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horizontal work
Islands of Time
a project by Niccolò MasiniCuratorial accompaniment & collaboration by Renata Zas
un proyecto de Niccolò Masini
Acompañamiento curatorial y colaboración por Renata Zas
Islands of Time (Islas de Tiempo) es un proyecto de investigación de Niccolò Masini (IT) que lo llevó a viajar por Sahara Occidental, Génova e Islas Salina en Italia y Argentina. Allí Niccolò exploró preguntas acerca de los límites geográficos y las islas de tiempo generadas en los desplazamientos migratorios durante distintos momentos de la historia de la humanidad (con foco hacia fines del S. XIX y durante los S. XX y XXI).
Desde mediados del 2020, participo como curadora en la investigación de Niccolò, desarrollando distintas tareas: como interlocutora y acompañante curatorial del proyecto a lo largo de estos años, como productora de su estadía en Argentina junto a Pablo Caligaris, y como escritora para su exhibición en Salina Grande (Amanei, 2022).
A fines de 2021, realizamos una charla en casa Suiza para abrir la investigación al público y proyectamos realizar una exhibición del proyecto en 2023.
Islands of Time is a research project by Niccolò Masini (IT) that took him to travel into Western Sahara, Genova, Islas Salina & Argentina. There, Niccolò explored around questions about geographical limits and the islands of time generated by migratory displacements in different times of human history (focusing in the end of XIXth C and in XXth & XXIst C). Since mid 2020’s I participate as a curator in Niccolò’s research, developing different roles: as interlocutor & curatorial accompaniment throughout these years, as a producer -together with Pablo Caligaris- during his stay in Argentina, and as a writer for his exhibition at Salina Grande (Amanei, 2022). At the end of 2021, we organised a talk at the Swiss House in Buenos Aires to open up his investigation to the public. We are also projecting an exhibition of this investigation towards 2023.
Charla
Art in Architecture presenta “Exiliados en Zoom”
2020(talk: Art in Architecture plays “Exhiled in Zoom”, 2020)
Art in Architecture somos Angie Dub, Javier Zas & Renata Zas
La charla tuvo lugar en Zoom y fue transmitida en vivo viaYouTube
Fue organizada por el equipo de “Jornadas de Filosofía de la Cultura” de la Univ. del Comahue, Argentina y moderada por Ariel Masi
The talk was organised by the collective Art in Architecture, formed by architects Angie Dub and Javier & art curator Renata Zas. It took place during the series of talks coordinated by Philosophy of Culture’s Department, at Comahue University, Argentina. It took place on zoom and it is available to watch on YouTube (in Spanish)
Research project / proyecto de investigación
Living in a state of uncertainty or inhabiting a state of plot. We just learn to believe what it presents ourselves to be real
Collaborative speculative essay by Nicolás Gullotta - Renata Zas
This project is an attempt to set up an essay in the form of a dialogue, opening its contingency into the encounter. It is a kind of writing that mobilizes thinking in a new way. A way closer to uncertainty rather than certainty. Embracing this paradigm, two starring fictional characters will merge to become one philosophical text, working in a pilot or plot-mode.
Within this practice, the artist and the curator started this collaboration between the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017. The first step of this collaborative practice was materialised in a dialogic essay. This exchange kept evolving and transformed into a work in progress
About Zas & Gullotta’s duo
The artist and the curator have worked together building this plot since the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017. The first step was materialised in a dialogic essay for a seminar titled Geopoetics conducted by professor Kodwo Eshun in London. Notwithstanding, the exchange kept evolving and transforming into a work in progress that could take more than one form.
Essay: Living in a state of uncertainty of inhabiting a state of plot. We just learn to believe what it presents ourselves to be real, Renata Zas and Nicolás Gullotta
Viviendo en un estado de incertidumbre o habitando el estado de trama
es un intento para establecer un ensayo de forma dialógica, que se abre a la contingencia del encuentro. Es un tipo de escritura que moviliza el pensamiento a una nueva forma. Una forma más cercana a la incertidumbre que la certeza. Abrazando este paradigma, dos personajes ficcionales emergen en lo que se convertirá en un texto filosófico, que trabajo de un modo similar a un piloto o trama. La siguiente colaboración comenzó a fines del 2016 y principios del, 2017, a partir de un ensayo anterior de Renata, disparado desde el ejercicio de lectura desacelerada de Cyclonopedia de Reza Negarastani.Sobre el dúo Gullotta-Zas
El dúo de curador y artista trabaja en colaboración desde fines de 2016 y principios de 2017. Escribieron juntos el ensayo Viviendo en un estado de incertidumbre o habitando el estado de trama dentro del marco del seminario de Geopoéticas (Geopoetics) dirigido por el artista y teórico Kodwo Eshun (1967, Londres, Reino Unido). En la actualidad continúan colaborando en el ensayo de pensamiento colectivo dentro de las coordenadas de sistemas, naturaleza, algoritmos, ciencias computacionales, existencialismo, ley global convergente, entre otros temas.
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http://www.nicolasgullotta.com/
B A B
Buenos Aires - Berlin
ENGLISHBAB is a project incubator promoting cultural and experiential exchange within the arts. BAB fosters horizontal teamwork and collaboration across the globe. Our main interest is to encourage a cultural dialog between art workers and thinkers from Buenos Aires and Berlin, and to broaden the possibilities of horizontal work and collaboration beyond borders, while -as Suely Rolnik proposes-, decolonizing our unconscious.
BAB proposes a series of talks facing the art world.
We use various forms of speech like panel sessions, ex-cathedra expert lectures, alongside with interviews and a space offered to entried of musicians and poets to capture a topic and make it visible as a discourse.
