► Video | Art Sessions | Alta Tecnología Andina – ATA
Wednesday 23 October 2019
7:30pm
Proyecto AMIL
Lima
For the twelfth edition of AMIL – Art Sessions and on the occasion of the publication of Del cero al infinito escritos de arte y lucha– a book that compiles, for the first time in Spanish, a selection of texts by the Pakistani artist Rasheed Araeen–; Alta Tecnología Andina – ATA proposes a discussion on the resonances of the artist’s work in Lima.
During October 2013, Zero to Infinity, Araeen’s participatory conceptual work, was presented in three markedly different public spaces in Lima: the main lobby of the Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI and the urban and public parks of Huáscar–in the popular district from Villa El Salvador– and Cápac Yupanqui –in the traditional district of Rímac–. The participatory nature of the piece was an invitation to reflect on how the function of conceptual art can be expanded and linked to a playful process that promotes the creativity of the audience; as well as the relationships between art and public intervention.
In Zero to Infinity: Resonances of Rasheed Araeen’s Work in Lima, the curator and founder of ATA, José-Carlos Mariátegui; the literary critic Víctor Vich; and the art historian Gisselle Girón; will discuss these issues. Additionally, they will reflect on the echoes that an artistic practice such as Araeen’s, which has consistently challenged the formal, ideological and political assumptions of Eurocentric modernism, can have on our city.
Del cero al infinito escritos de arte y lucha is a project by Alta Tecnología Andina – ATA, in collaboration with the Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI, the Foundation for Arts Initiatives (FfAI) and Proyecto AMIL. The book was published by the Chilean editorial house Metales Pesados.
AMIL – Art Sessions is a series of monthly encounters at Proyecto AMIL aimed to expand artistic and curatorial practice beyond the temporal and spatial limitations of exhibition making. Throughout this series Proyecto AMIL seeks to promote alternative ways to talk about and experience contemporary art; as well as create a platform for exchange between artists, curators, researchers and our local audience.
Rasheed Araeen (Karachi, 1935) was one of the first voices to introduce the postcolonial debate in the art world and critically address the identity of Third World artists. In 1978 he published Preliminary Notes for a Black Manifesto, a critic essay that denounced the imperialist system. In 1987 he founded Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art & Culture, one of the most radical periodical publications, a pioneer in deconstructing, re-defining and re-reading the history of modern art in the global context; of which he was editor until 2011. Between 2017 and 2019, under the curatorship of Nick Aikens and Charles Esche, an extensive itinerant retrospective of his work took place in Eindhoven, Geneva, Newcastle and Moscow. His work has been included in the Venice Biennale (2017) and Documenta 14 (2017); and his most recent work Rhapsody in Four Colors, an imposing structure 35 meters high, stands as the central element of the Aga Khan Centre in London.
