DATA OF INTEREST

GUEST:
Julieta Aranda

HOST:
Juliana Rabelo


Synopsis:

With Stone Soup we are interested in examining our relationships–as living beings, artists, people, and cultural workers–with the toxic environments that we ourselves have created. How can we negotiate propositions for how to live in the desolate landscapes of the XXI century?

Now that ecological issues occupy an important position at the planetary level as research subjects for artistic production, it becomes important that we assure ourselves we produce the necessary ecologies for the field of art to be a viable and liveable system. That is, that to produce the sustainable futures we talk so much about, before anything else we need to produce viable, sustainable and enjoyable presents.

So, paying attention to the presents we inhabit in this moment, what are the formulations of hope that these offer for the future?


Bio:

Julieta Aranda
(México City, 1975)

Conceptual artist living and working in Berlin and New York with a BFA in film from the School of Visual Arts (2001) and an MFA from Columbia University (2006), both in New York. Her artistic explorations span installations, video and print media, with a special interest in the creation and manipulation of artistic exchange, and the subversion of traditional notions of commerce through artistic creation. Her complex work exists outside of the borders of the object, and is characterized by the struggle to capture elusive concepts such as time, circulation and imagination.

Aranda´s installations and projects about temporality, that frequently examine social interaction and the role that the circulation of objects plays in cycles of production and consumption, are intensely site-specific.

The majority of her work deals with the concept of time, sometimes to consider alternative notions of the temporal experience, others to look at the arbitrariness and/or liberation of time. As co-director of the online platform E-flux, together with Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda has developed projects such as Time/Bank, Pawnshop, y E-flux Video Rental, all of which began in New York and then traveled to a variety of spaces all over the world.

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