[Basekamp Events] Centro de Investigaciones Artisticas - Jul 20 2010

[scott at basekamp.com]

======== CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES ARTISTICAS ================================

July 20, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations  
and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week we’ll be talking with the founders of the CIA or El Centro de  
Investigaciones Artísticas — more casually referred to by those in its  
immediate periphery as “El Centro”, in Buenos Aires. A literal  
translation would be the “Center for Artistic Research” but the founders  
of the southerly Centro — artists Graciela Hasper, Roberto Jacoby, and Judi  
Werthein — tend to nudge the acronym toward a “center for intelligence in  
art”.

El Centro is an artist-run space of interaction and debate for artists and  
thinkers from around the world, with an emphasis on rethinking norms imposed  
by northern “centers”. The CIA began operations in 2009, but emerged from  
intensive discussions in 2006 on the need for renewing art education,  
devising more plausible teaching models and education environments going  
beyond disciplinary and geographical frontiers were. The CIA’s activities  
are extradisciplinary, with a strong pedagogical focus on historic research  
and art theory conducted virtually and physically. The CIA seeks to hone the  
critical tools needed to challenge the frontiers of genres and disciplines,  
expanding the borders of practice, genre and media; promoting those that  
propose new ways of production, of exhibition and exchange; those that  
explore broader social contexts than the institutional or market-based  
mainstream.

Though El Centro operates an international residency program, its lectures,  
seminars, courses and workshops are also very much neighborhood based:  
neighbors are encouraged to participate, implicitly challenging the  
artists’ exclusive expert position on art-related questions, thereby  
ironically decentering the axis of the artworld — socially as well as  
geo-politically.

http://www.ciacentro.org

See you all then!

Join us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename:  
‘basekamp’
If you come to the potluck chat in person, be sure to bring a dish :)
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/Plausible Artworlds is a project organized by Basekamp and Stephen Wright,  
and has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the  
Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative./


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