First Venice Biennale Bogotá / 1995
< EXCLUSIÓN / INCLUSIÓN >
What is below, so above
THE UNITED KINGDOM / COUNTRY GUEST OF HONOR
Bogota - London - Liverpool - Cardiff
CALL 2006 Opening: November 2005
Closed: September 15, 2006
intro
The universality of the local and local gray skies universalized
on both sides of the ocean, leaden rain, looks elusive.
brick Victorian home color color blood and bone windows
metal lattice windows and doors with flimsy chains
images to words and exceed the needs of their respective owners
Several races, many faiths, a port, a home We
to cross the sea with his hands, and looks with a smile
is time to open eyes and to address new ships.
not use only your mouth, use your hands also.
Good wind and good Tues
Justification
The Venice Biennale is done because it is considered of great importance through artistic expressions, develop educational processes and from the community. It is also expected to provide the district symbolic-cultural spaces where they can develop the potential cultural expressions and practices that have been simmering inside. Basic Objective
The Venice Biennale seeks to explore ways of approaching art and the Venice neighborhood of Bogotá, with articulated learning strategies within the context of the community. 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, its role, their audiences. The Biennial aims to support the search for the community to transform their lifestyles, exploring new elements to her interpretation of everyday life, new standards for reading and experience their relationship with urban space, the neighborhood and themselves.
This Biennial seeks to contribute to efforts that have been made from different social sectors, public, professionals and academics to mobilize new concepts and practices of community. For artists this means a different commitment to the results 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. Review
The Venice Biennale Bogotá began in 1995. Given the impossibility of young artists to access important rooms worldwide, the group "Matraca" composed of students of Fine Arts, National University of Colombia, decided to open his own place in the Venice neighborhood, an area popular Bogota DC With broad community support is done well the first Venice Biennale. Today this group has evolved, securing new members thanks to his becoming multidisciplinary Tai / The Art Incubator ", a program that seeks to create leaders that efforts multi-purpose events and nomads, as well as strategies of merger-interaction between art, design, architecture and contemporary cultural management.
In the first version made use of the image and concept of the Venice Biennale in Italy, as part of our own culture. The Biennial 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 Venice Biennale of Bogotá 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 outstanding artists of 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 Venice Biennale will always focus on interaction between art and community art projects should draw on the social, economic and cultural reality of our Venice. View
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The call The call for the sixth edition of the BVB is addressed to all those national and foreign artists of any age or training to carry out projects based on their approach to the Venice area and its inhabitants.
The theme for the sixth version
This time the guest of honor will be The United Kingdom (Wales particularly), and the focus of the call is exclusion / inclusion, taking into account the recent activities of the Biennial and its working group TAI / The Art Incubator which was invited to the City Liverpool, to transcribe the exercise of Venice in Kensington, an area of \u200b\u200bLiverpool with similar characteristics to the Venice neighborhood in Bogota. The intention was and will present strategies, solutions or indications that address the concepts of exclusion / inclusion as a tool for coordinating minorities to new contexts, as a strategy of coexistence or simply the exchange of knowledge and experiences may qualify in some way, tolerance, community well-being and teamwork.
Project Profile invited to participate
• Projects, routes and plays that involve the active participation of the community
• Projects, courses and works whose scope is the public space
• Projects, courses and work Travellers that can be applied to the context of the Biennial
• Projects, courses and works to promote the optimization of public space
• Projects, courses and works that qualify the quality of community life
• Projects, courses and work-centered new audiences and new audiences
• Projects, courses and works that suggest new links with the community teaching
• Projects, courses and works to promote the conservation of intangible heritage.
Guidelines for participation
Venice Biennale VI
BOGOTA (The United Kingdom's guest of Honor) National Artists
1. There will be an invitation to all artists emerging artists, professional artists and local artists in Bogota, Colombia and Latin America, and this time the UK as a country Guest of Honour 2005.
2. The artists must send their proposals via the Internet with a written copy of the e-mail until the day bienalveneciabogota@gmail.com Biennial September 15, 2006.
3. Of all the proposals, the curatorial committee will select a maximum of 13 projects that form the Venice Biennale VI Bogota. If projects do not meet the requirements stipulated, the jury may choose a number less than 13 projects, if so may increase the number of participants.
4. The Venice Biennale VI Bogota will be subject, and will involve artists from other areas of arts and humanities, as well as professionals from other disciplines such as writers, filmmakers, musicians, publishers, architects, etc, who after learning the district, presented a project from concept < Exclusión / Inclusión > within the broader spectrum of possibilities both conceptual formal.
5. The criteria for evaluating proposals are: a.
Interaction of the work with the community of Venice. It looks that the proposals arising from the knowledge, interaction and experience of artists in Venice neighborhood. B.
Interpretation and recreation of reality in the community. Proposals are expected to propose new readings and interpretations of spaces, dynamic and representations of the neighborhood. C.
Ability to articulate the local project with a universal context, ie the clear reading of the work in any context within and outside the country, (translated and transcribed) d.
The proposed plastic. Be taken into account formal elements such as technical means, invoice, text, context, currency, etc.
6. The selected works must be delivered to the premises of the headquarters of the Venice Biennale VI Bogota, in the Venice area during the last week of October 2005.
