WINTER RESIDENCY 2020
MEXICO CITY
INHABITING PRACTICE: SPEAKING FROM WHERE YOU ARE
The 2020 winter residency in Mexico City will focus on articulating where your practice and research live in relation to a larger field. Where does your work speak from? How do you inhabit your practice and how does this translate into the presentation of your work?
In this residency, you will present your work to your peers and guest reviewers, participate in workshops, and visit studios, art and non-art spaces (independent and institutional) in order to think, analyze and experience the varied ways in which work is contextualized through space, presentation and voice.
VENUE
PROGRAMMING
REVIEWERS FOR PRESENTATIONS
VENUE: SOMA
Calle 13 #25, Col. San Pedro de los Pinos, 03800 Ciudad de México
www.somamexico.org
SOMA is a non-profit organization conceived to nurture discussion and exchange in the field of contemporary art and education in Mexico City. SOMA’s mission is to provide a forum for dialogue between Mexican and international artists, cultural producers, and the public at large.
SUNDAY 5TH
3pm - 5pm - Walk/talk with Leslie Moody Castro & Tanya Díaz
6pm Opening dinner
MONDAY 6TH
10am - 10:30am - Guest reviewers presentation
10:30am - 2pm - Presentations (Eaton, Kyambi, Senza)
1pm - Grad Dialogue meeting
3pm - Collegium meeting (Peter, Susie, Michael)
4pm - Studio visit curated by Clavel - Wendy Cabrera de Rivera (SOMA)
TUESDAY 7TH
10am - 2pm - Workshop: Museo de Antropología y Historia with with Eduardo Abaroa
4pm - 7pm - Presentations (Cossovich, Lopez, Albert)
WEDNESDAY 8TH
11am - 12:30pm - Roving Session with No Hacer Nada, curated by Clavel
3pm - Museum guided tours
8:30pm - Miércoles de SOMA (lecture series) - Magalí Arriola (curator, critic and director of Museo Tamayo)
THURSDAY 9TH
10:30am - Independent Art Space visit - Bikini Wax + studio visit Paloma Contreras, curated by Clavel
3:30pm - Guided tour - Casa Luis Barragan
5:30pm - Studio visit - Tania Candiani
FRIDAY 10TH
11am - MUAC museum guided visit
4pm - Studio visit
5pm - closing meeting
6:30pm - closing dinner
PROGRAMMING
Site-specific Workshop at the Museo de Antropología y Historia
Eduardo Abaroa (Mexico City, 1968) is an artist and writer working in the fields of sculpture, installation and live action. He has shown his work in several major museums, including MUAC and Museo Tamayo in Mexico; LA MoCA, PS1 and ICA Boston in the United States; Reina Sofia Museum in Spain; Kunstwerke in Germany, the Nottingham Contemporary Museum in the UK, among others. He has participated in Biennial exhibitions in Busan, South orea, Porto Alegre in Brasil, and Cartagena, Colombia. His most important ongoing project is titled Total Destruction of the Anthropology Museum, which began at kurimanzutto in 2012. As a writer, he was the art reviewer for the Reforma newspaper and has published in other Mexican platforms like Curare, Casper, Moho, Codigo 06140, La Tempestad and Tomo. He has contributed texts for exhibition catalogues of artists related to the Mexican context, such as Francis Alÿs, Melanie Smith, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Tercerunquinto, and Dr. Lakra. In the early nineties, he co-founded the T44 artist run space in Mexico City. He directed the 9th International Symposium of Art Theory in Mexico City (SITAC) in 2011.
Walk/Talk: Tlatelolco and Plaza de Tres Culturas with Leslie Moody Castro & Tanya Díaz
The megalopolis of Mexico City is ripe with layers of history and cultural expression which has shaped the formation of the city itself. The foundation of the city lies in its complicated pre-Columbian past that occupies the same space as its post-conquest colonial history with roots so deeply embedded we still see the effects of the past even into the present day. We will walk with independent curator, Leslie Moody Castro and invited expert, George Flaherty through one of the most emblematic spaces in the City.
Leslie Moody Castro is an independent curator and writer whose practice is based on itinerancy and collaboration. She has produced, organized, and collaborated on projects in Mexico and the United States for more than a decade, and her repertoire of critical writing is also reflective of her commitment to place. She is committed to creating moments of artistic exchange and dialogue and as such is a co-founder of Unlisted Projects, an artist residency program in Austin, Texas. In 2017, she was selected as Curator and Artistic Director of the sixth edition of the Texas Biennial, and was recently the first invited curator in residence at the Galveston Artist Residency. Moody Castro earned a Master's degree at The University of Texas at Austin in Museum Education with a portfolio supplement in Museum Studies in 2010, and a Bachelor's degree in Art History at DePaul University in Chicago in 2004, and has been awarded two grants from the National Endowment of Arts for her curatorial projects (2016, 2017). In addition to her firm belief that the visual arts creates moments of empathy, Moody Castro also believes that Mariachis make everything better.
Studio visits and Roving Sessions with young artists and curators working in Mexico City and surrounds. Curated by Clavel.
Clavel is a curatorial collective formed by Ángela Cuahutle, Gaby Cepeda & Ixchel Ledesma. We understand curating, research and publications as collective exercises useful for re-thinking and re-contextualizing emerging artistic practices. We use feminist methodologies to center practices that are often simplified, tokenized or excluded; and we promote strategies that create and secure spaces for more inclusive discourses and processes.
REVIEWERS FOR PRESENTATIONS
Eduardo Abaroa (Mexico City, 1968) is an artist and writer working in the fields of sculpture, installation and live action. He has shown his work in several major museums, including MUAC and Museo Tamayo in Mexico; LA MoCA, PS1 and ICA Boston in the United States; Reina Sofia Museum in Spain; Kunstwerke in Germany, the Nottingham Contemporary Museum in the UK, among others. He has participated in Biennial exhibitions in Busan, South orea, Porto Alegre in Brasil, and Cartagena, Colombia. His most important ongoing project is titled Total Destruction of the Anthropology Museum, which began at kurimanzutto in 2012. As a writer, he was the art reviewer for the Reforma newspaper and has published in other Mexican platforms like Curare, Casper, Moho, Codigo 06140, La Tempestad and Tomo. He has contributed texts for exhibition catalogues of artists related to the Mexican context, such as Francis Alÿs, Melanie Smith, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Tercerunquinto, and Dr. Lakra. In the early nineties, he co-founded the T44 artist run space in Mexico City. He directed the 9th International Symposium of Art Theory in Mexico City (SITAC) in 2011.
Fabiola Iza (Mexico City, 1986) is a curator and art historian who lives in Mexico City. Her work interrogates the institution and manipulation of archives within curatorial practice and seeks tools, strategies, and methodologies that may undermine the hegemonic narratives withheld in exhibitions. Iza served as curator at Casa del Lago-UNAM (2011-13) and since 2014 is the director of TEEORIA, a collection of books on cultural theory published by Taller de Ediciones Económicas. She holds a B.A of Art Theory and an MA in Visual Cultures, with a specialization in Contemporary Art Theory, from Goldsmiths, University of London.