Madrid, 2014 (Luisa Fuentes Guaza), la 19 BAP, Transvisible (Cecilia Fajardo Hill). Está en las colecciones del Museo Blanton – Austin Texas, Fundación Ortiz Gurdián – León Nicaragua, Le Plateau – París Francia, Empresarios por el arte – San José Costa Rica, Colección APT – México, Colección Quinto-Lojo Guatemala y Colección John Gody, Guatemala. www.serierevisiones.com/yasminhage

Statement Yasmin Hage:
“Tengo una fuerte relación con el dibujo que con el tiempo ha ido trasplantándose hacia otras formas a partir del arte. El sentido de rigor, de ejercer relaciones, de considerar el plano de la obra como un pequeño universo a la vez contenido y desbordado, lo he adquirido del dibujo y del acto de la representación, sin embargo mi trabajo más reciente ha ido migrando y he utilizado el intercambio, la oralidad y la negociación para reconstituir mi obra con estructuras más porosas y elásticas, en circunstancias sitio específicas y/o de sala, combinando lenguajes tradicionales y conceptuales en función de la nueva materialización, y cómo vuelve a reconfigurarse después del hecho, después del documento, después de la anécdota.”

Visita su proyecto en Guatemala Después, “El olvido que no sabe que es olvido”.

CELEBRATING CONTEMPORARY GUATEMALAN ART: CONVERSATIONS WITH ARTISTS & CURATORS

NUMU
Friday, March 6, 2015, 6:30–9:30pm
The New School, Theresa Lang Community Center
55 West 13th Street (2nd floor)FREE and open to the public; food and drinks will be served.
Follow the live stream here.

In recent years Guatemalan artistic production has been extremely powerful, with an emergence of both critical and whimsical artistic practices responding to the violence, repression and historical memory of the previous decades in Guatemala, but also its unique sense of contemporaneity, indigeneity and radical urban imagination. Contemporary Guatemalan artists such as Regina José Galindo, Benvenuto Chavajay, Jorge de León and many others are recognized widely not only in the context of Central/Latin America, but receive much acclaim on the world stage, while contemporary urban art spaces like NuMu and Proyectos Ultravioleta are notable for their inventive curatorial practices and creative public engagement.

This unique event showcases the exciting energy around contemporary artistic and curatorial practices emerging in Guatemala today. It features artists including Jessica Kairé, Terike Haapoja, and Jaime Permuth, who will present recent projects conducted in Guatemala; curators Anabella Acevedo and Pablo José Ramírez (joining remotely from Guatemala); and Prof. Nitin Sawhney from The New School Media Studies program. Sawhney, Acevedo and Ramirez are co-organizing the exhibition initiative Guatemala Después  which will open this April (on view April 9-29) at The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons/The New School and at Ciudad de la Imaginación in Guatemala this June, featuring the work of over 40 Guatemalan and US-based artists.

Please see the recently launched Kickstarter Campaign for Guatemala Después to learn more and contribute to this exciting new project.

The conversation will be moderated by María Del Carmen Carrión, ICI’s Director of Public Programs & Research, followed by an informal mixer with Guatemalan food and drinks, and a performance by Guatemalan musician Isabel Ruano.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Independent Curators International (ICI) and Ciudad de la Imaginación as well as The School of Media Studies, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC), and Vera List Center for Art and Politics; it is co-sponsored by the University Student Senate (USS) at The New School.

SPEAKER BIOS:

TERIKE HAAPOJA

Terike Haapoja is a Finnish visual artist. With a specific focus in encounters with nature, death and other species, Haapoja’s work investigates the existential and political boundaries of our world. Haapoja’s work raises questions about the existential basis radical otherness provide for being, and about how different structures of exclusion and discrimination function as foundations for identity and culture. Haapoja approaches the previously mentioned themes by building up large projects, often realized in the forms of installations, related publications and participatory acts. Haapoja contributes regularly to Finnish and international art publications. She was the editor of mustekala.info issue ”After the Animal” (2013), co-editor of special issue ”Animal” of Esitys-journal (2013) and co-editor of the Finnish Bioart Society’s publication Field_Notes: From Landscape to Laboratory (2013). Haapoja represented Finland in the Venice Biennale in 2013 with a solo show in the Nordic Pavilion.

