Francis Alys
Julieta Aranda
Miguel Calderon
Jonathan Hernandez
Yoshua Okon
Fernando Ortega
Ricardo Rendon
Santiago Sierra
18/11/2003
Systematic repertoire
Canaia, Mexico City
...Of quick reference for students and professionals, with definitions according to the actual world. The exhibition is structured as a series of signs that highlight diverse mechanisms of the arts system, specific to Mexico. The exhibition brings together the work of twelve artists that emphasize some of the particular ways relationships between exhibition spaces, curators, artists, critics, and other cultural practitioners take place.
...of quick reference for students and professionals,
with definitions according to the actual world*
*definición autorreferencial del diccionario océano práctico
Artists: Francis Alÿs, Julieta Aranda, Miguel Calderón, Jonathan
Hernandez, Yoshua Okon, Fernando Ortega, Ricardo Rendón, Santiago Sierra,
and others...
The arts system's complex network of exchange--and the intense
interactions that sustain it, both passive and active--are the subject of
the exhibition Systematic repertoire of quick reference for students and
professionals, with definitions according to the actual world.
The exhibition is structured as a series of signs that highlight diverse
mechanisms of the arts system, specific to Mexico. The exhibition brings
together the work of twelve artists that emphasize some of the particular
ways relationships between exhibition spaces, curators, artists, critics,
and other cultural practitioners take place. Based on the artist's
experience and the signs, concepts or forms of expression they have
chosen, these works take a critical stance, usually ironic, about the
complex organization of the art institution, and the ways in which it
operates.
In this repertoire of artists' work--which is more symptomatic than
systematic--several discourses collapse, while creative possibilities
surface. The game's rules are played out amongst the various agents whose
roles shift within the space of the white cube.
Invited artists are: Francis Alÿs, Julieta Aranda, Miguel Calderón,
Jonathan Hernandez, Yoshua Okon, Fernando Ortega, Ricardo Rendón and
Santiago Sierra, and others...
Curated by: Laboratorio Curatorial 060 (Gabriella Gomez-Mont, Sol Henaro,
Lourdes Morales, Mariana MunguÃa, Javier Toscano, Daniela Wolf)
CANAIA operates as an independent public space linked to the teratoma
group, a collective think tank comprised of curators, artists and cultural
practitioners that are based in Mexico. This exhibition was organized by
Laboratorio Curatorial 060, a newly-formed curatorial team that stems from
teratoma's Curatorial Studies and looks to experiment with new ways of
thinking around and about curatorial practices.
Image: a work by Yoshua Okon
Contact: laboratorio060@yahoogroups.com
CANAIA (The National Chamber of Art Industries)
Francisco Pimentel # 3
Col. San Rafael
Mexico City, Mexico
Tel: +(5255) 55 35 62 05