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The Venice Biennial of Bogotá

Objective: Move the production and circulation of art from their usual places, and from the community in a popular neighborhood south of Bogota, from the center historical and official spaces where art is exhibited.

Strategy: Make an exhibition of works in situ of young artists, emerging professionals who, simultaneously, conduct workshops and lectures for the community about their work or on any subject of contemporary art.

initial intent: The Biennial of regular events of a quarter, with the aim of promoting the creation and discussion of critical elements to assess, test and evaluate artistic projects and their relationship with the community.

final Intent: Create a physical and mental space for reflection on contemporary thought through art as a living medium of communication. Preamble


Biennale in 1995 emerged as a possibility to extend the art to new places and new audiences. The Biennale also appears to be an intermission, as the middle of a movie, as an open sentence, a laboratory multidisciplinary, a construct, a work in progress.

This event began as a play on words referring to the Venice Biennale in Italy, but unlike its European benchmark, poses another kind of relationship with viewers by involving them closely and actively in the process of creating and exhibition of the works.
The Venice Biennial of Bogotá, far from being a simple display of autobiographical works, as in museums and galleries daily routine is an event that has opted for the neighborhood as a basic theme, today extended the area of \u200b\u200bsouthern Tunjuelito Bogotá. Furthermore, it has become over time in a symptomatic case for contemporary art and its relationship with the local daily, the neighborhood and urban.
This is not new, what is remarkable is perhaps the increasing participation of the community, both in carrying out the works and in their active collaboration in the workshops, talks and tours.

In Situ The character of the Biennale has shaped both the sense of the Biennale and the art projects. Justification






The Venice Biennial of Bogotá (BVB) is done because it is of great importance through artistic expression develop educational processes and from the community, aimed at providing the neighborhood of symbolic-cultural spaces. In this new context, they may develop and optimize the potential cultural expressions and practices that have been simmering inside. Mission




Venice Biennial of Bogotá (BVB) is seeking the community and artists with an educational approach that takes art as its activity and articulates with the neighborhood context. When we speak of education in the context of the Biennale, is understood as a space where they circulate and confront different knowledge about art, their role and their audiences. The BVB is intended to support the search for the community to transform their ways of life, exploring with it new elements of interpretation of everyday life, new standards for reading and experience their relationship with urban space, the neighborhood and themselves.

The BVB is seeking to bring new elements and strategies, efforts that have been made from different sectors, social, public, professionals and academics to update new concepts and practices of community. For artists this means a different commitment to the consequences of his work, since the proposed biennial search for "other" solutions, conditions and fields of action for their projects in a unique setting: the neighborhood.

Some history ...


The Venice Biennial of Bogotá (BVB) was initiated in 1995. Given the difficulty of young artists to access important rooms worldwide, the group "Noise makers," composed of students of Fine Arts, National University of Colombia, decided to open his own place in the Venice neighborhood, an area popular Bogota with broad community support is done well the first Venice Biennale in Bogotá.

This first release took the image and concept of the Venice Biennale in Italy, as part of our own culture. The BVB is then initiated a work around regarding appropriation of universal and at the same time, ratification of our own local culture.
The Second Venice Biennial of Bogotá, DC continued this strategy refers to the Venice Biennale in Italy, but the projects, their content and their audiences were different. While the Venice Biennale, Italy is directed to a social elite and international plastic, the Second Biennial of Venice in Bogota was the result of an administration that sought to reduce the distance between a neighborhood community and popular art forms.
This approach was developed in two ways. On the one hand, the community approached the artistic expressions that had been provided outside or closed. In addition, twenty of the most Featured artists in the country came to a specific sector of our city to interpret the local reality and back to the community these impressions as artistic expressions. The BVB will always focus on the interaction between art and community art projects should draw on the social, economic and cultural reality of our Venice.

Since the third edition of the Venice Biennial of Bogotá, has given way to proposals from international artists that rhyme with the philosophy of the BVB, or expand through a foreign look to us situations that premises can be and invisible.

The BVB has been part ever since important academic events in several cities like Medellín, Cali, Caracas, Madrid, Havana, London, Liverpool, Buenos Aires, Quito and Cardiff.



On the call


Unlike previous Biennials where participation was by personal invitation. Since the third edition of the BVB, participation takes place through an open call, which is distributed in some print, electronic and direct mail, using databases of colleges, universities, cultural and community centers. The participation of local artists was determined by the Local Council of Culture and cultural foundations that are unionized in the locality, who proposed a list of potential participants.

The experiment was to permit and maintain the contrast between local artists and artists call participants. Both referred to the community in different ways, using the documentary approach, stating positions and personal readings or sometimes collective, against the background of the Venice neighborhood.