7. Works produced will not be accepted in advance, unless the process is consistent with the curatorial line with the philosophy of the Biennale, despite this, such work must be prepared prior part and not in its entirety.
8. The jury awarded only two awards that will be delivered directly by the sponsoring companies or entities without the intervention of the Venice Biennale, but under its control, and the details will be announced during the launch promotion.
9. These works may make use of public space.
10. Implementation costs, transportation, material, warehousing, insurance, travel and so on., Shall be borne by the artist or artists' groups.
11. National and foreign artists can only participate in two consecutive versions of the Venice Biennial of Bogotá. For a third participation, they must wait for a version of the Local Hall or the Venice Biennial of Bogotá.
12. Registration will cost $ 20,000, (participation invidivual) $ 30,000 (groups of two members) and $ 50,000 for groups of three or more members.
- International Artists or foreign residents in Colombia
(invitation only)
1. International artists will make a reconnaissance trip before the presentation of the draft participation. Preconceived works will not be accepted, except for fragments that its execution time demand it.
2. International artists will stay in Bogota at least two weeks before the biennial assembly and up to eight weeks.
3. The costs of air tickets, insurance and international taxes, such as materials for the execution of the work borne by the participant or sponsoring foreign entities.
4. The organization of the Venice Biennial of Bogotá organizer of the Venice Biennale VI Bogotá, DC in association with the British organization WAI, Wales Art International and The Arts Council of Wales, will bear the cost of accommodation for up 3 artists for four weeks, the basic food, travel in groups, Internet access and special services required activities such as opening or planning meetings.
5. The basic inputs for assembly (paint, nails, tape, cables, brushes, etc..) Will be in charge of the Venice Biennale Foundation in Bogota.
6. The selected artists will be in Bogota from the last week of August and must remain until the third week of September. The artists may remain until the opening of the Biennale to install his work, attend the opening and conduct their workshops or conferences, or may delegate Biennial team for installation.
7. The foreign artists as well as nationals must carry an academic activity during the biennial conference either a workshop, a talk or a tour.
8. Registration will cost $ 20 for individual participation, groups of two people U.S. $ 30 and $ 50 for groups of three members on.
THE ARTIST WILL GET THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE ITEMS LISTED AT THE END OF THE CALL, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD AS WORD DOCUMENT OR PDF FORMAT FOR PRINTING BUT SOLE IS ENROLLED IN THE DISTRICT OF VENICE COMMUNITY HALL, (personally and with his card) with proof of receipt signed by each artist.
this requirement are excluded from foreign artists who have previously visited the neighborhood, made formally endorsed by the institutions that support international participants of the Sixth Biennial of Venice in Bogota, coordinated by the Venice Biennale Foundation and the institution Bogotá WAI.
Each artist must have attended at least one of the briefings held every Saturday at noon at the Venice Neighborhood Community Hall from 12 August to 10 September 2006.
Please check schedules and extra meetings on the website of the Venice Biennial of Bogotá.
What to deliver?
1. The technical specs of the work (Author (s), title, technique, dimensions)
2. A page (or maximum 2) with project justification
3. A summary version of the resume
4. At least 3 images (maximum 5) on the project (two and three dimensional)
For video, performance or processual works, a DVD of more than 15 minutes.
5. A proposal for a workshop or conference (minimum 2 sessions)
Suggested theme, target audience, duration, materials needed etc..
6. Assembly diagram or list of installation tips.
7. Registration form with card, photo and fingerprint.
Collection of works
During the last week of September, the Committee will make the final selection of works to participate in the Fourth Biennial of Venice, Bogotá DC Works will be received in the community hall during the Venice Neighborhood third week of October 2006.
Artists are responsible for setting up their works with the help of technical assistants of the Biennale. To this end, the artists must state in writing to the organizers of the Biennale before the third week of October 2006, spaces, electric wiring or special adaptations sean necesarias para el montaje de las obras.
Los organizadores del evento no se hacen responsables de las obras que los artistas no retiren después de la tercera semana de noviembre, la cual es la fecha límite después de haber desmontado la Bienal.
Los equipos y aditamentos técnicos serán vigilados por la organización por la Bienal pero no esta no se hace responsable por su daño, deterioro o pérdida.
Montaje y Desmontaje
La Bienal será inaugurada el día viernes 4 de noviembre de 2006 en la sede de la Biblioteca Nacional y el sábado 5 de noviembre al medio dia en el Salón Comunal del Barrio Venecia.
Las obras deben be installed during the week before the inauguration. The biennial will be dismantled on November 25, 2006.
Committee The Committee consists of renowned people in the world of contemporary art: the director of the Liverpool Biennial Lewis Biggs, the art critic and curator Gerardo Mosquera, and Pablo León de la Barra, Mexican curator London-based, coordinated by the director of the Venice Biennial of Bogotá, Franklin Aguirre.
International coordination will be undertaken by Chris Ricketts and Ceri Jones from Wales Arts International, assisted by Metal Culture London and Liverpool.
Lectures and talks
will develop a series of workshops in schools and the local library in Venice, the Venice Neighborhood Community Hall, the complex urban Biblored Library and National Library of Colombia, from the month of September 2006 until the last week of November. Will seek to encourage the community to interact with the Venice Biennale.
