Curatorview [Alfredo Cramerotti]

Ground Level

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on September 14, 2010

Maria Thereza Alves, Seeds of Change (Bristol), Heath Bunting with Kayle Brandon, Borderxing, Center For Land Use Interpretation, The Hydraulic

Hayward Touring Curatorial Open II

QUAD Gallery 18th September – 31st October 2010

Ground Level explores how contemporary art practice, mapping and cartography collide. Traditionally the role of the cartographer has been to provide a geographically precise description of the landscape. However, rarely has it been a wholly objective enterprise. While technology increasingly grants access to the precision of satellite imagery, the cartographer’s work has moved further from the ground into more contested areas such as ownership, rights to land, and the flows of people.

This exhibition brings together international artists who perform their own personal forms of cartography. The resulting works suggest maps and surveys, but rather than portraying a singular worldview they put forward idiosyncratic readings of language, peoples and signs, as well as geography.

The exhibition is curated by Kit Hammonds, winner of the 2010 Hayward Curatorial Open, a platform for innovative curatorship in the UK.

Artists include: Maria Thereza Alves; The Atlas Group; Ricardo Basbaum; Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon; Center for Land Use Interpretation; Simon Evans; Yolande Harris; Christian Philipp Müller; Eyal Weizman; Stephen Willats. Ground Level is a Hayward Touring exhibition selected and developed in partnership with John Hansard Gallery; QUAD, Derby; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno and Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum.

Click here to see a video interview with Curator Kit Hammonds.

Publication

Ground Level accompanies the second Hayward Touring Curatorial Open exhibition devised by writer and curator Kit Hammonds. This limited edition publication features work by Maria Thereza Alves, The Atlas Group, Ricardo Basbaum, Heath Bunting with Kayle Brandon, Center For Land Use Interpretation, Simon Evans, Yolande Harris, Christian-Philipp Müller, Eyal Weizman and Stephen Willats.

It also includes an illustrated essay by Hammonds exploring the way in which mapping relates to contemporary visual art as an experiential process that requires a direct relationship with the landscape, geography and people.

Exhibition copies feature a specially produced Risograph facsimile of Island Time by Simon Evans. Ground Level is published by Hayward Publishing and is available in all good art bookshops and at QUAD during the exhibition.

Images:

Maria Thereza Alves, Seeds of Change (Bristol), 2007 © the artist, 2010
Heath Bunting with Kayle Brandon, Borderxing, 2004 © the artist, 2010
Center For Land Use Interpretation, The Hydraulic Models of The Army Corps of Engineers, 2010. ©the artist, 2010

Ground Level / No Such Place at QUAD Derby

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on September 11, 2010

Manifesta 8 se presenta en Madrid

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on September 9, 2010

EL CULTURAL.ES

Edición digital |  ARTE

by PAULA ACHIAGA | Publicado el 09/09/2010

100 artistas internacionales invaden Murcia durante 100 días

Desde el 9 de octubre y durante 100 días, Murcia y Cartagena se convierten en escenario de la creación más vanguardista e innovadora del panorama internacional. 12 sedes, entre edificios históricos (como los antiguos Molinos del Río Segura), museos (desde el Museo de Bellas Artes al moderno Centro Párraga) y espacios no convencionales (una cafetería, el local de una asociación vecinal o varios medios de comunicación, por ejemplo), acogerán las obras de casi un centenar de artistas, de los que poco más de una docena son españoles (destacan los nombres de Pedro G. Romero, Marcelo Expósito, Rosell Meseguer o el colectivo Brumaria).

Desde la primera edición de Manifesta en 1996, y siempre con la idea de eliminar barreras y cruzar fronteras como lema, la bienal se ha celebrado en ciudades como Rotterdam, Frankfurt o Liubliana. La prevista en 2006 en Nicosia (Chipre) no pudo siquiera inaugurarse por problemas políticos, mientras que ésta de Murcia es la segunda española: San Sebastián fue sede de la quinta edición en 2004. “No sé si será mejor o peor -dice Hedwig Fijen, directora de la Fundación Manifesta-, pero sí que será muy diferente. El norte de España es completamente distinto al sur y este diálogo con norte de África que pretende establecer esta Manifesta 8 será muy interesante”. Y es que es precisamente esta relación con el continente vecino una de las diferencias con las anteriores ediciones, siempre centradas en las relaciones entre Occidente y el antiguo bloque del Este.

Producción propia
Otra de las características importantes es el esfuerzo de esta Manifesta por la producción propia: el 85 por ciento de los trabajos expuestos habrán sido desarrollados para el espacio concreto que van a ocupar. De hecho, cuando todavía falta un mes para su inauguración oficial, ya son muchos los artistas que trabajan in situ y otros tantos los que llevan meses trabajando con las sedes y los equipos españoles.

