Videoarde
The program Videoarde: Critical video in Latin America and the Caribbean belongs to a three-part program developed by curator Laura Baigorri in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2008-2011 with the support of the network of cultural centers of AECID (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development) and Instituto Cervantes.
The aim of the program is to insist on visibility as the only way of resistance. The selection questions us about the effectiveness and the scope of action of critical art, about the author’s ethic responsibility while working in this field, about the subaltern (in)capacity to represent him or herself, about the need of recognition in the works that deal with social and political issues, about the role assumed by Latin American art and artists in the international context, and lastly, about the curator’s legitimacy to undertake his or her work in the transnational context.
All the works in Videoarde are inserted on the field of mediation and transformation of the social space, sometimes showing the peculiar ways to confront daily life and some others reflecting upon critical aspects: politics, history/memory, identity, social crisis, violence, machismo, sex, religion, frontier and emigration, urban space and art. The program features 32 videos by artists from Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, US and Spain. The works strike up a dialogue through three different programs: Men, Wolves and Men, Vital Space and My way: Lessons on Local Survival.
CONFERENCE – Program Curator 8 October Saturday, 16:00
Laura Baigorri is professor at the School of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona. Her focus is on Art and New Media. Baigorri combines her teaching experience with research, criticism, curatorial work and development of online projects. She has penned articles and essays on art and activism on the Net, video-art and game art.
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7 October Friday 18:00
9 October Sunday 14:00
It centers on the feelings of disappointment, dejection and impotence. All these works operate in the blind spots of human ethics, whether it be at a general scale –through transcendental or symbolic questions—or at a particular scale –when they allude to concrete facts or specific social agents.
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7 October Friday 19:00
9 October Sunday 15:00
It directly relates to the physical space –architecture and city plan, territory and frontier—as well as to the space for the identity. It is divided in two different sub-programs: “Isolated and transplanted urbans” and “Latinos in the art market.”
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8 October Saturday 14:00
9 October Sunday 16:00
This program is based on the testimonial experience. On the formal level, it takes the form of an interview or an individual or collective portrait, on the conceptual level it deals with the notion of resistance.
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