January 2011
2011 LATIN AMERICAN SPEAKERS SERIES
The Latin American Speakers Series will not only contextualize Latin American art within Canada, but will also be an opportunity to present meaningful cultural exchange. International guest speakers are paired with local Latin American moderators. The series objective is to enrich Canadian understanding of Latin American art from both the continent and the Diaspora.
A wide range of visual artists, curators, designers, educators, and academics share and discuss projects creating a forum for dialogue, collaboration and provide an educational vehicle for change and exchange. The series is presented by Latin American Canadian Art Projects and is curated by Tamara Toledo.
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ALFREDO JAAR When: Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
Alfredo Jaar: "It is Difficult"
Moderated by Rafael Goldchain
Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean born artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice 1986, 2007, São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010), Sydney (1990), Istanbul (1995), Kwangju (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), and Moscow (2009), as well as Documenta (1987, 2002). He recently completed two important public commissions: The Park of the Laments for the Indianapolis Museum of Art and The Geometry of Conscience, located next to the new Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago de Chile. He is also completing a third memorial in Kigali, Rwanda in memory of the victims of the 1994 genocide.
Important recent individual exhibitions include Hangar Bicocca and Spazio Oberdan, Milan (2008), Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007), Fundación Telefónica, Santiago (2006), MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992), Whitechapel, London (1992), and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1992).
He is preparing a multi-venue retrospective in Berlin for 2012, including the Neue Nationalgalerie and NGBK.
He has created more than fifty public interventions around the world.
More than fifty monographic publications have been published about his work. These include It Is Difficult (2008), the exhibition catalogue for his retrospective in Milan, featuring essays by Gabi Scardi, Paolo Fabbri, Paul Gilroy, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Nicole Schweizer; La Politique des Images (2006), with essays by Griselda Pollock, Jacques Rancière, Nicole Schweizer and Georges Didi-Huberman; The Fire This Time (2005), with essays by Mary Jane Jacob and Nancy Princenthal; and Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project 1994-1998 (1998), with essays by Vicenç Altaió, David Levi Strauss and Ben Okri.
He received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur “genius” grant (2000), and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1985). In 2006 he received Spain's Premio Extremadura a la Creación.
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Rafael Goldchain is a photo media artist, professor and program coordinator of the Applied Photography Program at Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville. His photographs have been exhibited in Canada, Chile, the US, Cuba, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Mexico, and are featured in many private and public collections including the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.
Presented by Latin American Canadian Art Projects and Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art
March 2011
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Tania Bruguera When: Thursday, March 10, 2011 |
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Tania Bruguera: "Like the Real Thing"
Moderated by Alberto Guevara
Tania Bruguera was born in 1968 in Havana, Cuba, and currently lives and works in Havana and Chicago. She is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in behaviour art, performance, and installation. She is the founder/director of Arte de Conducta, the first performance studies and political art program in Latin America, hosted by Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and serves on the faculty at the University IUAV in Venice (Italy). Bruguera participated in Documenta 11 in 2002, as well as in the 49th, 51st, and 53rd Venice Biennales in 2001, 2005, and 2009. Bruguera has presented in other major biennales around the world, including: Sao Paolo, Istanbul, Moscow, Tirana, Goteborg, Johannesburg, Kwangju, Shangai, Havana and Site Santa Fe. Her work has also been exhibited at the New Museum, NewYork; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Germany; Tate Modern and Tate Britain, England; Pompidou, France; and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Cuba. In 1998, she was a Guggenheim Fellow; in 2002, she was an Artist in Residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; and in 2007 and 2008 she received the Prince Claus Award in the Netherlands and received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Awards (New York, United States) in 2010. She received her masters in fine arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Instituto Superior de Arte in Cuba. A survey show about her work will open in January 2010 at the Neuberger Museum in New York
Bruguera’s most recent 2010 solo exhibitions include: La Huelga General curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina (Murcia, Spain); IP Détournement, Centre d’Art Pompidou (Paris, France); Touched by discipline. Corpus. Art in Action. Festival Performance Art. Madre Museum (Naples, Italy); The promise of politics, XXXI Pontevedra Biennial Fundación Rosón de Arte Contemporáneo (Pontevedra, Spain); On the political imaginary (Survey Show) Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York (New York, United States); among others many others.
Alberto Guevara is originally from Nicaragua. Professor Guevara has harboured a lifelong interest in the intersections of performance and politics. Professor Guevara's scholarly work focuses on contestations of social and national identities through performance and the theatricality of violence in Nicaragua and Nepal. While publishing on these issues, he co-curated and contributed multimedia works to two exhibits dealing with the aftermath of the Nicaraguan revolution: 20 ans apres Reagan (Long Hall Gallery, Montreal) and Nicaraquoi? (Tongue 'n Groove Gallery, Lethbridge). His most recent publication, “Where Heroes and Ideologies are Cast and Outcast: Changing Regimes and Public Spaces in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua”, was published by Brujula in 2006.
April 2011
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Humberto Vélez Art Gallery of York University * Free bus departs from OCAD, 100 McCaul Street at 1PM, returns at 5PM
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Humberto Vélez: "Aesthetics of Collaboration"
Moderated by Guillermina Buzio
Humberto Vélez studied law and political sciences in the University of Panama and was awarded a scholarship from The Foundation of Latin American Cinema for studying Filmmaking and TV in the International School of Cinema of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, funded by Gabriel García Márquez.
He has been an artist in residence in Vienna (Ministry of Foreigner Affairs, 1998), London (Triangle Arts Trust-Gasworks, 2001), Sheffield (Yorkshire ArtSpace, 2007) and Toronto (Art Gallery of York University, 2009/2010). In 2010 he is been invited to be artist in residence at METAL Art Foundation in London Southend.
Born in Panama in 1965, Humberto Vélez lives and works between London and Rio de Janeiro as an artist, art teacher, independent filmmaker, and a culture and arts projects producer. His present art projects include: an invitation to create public art projects in 2010 for the Pompidou Centre; for the V Congress of the Spanish Language in Valparaiso, Chile ; and for the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto (2011). He has been commissioned for the DAROS-Latinamerica Foundation to create a performance for the opening of CASA DAROS, a new art centre for Latin American arts in Rio de Janeiro in 2011.
A major exhibition of his works at the Art Gallery of York University opens in April 2011 in conjunction with his Toronto participatory performance The Spirit in May 2011.
Guillermina Buzio
Guillermina Buzio is a Toronto-based artist and holds a BFA from the National University of Fine Arts P. Pueyrredon (Argentina), a Bachelor of Media Arts from Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, and an MFA from Ontario College of Art & Design. Her work focuses on human rights and identity and has been shown in Toronto, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Sao Paulo and Havana. During the past few years, Buzio has programmed for the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, the Experimental Media Congress, and Planet in Focus Environmental Film and Video Festival in Toronto. Buzio was the programming coordinator and co-artistic director of aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival for several years where she also co-created and facilitated self-representation video workshops for youth and queer Latinos in Toronto, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico.
About the Curator
Tamara Toledo is a Toronto-based visual artist and curator. Toledo is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and holds an MFA from York University. Toledo is co-founder of the Allende Arts Festival, she is the Executive Director of the Latin American Art Projects and Public Programs Manager at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art. She is recipient of several grants and awards and has participated in various conferences. Toledo’s essays on Latin American art have been published in ARM Journal, C Magazine and Fuse Magazine.
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