View current programming on the web and blog during the last week of October.
workshops and guided tours during the Biennial
up conferences will be held in the adjoining room to the main hall of the Board Community Action of Venice, as well as a series of guided tours must be booked by e-mail or telephone no later than the last week of October.
FINAL NOTE:
The official schedule VI Bogota Venice Biennale will be in the Venice neighborhood community hall, on the website, the blog and the press.
Organisers may change the terms or dates timely warning to the participants.
firm entry implies acceptance of each and every one of the parameters set forth herein.
If additional questions please refer to organizers via Internet.
Info:
e-mails:
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bienalveneciabogota@hotmail.com
franklin.aguirre @ gmail.com Website
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INDUCTIVE WORKSHOPS TO THE COMMUNITY OF VENICE FROM ITS SIXTH BIENNIAL
Objectives To create and foster cultural groups of managers who are able to motivate the community to propose and cultural projects.
promote and propose to the Venice Biennale as a pilot project and also as a way to apply laboratory actual practice and theoretical assumptions seen in previous workshops and conferences that addressed content not only aesthetic, but also administrative and promotional. Fostering
climate for the free association of people interested in working full so attached to the Biennale, creating a constant support group will be able to lead other events to the needs of the community.
Contribute to formal and informal educational updated items about the teaching and importance of the area of \u200b\u200baesthetics focused today not only to the manual nature of the trade, but also to the planning and execution of projects cultural.
motivate and encourage local talent to guide their training in a timely and appropriate. Strategy
To ensure the continuation and coordination of the educational work, which will focus its efforts primarily in schools, colleges and local universities, the meeting point and also the operational center of the project will host the Community Action Board in the Community Hall.
initially convened several meetings with the intention of exposing teachers to the objectives and procedures of this project. The content of these meetings is the same but will be at different times to achieve capture the widest possible audience.
Such information will be presented by teachers to students, who in turn receive visits from our team, which will clarify doubts and deepen the nature and dynamics of this project.
emerge from these meetings people "voluntarily" go to the meetings at the Community Hall to point out even more tasks and procedures.
students' participation in this process will have an academic recognition in their respective institutions, having conducted an assessment to verify the effectiveness of the work and the accuracy of the results. Contents
To give structure to projects or actions generated, it will provide students and teachers simultaneously with elements of various disciplines in parallel. Here are some of the issues that will later be restructured and strengthened in agreement with the evolution of the project.
BACKGROUND: This area will work the conceptual structure of the projects under the action of the workshop or conference. In this way, the wizard will have the opportunity to receive a clear theoretical approach of a job, evacuating side problems by prioritizing goals.
Some suggested topics:
CULTURAL MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, ADVERTISING, ART HISTORY, THEORY OF ART, CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT.
FORM: In order to realize their ideas, participants also must handle materials and spaces, to practice and apply the theoretical content in tangible ways. Given the manual nature of the subjects, the sessions will last longer and will seek input from the materials sector companies.
Some suggested topics:
TECHNICAL DRAWING AND PAINTING, INSTALLATION OF EXHIBITS SIGNS OF SALES, PRODUCTION OF PRINTED MATTER, IMAGE CITY PRESENTATION PROJECTS, ETC.
© Bogotá DC or indications that address the concepts of exclusion / inclusion as a tool for coordinating minorities to new contexts, as a living strategy or just as the exchange of knowledge and experiences that may qualify in some way, tolerance, community welfare and teamwork.
The works were mostly in the neighborhood, cohabiting with houses, streets and people. Some also made use of closed circuit television, videorockolas shops and public televisions in the mall.
invited British artists: Alice Forward and Michael Cousin were in the neighborhood for several weeks, performing works from their experiences in the neighborhood and its relation to the context. Besides this, presented some of their previous works in public libraries and the Tunal Tintal Biblored network to bring even more viewers to their work.
In this sixth edition of the BVB was captured a large audience local, thanks to the decision to use as a local headquarters of a shopping center since the weekend, especially a large number of people entered the exhibition and took an active part of the Biennale. This raises the permanent inclusion of these new audiences in this space, which will continue the processes started yet, will strengthen the relationship with a wider audience and more active.
Despite the great successes, there is a lack of a broader working group specialized in each of the areas of the organization. In view of this, it will involve a call for a new group of volunteers, professionals in each of these disciplines. This is to optimize our processes and build sustainability into a project, which gradually despite great difficulties, has already earned a place in the Venice neighborhood of Bogota and the country's cultural field.
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Friday, July 21, 2006
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FEATURE / VERSION EN ESPAÑOL
2003
The Biennale was invited back to an academic event, the debates of the contemporary art fair ARCO, Madrid 2002, where it caused great interest by the number of versions made, maintaining the initial approach and ability to adapt to new environmental conditions and the situation of the plastic in Bogota.
in Madrid, became the official invitation to Spain as a guest of honor for the V edition in 2003. On this occasion the issue at stake is America 3 x 1, pay 1 to take 3, referring to the utopia of the union of the Americas into a single, sovereign, in the phenomenon of migration that now afflicts Spain and other countries of Latin America as a result of Colombian exodus due to violence, and the informal strategy of selling in the streets of Venice, pay 1 to take 3.
