[spectre] Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social in Quito, Ecuador

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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:22:14 -0400
To: "Bill Kelley Jr." <bkelleyjr A+
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Subject: Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social

Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social
<http://laes08.blogspot.com>

Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social
(Art and Social Space Laboratory)

August 2008

Quito, Ecuador

The Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social (LAES) is a collaborative 
research workshop directed by María Fernanda Cartagena and Bill Kelley, 
Jr. for the Education Department of the Museo del Banco Central del 
Ecuador (Central Bank Museum of Ecuador).

LAES will offer a free and open space for participants of any discipline 
to investigate and engage in issues involving the relationship between 
art and public space. Methodological research that involves working with 
and understanding public cultural practices are of primary concern 
within a field that has seen enormous growth of activity both locally 
and internationally, institutionally and informally, and individually 
and collectively.

Practices born in or outside the art world system hold numerous 
promising possibilities depending on the public one chooses to work 
with. LAES, under the institutional umbrella of the largest museum in 
Ecuador, will seek to investigate the ties between institutional 
possibilities and the numerous independent artist/activist led projects 
in the region. Relationships between art and political movements, 
collaborative strategies and community work, as well as contemporary and 
historic forms of public space cultural practices will be investigated.

During the entire month of August, LAES will be lead by a group 
specializing in various disciplinary practices. The workshop 
interlocutors include: X. Andrade (Guayaquil, urban anthropology and art 
practice), María Fernanda Cartagena (Quito-Buenos Aires, visual 
cultures), Deborah Morillo (Quito, pedagogy and art practice), Bill 
Kelley, Jr. (Los Angeles, art theory), and invited artists Alejandro 
Meitin representing the collective Ala Plástica (La Plata, Argentina) 
and Graciela Carnevale (Rosario, Argentina) presenting with Tucumán Arde 
Archive.

LAES workshop will also feature the exhibition "Por qué no te callas?"
Activismo, desobediencia y medios de comunicación (Why don't you shut 
up? Activism, disobedience and mediums of communication), a title taken 
from the headlines after King Juan Carlos of Spain yelled the infamous 
phrase at Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in 2007, will be hosted by Espacio 
Arte Actual in Quito and will feature the Tucumán Arde Archive 
(Argentina 1968) as well as contemporary video artists: BijaRi (Brazil), 
Boredom Patrol (USA), Bulbo (Mexico), Etcétera, now Internacional 
Errorista (Argentina), Ana Fernández and Miguel Alvear (Ecuador), Frente 
3 de Fevereiro (Brazil), María Teresa Ponce and Fabiano Kueva (Ecuador), 
and The Yes Men (USA). "Por qué no te callas?" is organized by María 
Fernanda Cartagena and Bill Kelley, Jr.  Much like the LAES workshop, 
this exhibition attempts to investigate art's relationship to the 
changing nature of public space, as well as bridge the gap between h 
istoric and contemporary cultural practices forty years after the events 
of '68.

More information can be found at the LAES blogsite:
http://laes08.blogspot.com and at the  Museo del Banco Central website:
http://www.museobibliotecabce.com

Contact and Inquiries: laes08 at gmail.com or through the education program
Cultura Para Todos at the Central Bank of Ecuador: Ana María Armijos/ 
Daniel León, (+593) 2220904 ext. 48


41 Essex street
New York, NY 10002, USA

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