28 November 2021 – 27 January 2022
proyectoamil
Lima
Application deadline: Tuesday 9 November 2021
Participants selection: Friday 12 November 2021
Participants
Yenifer Plasencia Huincho (Lima)
Ali Salazar (Huaraz)
Andrea M. Olortegui C. (Lima)
Mariel Reyes Carrillo (Lima)
Marco Antonio Herrera F. (Lima)
María Elena Papuico N. (Lima)
Peter Alexander Lara (Lima)
Andrea López Ayquipa (Lima)
proyectoamil and the artists Martin Gustavsson and Rodrigo Gómez Olivos are pleased to launch nationwide its open call to art students and self-taught artists, to be part of the Collaborative Laboratory of Contemporary Art: HACIENDO CONTEXTO V.
Amazonian Baroque is the tittle of the fifthedition of the laboratory. There would arguably be no European Baroque without Latin America and no lasting cultural legacy of it without the Jungle. Latin America funded and made possible a European wealth beyond what had previously been possible. It also provided a new sense of the wild. An image of excess, otherness, sexuality, and danger. The wild becomes a category in opposition to order and discipline. Today we are again turning to the unknown and fantastical where the Amazonia provides us with the idea of that last vestige of wilderness and freedom on the planet.
During Modernism and through to the Renaissance artists were fascinated by and collected images, sounds, and words from areas outside their traditional reach. Art History is full of appropriations and re-purposing of cultural artifacts and ritual objects from indigenous peoples throughout. This appropriation is ongoing and has today spurned much debate in museums and cultural institutions around the world. Who has the right to address what issues? It is also part of a large tourist industry where western societies search for meaning in the traditions of rituals related to medicine like ayahuasca or rapé and all the controversy around those substances.
Haciendo Contexto V aims to rethink the continual draw of the wild and relate it to contemporary art practice. Using amongst other things the retablo in the most open format possible we want to find a conduit for the distinctions between order and chaos, desire and hate in the aftermath of the pandemic and the political turmoil in the Americas. After more than a year of COVID-19, it is becoming clear just how much the world has changed, and we are just beginning to feel the impact. Have we woken up in a world with a new sense of what the social contract means and how we live together? A retablo is a place in constant evolution where worship and social contracts and constructs are formed and tested. What does that look like in this new world? And what other contemporary artifacts can we produce which can take on board the very complex questions we face today?
The collaborative work can take many routes depending on the dynamics and interests of each of the artists in the group. The goal is to build a network and explore the different forms of art-making together.
Due to the COVID-19 precautions, this year´s edition has to find new forms of communication and collaboration. We will start the process online and then meet in person in Lima for production and the final presentation if allowed by the sanitary conditions and mandates.
It is essential that the participants commit to the laboratory in terms of time and effort. proyectoamil will cover the domestic flights, accommodation, and expenses of the artists coming from Peruvian cities outside of Lima.
Zoom meetings will take place the following Sundays 2021 at 10am Lima time:
Nov 28 Portfolio presentations by participants and comments from the group.
Dec 5 Continued presentation of ideas and projects. 15 min per participant and comments from the group.
Dec 12 Group tutorials and questions.
Dec 19 Panning and discussion of projects for the final exhibition at proyectoamil.
In-person meetings will take place at proyectoamil starting in 2022:
Jan 10-21 Options for collaborations and working together.
TBC Museum visit.
Jan 24-27 Production and installation of the exhibition.
Opening: Thursday, January 27 2022, 7pm
