Offend, Shock or Disturb - How ‘Free’ is Artistic Freedom?
Guests:
Andra Matei
Art Law and Free Speech Lawyer, Director at Avant-Garde Lawyers. Avant-Garde Lawyers (AGL)
Federica Erilmi
Case officer at Avant-Garde Layers
This year, Documenta 15 has witnessed great criticism and controversy over artistic expression deemed as antisemetic. This has raised several important questions about artistic intention, impact of artistic expression on communities as well as cultural contextualisation of artwork. Using this incident as a starting point, AGL Director Andra Matei and Case Officer Federica Erilmi will outline the nuances relating to restrictions of artistic freedom and explore contexts where censorship of art ‘may’ be permitted. They will draw from their experience and expertise of working on censorship across the world and share a balanced, holistic view of the subject.
SEPTEMBER 23RD 2022
Hannah Arendt, Freedom, and Art
Guests:
Olivia Guaraldo
A specialist in the thought of Hannah Arendt and contemporary feminism, she is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Verona
Roger Berkowitz
AD Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, Prof of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College
Political action requires that one leave the anonymity and safety of private life and risk being seen and judged in the world. To act in politics is to seek to make sense of the world, which is why Arendt writes, “Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.” In this session we ask what it means to act courageously in the name of the common world.
SEPTEMBER 22ND 2022
Antisemitism, Eichmann, Banality of Evil
Guests:
Renata Stih
Artist, Prof. at Berlin College of Technology (BHT) - Art & Technology, Film & Media - & Prof. at Leuphana University, Lüneburg
Fand Frieder Schnock
Artist, curator, educator & adviser, art historian (Ph.D.), lecturer at Berlin College of Technology (BHT) and Prof. at Leuphana University, Lüneburg
Thomas Meyer
Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a scholar of Jewish philosophy and intellectual history
Roger Berkowitz
AD Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, Prof. of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College
Three leading German artists and scholars ask after the cultural resonance of Hannah Arendt’s lifelong confrontation with the problems of evil, antisemitism, and racism. Beyond Arendt’s own work, we will consider how artists do and can confront the question of massacre, genocide, and evil. And in the context of Arendt’s work on antisemitism—for which she was accused of antisemitism—we will ask what does it mean to speak of antisemitism today.
About guest:
Thomas Meyer is a Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a scholar of Jewish philosophy and intellectual history. He is the editor of a new edition of Hannah Arendt's works (Studienausgabe Piper Verlag, Munich). Eichmann in Jerusalem appeared as Vol. VI in April 2022 (with an Introduction by Meyer and a 100 pages long Epilogue by Helmut König, Aachen). Meyer is the author and editor of many books about modern intellectual history. He has written extensively on both Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss.
Renata Stih is a Berlin based artist and activist, art critic and curator exhibiting at major museums like the Lenbachhaus Munich, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, St. Louis Art Museum, and interfering with the cultural and social environment by creating multi-media installations and performances. Professor Stih has been teaching on art, film and technology at the Berlin College of Technology (BHT) for decades, and on public art and memory at various US universities and colleges including SAIC, MICA, RISD, Brown University. Stih acted as president of the San Marino pavillon at Venice Art Biennale, served as Chair of the Art Advisory Board to the Senate of Berlin, is a board member of Normandy Institute Foundation in Paris, and the co-founder of the Human Rights Watch Committee in Berlin.
Dr. Frieder Schnock is an artist, art historian, gallerist and curator widely known for his artistic documentary photography, and public art and educational projects in Berlin. Schnock has worked as a curator in private and public collections, such as at the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel, and is the co-founder of the exhibition organizations Gesellschaft für Blickschulung and Loft 44/45 in Berlin. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sciences of Art at Leuphana University, Lueneburg, has created visual studies at the Berlin College of Technology (BHT), and also taught at various institutions like SAIC, ZHDK, NYU.
SEPTEMBER 21ST 2022
Truth and Politics. Arendt, Lies and the Common World
Guests:
David Bromwich
Professor at Yale University
Roger Berkowitz
Academic Director Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. His writings deal mainly with romanticism, modern poetry, and political rhetoric. His commentaries on America's recent wars have appeared in the Nation and the New York Review of Books, among other journals, and his books include The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke and How Words Make Things Happen.
SEPTEMBER 20TH 2022
Casa Gallina. Networks of bond and affection with and through the shared territory
Guest:
Josefa Ortega
Master in Art History and Bachelor in Social Communication
Casa Gallina is a transdisciplinary cultural project whose program focuses on learning, experiences and actions on culture, community and environment. The project is located in Santa María la Ribera, a neighborhood in Mexico City; however, it has built collaboration networks with similar initiatives in other territories in Mexico. With whom has built medium and long-term collaborations, developing programs that integrate various disciplines such as art, science, cooking and horticulture, seeking to build projects for the common good. Through these experiences, strong links are made possible between human and non-human communities that inhabit/share a territory.
SEPTEMBER 19TH 2022
Learning and political imagination for all lives
Guest:
Suset Sánchez
BA in Art History
Taking as a starting point the thought of the Catalan philosopher Marina Garcés and her ideas about the forms and problems of learning and education as pillars from which to project life in common in contemporary societies, we will approach the proposal methodology of the Hannah Arendt Artivism Institute to build a civic literacy project in Cuba.
SEPTEMBER 18TH 2022
The Curious Work of Art
Guest:
Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Contemporary Art Historian, Professor at Harvard
This session invites you to explore a proposition: that curiosity is to contemporary art what taste was to the modern. What if contemporary art, as such, best serves spectators who come to it to learn? What if art’s work today is to cultivate new kinds of learning subjects?
SEPTEMBER 17TH 2022
Landscape in anticipation of a hero
Guests:
Nigel Clark
Antiwar Coalition
Alevtyna Kakhidze
Antiwar Coalition
Diana Lelonek
Antiwar Coalition
Moderado por:
Natasha Chychasova
Antiwar Coalition
The title of the discussion refers to the work "The Machine and the Garden" (2016–2018) by Larion Lozovoy , in which he reflects on the idea of the landscape as a background for omnipotent and separated from nature hero in socialist realist cinematorgraphy. In this conversation, we will discuss how humanity can be with nature and renegotiate its relationship with it.
