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A place for resistance. Ninth Video & Media Art Biennial, Chile 2009

The Ninth Video & Media Art Biennial, Chile 2009, is far more than a collection of a hundred pieces –situated halfway between art and technology, with an Internet accent and a touch of interactivit

Cildo Meireles. Against hegemonic ideas in art

Frames, as much as borders, bug Cildo Meireles. That’s why he doesn’t make movies despite the interest he once had in it 40 years ago. The point is films usually end with a similar format and is not a

A Galician in The Caribbean

In my third time around for The Archivist section, I want on the one hand to piece together some sort of a trilogy of a number of artists who are likened to the advance of the fine arts in the Caribbea

Does the Abuse Stop Here?

In his cult text “The Sufficiently Good Artist: Beyond the Avant-Garde Artist,” Donald Kuspit hurt for forever more the pride-swollen megalomania found in that kind of artist. Kuspit stripped the histr

Land. An exhibition on Uruguayan posters

Sebastian Alonso / Martin Craciun (Alonso+craciun). Afiches: Santiago Velazco y Javier Cirioni. Montevideo is recognized as a city where posters, billboards and paintings in public places are key pla

The edge and the boundary: Libia Posada’s work

For a contemporary artist is somewhat complex to come up with an exceptional way of personal expression likened to experimental forms, taking into account how much the art world has both branched out a

There’s something going on in Central America

Over the last few years, the image we all had of Central America in terms of artistic creation has been changing. I’m referring to the six nations from the region –I’m ruling out Belize regardless of t

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The Young Looks

Watching the youngsters still seeing Casa de las Americas as a space of recognition and promotion for their fledgling careers is a satisfaction for those who started out that project and cultural cente