ESPAÑOL (English below)
PLAZO DE POSTULACIÓN ENTRE 23 DE MARZO Y 25 DE MAYO 2018
GIAP (Grupo de Investigación en Arte y Política conformado por Natalia Arcos y Alessandro Zagato) junto a Tj Demos (co director invitado) llaman a participar de la convocatoria para la Residencia “Ecología creativa y Estética de la autonomía”, dirigida a artistas e investigadores del arte de todo el mundo.
La residencia se llevará a cabo en CASA GIAP, ubicada en San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México, por un período de 13 días / del 17 al 29 de julio 2018.
La invitación es para artistas e investigadores que quieran trabajar tópicos relacionados al arte, medio ambiente y ecología, en el marco de las ideas de autonomía inspiradas por el Movimiento Zapatista. Se trabajará en sesiones de reflexión y práctica sobre la estética y la política de la justicia ambiental radical, en un contexto como el de Chiapas donde el medio ambiente existe en la intersección de la naturaleza floreciente, la explotación capitalista, el extractivismo, las economías anticapitalistas, la resistencia y la construcción creativa de otro mundo.
La residencia tendrá sesiones de trabajo bajo la guía de TJ Demos y GIAP, visitas a galerías y artistas locales, a caracoles zapatistas y otras experiencias en la región de Chiapas. Es probable que la residencia coincida con la 3era versión del Festival Zapatista de Arte, “Comparte”. En caso de ser así, se incluirá la participación en dicho evento.
La residencia ofrece además: 15 noches de alojamiento en habitaciones privadas o compartidas, desayunos, uso de cocina, wifi en todas las áreas, acceso a la mediateca de consulta, taller de trabajo para producción de obra, cafetería, terraza y patio, en una casa de origen colonial en pleno corazón de San Cristóbal de las Casas. También considera traslado a las actividades cuando sea necesario.
Para postular, por favor envíe un email a correogiap@gmail.com, adjuntando su CV, descripción breve de su trabajo y un párrafo de por qué considera importante participar de esta residencia. El deadline es el 25 de mayo de 2018.
El cupo máximo es de 10 personas.
El costo de participación y el pasaje aéreo deben ser cubiertos por cada artista/investigador. Podemos enviar cartas de invitación, certificado de participación y facturas de pago, si lo necesita para sus gestiones.
Habrá un artista indígena de Chiapas becado 100% por GIAP.
ENGLISH
APPLICATION DEADLINE IS MAY 25, 2018
GIAP (Research Group in Art and Politics founded by Natalia Arcos & Alessandro Zagato) and Tj Demos (professor, University of California, Santa Cruz) are inviting artists and art researchers from around the world to participate in their residency program»Creative ecology and the aesthetics of autonomy».
The event will take place at CASA GIAP (Giap House), in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. It will last 13 days – from July 17 to 29, 2018.
The call is directed at artists and researchers who want to work on topics related to art, ecology, and the environment, framed by ideas of autonomy such as those shaping the contemporary Zapatista Movement. Residents will participate in theoretical and practical sessions on the aesthetics and politics of radical environmental justice, drawing from and interacting with a context like Chiapas where the “environment” exists at the intersection of flourishing nature, capitalist exploitation, extraction, anti-capitalist economies, resistance, and the creative construction of another world.
The residency will consist in working sessions supervised By TJ Demos and GIAP, visits to local galleries, and meetings with local artists, visits to Zapatista caracoles, and other experiences in the region. The event is likely to coincide with the 3rd edition of the Zapatista Festival of Art, «CompArte por la Humanidad». If this is the case, the residence will include participation in this event.
It includes 15 nights of accommodation in shared double rooms, breakfast, use of kitchen, wifi, access to our library, media archive, working area, terrace and patio. Casa Giap is a colonial house located in the heart of San Cristóbal de las Casas. The fee also includes transfer to activity areas within the region.
To apply, please send us an email to correogiap@gmail.com, attaching your CV, a brief description of your work and a paragraph on why you consider it important to participate in this program. The deadline is May, 25.
There are 10 places available.
Travel to Chiapas and participation fee are covered by each artist / researcher. We can send invitation letters, issue participation certificates and invoices, when needed.
GIAP will grant a local indigenous artist with a full scholarship to participate in the residency.
We can issue invitation letters and participation certificates if needed
The residence organizers :
Natalia Arcos
Natalia Arcos has a Degree in Theory and Art History from the University of Chile; is Master of Contemporary Art, Paris IV-Sorbonne University, where she was the first latin- american accepted. As an independent curator, she has done twenty exhibitions in Chile, Argentina, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, England, and Greece. From 2008 to 2013, she was Programming Director of the Chilean Television Channel specialized in art, ARTV. Since 2013, is a founding member of GIAP, Research Group in Art and Politics, where she develops research related to aesthetic autonomy. Currently, she manages CASA GIAP, a center of residences for artists and researchers in Chiapas, México and organizes an exhibition about Zapatista Art for Casa de las Américas, Cuba.
Alessandro Zagato
Alessandro Zagato has a PhD in Sociology from Maynooth University, Ireland. He collaborates with the European Research Council project «Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons» led by Professor Bruce Kapferer at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is author of «The Event of Charlie Hebdo: Imaginaries of Freedom and Control«, Berghahn Books (2015). Some recent publications include: (2018) «State and Warfare in Mexico. The Case of Ayotzinapa» in Social Analysis; (2018) «The Festival “Comparte por la Humanidad”. Aesthetics and poetics of rebellion in the Zapatista movement » in Revista Páginas Vol. 9; «After Ayotzinapa: building autonomy in a civil war.» In Roarmag, January 5, 2016. Alessandro is columnist at Konkret Media (Los Angeles) for the section «Mexican Diaries». He is founder of the Research Group in Art and Politics (GIAP), and of the center of residences for artists and researchers CASA GIAP.
TJ Demos (Guest)
T.J. Demos is Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Founder and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely on the intersection of contemporary art, global politics, and ecology and is the author of numerous books, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press, 2017); Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Sternberg Press, 2016); The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis (Duke University Press, 2013)—winner of the College Art Association’s 2014 Frank Jewett Mather Award—and Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press, 2013). Demos co-curated Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas, at Nottingham Contemporary in January 2015, and organized Specters: A Ciné-Politics of Haunting, at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid in 2014.
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