SEPTEMBER 16TH 2022
Art artivism, beyond governments
Guests:
Tania Bruguera
Artist, activist and director of INSTAR
Natalia Kaliada
Founding Artistic Director of the Belarus Free Theater
Masha Gessen
Russian-American writer
Polina Sadovskaya
Eurasia Program Director, PEN America
Why do governments censor art and attack artists? Why can an image or a word change the world? What is the reason for an artist to draw reality? Art can be used as an outlet for self-expression, but also as a tool to advocate for human rights. In this panel, the discussion will explore the role of artistic expression in an open society.
SEPTEMBER 16TH 2022
Social art in New York City - a subjective report
Guest:
Tom Finkerpearl
American arts promoter, former museum director, and former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Tom Finkelpearl has participated in and commissioned socially engaged projects by artists including Tania Bruguera, Rick Lowe, Pedro Reyes, Mierle Laderman Ukeles and many more. He will report on the process and results of their projects and the current debate around the practice in New York City.
13 DE SEPTIEMBRE 2022
Contaminated Dance
Invitada:
Marianela Boán
Choreographer, dancer and teacher
Conversation about the life and artistic work of choreographer Marianela Boan, inside and outside Cuba.
SEPTEMBER 12TH 2022
Kairos LCAP- Independent Theater in Cuba
Guest:
Lynn Cruz
Actress
Cía. " Teatro Kairos LCAP"
Conversation with Lynn Cruz, an actress censured in Cuba, about their independent theater management.
11 DE SEPTIEMBRE 2022
Autonomous expanded practices
Guests:
Marianela Boán
Choreographer, dancer and teacher
Víctor Varela
Theater director
Mariela Brito
Actress
Nelda Castillo
Theater director
Lynn Cruz
Actress
Tania Bruguera
Artist, activist and director of INSTAR
Sandra Ceballos
Artist
Moderated by:
Ileana Dieguez
Researcher and writer
Embodied experience is a term used by theorists of situated thought, and in particular by Donna Haraway, to validate the body and lived experience as discursive sites. Working out of such a discursive position we would like to encourage here a dialogue between people who have led autonomous practices committed to the exercise of free, independent thought in a context of overbearing social, intellectual, affective, and human control. In the search for sources that may aid us in thinking beyond our insular condition, we hope to explore Hakim Bey's thoughts on "temporary autonomous zones" and "intentional communities" in order to reflect on the weaving of information networks in Cuba as alternatives to institutional venues and forms of production. We are interested in discussing to what extent these might be conceived as the source of poetics that, mired in cumbersome situations and materialities, set the ground for independent practices that were able to articulate voices and bodies that identify with other ways of doing, generally not allowed, and which for that same reason were eventually branded as illegal, repulsive, dissident, and—why not: independent.
SEPTEMBER 10TH 2022
Theatricality and Performativity from/before necropolitics
Guest:
Ileana Dieguez
Researcher and writer
Theatricality and performativity are of interest as strategies to think about the representations of power and the acts of civil society in contexts such as the Cuban one, bounded by repressive control and social uprisings. From the notion of totalitarian theatricalities I reflect on representational strategies interested in producing a punitive performativity capable of subduing through terror, which is also a mode of necropolitics.
SEPTEMBER 9TH 2022
Obstacle theatre. Ontological impediment
Guest:
Víctor Varela
Theatre director
About the OBSTACLE as the center and significant one of this theater that articulates all its praxis based on an Aesthetics of Difficulty and the importance of the abysmal in the two stages that encompass it: First from 1985 to 2005. Non-Representative Stage and Conceptual and Second from 2009 to 2022. Art without Form and without Concept.
SEPTEMBER 8TH 2022
Persephone Theatre's conference: The Resistance Boat
Guests:
Adonis Milan
Theater director
Rainer Hernández
Actor
We talk about the foundation and trajectory of Perséfone Teatro. What are the conditions of Cuban independent theater, how is dealing with government censorship. We talk about theatrical production from the independence field, alternative ways and management of financing a show. Construction process of our productions, approach to classical texts, repertoire theater since independence. Shakespeare and the great parallels with the Cuban reality.
SEPTEMBER 7TH 2022
El ciervo encantado and the invisible Cuba
Guests:
Nelda Castillo
Director
Mariela Brito
Actress
Discovering and recognizing our identity from the investigation of the body's memory is at the heart of El ciervo encantado's research. To comment on this journey during the 26 years of practice of our group.
SEPTEMBER 5TH 2022
Rotilla Festival Phoenix Edition Concierto de Clausura
Guests:
Wichy de Vedado
DJ
Kamankola
Cuban Raper
VJCuba
VJ
Kamankola is a Cuban artist who mixes rap and songwriting. His music fuses national and foreign genres, covering the span from rumba to rock n' roll and guagancó. He performs with a backing band or accompanying himself on the guitar.
SEPTEMBER 4TH 2022
A community that was born and grew without permission
Guests:
Adrián Monzón
Art Director
Diddier Santos
General production
Aminta D’Cárdenas
General Programming and Advertising
Arturo de la Fé
Organizational Management and Security
Carlos M. Hernández
Arena Stage
Ricardo Prado
Electro Stage
Sandra Cordero
Desconexion
The transformation and growth of Rotilla Festival was due to a community of young people, who organized themselves empirically to build a path in the Cuban cultural scene and outside the institutions. The staff came to be made up of more than 240 people, including artists and organizers, who today are in different parts of the planet.
SEPTEMBER 2ND 2022
Comisión Depuradora, Rap Sounds with MTK
Guests:
Soandry del Río
Activist and MC Hermanos de Causa
Rodolfo A. Rensoli
Artist and Cultural Promoter
Luis Restoy
Visual artist
MatraKa incorporated work with other manifestations of the underground into its catalogue, and rap gained prominence after the musical production Comisión Puradora. Two volumes produced by Al2 (El Aldeano) in which the talents of the guild and the new school participated. The inclusion of rap was not only important for the growth and expansion of the organizing group, but it was decisive for the development of the genre and its artists, for whom a place was available without censorship and with high quality standards.
AUGUST 31ST 2022
Music in Quarantine
Guests:
Arema Arega
Singer
Yasek Manzano
Trumpeter
Wichy de Vedado
DJ
Culture overall has suffered greatly from the long confinement caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a conversation about the pandemic's impact on Cuba's musicians and music, their ability to make a living in the market, artists' return to public space, and alternatives for the future.
