12.10.2015 - 14.12.2015
Growing societal regimentation on the global level has normalized cultural practices that were once informal and vernacular, yet paradoxically, this goes hand-in-hand with increasingly acute economic de-regularization.
That said, recent technological evolution has lent unprecedented visibility to alternative methodologies and ways of thinking, opening up new spaces for knowledge exchange. Today’s art world is situated at a crossroads where the radical professionalization of the artistic vocation and its educational industry converges with the power of the market, as well as with alternative initiatives whose roles grow ambiguous, split between a search for integration and the will to respond.
Artists have come out of the studio, but only to confront other fields of specialization with which they must negotiate their own specificity and “authority,” thus becoming more or less empirical researchers who act from within the fault-lines and fissures of the interdisciplinary.
How then can we take advantage of these methodological movements, specifically in terms of how art is taught and spoken of? What new tools and what past legacies can we use to consolidate that flexibility and freedom, as a means of reinventing the artist’s vocation? Through reflection on periods and key historical figures, interviews and fiction, Terremoto’s fourth issue seeks to look into the figure of the “wild researcher” that the artist of our times could be.
4
2015
Juan Antonio Roda playing cards with a University model, 1963. Archive of the exhibition Roda: dibujo de un maestro, curated by Lucas Ospina. Department of the Arts in the Universidad de los Andes
4 2015
12.10.2015
Issue 4: Wild Researchers
TRansHisTorIA
Two versions of the 15th salones regionales de artistas in Colombia, zona centro.
4 2015
19.10.2015
Issue 4: Wild Researchers
Inés Katzenstein, Juan Canela
A conversation with Inés Katzenstein about pedagogy, art and the Artist Program at Instituto di Tella in Buenos Aires.
4 2015
26.10.2015
Issue 4: Wild Researchers
Rivet
An interview with Ariel Schlesinger that delves into his experience of learning artisanal crafts and the influence of that training in his work.
4 2015
02.11.2015
Issue 4: Wild Researchers
Mohammad Salemy
An account of the mission of The New Centre for Research & Practice and its intellectual enquiry towards the transdisciplinarity of philosophy, arts and sciences.
4 2015
09.11.2015
Issue 4: Wild Researchers
TEOR/éTica, María P. Malavasi L
The history of TEOR/éTica, its role as an experimental center for art and politics in Central America, and its relation to academia.
4 2015
16.11.2015
Issue 4: Wild Researchers
Lucas Ospina
A story about a little known period in the life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, precursor of collage in Colombia.
4 2015
23.11.2015
Issue 4: Wild Researchers
Kiki Mazzucchelli
A conversation between Brazillian curator Kiki Mazzucchelli and Peruvian artist Elena Damiani, discussing Damiani’s research methodology.
4 2015
30.11.2015
Issue 4: Wild Researchers
Cristiana Tejo
4 2015
07.12.2015
Issue 4: Wild Researchers
Sandra Sanchez
Sandra Sánchez analyzes the work of young mexican painters Christian Camacho, Allan Villavicencio and Cristóbal Gracia, and their relation to the medium through the lens of the legacy left by the artist generation that rose to prominence in the 90s.
4 2015
07.12.2015
Issue 4: Wild Researchers
Fabiola Iza
Fabiola Iza tackles the ambiguities and potentialities of the use of archives in recent exhibitions dealing with alternative histories of art in Latin America: Losing the Human Form: A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America at Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid in 2012 and Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960–2000 at Museo del Barrio in NYC in 2008.