Applications open for SOMA Summer in Mexico City
SOMA Summer is a unique eight-week program for international artists, curators, critics, and art historians, conducted in English in Mexico City.
The program is built around a series of seminars and workshops led by renowned Mexican and international artists and curators. Participants meet weekly for individual critiques and discussion, as well as public events, site visits, and other activities in and around Mexico City. It will take place from July 02nd until August 23rd, 2018.
Each SOMA Summer is organized around a specific conceptual framework that provides a compelling platform for artists who want to critically analyze their work, while developing new ideas. SOMA Summer 2018 will focus on ideas that promote sustainability, looking closely at a handful of organizations around the city (Teotihuacán, Xochimilco, and Texcoco) that are working to maintain an ecological and economic balance. The program is conceived as a hands-on experience where participants will have the opportunity to collaborate with a number of historians, urbanist, lawmakers, and artists, transforming environmental limitations into more socially just possibilities. Local and international artists and thinkers working alongside this parameter will nurture this eight-week experience.
On-site activities and workshops: Eduardo Abaroa (artist, Mexico), Miruna Achim (art historian, US), Cráter Invertido (artists coopertive, Mexico), Capuli/Tecalco (Fernando Palma, artist, Mexico), La Casa del Ahuizote (Diego Flores Magón, Mexico), Gustavo Lipkau (architect, Mexico), Obrera Centro (Mauro Giaconi and Marcos Castro, artists Argentina/Mexico), Plan Acalli (Ehecatl Morales and Carlos Maravilla, artists, Mexico)
Special sessions: Allora and Calzadilla (Jennifer Allora, artist, US), Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez (artists and writers, US), Camel Collective (artists, US/Mexico), Nina Höchtl (artist and researcher, Austria), Patrick Killoran (artist, US), Sara Nada-Melsió (writer, Spain), Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere (artists, US), Tyler Rowland (artist, US), Sandra Rozental (filmaker, Mexico)
Studio visits: Marcela Armas (artist, Mexico), Tania Candiani (artist, Mexico), Minerva Cuevas (artist, Mexico), Ariel Guzik (artist, Mexico)
Individual critiques: Magalí Arriola (curator, Mexico), Tatiana Cuevas (curator, Mexico), Mariana David (curator, Mexico), Irving Dominguez (critic, Mexico), Magnolia de la Garza (curator, Mexico), Edgar Hernández (writer, Mexico), Fabiola Iza (curator, Mexico), Graciela Kasep (curator, Mexico), Willy Kautz (curator, Brazil), Esteban King Álvarez (curator, Mexico), Alejandra Labastida (curator, Mexico), Catalina Lozano (curator, Colombia), Caroline Montenat (curator, France), Manuela Moscoso (curator, Ecuador), Josefa Ortega (curator, Mexico), Víctor Palacios (curator, Mexico), Bárbara Perea (curator, Mexico), Paola Santoscoy (curator, Mexico), Itala Schmelz (curator, Mexico)
Mentorship with: Eduardo Abaroa (artist, Mexico), Ricardo Alzati (artist, Mexico), Nate Harrison (artist/writer, US),
Yoshua Okón (artist, Mexico), Pedro Ortiz Antoráz (artist/urban planner, Spain), Joaquín Segura (artist, Mexico), Lorena Wolffer (artist, Mexico), Felipe Zúñiga (artist/pedagogue, Mexico)
Group critiques and overview: Carla Herrera-Prats (artist, Mexico)
Application deadline: February 5, 2018
Contact: andrea.nunez@somamexico.org
SOMA Summer is part of SOMA—an experimental pedagogical project launched in 2009, conceived to nurture discussion and exchange in the field of contemporary art in Mexico City. We provide a counterpoint to the dynamics of art schools, museums, and galleries.
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