AUGUST 30TH 2022
Performance, poetry and politics, civic impossibilities
Guests:
Michel Matos
Director of Rotilla Festival
Amaury Pacheco
OMNI Poet
David Escalona
David D OMNI
Iris Ruiz
Coordinator of the San Isidro Movement
Katherine Bisquet
Poet and activist
Performance and poetry as tools for raising awareness and bringing about change in Cuba's contemporary society. The guests, who have been engaged for many years in artistic and activist endeavors, discuss the government's efforts to demonize peaceful and civilized methods for voicing opposition.
AUGUST 28TH 2022
Rave exists in Cuba
Guests:
Michel Matos
Director of Rotilla Festival
Dirk Böll
Director of Dancefloor Caballero
Carlos M. Hernández
Founder of the Electronic Music Movement in Cuba
Lázaro González
Founder of the Electronic Music Movement in Cuba
Xander Black
DJ
BJoyce
DJ
Conversation with founders of rave culture in Cuba about the context in which electronic music arrived to the island, the experience and its expansion throughout the national territory.
AUGUST 27TH 2022
Rotilla Festival "Phoenix Edition"
Guests:
Michel Matos
Founding Director of Rotilla
Aminta de Cardenas
Rotilla Event Producer
Adrian Monzon
Art director
Moderated by:
Tania Bruguera
Artist, activist and director of INSTAR
The hosts of INSTAR open the doors to the Rotilla Festival exhibition and receive its organizing team. Launch of Rotilla Magazine and presentation of the program for the next 10 days.
AUGUST 26TH 2022
Practices to learn and heal
Guests:
Sascia Bailer
Curator, researcher, writer and editor
Daniela Brasil
Artist, activist, curator, educator and researcher
Sabina Enéa Téari
Independent researcher and facilitator, curator and artist, educator and learner
Karim-Yassin Goessinger
Educator and activist
Moderated by:
Juliana Rabelo
Researcher and INSTAR team member
We invite educators, researchers, activist and artist to talk about virtuous cycles to be together learning, collaboratively investigating, healing and co-creating the worlds we are seeing, feeling and breathing.
Are art and education renouncing to their specificity in favor of more dynamic integration with life?
AUGUST 24TH 2022
Collective Practices-Museum of Naive and Marginal Art, Serbia: Boundaries, intersections/traces, and landmarks
Guest:
Ivana Jovanovic
Senior Curator and Museum Advisor at Museum of Naive and Marginal Art
It will be addressed the experiences of the Museum’s practice with a special emphasis on international cooperation as well as the importance of openness and permanent hearing that re-examine current criteria and reveal the guidelines of new tendencies of dynamic development in art brut, naive art, marginal art, outsider art and other related original creative expressiveness.
AUGUST 23RD 2022
Outsider Art – art like any other?
Guest:
PD Dr. Thomas Röske
President for European Outsider Art Association and Director of the Prinzhorn Collection Museum at the University Psychiatry Hospital Heidelberg.
Lately, the term Outsider Art has been heavily questioned, even by artists attributed to this field. How did this lable, which is problematic in many respects, develop? Is it superflous today?
AUGUST 21ST 2022
Towards an archeology of Arte Ùtil
Guests:
John Byrne
Reader in The Uses of Art at Liverpool John Moores University’s School of Art and Design where he is also Head of the Institute of Art and Technology
Alistair Hudson
Artistic-Scientific Chairman at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe / director de The Whitworth y de la Manchester Art Gallery
Alessandra Saviotti
AU Archive curator and art educator
Tania Bruguera
INSTAR Archival Rescue
Since its conception in 2013, the Arte Útil archive has become a collective, steadily expanding tool for research and a resource for those interested in how art could intersect with societal issues. Consisting of a growing database of around three hundred case studies that use art as a tool for change, it provides tactics, a historical perspective and a nexus between theory and praxis. Moreover, it functions as a platform to connect art projects and ‘users’ from different geographies and disciplines.
AUGUST 20TH 2022
Is there such a thing as a "Usological Turn"?
Guests:
Nick Aikens
Research curator at the Van Abbemuseum
Stephen Wright
Writer and co-director of the research program Document & contemporary art at the European School of Visual Art in France
Tania Bruguera
Artista, activista y directora de INSTAR
Fernando Garcia Dory
INLAND
Annie Fletcher
Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Muhannad Al Ulaby
Filmmaker and a visual artist - The Trampoline House
This panel will look at the concept of usership in art practices that potentially oppose the realm of spectatorship. The Usological turn seems to capture the dissatisfaction of those artists whose works are not created just to be looked at in awe but situate themselves as part of a broader usership. We will look at how these practices welcome use, misuse, transformation, and repurposing, challenging the old categories such as ownership, authorship, spectatorship and intellectual property rights.
AUGUST 19TH 2022
La "S" Grand Atelier. Open Source Pop-Up and Belgian-style fries
Guests:
Anne-Françoise Rouche
Director of La « S » Grand Atelier Centre d'Art Brut & Contemporain. Vielsalm, Belgium
Baptiste Brun
Co-Director of the Department of Art History and Archaeology. Université Rennes 2. Rennes, France
Noëlig Le Roux
Independent Curator
Thought to be a place of entanglement, without boundaries between residents and artists coming from elsewhere, La “S” Grand Atelier appears as a place of common, open to experimentation, deeply rooted to pop culture and its process of creation. As an open source software, it is evolutive, a rhizomic laboratory where distinction and segregation between contemporary art and outsider art is no longer relevant and operational.
AUGUST 19TH 2022
A talk about an artwork
Guest:
Joanna Warsza
Curator and researcher
About the patchworks as work of repair, as carrier of narration, as vehicle of life after life. About the situated practice of Polish-Roma artist and activist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, struggling for more visibility of this largest European minority, often still stigmatised.
AUGUST 18TH 2022
Art Brut: an evolving notion from 1945 until today
Guest:
Sarah Lombardi
Director of La Collection de l'Art Brut. Lausanne, Switzerland
It will be presented a short history of the concept of Art Brut and the origins of the Collection de l’Art Brut, in Lausanne, as well as the criteria to designate the productions of Art Brut. It will also be discussed about the relevance of Art Brut still today.
