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  • Artists Mapping Miami – A Roundtable Discussion

    Artists Mapping Miami – A Roundtable Discussion

    Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 7 pm

    Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
    3251 South Miami Avenue

    Miami, FL  33129

     

    Visitors are invited to explore the Main House with Ernesto Oroza’s map from 6 – 7 pm.

     

    Miami is a city in constant flux, whose landscape is redefined every few years. In the context of Archetype Vizcaya, this roundtable invites several
    artists to present and discuss with the public their current projects on Miami and its shifting geographies.

     

    Participants include Kevin Arrow, Adler Guerrier, Nicolas Lobo, Gean Moreno, Ernesto Oroza, Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez, Lara Stein Pardo and Cesar Trasobares.  Moderator: Flamina Gennari-Santori, Vizcaya’s Deputy Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs

    Tickets $5; free for Members, Seniors and Students with ID.

    Archetype Vizcaya explores what happens when things are taken from their original context and given new purpose and meaning. Ernesto Oroza has created a “map” that invites visitors to discover things generally unseen. Through a provisional gallery on plexiglass, he challenges us to question what is original or authentic. And, in a compilation of amateur videos from the Web, Oroza shows how Vizcaya is “used” or appropriated by its visitors.

    Archetype Vizcaya is on view through May 29, 2011.

     

    For more information, please call 305-860-8423 or 305-250-9133.

  • LAND invites you back to the island…

    LAND invites you to view/download the island Ebook.

    On December 3, 2010, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) and OHWOW organized the island: a one-day, dusk ’til dawn exhibition during Art Basel Miami Beach. Seventeen artists created site-specific installations on Flagler Memorial Island located just a few minutes from the mainland in Biscayne Bay.

    As the exhibition has now disappeared, ghostlike and mythical, into the Miami landscape, LAND invites you to view the island Ebook – a digital publication created by LAND to bring you back to the island.

     

    via LAND.

  • Krautrock The Rebirth of Germany (BBC)


    BBC Documentary. Thanks Simone.

  • Fear


    Rirkrit Tiravanija, FEAR EATS THE SOUL, at GBE. (via 16Miles)

  • open process @ moca

    Opening Reception
    Thursday, March 17, 2011 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

    JESSICA LAUREL ARIAS
    AUTUMN CASEY
    DOMINGO CASTILLO
    TATIANA VAHAN

    Open Process features new work by four young Miami artists commissioned by MOCA. The artists were given access to museum resources, including its archives and permanent collection, and received professional guidance as they researched and created their projects. The exhibition provides the artists with an opportunity to develop previously unrealized ideas and reconsider their artistic practices within the context of the museum.

    Open Process is curated by Ruba Katrib MOCA Associate Curator and organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.

    RSVP required: rsvp@mocanomi.org or 305 893 6211
    Free for MOCA members, North Miami residents, $10 non-members

    Exhibition on view through June 5, 2011

     

  • Rirkrit Tiravanija at GBE

    dailybeast photo

    It looks like Rirkrit will feed anyone, even young Fidel. (Photo:Lucy Hogg)

  • Peggy Levison Nolan : (Thanks, But I’m) Just Looking

    peggy levison nolan

    PEGGY LEVISON NOLAN

    (Thanks, But I’m) Just Looking

    March 10 – April 23, 2011

    Reception for the Artist: Thursday March 10, 6-9pm

    Dina Mitrani Gallery

    image above: Peggy Levison Nolan, Untitled, 2010, (tomato), c-print, edition 6

  • A Longer Shinbone

    A Longer Shinbone
    Francie BishopGood’s Studio at Girls’ Club
    February 5, 2011 – March 5, 2011

    Adler Guerrier
    Chad Harris
    Ross Harris
    Thomas Nolan
    Carlos Rigau
    Bert Rodriguez
    Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
    John Sanchez
    Dervis Tena

    The term man is derived from Old English mann, which refers to a person of unspecified gender and was used much as the Modern English “one”.

    Masculinity has its roots in genetics. Humans undergo a set of biological processes that follow a default female route. The redirection of such processes is referred to as masculinization, more precisely called defeminization. Upon defemenization, humans exhibit sexual dimorphism in many characteristics. Most expressions of sexual dimorphism in humans are found in height, weight, and body structure, and are acquired as boys become men. Of all the subtlest: A longer Shinbone.

    Do we as humans undergo a similar process of defeminization culturally?
    Does every culture encourage the development of gender roles, through literature, costume and song? Are agents of socialization responsible for our immediate association of masculine identity, with physical
    and/or moral strength, assertiveness, responsibility, selflessness, sincerity?

    The works in A Longer Shinbone pose these questions.

    Initially, many of the works in the exhibition seem to occupy a similar aesthetic with reference to gender. The female-specific characteristics of the works appear to be the common denominator. Upon close inspection, the minutiae of the works’ intentions and fabrication slowly reveal their intrinsic masculinity.
    The gender identity assumptions are misleading. No female artists are involved.

    The works together form a unifying space evocative of home, warmth and even motherhood. The homely environment they together create becomes a room where gender assumptions and social conditioning are suspended, much like when the term mann was originally coined.

    Catalina Jaramillo
    Jacqueline Falcone
    curators