2020
BIOCENO: Arte • Comunidad • Coexistencia
Novena Edición de la Colección de Arte de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores
Curadora & Museógrafa: Jeannette Betancourt
Inauguración virtual el jueves 22 de octubre, 2020 vía Facebook live
Abierta al público del 23 de octubre al 2 de enero 2021
Museo de la Cancillería
Instituto Matias Romero
Ciudad Mexico
Importa qué materias usamos para pensar otras materias,
importa qué historias contamos para contar otras historias,
importa qué pensamientos piensan pensamientos, importa
qué conocimientos conocen conocimientos.
—Donna Haraway
Bioceno es una palabra emergente, las ideas que alberga sólo se vislumbran. Aun así, es un término sugestivo si se le relaciona con los conceptos antropoceno y cthuluseno. El primero fue acuñado en 2002 por Paul Crutzen, premio Nobel de Química, para definir el nombre de la era geológica actual y refleja el impacto de la actividad de los seres humanos sobre el planeta Tierra. El segundo, noción conceptualizada por la profesora, bióloga, filósofa y zoóloga Donna Haraway, nombra un tipo de espacio-tiempo para aprender a continuar con el problema de vivir y morir con responsabilidad en un planeta dañado. Al tener estos dos antecedentes como fenómenos de nuestro tiempo, se especula que el bioceno llegará a representar una nueva época de la vida en la que se armonicen, en la medida de lo posible, los saberes inscritos en la naturaleza con aquellos creados por los humanos mediante la tecnología y la inteligencia artificial, que garanticen la continuidad de la vida en el planeta. La pandemia derivada del virus SARS-CoV-2 ha hecho aún más evidente la emergencia por una apertura a esa nueva concepción de un mundo deteriorado para ser reformulado, donde se integren conocimientos antiguos y visionarios con el fin de proteger la subsistencia de nuestra especie. Un nuevo orden de conocimientos que, como de costumbre, se debatirá entre juegos de equilibrio.
En la fecha en que se redacta este texto, sólo existen dos personas que han usado el término bioceno en sus proyectos para contribuir en la diseminación y la construcción de su significado.
Una de ellas es Vikdram Shyam, ingeniero aeronáutico que trabaja una extensa investigación relacionada al biomimetismo de la naturaleza y su aprovechamiento en la inteligencia artificial en el Centro de Investigación Glenn de la NASA, lo incluye en su libro que aparecerá en mayo de 2021 The Biocene: The Age of New Life Beyond Evolution (Bioceno, la era de la nueva vida más allá de la evolución). La otra, Eugenio Ampudia, artista español, lo empleó en Concierto para el bioceno (Liceu de Barcelona, 22 de junio de 2020) concierto para 2,292 plantas.
Más allá de estos casos, lo que tenemos como un concepto para ser pensado hoy día es la noción biológica de biocenosis: un conjunto de organismos de especies diversas, vegetales o animales, que viven y se reproducen en un determinado biotopo. Ambos creadores, el científico y el artista, parten de esta idea, pero sus enfoques se encauzan rápidamente hacia sus intereses concretos, no revelando en su totalidad las posibilidades que sugieren una nueva forma de vida, una nueva manera de relacionarnos con el resto de la biósfera.
Para esta novena exposición del programa de Pago en Especie del Museo de la Cancillería del Instituto Matías Romero, como curadora, he optado por problematizar este término incipiente en el proyecto curatorial y museográfico: Bioceno • Arte • Coexistencia • Comunidad, asentando lo que constituye la colectividad artística que contribuye a este programa.
Los artistas conforman biotipos singulares que operan a través de la actividad creadora del arte. Su unicidad se manifiesta en las reflexiones que tratan y traducen a las disciplinas que investigan y trabajan. Aun siendo tan diversos entre sí, coinciden en la finalidad de provocar el diálogo de sus intenciones y la de sus obras con los espectadores: esos momentos en los cuales el arte se hace afectivo, activo y amplifica sus significados a través de la experiencia y la percepción. El entorno donde se genera esta práctica, el espacio expositivo, opera como un bioma o paisaje bioclimático, un contexto único. Este es el caso del Museo de la Cancillería y el programa Pago en Especie, que permite a los artistas pagar sus impuestos por medio de la donación de obras de arte al Servicio de Administración Tributaria. La coexistencia acontece como una narrativa biótica en el ejercicio de la exposición, en la que lo manifiesto y vivo de la obra de arte contribuye a señalar la importancia de mostrarse en la diversidad, como una fortaleza y pertinencia que construye lo colectivo: una comunidad en el arte.