About the artists


Funny how change particularly the works of artists in a space not "normal."

Having reference to an area away from classical art circuits, the artist can make be exposed to new audiences with new readings. It also involves other less personal responsibility, since the work is already in a collective, something that can not be assessed immediately, is something whose impact can only be seen over time.
The fourth edition will be linked to the BVB, foreign artists belonging to the Nexus project, through the Convenio Andres Bello, who made previous visits to the neighborhood, thanks to the exchange program. These artists lived about a month in Bogota, where he developed his work from his experience in the Venice area, as well as some international artists, who have the same process of bringing the neighborhood before carrying out their work in future editions of the Biennale.

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The Biennial acts as an information channel in which they exchange experiences, art, in this case notes, or evidence reveals particular behaviors that affect individuals in this context, or simply exalts highlights similarities and differences, which are often, paradoxically, the perfect excuse to get together.

or rather works projects, the commitment made by each and every one of the participants, the risk is reduced rather to access documentation and level of exposure that participants have context. Here, codes crowd to try to say things to try to translate realities. Then the result is in the field of viewer to "feel" or not, the proximity of the work with the reality of the neighborhood, and the skill of the artist, his good resolution.
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After seeing several modernist museums and galleries, organized in chronological or stylistic parameters, it suggests something that may be your first justification, the didactic nature of the museum.

Since the first version of the biennial sought the participation of the local residents through lectures, conferences and tours that bring in one way or another to the unsuspecting viewer who has a fairly comprehensive idea of \u200b\u200bwhat art is, or at least it is a sacred and impervious museum. Today, the Venice Biennale with his didactic intent is gradually trying to streamline processes and seek the intervention of trained personnel in this area.

New projects from the BVB


The Venice Biennale has been the inspiration and driving force of many artistic endeavors in Bogotá both private and official for over 10 years. In fact, the new artistic practices have changed their view to remote communities, focusing in its cultural potential and great opportunities to make such practices in building strategies, coexistence and tolerance.

Within this context, the Biennial has created two "extensions" from its central axis very likely that will optimize their new versions and give you the tools necessary for sustainability, these are: the project "Linking Communities through Arts and Aperto Piccolo

LINKING COMMUNITIES THROUGH THE ARTS


The basic intention is to raise and run a series of art experiences in a particular place and a group of people, to bond, streamline processes, closer communities, encourage tolerance and promote teamwork, all through art.

The process usually includes a number of projects, raised independently, but interrelated and interactive time. It thus seeks to create a "kit" of activities that can be transported to other contexts and other audiences to enrich and continue this strategy shifting and versatile.
In this vein, adapted some of the more than 500 educational activities that have taken place during the 10 years of the Venice Biennial of Bogotá, he will consider implementing a stable and active site in the neighborhood near the community hall in Venice.
training will be conducted and / or training of local leaders so that these initiatives are implemented from their particular needs or at the right time. It likewise seeks to establish a database of both artists, managers, leaders and groups to generate a micro useful and constantly updated.

planning, implementation, evaluation and roaming of this project will be undertaken by TAI - The Art Incubator, multidisciplinary group that handles the logistics of the Venice Biennial of Bogotá



THE PICCOLO APERTO


event , aims at the presentation of interesting artistic projects worldwide that rhyme with independent and urban philosophy of the Biennale of Venice in Bogota. These proposals have a close relationship with the city, with the dynamics of living in the imaginary city and neighborhood. For this reason we consider appropriate to invite similar proposals to enrich and expand strategies, approaches and other ways to make art from these references.
We want to bring the country
current proposals, interesting and alive to inspire and promote similar approaches in our context. In turn, this process will allow the interaction of artists, managers, critics, administrators, sponsors, partners, gallery owners and viewers in general, in order to bridge the gap between contemporary art and its public.
each year before the Venice Biennale, or when it becomes effective management is carried out a version of Piccolo Aperto, which will involve international artists (not necessarily the guest of honor) and artists or groups artists from other cities.
This event will have two headquarters, one in the Town of Tunjuelito and another at a regular display, to achieve the interaction of both ends of the system in one direction. Vision






will work towards strengthening of local cultural projects already in process and provide the conditions to implement a series of cultural centers, in order to share common dynamics in these spaces, local artists and new audiences, linking them with their daily activities. This approach to entertainment interests or information, or simply to raise community ties from several perspectives.

is intended that in the coming years the Venice Biennale, becoming the preferred space for the formation of both artists and cultural managers who will be responsible for promoting and broadcasting the event in the future, hopefully not too distant.
© 2006 / Franklin Aguirre / Bogotá DC Colombia