In this version of the Biennale we had the support of the Embassy of Spain and Cooperation Office English in the planning and development of these processes may be assessed shortly, in the V International Biennale of Venice.
La Biennale expansion process will look for other spaces for the whole process is understood in a shared and possibly serve as benchmark against similar processes in other conditions, under similar interests.
Consequently, the winner of the First Local Show of Venice and the winning of the V Biennale, traveled to Madrid to be transcribed into an interesting alternative space in the English capital, supported by the Youth Institute, the Embassy of Spain and in Bogota by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Bogota FAA / ICA, temporary entity formed to serve as managing entity of the Venice Biennial of Bogotá. Today, this institution has changed its name, has reduced its scope and is limited to the activities of the Biennale, its side events and efforts that rhyme with his philosophy and vision. PARTICIPANTS
1. COLLECTIVE BARBATRUCO
2. CATALINA SANNINT / HECTOR LASSO
3. COLLECTIVE THE TANK
4. ANA MARIA SERPA 5. RICARDO APONTE 6. KAREN RAMIREZ
7. Andres Bustos
8. MEDINA AND ALBERTO MARIA ANGELICA Baraya
9. CHAVEZ AND MANTLE RAIMONDO GILDA
10. MANUEL ROMERO
11. JUAN DAVID GIRALDO
12. Cristancho COLLECTIVE - CRUZ
13. PLAN B GROUP
14. CECI ARANGO
15. COLLECTIVE GOAL
16. CARLOS MARTINEZ FRANCISCO
17. COLLECTIVE AVENARE
18. DIUS ELIAS
19.
VELASCO JUAN FRANCISCO 20. LUIS DORADO LINA Cantillo and
21. BONUS PASTOR GROUP
22. ALEXANDRA MC CORMICK / LAURA DUKE /
JIMENA
Velazquez 23. DAILY SERVICES GROUP
24. SANTIAGO Cirugeda
25. ELKIN CALDERÓN
SOME PICTURES
Artwork Gilda Mantilla Raymond Chavez and
2003
The Biennale was invited back to an academic event, the debates of the contemporary art fair ARCO, Madrid 2002, where it caused great interest by the number of versions made, maintaining the initial approach and ability to adapt to new environmental conditions and the situation of the plastic in Bogota.
in Madrid, became the official invitation to Spain as a guest of honor for the V edition in 2003. On this occasion the issue at stake is America 3 x 1, pay 1 to take 3, referring to the utopia of the union of the Americas into a single, sovereign, in the phenomenon of migration that now afflicts Spain and other countries of Latin America as a result of Colombian exodus due to violence, and the informal strategy of selling in the streets of Venice, pay 1 to take 3.
In order to continue the process qualification program, the Biennial I implemented the creation of the Local Chamber of Venice, which now becomes the preamble to the Venice Biennale where local artists (local Tunjuelito VI, which owns the Venice area) pose works under the same parameters of the biennial, but are displayed in the Local Library Tunal, beautiful space with a large number of public that allows the works to be appreciated by a wide audience mostly students from local schools. Thanks to the Biennial Exhibition about the processes of local artists with more details, watch your performance and create links with participants of previous biennial artist, theorists and similar processes to achieve this pitch that was sought in previous editions.
In this version of the Biennale we had the support of the Embassy of Spain and Cooperation Office English in the planning and development of these processes may be assessed shortly, in the V International Biennale of Venice.
La Biennale expansion process will look for other spaces for the whole process is understood in a shared and possibly serve as benchmark against similar processes in other conditions, under similar interests.
Consequently, the winner of the First Local Show of Venice and the winning of the V Biennale, traveled to Madrid to be transcribed into an interesting alternative space in the English capital, supported by the Youth Institute, the Embassy of Spain and in Bogota by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Bogota FAA / ICA, temporary entity formed to serve as managing entity of the Venice Biennial of Bogotá. Today, this institution has changed its name, has reduced its scope and is limited to the activities of the Biennale, its side events and efforts that rhyme with his philosophy and vision. PARTICIPANTS
1. COLLECTIVE BARBATRUCO
2. CATALINA SANNINT / HECTOR LASSO
3. COLLECTIVE THE TANK
4. ANA MARIA SERPA 5. RICARDO APONTE 6. KAREN RAMIREZ
7. Andres Bustos
8. MEDINA AND ALBERTO MARIA ANGELICA Baraya
9. CHAVEZ AND MANTLE RAIMONDO GILDA
10. MANUEL ROMERO
11. JUAN DAVID GIRALDO
12. Cristancho COLLECTIVE - CRUZ
13. PLAN B GROUP
14. CECI ARANGO
15. COLLECTIVE GOAL
16. CARLOS MARTINEZ FRANCISCO
17. COLLECTIVE AVENARE
18. DIUS ELIAS
19.
VELASCO JUAN FRANCISCO 20. LUIS DORADO LINA Cantillo and
21. BONUS PASTOR GROUP
22. ALEXANDRA MC CORMICK / LAURA DUKE /
JIMENA
Velazquez 23. DAILY SERVICES GROUP
24. SANTIAGO Cirugeda
25. ELKIN CALDERÓN
SOME PICTURES
Artwork Gilda Mantilla Raymond Chavez and
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OVERVIEW ON
2001 The high visibility of the Venice Biennale at this point was a series of very specific reactions in the middle. A large number of artists invited to participate in the Biennale sought whether to make the approach prior to the district which is entered in the official announcement, other artists posed works involving public places and certain communities apparently rhymed with the "spirit" of the Biennial.