BAB is a project by Valeria Geritzen & Renata Zas
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Our first event: “The Phoenix”
Especially pointing on intercontinental and intercultural aspects, BAB n.1 presents “Latam eyes on Europe – European eyes on Latam”
“The Pheonix, New Ways of Collaboration” held at RAH Geyersbach, focused on the question: How do we want to live the (art) world in the present and the future?
“…looking at collaborative and horizontal practices and projects, within ways of leaving our egos aside; and decolonized thinking: Latin American eyes on Europe and European eyes on Latin America.”
BAB makes use of the ttt structure (talk-think-text):
First, we hear a talk together,
Then, with all guests/visitors, we work on the presented content and lastly,
We see what kind of “text” develops.
The workshops take around 15 minutes – then we get back together to share and point out on gains and pains.
ESPAÑOL
BAB es una incubadora de proyectos que promueve el intercambio cultural y experiencial dentro de las artes. BAB fomenta el trabajo horizontal y colaborativo alrededor del globo. Nuestro principal intereés es incentivar el diálogo cultural entre trabajadores y pensadores del arte tanto de Buenos Aires como de Berlin, ampliando las posibilidades del trabajo horizontal y la colaboración más allá de los límites, al mismo tiempo que descolonizamos nuestros inconscientes, como propone Suely Rolnik.
BAB propone una serie de charlas que enfrentan el trabajo en la escena del arte, utilizando distintos modos de discuso como sesiones, conferencias y entrevistas, ofreciendo el espacio a músicos, artistas y poetas que capturan ciertos temas, haciendo visibles determinados discursos.
Art Exhibition Reviews 2021 ed. Lene Vollhardt
English only
At the end of 2021, artist Lene Vollhardt invited me to participate of her publication ART EXHIBITION REVIEWS 2021, together with
other artists & thinkers.
Participating writers: Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Melanie-Jame Wolf, Jacob Peter Kovner, Jan Kunckel, Kelly Lloyd, Auto_Anon, Steffen Koehn, Dalia Maini, Matthew Peers, Xavier Robles de Medina, Dylan Spencer-Davidson, Jenkin Van Zyl, Jame St. Findlay, Róisín McQueirns, Sa Lomba, Emmanuel Awuni, Isaac de Reza, monika jaeckel, Frances Drayson, Steve Paul Steven Paul. Renata Zas, Veronika Draexler, Dominik Busch, Robin Stretz, Kara Hondong, Conor Gilligan, Lena Marie Emrich, Ellie Harman-Taylor, Enej Gala, Catinca Malaimare.
Link to PDF edition
other artists & thinkers.
Participating writers: Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Melanie-Jame Wolf, Jacob Peter Kovner, Jan Kunckel, Kelly Lloyd, Auto_Anon, Steffen Koehn, Dalia Maini, Matthew Peers, Xavier Robles de Medina, Dylan Spencer-Davidson, Jenkin Van Zyl, Jame St. Findlay, Róisín McQueirns, Sa Lomba, Emmanuel Awuni, Isaac de Reza, monika jaeckel, Frances Drayson, Steve Paul Steven Paul. Renata Zas, Veronika Draexler, Dominik Busch, Robin Stretz, Kara Hondong, Conor Gilligan, Lena Marie Emrich, Ellie Harman-Taylor, Enej Gala, Catinca Malaimare.
Link to PDF edition
ESP / ENG
ESP: Arte en Arquitectura es una plataforma de arte que habilita la convivencia de la vida cotidiana con el arte, tomando espacios de trabajo, de vivienda y de ocio para enriquecer ambos mundos. En 2023 el proyecto se activa con 2 exhibiciones en estudios de arquitectura que podrán ser visitadas durante días especiales y/o con cita previa. Arte en Arquitectura combina arquitectura + diseño + arte contemporáneo
Arte en Arquitectura es un proyecto de
Renata Zas
Acción 1: Invierno, una exhibición de arte contemporáneo con obras de Guido Yannitto y Federico Colletta en Dub Arquitectura, Buenos Aires (Jul-Ago 2023)
Acción 2: Verano, una exhibición de arte y diseño contemporáneo con obras de Carolina Simonelli, Dallá Paracá, Nicolás Mastracchio, Gonzalo Beccar Varela, Celeste Leeuwenburg, Fausto Elizalde, Paola Vega, Sebastián Mercado, Alejandra Nuñez Berté, Luna Oks, Juan Valenti, Dani Basso & Estudio Florida en Palpa.ar, Buenos Aires (Dic 2023-Marzo 2024)
co-curaduría Máximo Sánchez Granel
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ENG: Arte en Arquitectura (Art in Architecture) is a platform that enables the co-existence of daily life with art; taking work, living and leisure spaces and enriching both worlds. In 2023 the project is being activated with 2 exhibitions at Architecture studios. These can be visited during special days and/or by appointment
Arte en Arquitectura (Art in Architecture) combines architecture + design + contemporary art
Arte en Arquitectura (Art in Architecture) is a project by Renata Zas
Action 1: Invierno (Winter), Contemporary art exhibition at Dub Arquitectura with works by Guido Yannitto & Federico Colletta, Buenos Aires (Jul - Aug 2023)
Action 2: Verano (Summer), a contemporary art and design exhibition with artworks by Carolina Simonelli, Dallá Paracá, Nicolás Mastracchio, Gonzalo Beccar Varela, Celeste Leeuwenburg, Fausto Elizalde, Paola Vega, Sebastián Mercado, Alejandra Nuñez Berté, Luna Oks, Juan Valenti, Dani Basso & Estudio Florida at Palpa.ar, Buenos Aires (Dec 2023 - March 2024)