AUGUST 18TH 2022
The Art of Assembly
Guest:
Florian Malzacher
Playwright and researcher
During a decade marked by social movement world wide also the arts have shown a renewed interest in concepts of gathering and creating public spheres in which society is not only mirrored but constantly tried out, performed, tested, reimagined, or even reinvented.
AUGUST 17TH 2022
Conversation about the work of Art Brut for more than 20 years.
Guests:
Samuel Riera
Founder and Director, RIERA STUDIO | Art Brut Project Cuba
Derbis campos
Co-Director, RIERA STUDIO | Art Brut Project Cuba
Tania Bruguera
Artist, activist and director of INSTAR
Conversation about the work of Art Brut for more than 20 years.
AUGUST 16TH 2022
That Sine Qua Non Condition Known as Censorship
Guest:
Henry Eric Hernández
Visual artist, social researcher and editor
In the context of art and culture, where there is a predominance of symbolic productions, the functionary -as a professional party cadre- and the chain of command to which he/she is attached have a ccrystal clear role as a censor.
AUGUST 16TH 2022
Hypermedia Review Special Edition Presentation
Guests:
Henry Eric Hernández
Hypermedia Magazine Content Editor
Ladislao Aguado
Director of Editorial Hypermedia
Hypermedia Review Special Edition Presentation
15 DE AGOSTO 2022
Other cards on the table. Independent practices and discursive autonomy in Cuban culture
Guests:
Tania Bruguera
Artist, activist and director of INSTAR
Henry Eric Hernández
Visual artist, social researcher and cultural manager
Conference about the anthologie conceptualization and edition processes, emphasizing the main arguments of each chapter.
AUGUST 14TH 2022
Tragic and glorious: The 1990s and the political dimension of autonomy in Cuba
Guest:
Anaeli Ibarra
Researcher
Starting from the concept of autonomy developed by theorists T. Adorno and J. Ranciere, I explore the possibilities of political practices in Cuba during the 1990s to intervene and transform the order. The discussion focuses on two events that took place in the period indicated: The Declaration of the Intellectuals, a proposal by the Alternative Criterion group, which the poet María Elena Cruz Varela carried out, La patria es de todos, a letter written by the Grupo de work of internal dissidence in response to the V Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba.
13 DE AGOSTO 2022
Dissident Artists in Exile
Guests:
Yanelys Nuñez
Cuban cultural producer and researcher
Zehra Dogan
Kurdish painter and journalist
Samaneh Atef
Iranian visual artist
Alicia Quiñones
Americas Regional Programme Coordinator, PEN International
As threats against artistic expression rise globally, many artists have no other choice but to go into exile to ensure their livelihood. This panel will explore how artists navigate life in exile after facing harsh persecution in their home countries.
AUGUST 12TH 2022
Drawer and poetry
Invitado:
Omar Pérez
Poet
Performance and conference
AUGUST 12TH 2022
"Spaces of Transformation.
in collaboration with Brunnenpassage"
Guests:
Elisabeth Bernroitner
Fariba Mosleh
Anne Wiederhold-Daryanavard
How can politically committed artists and socially engaged cultural Institutions influence diversity-oriented transformation processes in a plural society?
AUGUST 11TH 2022
D/Arts - project office for diversity and urban dialogue
Guests:
Sheri Avraham
Curator and initiator of D/Arts - project office
Ivana Pilic
Curator and initiator of D/Arts - project office
Zuzana Ernst
Curator and initiator of D/Arts - project office
D/Arts - project office questions, claims and aims to transform the cultural sector through art and diversity in Austria.
AUGUST 9TH 2022
David D Omni in Cuban Independent Music Concert
Guest:
David D Omni
Cuban independent musician
It is a compilation of songs that the Cuban government prohibits on Radio, Television, Press and public spaces.
AUGUST 8TH 2022
Hip Hop and empowerment: a construction site
Guest:
Jorge Enrique Rodríguez
Writer and journalist
It is the Hip Hop culture, which at the beginning of the nineties, which for the first time assumes the community as a public space to rethink: the black problem from the black" It was in those communities where its activists found complicity - open or covert-so that this public space would not be whitewashed by the doctrines of the State With the first actions of hip hop, the first steps towards an awareness of difference and towards civility began.
AUGUST 7TH 2022
Omni openning event
Guests:
Amaury Pacheco
Poet, performer and activist
David D'Omni
Independent cuban musician
AUGUST 6TH 2022
Connected! Independent media and cultural field
Guest:
Lizabel Mónica
Transdisciplinary writer and educator
Between 2015 and 2021, the digital press was consolidated in Cuba, helping to create necessary public conversations. The conference explores the different audiences of these media and the contradictions and challenges facing the current media ecology on the island.
AUGUST 5TH 2022
Arte y Resistencia a través de la Educación, (ARTE)
Invitada:
Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario
Founding Director of ARTE
ARTE engages young people to amplify their voices and organize for human rights changes through visual arts. The workshop introduces strategies for Human Rights understanding and protection for youth and educators.
AUGUST 4TH 2022
Raciality, racism and anti-racism in Cuba: Cartography of (in)visibilization.
Guest:
Ulises Padrón
Activist
AUGUST 3RD 2022
Intellectuals and Revolution. Debates around freedom of creation in Cuba (1959-1971)
Guest:
Grethell Domenech
Historian
Intellectuals and Revolution. Debates around freedom of creation in Cuba (1959-1971)
AUGUST 2ND 2022
Cubalex
Guest:
Laritza Diversent
Lawyer and Director of Cubalex
How we monitor, report and denounce human rights violations in Cuba. How to provide direct and confidential assistance service and free legal advice to people on the Island
AUGUST 1ST 2022
Revolutions Beyond the Revolution: Political Subjectivities in 21st Century Cuba
Guests:
Dmitri Prieto
Founding activist of Critical Observatory
Mario Castillo
Founding activist of Critical Observatory
Karel Negrete
Founding activist of Critical Observatory
Hilda Landrove
Founding activist of Critical Observatory
A conversation between Mario Castillo, Hilda Landrove, Karel Negrete and Dimitri Prieto about the constellation of civic and liberating practices that emerged in Havana, Cuba in the 2000s, and the social pressures and imaginaries that accelerated their formation.
