The Patronato de Arte Contemporaneo (PAC) has organized the second edition of SITAC, this year devoted to the theme Art + City. The discussion will center on Urban Aesthetics, Public Spaces, Public Art Policies. Urban space as a territory of change vs. resistance. Strategies for the appropriation of the Public Space.
January 23rd. to 25th.
Director : Ery Camara
Key Speaker : Hani Rashid (Jan. 25th., 6.00 P.M.)
The Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo (PAC) has organized the second edition
of SITAC, this year devoted to the theme ART + CITY, The discussion will
center on Urban Aesthetics, Public Spaces, Public Art Policies.
Urban space as a territory of change vs. resistance. Strategies for the
appropriation of the Public Space. The limits and boundaries between
Public and Private. Redefinition of responsibilities: public patrimony
and collective property/services.
Speakers:
1./ Urban Aesthetics, January 23rd, Yona Friedman, José Luis Cortés, Nestor GarcÃa Canclini.
Moderator: Osvaldo Sánchez - break - Raúl
Cárdenas (Torolab), Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Raqs Media Collective), Norman
Klein. Moderator: Marcela Quiróz
2./ Public Spaces, January 24th. Nelson Brissac, Rosa Olivares, Michel
Verjux
Moderator: José Luis Barrios - break - Erick Gongrich, Sarat Maharaj,
Christoph Schäfer (Park Fiction) Moderator: Itala Schmelz
3./ Public Spaces, January 25th. Ferran Barenblit, Toshio Shimizu, Gustavo
Lipkau
Moderator: Graciela Schmilchuk - break - Bülent Diken, Neil Leach, Lorena
Wolffer
Moderator: Alejandro Hernández Gálvez
The publication of the 2002 SITAC Memoir "Exchanges in Contemporary Art:
Chronicles, Controversies, Bridges" will be available during this event.
Mexico City / Teatro Julio Castillo