—Texto y curaduría por Jeannette Betancourt
"Una poética entre el arte y la biósfera"
El Museo de la Cancillería presenta la Novena edición de la colección de arte de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores conformada a través del programa Pago en especie del SAT.
La Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores a través del Instituto Matías Romero y del Museo de la Cancillería, abren sus puertas cada año para recibir obras de arte como parte del programa Pago en especie del Servicio de Administración Tributaria.
Cada una de las exposiciones bajo este programa, se enmarca dentro del discurso curatorial y museográfico de una persona especializada en un tema específico. La curadora invitada para el 2020 es Jeannette Betancourt, quien ha preparado esta exposición junto con el Museo de la Cancillería desde el principio del año. Su propuesta consiste en trazar una ruta conceptual que vincula el arte con la biósfera; apela por una gestión de coexistencia, diversidad y sentido de comunidad.
En opinión de Betancourt, Bioceno es una palabra que está emergiendo y se piensa en funcíon del término biocenosis, que implica la existencia de una comunidad biótica. Se especula que el término Bioceno llegará a representar una nueva etapa para la vida humana, donde los saberes inscritos en la naturaleza se conjugarán con la tecnología y la inteligencia artificial para garantizar continuidad en el planeta.
La exposición BIOCENO: Arte • Comunidad • Coexistencia se divide en los siguientes ejes temáticos: Procesos constitutivos, Consumación/Renovación, Sistemas de lo biodiverso, Tiranías contemporáneas, Geografías y demarcaciones, Invocaciones de la palabra, Relatos del cuerpo, y Naturaleza ritual. En este año, la obra de treinta y ocho artistas conforman los núcleos temáticos: Nora Adame, Diego Beyró, Andrea Bores, Fernanda Brunet, Iván Buenader, Patricia Carrington, Tomás Casademunt, Miguel Ángel Cordera, Vanessa García, Máximo González, Graciela Iturbide, Betsabeé Romero, Enrique Jezik, Jason Mena, Damián Ortega, Fabiola Menchelli, Jorge Méndez Blake, Enrique Méndez de Hoyos, Yousume Katano (Yupica), Daniela Libertad, Pablo López Luz, Luciano Matus, Ricardo Milla, Miguel Milló, Arturo Muela, Paul Muguet, Aurora Noreña, Cristina Ochoa, Francisco Ortíz, Horacio Quirós, Cecilia Barreto, Carla Rippey, Miguel Rodríguez Sepúlveda, Vicente Rojo, Elizabeth Ross, Edgar Zolórzano, Juan Pablo Vidal y Víctor Sanchez Villareal.
La exposición estará abierta al público de lunes a sábado de 11:00 a 18:00 horas, del 23 de octubre de 2020 al 2 de enero de 2021, con entrada libre. En atención a las medidas sanitarias dictadas por las autoridades, el Museo de la Cancillería ha establecido un protocolo de ingreso que incluye, sin excepción, la toma de temperatura y aplicación de alcohol en gel a cualquier visitante. Los recorridos estarán limitados a un máximo de 45 minutos con un límite de personas dentro de las instalaciones de manera simultánea de 10 por sala, en estricto apego al Plan de Nueva Normalidad y de los Lineamientos Técnicos de Seguridad Sanitaria del Gobierno de México.
Para mayor información sobre la exposición, visitas guiadas u otra información, consultar la página https://www.gob.mx/imr/acciones-y-programas/museo-de-la-cancilleria o enviar un correo electrónico a: museodelacancilleria@sre.gob.mx o al teléfono 3686 5100 ext. 8327.
Detalles de actividades e información adicional:
Inauguración virtual
Fecha y hora: jueves 22 de octubre, 17:00 horas.
Costo: Acceso libre (canal de FaceBook del Museo de la Cancillería)
Lugar: Museo de la Cancillería del Instituto Matías Romero.