AUGUST 1ST 2022
Political persecution and vulnerability in Cuba
Guests:
Daniela Rojo
Former political prisoner, mother and poet
Leonardo Otaño
Activist
The experience of a single mother, a participant in the social upheaval in Cuba, a former political prisoner turned activist and later exiled.
31 DE JULIO 2022
Evolution of activism in Cuba
Guests:
Hilda Landrove
Activist and researcher
Leonardo Otaño
Activist
Laritza Diversent
Director of Cubalex
Moderated by:
Tania Bruguera
Artist, activist and director of INSTAR
One year after the July 11 protests in Cuba.
JULY 30TH 2022
Artists under Attack in collaboration with America’s Artists at Risk Connection (ARC)
Guests:
Katherine Bisquet
Cuban author, poet and editor
Shamayel Shalizi
Afghan multimedia artist
Nge Lay
Burmese multidisciplinary artist
Moderated by:
Julie Trébault
Director of ARC, PEN America
Artists across the world are being attacked, detained, prosecuted and imprisoned. In Cuba, Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Belarus, artists have been at the forefront of mass demonstrations, supplying protest anthems and posters while drawing international awareness to human rights abuses in their countries. In this panel, artists will discuss the increasing number of threats facing artists around the world in light of these challenges and how artists can best prepare themselves to address risk, and what unlikely opportunities may arise out of times of unrest.
JULY 30TH 2022
To the bitter end
Guests:
Natalia Zuluaga
Co-director of [NAME]
Tania Bruguera
Artist, activist and director of INSTAR
Process of gathering the materials for the exhibition "To the bitter end (a tarro partido)"
JULY 29TH 2022
Civic practices in Cuba
Guests:
Marta María Ramírez
Activist
Ulises Padrón
Activist
Camila Rodríguez
Activist
Moderated by:
Leonardo Otaño
Activist
Latest events in Cuba, civil society and civic practices
JULY 28TH 2022
Censorship must be refused: Letter from Lumbung Community
JULY 27TH 2022
ReARTiculating Cuba: from the independent project to the nation as DAO (decentralized autonomous organization)
Guests:
Dagoberto Valdés
Director of the Coexistence Study Center and digital magazine Convivencia. Former director of the Civic and Religious Training Center of Pinar del Río and of the Vitral magazine
Tania Bruguera
Artist, activist and Director of INSTAR
Rafael RojasRafael Rojas
Historian and essayist, research professor at the History Division of the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), in Mexico City
Moderated by:
Joaquín Badajoz
Writer
Exercise of speculation and political fiction, based on Tania Bruguera's idea that art "can provide an imaginary (of change), channel the emotional into concrete ethical action" and the reality of the wear and tear of representative democracy models every day kidnapped at the polls by populism, during the talk the question will be discussed: How can art help reinvent the Cuba of the future as a decentralized autonomous democracy?
JULY 26TH 2022
From personal initiative to social change platforms
Guests:
Dagoberto Valdés
Director of the Coexistence Study Center and digital magazine Coexistence. Former director of the Civic and Religious Training Center of Pinar del Río and of the Vitral magazine
Silvia Oliva
Representative and coordinator of Pedro Pablo Oliva Studio
David Horta Pimentel
Art critic and curator
Tania Bruguera
Artist, activist and director of INSTAR
Moderated by:
Joaquín Badajoz
Writer
Tour of four independent institutions that are seedbeds of civil society (Religious Civic Training Center, Center for Coexistence Studies, Pedro Pablo Oliva Workshop House and Instar) at the service of the community, promoters of the rescue of historical memory and civic and intellectual training as agents of social change. Brief overview of independent institutions within Cuba in recent decades.
JULY 25TH 2022
Entertainment, fashion and lifestyle in the new independent media in Cuba
Guests:
Rebeca Alderete
CEO and Creative Director of Garbos Magazine
Robin Pedraja
Vistar magazine creative director
Moderated by::
Joaquín Badajoz
Writer
Conversation on the new independent entertainment, fashion and lifestyle magazines as an expression of the new Cuban sociocultural context with Rebeca Alderete, director of Garbos, Robin Pedraja, of Vistar. Moderated by Armando Correo, former editor-in-chief of People en Español magazine, and Luis Manuel Mazorra (from Cibercuba).
JULY 24TH 2022
Presentation of the film: "El jugador de abalorios"
Guests:
Lester Álvarez
Director of La Maleza
Rafael Almanza
Writer
Moderated by:
Joaquín Badajoz
Writer
Presentation of the film: "El jugador de abalorios" with director Lester Álvarez and the writer Rafael Almanza.
JULY 23RD 2022
Financing and challenges of independent cultural magazines. Future against the new legislation
Guests:
Carlos Aníbal Alonso
Writer, professor at the Autonomous University of Querétaro, director of Rialta
Jesús Adonis Martínez
Journalist and editor of El Estornudo and Rialta
Erika Guevara
Amnesty International Director for LA
José Jasán Nieves
Journalist and editor, director of El Toque
Moderated by:
Ladislao Aguado
Writer and director of Editorial Hypermedia
Article 143 of the new Penal Code criminalizes any financing from international organizations that the government considers destined for “activities against the state”, which is expected to impact any independent activity.
JULY 22ND 2022
Presentation of No Country Magazine
Guests:
Carlos Aguilera
Writer, he co-directed the magazine Diáspora(s) between 1997 and 2002. He coordinates the FluXus collection in Rialta
Carlos Aníbal Alonso
Writer, professor at the Autonomous University of Querétaro, director of Rialta
Jesús Adonis Martínez
Journalist and editor of elestornudo.com and Rialta
Moderated by:
Ladislao Aguado
Writer and director of Editorial Hypermedia
The editorial directors of No Country Magazine will present, accompanied by the writer Carlos Aguilera, a special edition of this post-national magazine created especially for Documenta 15.
JULY 21ST 2022
Cuba in the magnifying glass: gender journalism and clandestine tradition
Guests:
Iliana Álvarez
Writer and director of the feminist magazine Alas Tensas
Claudia Patricia Pérez Olivera
Visual artist and co-founder of Mujercitos
Santiago Díaz
Writer and director of Revista de la Vagancia en Cuba
Víctor Fernández
Writer and co-founder of Mujercitos
Moderated by:
Carlos Aguilera
Writer, co-directed the magazine Diáspora(s) between 1997 and 2002
Conversation with Ileana Álvarez, director of the feminist magazine Alas Tensas, Claudia Patricia Olivera Pérez and Víctor Fernández, creators of Mujercitos Magazine, and Santiago Díaz, director of the Revista de la vagrancia en Cuba.