Some local artists came to demand their participation in the event simply by living in the neighborhood, suggesting that pre-selection (necessary in any event of this kind) was a form of discrimination. Space once the loan was kindly provided by the Junta de Acción Comunal de Barrio Venice, we were denied this edition, in fact, the board charged us an impossible to pay rent and had to rent an empty storefront in order to make the event, this raised several problems and some discomfort in the artists and organizers, problems that fortunately resolved later.
On this occasion, to ensure that all the artists participating in the "same terms" was raised a theme from which started the curatorial strategy. This Theme was Art and Gastronomy, with the theme, because not everything comes through the eyes, an interesting discussion arose from a concept viewed from multiple angles, as articulated in the specific context of the Venice neighborhood, supplied the artist of good tools to propose a project, or procedural objetual. So. The artists, of any participatory group had to meet a particular theme, to raise its proposal from the neighborhood as a territory and to articulate their process, skills and interests to participate.
The experiment worked and the work was much more clear and forceful, public space took advantage of a more effective and local artist came into the dynamics of participation in events like the Biennial plastic, unlike other processes that do not care about the relevance of the work to its context, but become mere sampling of works arranged in a space community, whose only similarity is that the performers inhabit a common area. PARTICIPANTS
1. ORLANDO CASTANEDA
2. SECOND GROUP THREE HEADS
3. NICOLAS MENDEZ
4. INDIVIDUAL GROUP 5. Maria Isabel Rueda 6. MATUTE ANDREW
7. GUILLERMO
HOMELESS GROUP 8. ACOSTA FRANCISCO
9. SERGIO VEGA
10. MORENO NADIA
11. GROUP COMPANY CULINARY
12. CLASS GROUP Maski
13. PAUL Adarme
14. GROUP TWO FLAVORS
15. RODEZ
16. LAGOS
MILER 17. VILLA AND Fraize
GUSTAVO 18. GROUP UNGAR AND LUISA SANTOS BARBARA
19. PAN GROUP CREATE
20. ANTONIO CARO
21. OSCAR GROUP AND CAMILO PÁEZ ARDILA
22. ANA KARINA MORENO
23. GUERRERO KAROL
24.
AVENARE GROUP 25. DISPENSING GROUP
26. OSCAR MORENO
27. GROUP AND ANA MARGARITA GONZALEZ DELGADO
28. MARIA CATALINA GARCÉS
29. Ricardo Sanchez
30. MAYORGA
DORIS 31. DIAZ Audina
32. OCHOA NELA
33. MORALES methylene
34.
MORALES ADRIANA 35. GALÁN AGAPITO
SOME
IMAGES
Work of Paul Adarme
2001 The high visibility of the Venice Biennale at this point was a series of very specific reactions in the middle. A large number of artists invited to participate in the Biennale sought whether to make the approach prior to the district which is entered in the official announcement, other artists posed works involving public places and certain communities apparently rhymed with the "spirit" of the Biennial.
Some local artists came to demand their participation in the event simply by living in the neighborhood, suggesting that pre-selection (necessary in any event of this kind) was a form of discrimination. Space once the loan was kindly provided by the Junta de Acción Comunal de Barrio Venice, we were denied this edition, in fact, the board charged us an impossible to pay rent and had to rent an empty storefront in order to make the event, this raised several problems and some discomfort in the artists and organizers, problems that fortunately resolved later.
Thanks to the inclusion of the Biennale in the Nexus Project of the Andrés Bello, the Biennial was invited to an academic event in the framework of the Pirelli Salon of Young Art in Caracas in 2000. On this visit to take this opportunity to invite Venezuela as a guest of honor at this year's Biennale. At this point the Biennale became an international event with greater scope and more looks that come to enrich the initial process, and promoting linkages with important international cultural institutions. One of these entities confirmed its support and offered the gallery of Istituto Italiano di Cultura and alternative space for the realization of the Venice Biennale, so on this occasion the Institute graciously gave up his gallery display apparatus of some of the works and allowed that the Biennial is closer to other locations to interested public gold.
On this occasion, to ensure that all the artists participating in the "same terms" was raised a theme from which started the curatorial strategy. This Theme was Art and Gastronomy, with the theme, because not everything comes through the eyes, an interesting discussion arose from a concept viewed from multiple angles, as articulated in the specific context of the Venice neighborhood, supplied the artist of good tools to propose a project, or procedural objetual. So. The artists, of any participatory group had to meet a particular theme, to raise its proposal from the neighborhood as a territory and to articulate their process, skills and interests to participate.