JESSICA KAIRE

Jessica Kairé is a Guatemalan multi-disciplinary artist and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. She is also the co-founder and co-director of Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo-NuMu-Guatemala.

JAIME PERMUTH

Jaime Permuth is a Guatemalan photographer living and working in New York City. In 2014, he was awarded with a Smithsonian Institution Artist Fellowship and was also nominated for a 2014 USA Artists Fellowship. In 2013, his first monograph Yonkeroswas published by La Fabrica Editorial (Madrid). Also, in 2013 he was nominated for the Prix Pictet and awarded an NFA Fellowship from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. His photographs have been shown at several venues in New York, NY, including: The Museum of Modern Art, The Queens Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Museum of the City of New York, The Jewish Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. He has also exhibited internationally at the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in Guatemala, Ryugaheon Gallery (Korea) Casa del Lago in Mexico City, and the Israeli Parliament. Permuth is a Faculty Member at the School of Visual Arts, where he teaches in the Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography program curating and hosting their i3 Lecture Series.

ANABELLA ACEVEDO

Anabella Acevedo is Executive Director of Ciudad de la Imaginación. She is an independent academic; she has resided and worked in Quetzaltenango since 2005. She holds an undergraduate degree in Literature and Philosophy from the Rafael Landívar University. She obtained her Master’s in Latin American Literature in 1989 and a doctorate in Latin American Literature from the University of Georgia in 1994. She was the Director of the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program in Guatemala, form 2001 to 2013, when she worked at the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA). She has co-curated several exhibits, such as Estados de Excepción (States of Exception) in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. In 2001 she was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation research grant for the project “Marginalidades, transgresiones y negociaciones. La violencia en Guatemala a través de las prácticas culturales de los jóvenes.” Acevedo curated the XVII and XIX Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala (2012 & 2014). In 2013 she formed part of a research team for the “The curvature of time, Art and Women.” She has published several essays about literature and Guatemalan Art.

PABLO JOSÉ RAMÍREZ

Pablo José Ramírez is a curator, political theorist and art writer based in Guatemala. He is the founder and director of the Contemporary Art & Political Theory Simposium,Absurdo. Between 2011 and 2014 he was the Executive Director and Curator at Ciudad de la Imaginación and continues to work there as the Associate Curator. He was co-curator of the XIX Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala. He has received several grants including The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros 2012 CIMAM Travel grant. He is co-founder and member of the editorial comittee of Gimnasia, an online site for critical theory of arts and culture in Central America. His most recent curatorial projects are: Estados de Excepción (States of Exception) in Guatemala and Ecuador and La caricia vulgar de la caida (The vulgar caress of the fall) at the Spanish Cultural Center of Guatemala. He is currently co-curating Guatemala Despuesa project produced by the New School in New York and is also curating an exhibition with Remco De Blaaij that will open at CCA Glasgow in November 2014.

NITIN SAWHNEY

Nitin Sawhney, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the New School. His research, teaching and creative practice engages the critical role of technology, civic media, and artistic interventions in contested spaces. Nitin previously taught at the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) and conducted research at the MIT Media Lab. He examines social movements and crisis contexts, though forms of creative urban tactics, participatory research, performance and documentary film. He is the co-curator of the Guatemala Después exhibitions to be held in New York and Guatemala in 2015. He previously co-curated the participatory exhibition #SearchUnderOccupy at the New School to showcase creative responses to the Occupy Movement in New York City in 2012. Nitin is currently completing a documentary film, Zona Intervenida, focusing on genocide, memory and body through site-specific performance interventions and documentary film in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.