JULY 20TH 2022
Autonomous publishers II: from clandestine distribution to independent publishing
Guests:
Felipe Lázaro
Director of Betania
Pio E. Serrano
Founder of Verbum
Radamés Molina
Director of Linkgua
Lester Álvarez
Director of La Maleza
Francis Sánchez
Director of Ediciones Deslinde
Moderated by:
Joaquín Badajoz
Writer
Presentation of the publishing houses Betania, Verbum, Aduana vieja, Linkgua, La Maleza and Deslindes.
JULY 19TH 2022
Autonomous publishers I: from clandestine distribution to independent publishing
Guests:
Ladislao Aguado
Writer, director of Editorial Hypermedia
Pablo de Cuba Soria
Writer, Virginia Commonwealth University professor and director of Casa Vacía publishing house
Carlos Aníbal Alonso
Writer, professor at the Autonomous University of Querétaro, director of Rialta
Waldo Pérez Cino
Writer and essayist, director of the publishing houses Bokeh and Almenara
Moderated by:
Joaquín Badajoz
Writer
Presentation of publishers Hypermedia, Casa Vacía, Rialta, Bokeh y Almenara.
JULY 18TH 2022
Inauguration of the Peña del Júcaro Martiano
Guest:
Joaquín Badajos
Writer
Tania Bruguera
Artist, activist and founder of INSTAR
Rafael Almanza
Writer ann essayist
Presentation of the curatorial concept of the Peña del Júcaro Martiano project: showcase and meeting place to discuss independent and autonomous projects within a state-owned society and conversation with Rafael Almanza about its origins and inspiration.
JULY 17TH 2022
Latin American Feminisms
Invitada:
Cecilia Fajardo Hill
Art historian and curator in modern and contemporary art, specializing in Latin American art
This presentation will discuss different forms of embodied feminisms in art, theory and activism by Latinx and Latin American artists and thinkers since the 1970s, that constitute powerful forms of agency and political resistance against political, social, gender and racial oppression.
JULY 16TH 2022
Words of the Cardumen, young filmmaker´s showcase of independent cuban cinema
Guests:
Mijaíl Rodríguez
Filmmaker and cultural manager
Juan Carlos Calahorra
Filmmaker and cultural manager
From its foundation in the year 2000, the Young Show was the event that nucleied and promoted the movement of Cuban independent cinema. Several of its organizers discuss the relevance of the space and its spirit of resistance against censorship and institutional stagnation.
JULY 15TH 2022
Coordinates of uprooting: the female view in the new cuban cinema
Guests:
Heidi Hassan
Filmmaker
Patricia Pérez
Filmmaker
Ana Alpízar
Filmmaker
Danae Diéguez
Filmmaker
Before the appearance of independent cinema, very few women managed to shoot a movie in Cuba. Some of the main Cuban filmmakers discuss the findings of the female gaze and its contributions to the cinematographic imaginary of the island, especially from the coordinates of exile and uprooting.
JULY 15TH 2022
Desappearing Territories
Guest:
Alejandro Alonso
Filmmaker
How to assume the creative crisis in order to explore our obsessions and develop our own gaze? How to take advantage of accidents and mistakes to shape our creative processes? Is there an ideal distance to turn the everyday into "strange"?
JULY 14TH 2022
Imaginaries of the Dystopian in contemporary cuban cinema
Guests:
Miguel Coyula
Filmmaker
Alejandro Alonso
Filmmaker
Rafael Ramírez
Filmmaker
Ángel Pérez
Filmmaker
Carlos Quintela
Filmmaker
Multiple views on the failure of a social project once considered utopian. The landscape of contemporary Cuba filtered by dystopia: a cinema built on rubble.
JULY 13TH 2022
Nihilism and disenchantment: The cinema of the special period
Guests:
Manuel Marcel
Filmmaker
Jorge Molina
Filmmaker
Juan Carlos Cremata
Filmmaker
Antonio Enrique González Rojas
Film critic
Postmodernism came to Cuban cinema with the Special Period (the economic, political and social crisis that occurred in the '90s). Some of the main authors of that time talk about their nihilistic cinematographic work marked by disenchantment.
JULY 12TH 2022
Cuban cinema of the 70-80s: performance and self-representation
Guests:
Miñuca Villaverde
Filmmaker
Fernando Villaverde
Filmmaker
Ricardo Acosta
Filmmaker
Irene López-Kuchilán
Filmmaker
José Luis Aparicio
Filmmaker
Several of its protagonists recall the alternative Cuban cinema of the 1980s, a movement that challenged the official aesthetic and productive paradigms with an uncomfortable, experimental and frontally political filmography.
JULY 11TH 2022
Cuban cinema of the 60´s: the first heretics
Guests:
Fausto Canel
Filmmaker
Fernando Villaverde
Filmmaker
José Luis Aparicio
Filmmaker
Since the early 1960s, with the banning of PM, Cuban cinema has committed the original sin: it set in motion the censorship mechanisms of the new revolutionary state. In this conversation, some of the first heretical filmmakers reconstruct the contradictory spirit of that decade.
JULY 10TH 2022
The corrosisive gaze of Nicolás Guillén Landrián
Invitados:
Dean Luis Reyes
Film critic and essayist
Jessica Gordon-Burroughs
Academic and researcher
Julio Ramos
Academic and filmmaker
Néstor Díaz de Villegas
Writer and film critic
The work of Nicolás Guillén Landrián is perhaps the most radical aesthetic proposal in the first decades of revolutionary cinema. In this conversation, the schizo and corrosive nature of his gaze is analyzed from his main films.
JULY 9TH 2022
Independent cuban cinema as an essay for the public square
Guest:
Dean Luis Reyes
Film critic and essayist
The critic and essayist Dean Luis Reyes analyzes the main controversies in Cuban cinema in the last thirty years: the evolution of a rebellious and civic exercise in front of and behind the camera.