Chamber of Public Secrets, Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum y tranzit.org, son los tres colectivos que firman el comisariado de Manifesta 8. Ellos han seleccionado, no sólo a artistas, si no también a escritores, productores de cine, filósofos o activistas, lo que da también una imagen de la diversidad y multidisciplinaridad que pretende difundir el evento. Sorprende por ejemplo, la cercanía con la que han trabajado los artistas seleccionados por Chamber of Publics Secrets con medios de comunicación locales. Algunas de las sedes del proyecto de este grupo serán las oficinas de la televisión y la radio locales o de los diarios La Verdad y La Razón. “Ha sido interesante ver la conexión entre el mundo artístico y el de los medios, a priori tan distintos”, comenta Alfredo Cramerotti, miembro de Chamber…

No hay duda de la rentabilidad turística que para la Región de Murcia supone la celebración de Manifesta 8, lo importante es que efectivamente la organización sea consciente de la necesidad de que este tipo de eventos de perdurar más allá de las fechas de la exposición y de los beneficios a medio y largo plazo en cuanto a la construcción de una infraestructura artística duradera y útil.

MANIFESTA 8 | DESAYUNO DE PRENSA Madrid

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on September 8, 2010

09 DE SEPTIEMBRE 10,45H

Restaurante Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS)

Acceso por la Plaza Del Museo


Hedwig Fijen directora de la Fundacion Manifiesta, Esther Regueira Coordinadora general de Manifesta 8  y  representantes de los  equipos curatoriales Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (Bassam el Baroni) y Chamber of Public Secrets Forum (Alfredo Cramerotti) presentarán en Madrid los avances de la preparación de Manifesta 8.

Se entregará dossier de prensa con información general, descripción detallada de proyecto, listado de artistas e imágenes para publicar.

Una de las innovaciones de esta edición es la introducción de un equipo curatorial compuesto por tres colectivos – Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (Egipto), Chamber of Public Secrets (Escandinavia y el Medio Oriente) y tranzit.org (Europa Central) – responsables tanto del enfoque temático como de la selección de artistas. Como la muestra dinámica que es, Manifesta 8 se sitúa en una intersección, en un lugar en el que los tres colectivos curatoriales ofrecerán respuestas a los desafíos planteados por las nociones del diálogo transregional y transcontinental a través de diversos formatos. http://www.manifesta8.com

Nottingham Contemporary – The Geopolitical Turn: Art and the Contest of Globalisation / Evidence and imagination: the urgency of geopolitics and the necessity of geopoetics by Alfredo Cramerotti

Posted in nEws and rEleases, shortEssays/cortiSaggi [English/Italian] by Curatorview on August 22, 2010

Talk for The Geopolitical Turn: Art and the Contest of Globalisation Conference 08 May 2010 at Nottingham Contemporary, UK.

What are the reference points for contemporary art in a global economy that creates enormous wealth as well as widening inequality? The opening conference explores the many strategies artists use to reveal the processes and human consequences of the globalised market economy.

Over the past five years Alfredo Cramerotti has written about the aesthetic merger of contemporary art and the news media. By adopting the ubiquitous tropes of interviews, graphic mapping, and Magnum style photography an increasing number of artists have borrowed from these visual languages to present their work into a context closely aligned with investigative journalism. Drawing from his recent book Aesthetic Journalism: How to inform without informing (2009, Intellect) and select works from Uneven Geographies, Cramerotti will be speaking about the growing overlap between global news media and contemporary art.

By addressing this topic Cramerotti will seek to answer a number of questions including: Does such an integration of art and journalism emancipate art from a closed sphere of discourse allowing it a more social and political dimension? Does the use of an investigative methodology within contemporary art practice shift an understanding of truth and subjectivity? By borrowing from forms of news media, what new modes of exhibition practice are artists, curators, and writers enabling to develop cultural relationships between the global relevance to local issues?

Audio of talk available at: nottinghamcontemporary.org/sites/default/files/Alfredo_Cramerotti.mp3

Italo Calvino – Six Memos for the [Present] Millennium / 1NYC

Posted in shortEssays/cortiSaggi [English/Italian] by Curatorview on August 21, 2010

Video, sound essay based on the book “American Lectures” by Italo Calvino, 10 min.

In 1984, he was invited to deliver a cycle of lectures at Harvard University in the United States. The writer elected five themes: lightness, rapidity, exactitude, multiplicity and consistency. Calvino has written the first five, but died before the completion of the last. The conferences never took place, but the texts were collected in a book that serves as an important inheritance to the newly born millennium. My thanks to Gian Zelada of mamutemidia.com.br, who has inspired this work.

Dinu Li: Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is Mystery on The Guardian Guide, Derby Evening Telegraph and This is Derbyshire Magazine

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on August 10, 2010

Artsway / QUAD – Dinu Li: Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is Mystery

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on June 25, 2010

Manifesta 8 presentation in Berlin and new Manifesta Journal “Collective Curating”

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on June 11, 2010

Friday June 11, 2010, 10 a.m.
Clärchens Ballhaus, Auguststraße 24, Berlin-Mitte

Meet the curators of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, and Hedwig Fijen, Director of the Manifesta Foundation.

The editorial team of the Manifesta Journal will be delighted to launch the new issue of the Manifesta Journal “Collective Curating”, published by the Manifesta Foundation and Silvana Editoriale.

Manifesta 8 sbarca sulle coste spagnole, Roma ne parla…

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on June 3, 2010