The experiment worked and the work was much more clear and forceful, public space took advantage of a more effective and local artist came into the dynamics of participation in events like the Biennial plastic, unlike other processes that do not care about the relevance of the work to its context, but become mere sampling of works arranged in a space community, whose only similarity is that the performers inhabit a common area. PARTICIPANTS
1. ORLANDO CASTANEDA
2. SECOND GROUP THREE HEADS
3. NICOLAS MENDEZ
4. INDIVIDUAL GROUP 5. Maria Isabel Rueda 6. MATUTE ANDREW
7. GUILLERMO
HOMELESS GROUP 8. ACOSTA FRANCISCO
9. SERGIO VEGA
10. MORENO NADIA
11. GROUP COMPANY CULINARY
12. CLASS GROUP Maski
13. PAUL Adarme
14. GROUP TWO FLAVORS
15. RODEZ
16. LAGOS
MILER 17. VILLA AND Fraize
GUSTAVO 18. GROUP UNGAR AND LUISA SANTOS BARBARA
19. PAN GROUP CREATE
20. ANTONIO CARO
21. OSCAR GROUP AND CAMILO PÁEZ ARDILA
22. ANA KARINA MORENO
23. GUERRERO KAROL
24.
AVENARE GROUP 25. DISPENSING GROUP
26. OSCAR MORENO
27. GROUP AND ANA MARGARITA GONZALEZ DELGADO
28. MARIA CATALINA GARCÉS
29. Ricardo Sanchez
30. MAYORGA
DORIS 31. DIAZ Audina
32. OCHOA NELA
33. MORALES methylene
34.
MORALES ADRIANA 35. GALÁN AGAPITO
SOME
IMAGES
Work of Paul Adarme
Herpes Ocular Imagenes
1997 Under the same general parameters of the first edition, Venice Biennale II was developed in the same space, the community hall of Venice, but with artists most widely recognized in the national art world, who wanted to appropriate the urban space. Thus, a high percentage of works were carried out in the park, shops, houses and all sorts of different alternative spaces Local Hall in principle, had a totally museum.
The Biennial interest in the media, is justified by the level of the participants and the resourcefulness of the proposals. The works of local artists, on the other hand, were contrasted with the works of artists of proven track record, this feature led to the Biennial to think about how to qualify these works and processes, which would operate more to front.
Unlike the first edition, where participation it was considered a prize, the second edition five proposals awarded by popular vote through a ballot arranged in the entrance hall.
This time the IDCT and others supported the event as well, companies became interested in the event and then back him on several occasions. Local trade was interested in the same way and with its approach we not only support but also the confidence of the community for the Biennial.
The Biennial, which was raised at the outset as something possible, but over time took a procedural nature. The artists and the artistic environment, increasingly concerned, were already talking about a third edition. The event grew and the problems too, because given the new dimensions of the event, initial support was increasingly emerging, therefore, resources management became one of the most important points on the agenda of the Venice Biennale . PARTICIPANTS
1. Andrea Echeverri / DON ALVARO MORENO
2. GUSTAVO ZALAMEA
3. MARIA ANGELICA MEDINA
4. LUCAS OSPINA 5. JUAN VELASCO FRANCISCO 6. CARLOS BLANCO
7. CARLOS SALAS
8. ALBERTO Baraya
9. RAFAEL ORTIZ
10. JAIME Iregui / MARIA ELVIRA Escallon
11. JIMENEZ FREDDIE
12. MARIA FERNANDA ZULUAGA
13. JOSEPH KAPLAN
14. GUSTAVO MUÑOZ
15. LUZ ANGELA LIZARAZO
16. CARLOS JACANAMIJOY
17. MANUEL ROMERO
18.
JARAMILLO GLORIA 19. GABRIEL SILVA
20. MARTHA Combariza
21. ANA MARIA RUEDA
22. FERNANDO LUIS ROLDAN
23. OMAR CROWE
24. Nadin Ospina
25. LUIS HERNANDO GIRALDO
26. ROMERO MANUEL OCHOA
27. CARLOS ZAMUDIO
28. RAFAEL GUTIERREZ
SOME PICTURES
Work of Martha Combariza
Work of Juan Francisco Velasco
Work of Alberto Baraya
What Adhesive Will Stick To Neoprene
1995 The Venice Biennale I arose at a particular moment in art Bogota, where both official languages, as well as contemporary art spaces were worn, repetitive, and some foreign sobrepolitizados.
The initial approach was to displace the art of the official or common areas to other less established or willing, to gather new audiences and force some of the process of each artist, faced with a specific context. Having to relate their work with audiences who will read it later allowed a number of approaches between author-viewer-context that triggered new strategies of interaction between them.
sarcasm and paradox, as a result of mimetic reflection raised the Biennial with his Italian counterpart, La Biennale Di Venezia, became effective early on advertising hook for the media attending the event en masse. The impact was such that although many in the art world were not present at the event, remained aware of their day to day development, through articles and interviews from many angles recorded consistently performing the Biennial.
