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Todo es un remix
with Maria Cañas and Eduardo Vaca
Activity open to everyone and free with capacity limited to 55 people
Language: spanish
Still from Menudo viaje. El sueño torcido del arte contemporáneo, by María Cañas
Menudo viaje. El sueño torcido del arte contemporáneo (2022) portrays a probable dystopia: after the collapse of the curatorial and exhibition model, the Biennale 2064 turns out to be a conceptual dung heap validated by circles of power that speculate on works of art lost in containers in tax havens and that plunge a multitude of creators into misery and slavery. In this fiction, clandestine artistic communities and hooligans roam freely in our streets, underground and cyberspace, giving way to artistic debauchery, divergence and the magic of chaos.
The video will be accompanied by a conversation with Eduardo Vaca to discuss remix culture and cultural worlds outside the institution of the Western museum. The conversation is based on the joint reading of the book Plagie, copie, manipule, robe, reescriba este libro (Valeria Mata, published in Spain by Ediciones Comisura) and her project Todo es un remix from La Experimental (Ecuador).
Activity curated by Hamaca
With the participation of Eduardo Vaca and María Cañas
María Cañas
The Archivist of Seville or the Terrorist Virgin of the Archive, practises video guerrilla warfare. A cultural agitator, she practises appropriationism in order to enter into clichés and prejudices in order to dynamite them and uses laughter as an act of resistance: the all-coloured humour of connected crowds, as a strategy of insurgency or, if not, at least of resistance. Her commitment to the archive and audiovisual detritus as tools for cultural development, and to the need to educate in the recycling of our imaginaries, aims to transform us into freer, more critical and creative beings.
Eduardo Vaca
He is a researcher and cultural manager, with training in community-based cultural policies from FLACSO in Argentina, a master's degree in Cultural Management from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and a degree in Business Engineering from the Escuela Politécnica Nacional de Ecuador. In the last decade he has carried out processes related to cultural management and promotion of the arts in national and international cultural institutions. Since 2018 he has been coordinating La Experimental, a platform for cultural experimentation and accompaniment of artistic projects in Ibarra, Ecuador.
