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WATCH: Notes for Tomorrow: Artist Daniela Ortiz in conversation with Curator Florencia Portocarrero
Sep
16
4:00 PM16:00

WATCH: Notes for Tomorrow: Artist Daniela Ortiz in conversation with Curator Florencia Portocarrero

WATCH: Artist Daniela Ortiz in conversation with Curator Florencia Portocarrero

Extended as a public program of the ongoing exhibition, Notes for Tomorrow.

Daniela and Florencia discuss the complicated relationships between structures of colonial, patriarchal and capitalist power and the fraught emotional responses that these generate. Within this framework, they explore the various ways in which art practices and the everyday intersect.


Participants

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Daniela Ortiz

Through her work Daniela Ortiz (Cusco, Peru -1985) aims to generate visual narratives in which the concepts of nationality, racialization, social class and gender are explored in order to critically understand structures of colonial, patriarchal and capitalist power. Her recent projects and research deal with the European migratory control system, its links to colonialism and the legal structure created by European institutions in order to inflict violence towards racialized and migrant communities. She has also developed projects about the Peruvian upper class and its exploitative relationship with domestic workers. Recently her artistic practice has turned back into visual and manual work, developing art pieces in ceramic, collage and in formats such as children books in order to take distance from eurocentric conceptual art aesthetics. Together with her artistic practice she is the mother of a 2 year old, gives talks, workshops, does investigation and participates in discussions on Europe’s migratory control system and its ties to coloniality in different contexts. Daniela lives and works in Barcelona.

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Florencia Portocarrero

Florencia Portocarrero (Lima, 1981) writes, lectures, teaches, and, organizes both exhibitions and public programs. Her research interests are focused on how to rewrite art history from a feminist perspective, regimes of subjectivation in the context of neoliberal globalization, and the questioning of hegemonic forms of knowledge. Between 2008 and 2010, she completed a master’s degree in Theoretical Studies in Psychoanalysis at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Later, from 2012 to 2013, Portocarrero participated in the Curatorial Program of the Appel Arts Center in Amsterdam, and in 2015 she completed a second master’s degree in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths University in London. She has participated in several international conferences and her writings on art and culture appear regularly in specialized magazines such as Atlántica Journal, Artishock, and Terremoto. In 2017/2018 Portocarrero received the Curating Connections scholarship, awarded by the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and the KfW Stiftung. In Lima, she worked as a Public Program Curator at Proyecto AMIL (2015-2019) and is a Co-founder of Bisagra.


Notes for Tomorrow is a traveling exhibition organized and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI) and initiated by Frances Wu Giarratano, Becky Nahom, Renaud Proch, and Monica Terrero. The exhibition was made possible with the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, VIA Art Fund, and ICI’s Board of Trustees and International Forum.

 
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Mark Salvatus: The Day Most Eagerly Awaited (at home activity)
Apr
28
to Oct 10

Mark Salvatus: The Day Most Eagerly Awaited (at home activity)

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Araw na nakapitapita (That day most eagerly awaited), 2020, is a work by work Filipino artist Mark Salvatus, selected and introduced by curator Tessa Maria Guazon, for the exhibition Notes for Tomorrow. The work will be on view at Contemporary Calgary in the third of three screening cycles that reflects on the precarity of the human condition, and explores how artists operate in a liminal space and time, inspired by the unknown.

Araw na nakapitapita (That day most eagerly awaited) explores the home as a thriving ecology. Through interwoven texts and use of at home materials, Salvatus invites you to create and share your own artwork. Follow the instructions below and send us your creations by tagging us on Instagram.


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Photo by Mark Salvatus.

Photo by Mark Salvatus.

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INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Download the Cut-Out Letter Template in English or Tagalog.

  2. Cut out the text, arrange and pin it on your curtains at home using push pins.

  3. Please take a picture of the curtain, post on social media and share #thatdaymosteagerlyawaited @contemporarycalgary @curatorsintl.


About the Artist

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Mark Salvatus (b. 1980). I studied Advertising at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila and started as an artist as a street artist. Since 2006, I call my overall artistic project as “Salvage Projects” working across various disciplines and media. Basing it on the word ‘salvage’ or to save or rescue which is also the meaning of my surname, I try to build direct and indirect engagements using objects, photography, archives, videos, installations, participatory projects, and platform organizing that present different outcomes of energies and experiences. My preoccupations are based on constant movements and travels - coming from the countryside to the city and elsewhere, addressing and building new imaginations of the contemporary land –urban and rural, the glocal migrant and the vernacular historiographies. I am interested in communication and miscommunication as a form and as a structure and not as a process. A form that is unstable, vulnerable and precarious as a fluid form and not fixed or established. A practice that deals a lot with collecting, repetition and series based on my lived experiences and its relationship to the world.


About the Curator

Tessa Maria Guazon

Tessa Maria Guazon is a curator and educator based in Manila. She developed the proposal for the Southeast Asia Neighbourhood Network during the ICI workshop in Manila. This is a research project with women artists Alma Quinto and Nathalie Dagmang with pedagogy as a central goal. She is part of the interlocutor program for the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial organized by the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia. She is the coordinator for Exhibitions and Curatorial Analysis for the Philippine Contemporary Art Network. Her current project for the network considers curation and curating as collectivist practices. In 2019, she launched Curating in Local Contexts workshops with colleagues Louise Salas and Mayumi Hirano. The workshops aim to understand how curation is practiced in the Philippines, within specific conditions of possibilities and constraints.


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