JULY 8TH 2022
Land without images: the absent in cuban cinema
Guests:
José Luis Aparicio
Filmmaker
Tania Bruguera
Artist and activist. Founder of INSTAR
Presentation of the curatorship of independent Cuban cinema prepared for documenta15. The objectives, concepts and curatorial criteria that mark the exhibition will be exposed, conceived as a sort of "counter-canon" of official Cuban cinematography.
JULY 8TH 2022
Prince Claus Fund Mobile Lab with José Luis Aparicio
Guest:
José Luis Aparicio
Filmmaker
The Prince Claus Fund Mobile Lab focuses on knowledge production from the global south, as a shared resource for the future. The Mobile Lab is an alternative co-thinking space where 2 groups of people meet: aspiring and experienced changemakers, such as cultural workers, activists, thinkers, writers, and artists. Knowledge is collaboratively shared through lectures, workshops, discussions, and field trips all happening in one concentrated week.
JULY 7TH 2022
Revolution as self-sabotage
Guest:
Gabriela Rangel
MA in curatorial studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, an MA in media and communications studies.
In the 1960s, Venezuela began a democratic period that lasted forty years. Being a wealthy petro modern state since the 1940s, the Romulo Betancourt administration (1959-1964) continued with a good neighbor policy with the U.S. maintained by the previous military regime. As a consequence, the newly elected government confronted a violent period of military insurrections and urban guerrillas under the influence of the Cuban revolution.
JULY 7TH 2022
Prince Claus Fund Mobile Lab with Tania Bruguera
Guest:
Tania Bruguera
Artist and activist. Founder of INSTAR
The Prince Claus Fund Mobile Lab focuses on knowledge production from the global south, as a shared resource for the future. The Mobile Lab is an alternative co-thinking space where 2 groups of people meet: aspiring and experienced changemakers, such as cultural workers, activists, thinkers, writers, and artists. Knowledge is collaboratively shared through lectures, workshops, discussions, and field trips all happening in one concentrated week.
JULY 6TH 2022
Rikimbili, a provisional epilogue
Guest:
Ernesto Oroza
Artist and researcher
This presentation is about Rikimbili, the term used in Cuba, since the 90s, to name the vehicle made when a gas motor is added to a bicycle. Today the term includes all vehicles built from parts. This talk will focus on how new objects drive us to produce new languages, that new needs demand the emergence of new productive protocols, new ways of speaking and doing.
JULY 6TH 2022
Prince Claus Fund Mobile Lab with Ernesto Oroza
Guest:
Ernesto Oroza
Artist and researcher
The Prince Claus Fund Mobile Lab focuses on knowledge production from the global south, as a shared resource for the future. The Mobile Lab is an alternative co-thinking space where 2 groups of people meet: aspiring and experienced changemakers, such as cultural workers, activists, thinkers, writers, and artists. Knowledge is collaboratively shared through lectures, workshops, discussions, and field trips all happening in one concentrated week.
JULY 5TH 2022
Racialization processes around the San Isidro Movement. Control strategies from art and politics
Guest:
Yissel Arce
Art historian, PhD in Asian and African Studies, professor
This conference will analyze the debates on autonomy and creative freedom of the Cuban intellectual field from 1959 to 1971
JULY 5TH 2022
Prince Claus Fund Mobile Lab with Hamlet Lavastida
Guest:
Hamlet Lavastida
Curator, critic, historian and freelance writer
The Prince Claus Fund Mobile Lab focuses on knowledge production from the global south, as a shared resource for the future. The Mobile Lab is an alternative co-thinking space where 2 groups of people meet: aspiring and experienced changemakers, such as cultural workers, activists, thinkers, writers, and artists. Knowledge is collaboratively shared through lectures, workshops, discussions, and field trips all happening in one concentrated week.
JULY 4TH 2022
Espacio Aglutinador y Arte Independiente en Cuba
Invitado:
Gerardo Mosquera
Curator, critic, historian and freelance writer
The talk outlines the creation and development of Espacio Aglutinador as an independent art space in Cuba related to the communal spirit of lumbung. It introduces Aglutinador’s role in consolidating an artistic practice opposing state control in the country.
JULY 3RD 2022
The power of the word: citizen discursive autonomy since the eighties in Cuba
Guest:
Marlene Azor Hernández
Doctor in Social Sciences and Humanities
A system dominated by the political police does not allow autonomies, which is why this text goes through and vindicates some of the buried and their independent practices with an autonomous discourse that vindicates plural practices, the demand for human rights and society projects that dream of a "normality". " snatched by a government that from its speech to its practice tries to frame, militarize and dominate society as a single army.
JULY 2ND 2022
Revolutionary or degenerate art? Cultural policies in authoritarian systems
Guest:
Claudia González Marrero
PhD in Cultural Studies from Justus Liebig University
A comparative reading of cultural policies within Latin American regional authoritarianism, with a focus on the administration of legal regulations and personalist measures to the detriment of artistic autonomy.
JULY 1ST 2022
Cossacks in Cuba: the Soviet visual legacy in Cuban art
Guest:
Elvis Fuentes
Art curator, history professor and writer
In the early 1980s, the "Cossacks" began to arrive, as graduates of Soviet art academies were called, thanks to a pedagogical exchange program between the USSR and Cuba. The newcomers were stigmatized by the same officials who had awarded them those scholarships, in addition to entering an artistic community very different from the one they left when they left.
JUNE 30TH 2022
New Cuban Graphic Design
Guests:
Julio Llópiz Casal
Artist and writer
Claudia Patricia
Graphic designer
Gorki
Designer, activist and musician
Lilian Dooley
Graphic designer
Moderated by:
Ernesto Oroza
artist and researcher
On the role of contemporary graphics in Cuban society and its beginnings in digital activism. Conversation with Cuban designers who have created posters for social media campaigns in the last three years.
JUNE 29TH 2022
Within the Revolution, all.
Guest:
Ernesto Oroza
Artist and researcher
This lecture deals with popular digital practices that update, or crack, the cultural policy of the Cuban revolution. I analyze for this purpose three vernacular and ilegal digital protocols, deployed on the island since the first decade of the year 2000 and articulated on the basis of collectivist, anti-monopoly, cultural resistance and technological disobedience modes of doing: SNet, El Paquete Semanal (The Weekly Package) and Revolico. Cuban cultural production of the last two decades is captured, traversed, and interconnected, in one way or another, by the use of these three protocols.