La Biennale invited from the beginning to artists residing in the town, to show their work in this space because, for obvious reasons are the ones who can bring more precision to the reality of the neighborhood to live in it for years. Other artists, some other guests invited by the organizers allowed the coexistence of different looks, different ways of approaching the area and different processes of creation.
artists give back the valuable support of the people through educational activities such as conferences, workshops and guided tours, which are made available in public facilities during the Venice Biennale exhibition. These activities are generally aimed at children and young people sector or the elderly. PARTICIPANTS
1. ANTONIO CARO
2. MARIA ANGELICA MEDINA
3. JAVIER ALMANZA
4. PILAR ASILAH 5. JAIME AVILA 6. COSTANZA CAMELO
7. MAURITIUS CALIXTO
8. Jaime Ceron
9. Gilles Charalambos
10. Diaz & Juan Mejia WILLSON
11. Andrea Echeverri
12. ESPINOZA LINA
13. OLGA LUCIA GARCIA
14. MIGUEL ANGEL HUERTAS
15. IBARRA SILVIA
16. RUSH HUMBERTO
17. MARTÍNEZ GERMÁN
18. CARLOS MERY
19. DARIO RAMIREZ
20. TEDDY RAMIREZ
21. ERNESTO REYES
22. ROJAS MIGUEL SOTELO
23. MANUEL ROMERO
24. ROBERTO SARMIENTO
25. & The flasks
SOME PICTURES
Collective Work RADIO ZERO
Willson Artwork Diaz and Juan Mejia
Firefighter Fish Tanks
The Venice Biennial of Bogotá
Objective: To spread or move the art production and circulation from usual places from STIs and to a popular southern neighborhood in Bogota, far from the historical district and the official places Where Art exhibits take place.
Strategies: To make an In Situ art exhibition by young professional artists Emerging Who Simultaneously do art workshops and conferences about their work or any contemporaneous artwork for the community.
Initiative
: The biennial is part of a neighborhood’s habitual events, to promote creativity and discuss critical elements, to appreciate, experiment, and evaluate art projects and their relation with the community.
Final Initiative
: To create a physical and a mental space, to reflect about the contemporary thought, through art as the communication life media.
Preamble
In 1995 the biennial aroused as the possibility to spread art to new spaces and new audiences. The biennial could be seen as a movie interlude, as an open enunciate, a multidisciplinary lab or work in progress.
This event started as a word game which refers to the Venice, Italy biennial. It differs from its European references, it shows a different type of relationship with the spectators, tries to involve them in an active creative process and work exhibit.
The Venice Biennial of Bogotá is far from being a simple autobiographic artwork sampler or an everyday gallery or museum exhibition, it is an event that took the neighborhood as a basic theme, spread out today to the Tunjuelito location south of Bogotá. As time has gone by, it has become a window for contemporary art and its relationship with the local everyday neighborhood and urban activities.
This is not new. What it is noticeable about it is perhaps the community’s growing participation as well as making the artwork and their active collaboration in the workshops, speeches, and guided visits.
The In Situ character of the biennial has made sense for the biennial itself as well as the art projects.
Justification
The Venice Biennial of Bogotá (BVB) takes place because it is considered that through art expressions, pedagogical processes are developed from the community so that the neighborhood starts acquiring symbolic-cultural spaces. In this new context, the potential expressions and the cultural practice could develop from its insights.
Mission
The Venice Biennial of Bogotá (BVB) looks forward for the community and the artists to come closer together through a pedagogic strategy that takes art as its activity and articulates it in the neighborhood context.
When we talk in the framework of the biennial about pedagogy, we understand it as the space where a variety of knowledge circulates around art, its role, and its audiences.
The BVB tries to support and look for their own community to transform their ways of life, by way of exploring new everyday interpretation elements, new reading references, and experiencing their relationship with urban space, their neighborhood and themselves.
The BVB looks to contribute with new elements and strategies. The effort that has been done from different social, public, professional and academic areas to keep up-to-date new concepts and community practices.
For the artists, it means a different compromise with the consequences that their art work may cause, since the biennial proposes searching for “other” solutions, conditions, and action fields for their projects in a unique scenery: the neighborhood.
A little history…
The Venice Biennial of Bogotá (BVB) started in 1995 because of difficulties found by young national artists to have access to important exhibits worldwide. The group of “Graggers”, conformed by Plastic Art students from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, decided to open their own space with wide community support in the Venice neighborhood, a popular area of Bogotá. That is how the First Venice Biennial of Bogotá took place.
This first version used the image and concepts from the Venice Biennial of Italy, framed in our own cultural environment. The BVB started around a universal reference appropriation, and at the same time, it ratifies our own local culture.
The second Venice Biennial of Bogotá, D.C. continued with the same reference strategies from the Venice Italy Biennial, but the projects, contents and audiences were different. While the Venice, Italy Biennial is directed to one international plastic and social elite. The second Venice Biennial of Bogotá was the result of reducing the distance between the community of a popular neighborhood and the art manifestations. This approach was developed in two ways. In one way the community approached the plastic expressions that were banned or did not belong to them, and on the other hand, twenty (20) or more, highly renowned artists from Colombia approached a specific area of our city, to interpret local reality and to return to the community their impressions as plastic expressions. The BVB will always emphasize the interaction between art with the community and their art projects, which should be inspired by the social, economic and cultural realities of our Venice.
From the third edition of the Venice of Bogotá Biennial, many proposals came about from international artists that adhere to the BVB philosophy such proposals sometimes from a foreign point of view, broaden out situations that for us locally were already known and invisible (not there).
Ever since the BVB was created, it has been part of highly important academic events in many cities around the world. Those are Medellin, Cali, Caracas, Madrid, La Habana, London, Liverpool, Buenos Aires, Quito and Cardiff.
