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Curatorial Seminar San Juan 2016

Oct 12 – 15, 2016

San Juan, Puerto Rico
Beta-Local

San Juan, Puerto Rico

The Curatorial Seminar in San Juan is designed for a select group of alumni from the Curatorial Intensive program. These curators will convene to discuss research and collaboration strategies tailored to their respective cultural contexts. The Seminar draws inspiration from Edouard Glissant's concept of marronage, using it as a reference point to explore cultural subversion, geographical proximity, and alternative modes of discourse.

The program is hosted in collaboration with Beta-Local, a local non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting aesthetic thought and cultural practices, with a focus on the vitality of the Puerto Rican art community. Programming will be conducted entirely in Spanish.

Participants
Fernanda Albuquerque

Fernanda Albuquerque is a curator and art critic who is a PhD candidate in History, Theory, and Art Criticism at UFRGS, Porto Alegre, and a PhD associate student at UAL, London.

Ximena Gama

Ximena Gama (b. Colombia, 1982) is a specialist in History and Theory of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Universidad de los Andes.

Andrés Jurado

Andrés Jurado is an artist, curator, and professor in the Visual Arts Department at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Colombia, and professor at the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá - Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas.

Marina Reyes Franco

Marina Reyes Franco is a Curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico (MAC).

Alba Colomo

Alba Colomo is a Spanish curator based in the UK.

Arnaldo Rodríguez-Bagué

Arnaldo Rodríguez-Bague (They/Them) is a researching artist-curator from San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Facilitators
María del Carmen Carrión

María del Carmen Carrión is an independent curator and art critic from Quito, who received an MA from the Curatorial Practice Program at California College of the Arts, in San Francisco, and taught at Universidad Católica in Quito.

Pablo Guardiola

Pablo Guardiola is a visual artist working across installation, sculpture, photography and editorial /curatorial projects.

Mauricio Marcín

Mauricio Marcin is a researcher, curator and erratic archivist.

Sofía Gallisá Muriente

Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a visual artist who works mainly with video, photography, text and installation.Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a visual artist and cultural organizer whose work resists colonial erasures and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining.

Tony Cruz Pabón

Tony Cruz Pabón (b. 1977) lives and works in Puerto Rico.

About Beta Local
Beta-Local is a non-profit organization based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, dedicated to supporting and promoting aesthetic thought and practice through various programs:
-La Práctica is a research and production program that runs for 9 months for individuals with a background in art, design or cultural production. This program is designed particularly for those interested in generating new conditions, relations and positions from which to produce in and outside of established circuits. The mode of work is that of a critical and practical atelier in Puerto Rico, the Tropics, the Caribbean and in this time.
-The Harbor is an international artist residency program. Every month we invite artists, curators, thinkers and other cultural agents living abroad to live and work in our space, work with participants of our programs and develop projects in Puerto Rico.
-La Ivan Illich, an experimental pedagogical platform through which anyone can propose a class, workshop, conference, encounter, study group or any other knowledge exchange. Sometimes groups form that meet for months. Sometimes a workshop is taught in several sessions. Sometimes a single event is enough to trigger relations that continue beyond Beta-Local.

Credits

The Curatorial Seminar in San Juan is made possible by Fundación Alumnos47, and by generous contributions from ICI’s Leadership Council, the ICI Board of Trustees, the ICI Gerrit Lansing Education Fund, and supporters of ICI’s Access Fund.