Nueva serie de libros 'Conversaciones', de Fundación Cisneros / Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Reproduzco información (en inglés esta vez) sobre el reciente lanzamiento de una serie de libros editado por la Fundación Cisneros / Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, titulados Conversaciones. ¡La colección parece prometer títulos y diálogos ciertamente interesantes! Espero tener el primero de Carlos Cruz Diez y Ariel Jiménez muy pronto (y sería muy bueno que circule por Lima). Reproduzco la nota que me llega vía e-flux.
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October 9, 2010

Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Conversaciones/Conversations
A New Publication Series

www.coleccioncisneros.org

The Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (FC/CPPC) announces the publication of CONVERSACIONES/CONVERSATIONS, a new series of bilingual books composed of unique in-depth conversations between modern and contemporary artists from Latin America, and critics, curators, and art historians.

The inaugural title in the series, Carlos Cruz-Diez in Conversation with/en conversación con Ariel Jiménez documents a conversation between preeminent Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez and FC/CPPC Chief Curator Ariel Jiménez and is now available in bookstores and through D.A.P., www.artbook.com.

Carlos Cruz-Diez in Conversation with/en conversación con Ariel Jiménez
Based on conversations that occurred over a span of thirty years, Ariel Jiménez provides a deep and engaged account of the life and work of Carlos Cruz-Diez, one of Latin America's foremost artists, and a leading practitioner of Kinetic and Op art. Born in Venezuela in 1923, Cruz-Diez traveled in Western Europe throughout the 1950s, absorbing Bauhaus color theory and trends in geometric abstraction. He returned to Venezuela in 1957 to help initiate a massive wave of experimentation in Abstract, Concrete, Op and Kinetic art. Along with his fellow artists Jesús Soto and Alejandro Otero, Cruz-Diez shared an interest in the relation between color and perception, which he has continued to pursue in installations, environments and public sculptures.

ISBN: 9780982354421
Publisher: Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York /Caracas
Format: Hbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 248 pgs / 64 color / 30 b&w
Distribution: D.A.P.
Forthcoming titles in the series include:

Tomás Maldonado/María Amalia García [December 2010]
Jac Leirner /Adele Nelson [Spring 2011]
Waltercio Caldas/Ariel Jiménez
Luis Camnitzer/ Cuauhtémoc Medina
Ferreira Gullar/Ariel Jiménez
Alfredo Jaar /Luis Pérez-Oramas
Gyula Kosice /Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
Cildo Meireles /Paulo Herkenhoff
Liliana Porter /Inés Katzenstein

For more information and reviews please visit www.coleccioncisneros.org

The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), founded in the 1970s by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros, is one of the core cultural and educational initiatives of the Fundación Cisneros. Based in New York City and Caracas, the CPPC's mission is to increase understanding and awareness of the diversity, sophistication, and range of art from Latin America. Additionally, the CPPC works to advance scholarship of Latin American art, promote excellence in visual-arts education, and encourage a high level of expertise among Latin American art professionals. It achieves these goals through the preservation, presentation, and study of the material culture of the Ibero-American world, including modern and contemporary art, colonial and federalist art and objects, and the works of traveler artists to Latin America, as well as the material evidence of Latin America's indigenous peoples. CPPC activities include exhibitions, publications, grants for scholarly research and artistic production, and the internationally-recognized education initiative Piensa en arte/Think Art.

Beca de viaje / Fundación Cisneros / Conferencia Anual de CIMAM

Reproduzco ahora la convocatoria enviada por el curador y director de la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros de arte latinoamericano, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, en torno a esta ayuda de becas para asistir a la conferencia anual de CIMAM. Es una excelente iniciativa sin duda.
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CONVOCATORIA DE AYUDAS (BECAS DE VIAJE) PARA LA PARTICIPACIÓN DE PROFESIONALES LATINOAMERICANOS EN LA 2009 CONFERENCIA ANUAL DE CIMAM

Gracias al generoso apoyo de la Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, CIMAM dispone de fondos para apoyar la participación de profesionales latinoamericanos en la 2009 Conferencia Anual ‘Comercio Justo: La Institución de Arte en la Nueva Economía’ que se celebrará en Mexico DF los días lunes, 9 de noviembre en el Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, y martes, 10 de noviembre en el Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC).

El importe de las subvenciones se establecerá caso por caso, con un máximo adjudicado de 1.500 euros por participante. La ayuda se limita a cubrir gastos de inscripción, viaje (clase turista) y alojamiento. Las solicitudes deben hacerse por correo electrónico a pilarcortada@cimam.org hasta el 30 de agosto de 2009 aportando la siguiente información:

- Formulario de solicitud cumplimentado. Para descargar el formulario, por favor haga click debajo.

- Currículum vitae: incluidas publicaciones, presentaciones y comisariado de exposiciones durante los últimos cinco años, así como cualquier otra información relevante.

- Presupuesto detallado, listando otras fuentes de financiación solicitadas u obtenidas para asistir a la conferencia.

- Dos cartas de recomendación de profesionales o académicos.

Las solicitudes serán examinadas por la Junta CIMAM. La Junta se reserva el derecho de esperar hasta que los resultados de otras solicitudes de financiación se conozcan.

