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Longitudes cuts across Latitudes’ projects and research with news, updates, and reportage.

Documentation of Latitudes' talks at the Athens Biennale summit and Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastián, November 2015

 Fri, Feb 19 2016

Latitudes in the international Summit 'Synapse 1' at New Rex of the National Theatre of Greece. 'Session II: Rethinking Institutions', November 18, 2015. Photo: Athens Biennale.

Documentation of two recent presentations by Latitudes in Athens and Donostia–San Sebastián is now online. 

Entitled Omonoia (‘concord’ in Greek), the Athens Biennale 2015–17 is directed by Massimiliano Mollona and will grow over the next two years with the help of anthropologists, researchers, activists, academics, artists and civic organisations. In November 2016, Omonoia launched with the summit Synapse 1: Introducing a laboratory for production post-2011. Latitudes participated in the “Rethinking Institutions” session alongside Maria Hlavajova (founder and artistic director of BAK, Utrecht); political economist Leo Panitch; Emily Pethick, director of The Showroom, London; Documenta 14 Artistic Director Adam Szymczyk; public services expert Hilary Wainwright, and Amalia Zepou, Athens Vice Mayor for Civil Society and Municipality Decentralization. 

 By way of introduced we discussed the “Near-Future Artworlds Curatorial Disruption Foresight Group”, the forum for megatrends and the future of institutions of contemporary art that has taken place in May 2015 at the Vessel / MADA (Monash Art Design and Architecture) 2015 International Curatorial Retreat in Bari, Italy; in August at Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, and in November at Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK. We followed this with some geological speculation that in “digging deeper” both literally and figuratively, we perhaps find new institutional models. How do we think about artworks and institutions in terms of tens of thousands of years, for example.

See the video here (in English).


Public lecture organised by consonni as part of LaPublika. Tabakalera, Donostia–San Sebastián. Wednesday, November 11, 2015. Photo: Consonni.

Also in November, Latitudes led the workshop “Beyond The Roundabout, or How Public Is Public Art?” for consonni/LaPublika at Tabakalera. As part of this Latitudes gave a public lecture. The workshop addressed the work of artists who conceptualize or actualize their works against a backdrop of vast stretches of time or topological change. In the public lecture we made various transects through our curatorial projects determined by the public sphere, raw materials and their transformation. “From the zinc which led to an Esperanto micro-nation, to the air of a Beijing shopping centre, or the dead trees of printed news, Latitudes will join some traits and ideas around ‘human resources’, extractive modernity, obsolescence and the carbon cycle.” 

Hear the audio here (in Spanish). 

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 2016, Athens Biennale, Near Future Artworlds, public art, report, rethinking institutions, seminar, video documentation
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Cover Story, February 2016: Sarah Ortmeyer, Towering allusions

 Tue, Feb 9 2016


The February 2016 Cover Story is dedicated to Sarah Ortmeyer's piece VITRINE MAURICE (2011) presented as part of the group show Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes & des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne at Meessen De Clercq, Brussels.

 
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 2016, Brussels, cover story, focus, Meessen De Clercq, Sarah Ortmeyer
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Jurado y equipo tutorial de BCN Producció 2016, La Capella, Barcelona.

 Tue, Feb 2 2016

Photo: La Capella.

El jurado de BCN Producció 2016 formado por los artistas Francesc Ruiz y Mireia Sallarès, y los comisarios Glòria Picazo, David Armengol y Latitudes junto con el director de La Capella, Oriol Gual (con voz y sin voto), ha seleccionado nueve proyectos de entre las 240 solicitudes recibidas para su producción y presentación a lo largo de la temporada 2016 en el espacio de La Capella – a excepción de los dos proyectos deslocalizados. 

Proyectos individuales (abril / junio / septiembre 2016)
• 'Background Immunity' de Ricardo Trigo
• 'No es homosexual simplemente el homófilo sino el cegado por el falo perdido' de Equipo Palomar (Rafael Marcos Mota / Mario Páez Sanchez)
• 'El misterio de Caviria' de Antoni Hervàs
 
Espai Cub (abril / junio / septiembre 2016)
• 'Demo' de Pau Magrané / PLOM
• 'Until I am no longer able to stand' de Anna Dot
• 'Cartas desde el bosque' de Bárbara Sánchez B.
 
Proyectos deslocalizado (a lo largo del 2016)
• ' Teatre amador' de Oriol Nogués
• 'La materia como forma' de Ariadna Parreu
 
Proyecto de comisariado (Noviembre 2016–Enero 2017)
• 'La dissidència nostàlgica' de Joana Hurtado Matheu

Iniciamos nuestra tarea como parte del equipo tutorial junto a David Armengol y Mireia Sallarès. ¡Ganas de trabajar y de celebrar el 10º aniversario de BCN producció!
 
BCN producció es una convocatoria anual dirigida a la comunidad artística de Barcelona (y su área de influencia), para la producción y presentación de tres exposiciones individuales en la Sala Gran de La Capella, tres en el Espai Cub, un proyecto de comisariado y dos proyectos deslocalizados. Es una iniciativa del Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB) del Ajuntament de Barcelona.


RELATED CONTENT:

  • Proyecto de investigación ‘#OpenCurating’, BCN Producció 2012, Barcelona, junio 2012–april 2013.  
  • Ten interviews with artists, curators, archivists, online dept., editors around how the internet is changing artistic and curatorial practice  – free download via Issuu. 
  • The rise of Web 2.0 and an increasing expectation of participation and transparency is transforming our political, social and cultural landscape. What relevance does this have in contemporary art production, exhibition making and curatorial authorship? Storify #OpenCurating
 2016, Barcelona, BCN Producció, convocatoria, Jurado, mentoring, tutoría
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