JUNE 28TH 2022
Conversation: 27 years of Espacio Aglutinador.
Guests:
Sandra Ceballos
Founder and Director of Espacio Aglutinador
Tania Bruguera
Artist and Founding Activist of INSTAR
Aglutinador is Cuba's longest running independent art space, founded in 1994. It is contained within the modest Havana home of artist Sandra Ceballos. Keeping an artist-run gallery open is an extraordinary feat in a country where the state maintains a monopoly on cultural management. Over the years, dozens of Cuban artists residing on the island as well as in exile have presented work there. Young Cuban artists who want to test out challenging projects as well as older Cuban artists who have encountered censorship and institutional indifference have sought out the gallery to create memorable exhibits.
JUNE 28TH 2022
Almost everyone with me
Guest:
Sandra Ceballos
Founder and Director of Espacio Aglutinador
Video Performance: It consists of tattooing on my skin drawings of some of the artists who participated in the project carried out in the Espacio Aglutinador during 2016-2018, "Malditos de la postwar.
JUNE 27TH 2022
Our Week in Havana with the Artists of Cuba's Future
Guests:
Gregory Sholette
Artist, writer, teacher and activist
Olga Kopenkina
Independent curator and art critic
Encountering Havana and the students attending INSTAR/Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt in 2017: thoughts, reflections, surprises and hopes.
JUNE 26TH 2022
INSTAR: The Past 2 years
Guest:
Tania Bruguera
Artist and Founding Activist of INSTAR
JUNE 26TH 2022
From Theory to Practice (and back): Lessons for the Arts in Contexts of Transitional Justice
Guests:
Manfred Nowak
Human rights lawyer
Marijana Grandits
Co-founder of the Vienna Master and Senior Academic Advisor
Marilyn Volkman
Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights
Michael Orwicz
Robin Greeley
Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut
Thomas Keenan
Director of the Human Rights Project
Tania El Khoury
Director of the Center for Human Rights and the Arts
Oscar Predraza Vargas
Hannah Meszaros Martin
Jose Falconi
Artist, curator, art critic, writer and editor
In collaboration with Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights, OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts, Bard College and Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut.
Human rights and the arts is a new field of study, and the first programs pioneering this approach will meet for the first time at Documenta to share approaches and speak about their future agendas.
Drawing from cases in which art has intervened effectively in transitional justice contexts, the participants in this workshop will be encouraged to envision and plan their own interventions.
JUNE 25TH 2022
THE DAY AFTER: Transitional Justice and the Arts
Guests:
Manfred Nowak
Human rights lawyer
Marijana Grandits
Co-founder of the Vienna Master and Senior Academic Advisor
Marilyn Volkman
Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights
Michael Orwicz
Robin Greeley
Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut
Thomas Keenan
Director of the Human Rights Project
Tania El Khoury
Director of the Center for Human Rights and the Arts
Oscar Predraza Vargas
Hannah Meszaros Martin
Jose Falconi
Artist, curator, art critic, writer and editor
In collaboration with Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights, OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts, Bard College and Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut.
Human rights and the arts is a new field of study, and the first programs pioneering this approach will meet for the first time at Documenta to share approaches and speak about their future agendas.
How can art be useful in cases of transitional justice? Human rights experts and humanities scholars join in conversation about working at the intersection of legal and artistic approaches to address justice, victims’ rights, reparations and non-repetition.
JUNE 24TH 2022
Meeting ground, the intersection of human rights and the arts
Guests:
Manfred Nowak
Human rights lawyer
Marijana Grandits
Co-founder of the Vienna Master and Senior Academic Advisor
Marilyn Volkman
Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights
Michael Orwicz
Robin Greeley
Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut
Thomas Keenan
Director of the Human Rights Project
Tania El Khoury
Director of the Center for Human Rights and the Arts
Moderated by Jose Falconi
Artist, curator, art critic, writer and editor
In collaboration with Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights, OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts, Bard College and Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut.
Human rights and the arts is a new field of study, and the first programs pioneering this approach will meet for the first time at Documenta to share approaches and speak about their future agendas.
JUNE 23RD 2022
Brief history of censorship in Cuba (1959 - 2021)
Guest:
Rafael Rojas
Historian and essayist
Brief history of censorship in Cuba (1959 - 2021), which is part of the book Other letters on the table - independent practices and discursive autonomy in Cuban culture.
JUNE 23RD 2022
Brief history of censorship in Cuba (1959 - 2021)
Guest:
Rafael Rojas
Historian and essayist
Brief history of censorship in Cuba (1959 - 2021), which is part of the book Other letters on the table - independent practices and discursive autonomy in Cuban culture.
JUNE 22ND 2022
A bibliographical study on Sergei Tetrakov
Guest:
Thibault Le Page
PhD Student and researcher at
École Supérieure d´Art est Design Saint-Étienne
Presentation of a cartoon transduction of texts by Tretiakov, Gough and Appadurai in a discursive order, pecks trough books like a hen in the garden.
JUNE 21ST 2022
Independent multimedia platform elTOQUE
Guest:
Eloy Viera
Lawyer and political analyst
elTOQUE is an independent multimedia platform focused on telling Cuba in its diversity, complex, creative and also sometimes painful or hidden. Our very existence is a commitment to the diversity of voices, styles and functions in the ecosystem of media that publish for Cubans.
JUNE 20TH 2022
The transgression of the institution as part of artistic thought since the 70s
Guest:
Taiyana Pimentel.
Director & Chief Curator of Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey
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JUNE 19TH 2022
Activism, Censorship, and Repression: How Proyecto Inventario Keeps Score in Cuba
Guest:
José Raúl Gallego
Journalist and investigator
Proyecto Inventario, a Cuban non-profit media outlet, explains how they collect, structure and visualize data on current events in a closed country like Cuba, where independent journalism is illegal
JUNE 18TH 2022
Operational Factography
Guests:
Clara Astiasarán/operario
Tania Bruguer/operario
Ernesto Oroza/operario
Presentation of the Operational Factography developed for the general INSTAR project at Documenta fifteen and introduction to the staging of the first exhibition. The presentation will focus on the use of Factography as a method of recording a community's activities, promoting collective hermeneutics, and the approach of common strategies for the work of the collective.