Conferencia anual del CIMAM 2009. Fair Trade: The Institution of Art in the New Economy

En noviembre de este año se celebra la conferencia anual del CIMAM (International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art), que en esta ocasión será en el Museo Tamayo de México. Con ocasión de ello la Fundación Cisneros ha difundido una convocatoria para becas de aviaje para favorecer la presencia de investigadores, críticos y teóricos latinoamericanos interesados en atender las sesiones. La programación pinta bastante bien, sobre todo por la presencia del filósofo Enrique Dussel, sin duda uno de los referentes claves en el pensamiento político latinoamericano reciente, particulamente en el campo de la ética, el proyecto emancipatorio, el giro decolonial.

Reproduzco en este post las sesiones programadas para noviembre en México (en inglés tomadas de la web), y en el siguiente post la convocatoria de ayuda de la Fundación Cisneros.
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05.05.2009
CIMAM 2009 ANNUAL CONFERENCE – MEXICO – NOV. 09/10 – MUSEO TAMAYO ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO / MUSEO UNIVERSITARIO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO (MUAC)

CIMAM 2009 ANNUAL CONFERENCE – MEXICO – NOV. 09 – 10

Sessions will take place during the mornings at the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo and at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC). After lunch participants will be divided into working groups to discuss the topics raised during the morning sessions.

FAIR TRADE: THE INSTITUTION OF ART IN THE NEW ECONOMY

We live in an era of crisis that, according to lmmanuel Wallerstein, is systemic. As a result, the world-system – as a capitalist world-economy – and its main structures of knowledge have entered a period of chaotic transition to some new order, subversive of received truths and universalisms.

Museums need to develop historical paradigms which help us better understand our world. We need to comprehend the present in relation to the past, and think about the possibilities that the future lies ahead. The museum has an obligation to point to certain ways and not others. And that choice cannot be technical nor dictated by formal rationality, but involves what Max Weber termed substantive rationality. When ‘anything goes’ is the rule and the confusion of ideas is general, this choice or set of choices are sometimes perceived as rigid, elitist or dogmatic. How many times have we heard the gloomy voices of those who call for a newly coined type of eclecticism as a way of protecting a pretended democratization of culture? Substantive rationality, however, is exactly the opposite. It is the exercise of reconciling what we learn from science and morality, and always denotes an ethical choice.

In this period of crisis and transition, how do we develop new paradigms? What to do in face of a past we do not recognize ourselves in and a present we do not like? What is the role of the ‘museum’ in the contemporary world? Is there any alternative to the ‘modern’ museum or to that responding to the culture of the spectacle? We would like to think that there is.

Day 1: Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo

LEARNING FROM CRISIS

As museums look at the present political and economic landscape and its implications for the coming years, we see this moment of uncertainty as an opportunity to look toward the development of different possible models for management and exchange within public and private institutions.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Enrique Dussel – Philosopher and founder with others of the movement referred to as the Philosophy of Liberation. Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Iztapalapa campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Autonomous Metropolitan University, UAM) and also teaches courses at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM)

SESSION 1

Michael Govan – CEO and Wallis Annenberg director LACMA, Los Angeles

François Piron (respondent) – co-founder of castillo/corrales a shared office space and collectively-run gallery initiated early 2007 by a group of artists, curators, critics and writers.

SESSION 2

Osvaldo Sánchez – director, Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM), México

Dmitry Vilensky (respondent) – artist and coordinator of Chto delat/What is to be done? Saint Petersburg

Chto delat/What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism. Since then, Chto delat has been publishing an English-Russian newspaper on issues central to engaged culture, with a special focus on the relationship between a repoliticization of Russian intellectual culture and its broader international context. These newspapers are usually produced in the context of collective initiatives such as art projects or conferences.

Day 2: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)

OFF-CENTER CENTERS

Latin America and the growing off-center centers, such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, offer interesting examples of both public and private funding initiatives within their art institutions. Examples include the use of traditional State/public models that are being re-energized for positive programmatic results; while others include private local organizations that have exercised influence on the expansion of international institution exchange. As artists, collections, museums and other cultural resources from the off-center centers become increasingly known within Europe and North America, new possibilities have increased for collaborations, exhibition sharing and development, as well as cross-context intellectual capital and fund-raising.

Within the current context of institutional fragility, these exchanges offer the possibility of greater mobility of cultural resources. These negotiations can be developed in a manner less focused on economic factors and rather on fair trade as a step toward a future reciprocity of cultural wealth. New models will need to emerge in this process, whereby public and corporate roles are re-signified to achieve a new balance. Through these discussions, the CIMAM conference hopes to generate creative thinking about the global resources that we all look to productively share.

SESSION 1

Cuauhtémoc Medina – Independent critic and curator

Galit Eilat (respondent) – curator and founding director of the Digital Art Lab, Holon and co-editor in chief of Maarav. Teacher at Tel Aviv University in the Department of Film Studies SESSION 2

Geeta Kapur*– Independent critic and curator

Natalia Majiluf (respondent) – Director of Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Perú

Each session will feature a speaker presenting a 50 minutes paper, followed by a respondent drawing out particular lines of thought for a 20 minutes period. Following, participants will be divided into working groups to discuss the topics raised during the morning sessions. Each working group will be conducted by 2 moderators. We expect these workshops to be places for the cross-fertilization of ideas and the building of relationships, allowing people-to-people contacts, and providing delegates a chance to discuss the issues arising away from the formalities of the plenary sessions. After the second group meeting, each working group instructor will offer a compilation of their conclusions and recommended actions. This format is not designed to force consensus, but to find common grounds of shared experiences in which differences are acknowledged and respected. Over the next days, a drafting committee will meet to consolidate recommendations into a summary report that will then be emailed to members and posted on CIMAM’s website. The report is also intended to feed into the themes for the Conference in the following year.