Lectures, Italy, Bologna, 21 September 2010
21st September 2010, 6 pm
“Contrappunto Sociale”
MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
via Don Minzoni 14, Bologna.
In occasion of the International Award for Participatory Art, Mexican born and New York based artist Pablo Helguera will stay in Bologna from September 20th thru 27th 2010. The purpose of his trip to get to know the territory and to prepare a proposal for a project to be realized in the capital of Emilia-Romagna in 2011.
Considering the relationship between history, cultural production and language, Helgueraì’s work often adopts the format of the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances and written fiction. He has performed and exhibited at many museums and venues, from MoMA to the Havana Biennial. His project “The School of Panamerican Unrest”, was a nomadic think-tank that crossed the continent by car from Anchorage, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, making 40 stops in between. In 2008 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. He is Director of Adult and Academic programs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
He is the author of ten books, including The Pablo Helguera Manual of Contemporary Art Style (2005), a social etiquette manual for the art world; the novel The Boy Inside the Letter (2008), Theatrum Anatomicum (and other performance lectures) (2009), the play The Juvenal Players (2009) What in the World (2010) and Urÿonstelaii (2010).
An initiative of the Legislative Assembly of the Region Emilia-Romagna, Italy
In collaboration witl LaRete Art Projects
Per info: info@larete-artprojects.net
www.larete-artprojects.net
“Contrappunto Sociale”
MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
via Don Minzoni 14, Bologna.
In occasion of the International Award for Participatory Art, Mexican born and New York based artist Pablo Helguera will stay in Bologna from September 20th thru 27th 2010. The purpose of his trip to get to know the territory and to prepare a proposal for a project to be realized in the capital of Emilia-Romagna in 2011.
Considering the relationship between history, cultural production and language, Helgueraì’s work often adopts the format of the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances and written fiction. He has performed and exhibited at many museums and venues, from MoMA to the Havana Biennial. His project “The School of Panamerican Unrest”, was a nomadic think-tank that crossed the continent by car from Anchorage, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, making 40 stops in between. In 2008 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. He is Director of Adult and Academic programs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
He is the author of ten books, including The Pablo Helguera Manual of Contemporary Art Style (2005), a social etiquette manual for the art world; the novel The Boy Inside the Letter (2008), Theatrum Anatomicum (and other performance lectures) (2009), the play The Juvenal Players (2009) What in the World (2010) and Urÿonstelaii (2010).
An initiative of the Legislative Assembly of the Region Emilia-Romagna, Italy
In collaboration witl LaRete Art Projects
Per info: info@larete-artprojects.net
www.larete-artprojects.net
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