BIENALSUR meeting for a contemporary humanism
BIENALSUR began with a series of ideas aimed at trying out other formats, other dynamics for contemporary art that would avoid, as far as possible, the replication of canonical North-South dynamics. Starting with the SUR GLOBAL meetings, in 2015 we began to build a space for exchange and dialogue with global aspirations.
In 2017 we held the first edition of BIENALSUR, which allowed us to test the possibilities of a horizontal, collaborative, networked and democratic biennial in its strategies and forms of access. We chose to vindicate the right to culture because it is from this right - enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 - that it is possible to give visibility and access to other rights.
Since then we have spent ten years in dialogue with artists, curators, cultural managers, thinkers, communities, institutions that have allowed us to shape each project and that today make up what we like to call the BIENALSUR Community.
In each edition, BIENALSUR gives shape to a singular cartography in which each space is a centre and, at the same time, it is possible to recognise it as part of a larger plot in which both the nearby community and the global community are challenged.
Ten years have passed. The parameters by which we used to think are in tension. We are living in a different world, the global scene has changed. So, launching the 5th edition, we invite you to ask ourselves (once again) how to build from uncertainty.
How can we work, each from our own position and perspective, for the right to culture, for access, for cultural diversity? How can we contribute to the development of a contemporary humanism? These questions are at the basis of our practices, they are at the heart of our work.
Programme
Open to the general public.
Juncal 1319, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Sede Centro del Rectorado de UNTREF).
3rd April
2.30 pm- BIENALSUR, thinking from in-discipline
Aníbal Jozami and Diana Wechsler
3 p.m. - Artistic practices, curatorial practices, who is the imagined public? I
Artists and curators carry out creative programmes linked to different subjective demands, from the art system, from society... In this framework, what is the imagined addressee: who is the public and in what way or how is the artistic or curatorial proposal expected to impact on each of these imagined subjects and on the community? We think about broadening access to culture, in the space of art as a place for encounters and the activation of thought, which is why we ask ourselves, from the point of view of our practices, how we look for audiences.
Erwin Wurm (AUT) - Xavier Rey (FRA) - Lauriane Gricourt (FRA) - Lukasz Murzyn (POL)
Moderator: Florencia Battiti (ARG)
5pm - How imagination meets identity and politics?
Nú Barreto (GBN) - Vik Muniz (BRA)
Moderator: Gabriela Golder (ARG)
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4th April
3.30 p.m. - Artistic Practices, Curatorial Practices, Who is the Imagined Public? II
Artists and curators carry out creative programmes linked to different subjective demands, of the art system, of society... In this framework, what is the imagined addressee: who is the public and in what way or how is the artistic or curatorial proposal expected to impact on each of these imagined subjects and on the community? We think about broadening access to culture, in the space of art as a place for encounter and the activation of thought, that's why we ask ourselves, from the practices, how we look for audiences.
Ümit Mesci (TUR) - Sarah Abuabdallah (SAU) - Tony Amaral (TLS) Moderator: Clarisa Appendino
5pm - Artistic practice between costume design and the environmental perspective
Sy Abdoul (SEN) - Philippe Regnier (FRA) Moderator: Francisco Lemus
6.15 pm - Art, art, art in dialogue
Marta Minujín (ARG) - Estrella de Diego (ESP)