About the summons
This Biennial differs from the former ones before a personal invitation was sent to each participant. Ever since the third Biennial, the invitation has been made through a letter of convocation, open to all and distributed through the mail, electronic media and print outs using the databases from different academies, universities, cultural and community centers. The Local Cultural Council and other cultural foundations that are on location putting out a list of possible participants decide the local artist’s participation.
The experiment is about allowing and maintaining contrasts between local artists, and the artists that emerge from the summons. Both are referred to the community in a diverse way: through documental approaches, position enunciations, personal and sometimes even public lectures facing the Venice neighborhood context.
About the artists
It is very curious to see, how in a particular way the artwork of an artist changes in a non “habitual” area.
Having a far away neighborhood from the classical art circles as a reference can expose the artist to new spectators, and lectures. Because their artwork is collective, and it cannot be evaluated immediately, it gives them less personal responsibility. It is something that is perceived as time passes and then makes an impact.
On the fourth edition of the BVB, foreign artists that belonged to the Nexus project participated through the Convenio Andres Bello. Thanks to the exchange program they were able to visit the neighborhood previously. These artists lived in Bogotá for about a month. Starting from their own experience in the Venice neighborhood they made their artwork. As well as some international artists, they will have the same approaching process to the neighborhood before they make of their work in future editions of the Biennial.
The plastic value
The Biennial acts as an information channel, in which experiences are exchanged; the art in such case shows evidence of particular behaviors that affect individuals in this context; or simply highlights similarities and brings up a difference, which many times paradoxically is the one excuse to get together.
The artwork or better yet the projects start assuming compromise in each and every participant. The risk is reduced to the access to documentation and the exhibit level that the participants have had in the context. The codes pile up to say things, to translate realities. What are left are the results, which are in the eye of the beholder who “feels” or does not feel. The artwork approaches to the neighborhood reality, and the abilities of the artist and its good judgments.
About the audiences
After seeing many modernist museums and art galleries, organized under chronological or stylist parameters, between the lines something can be seen that could be the first justification; the museum didactic aspect.
From the Biennial’s first version, the neighborhood people participation was looked for; speeches, conferences, guided visits that in a way or another approaches surprisingly the spectators that have a global idea about art, or at least of what a sacred and impermeable museum is.
Today the Biennial of Venice continues with its didactical intention trying little by little to optimize the processes, and to call upon the intervention of people specialized in this area.
New projects emerging from the BVB
The Venice Biennial has been the inspiration and the motor of many private artistic initiatives as well as official ones for more than ten (10) years in Bogotá. As a matter of fact, new art practices have changed the way they saw the far away communities, centering themselves in their cultural potential and their abilities to convert such practices in creation, tolerance strategies.
Inside this context the biennial has created two “extensions” that surely optimize from its central axis the new versions, and that will give the needed tools for it sustainability: “Linking communities through the Arts” and the Piccolo Aperto.
Linking communities through the arts
The basic intention is to offer and execute a series of experiences in a particular place with a determined group of people to create links, optimize processes, bring communities together, increase tolerance and promote team work, all these through art.
In general the process includes a series of projects, independently stated, yet related and interactive. Looking in that way to create an activity “kit”, that could be transported to other contexts and shown to other audiences, enriched and continue this versatile nomad strategy.
With these ideas, more than 500 didactic activities have taken place during 10 years of the Venice Biennial of Bogotá, the implementation of a stable and active center near the neighborhood’s Communal Room will be proposed.
The training of local leaders for different activities is applied accordingly to their particular needs and they take place at the appropriate moment. We look forward to build an artist’s database as well as agents, leaders, and general public to generate a useful system and constantly keep it up-to-date.
Planning, making, and evaluating this project will be in charge of TÄI – The Art Incubator, a multidisciplinary collective that is in charge of the logistics of the Venice of Bogotá Biennial.
The Piccolo Aperto
This events objective is the presentation interesting art proposals from all over the world that go along with the independent and urban philosophy of the Venice of Bogotá Biennial. These proposals have a relationship with the urban side, the living in the city dynamics and the images of a neighborhood, we consider inviting similar proposals to enrich and broaden the strategies, to state other ways to make art having those as a reference.
We would like to bring into the country modern proposals; interesting and inspiring that promote a similar setting up as to the one of our context. At the same time it will allow the artists, agents, administrators, sponsors, partners, gallery owners and spectators interaction closing the existing gap between contemporary art and its audience.
A year ahead of time of each Venice Biennial or in the time when its effective, a version of the Piccolo Aperto will take place; it will involve international artists (not necessarily from the invited honor country) artists or artists collectives from other cities of the country.
This event will have two locations. One will be the Location of Tunjuelito and the other one will be a regular exhibition centre to achieve the interaction from both ends of the system in one way.
Vision
The work will be done looking forward to strengthen local cultural projects that are already in progress. The objective is to make the local artists have active and dynamic participation in this art spaces, filling them with every day activities. That way we will be getting closer to their entertaining or information interests or simply we will be establishing links with the community from different perspectives.
It is a goal for years to come that the Biennial of Venice becomes the favorite spot for artists to develop themselves as well as cultural agents who will be in charge of promoting and broadcasting the event in the not too far away future.
© 2006 / Franklin Aguirre / Bogotá, D.C. Colombia
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