La exposición se podrá visitar del 23 de octubre al 2 de enero de 2020, de lunes a sábado de 11:00 a 17:00 horas; el último ingreso al Museo será a las 16:15 horas.
El ingreso será controlado y con la reglamentación vigente dentro de la nueva normalidad.
Las solicitudes para visitas guiadas pueden realizarse a través del correo museodelacancilleria@sre.gob.mx.
Museo de la Cancillería
República de El Salvador 47
Centro Histórico
Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc
Ciudad de México
Teléfono: +52 1 55 3686 5100, extensiones 8219 y 8327
Correo: museodelacancilleria@sre.gob.mx
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/museodelacancilleriamx/
https://www.gob.mx/museo-de-la-cancilleria
Artist Relief is an initiative organized by the Academy of American Poets, Artadia, Creative Capital, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MAP Fund, National YoungArts Foundation, and United States Artists—all small to mid-sized national arts grantmakers—that have come together in this unprecedented moment guided by the understanding that the wellbeing of artists has financial, professional, social, and mental dimensions, and should be fostered with a holistic framework of support.
As such, Artist Relief will distribute $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19; serve as an ongoing informational resource; and co-launch the COVID-19 Impact Survey for Artists and Creative Workers, designed by Americans for the Arts, to better identify and address the needs of artists moving forward.
Artist Relief launched with a generous $5 million seed gift from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to match an initial $5 million in funding generously provided by the following foundations: 7|G Foundation, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Amazon Literary Partnership, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Arison Arts Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Ford Foundation, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation COVID-19 Relief Effort, Jerome Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Kraus Family Foundation, LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation, Metabolic Studio, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Open Society Foundations, Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation, Richard Salomon Family Foundation, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Sue Hostetler and Beau Wrigley Family Foundation, Teiger Foundation, The Wallace Foundation, and The Willem de Kooning Foundation.
In response to the immense toll of the combined forces of COVID-19, recent racial unrest, and the intense economic instability currently facing many BIPOC communities, Burnaway has awarded ten grants of $500 ($5,000 total) to Black, Indigenous, and other artists of color in the South.
BIPOC artists living and working in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia are eligible to apply for this grant. While all BIPOC artists in our coverage region are invited to apply, special consideration will be given to Black and Indigenous artists.
Since 2008, Burnaway has brought vital critical dialogue to one of the most politically polarized, historically fraught, ecologically threatened, and economically disadvantaged parts of the United States. The issues facing Southern artists, institutions, curators, and writers often represent the country’s most dire social and cultural challenges. Despite this, contemporary art in and from the region receives little national coverage or inclusion in major survey exhibitions, and even less internationally.
Through essays, interviews, exhibition reviews, and artist projects, Burnaway both documents and participates in the vibrant cultural landscape of the South today—from Appalachia to Miami, Nashville to New Orleans. A decade into its existence, Burnaway continues to give voice to a burgeoning but dispersed art world. Instead of relying on easy conventions or common wisdom, Burnaway continues to ask and wonder, What is the South?
In addition to its publishing activities, Burnaway annually hosts the Art Writing Incubator, a five-week intensive for emerging art writers and critics, and other public programs.
Burnaway is a 501(c)(3) organization and has been certified by W.A.G.E.
Joan Mitchell Foundation Emergency Grant
The Joan Mitchell Foundation provides up to $6,000 in emergency support to US-based visual artists working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and/or drawing, who have suffered significant losses after natural or man-made disasters that have affected a region on a broad scale.
The Joan Mitchell Foundation was established in 1993 to fulfill the ambitions of Joan Mitchell to aid and assist contemporary artists and to demonstrate that painting and sculpture are significant cultural necessities. To further this mandate, the Foundation supports visual artists through a range of grant programs.
The Foundation annually awards grants nationally, by nomination, to individual artists. The Painters & Sculptors Grant Program offers unrestricted career support, and the Emerging Artist Grant Program offers early career artists both unrestricted career support and professional development. The Emergency Grant Program provides funding after natural or man-made disasters that have affected a community, and from 1997-2012 the MFA Grant Program supported artists as they graduated from their respective programs. Further assistance to individual artists consists of program initiatives such as Creating a Living Legacy (CALL), Career Opportunity Grants, and the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, an artist residency program.
By encouraging the work of a diverse group of artists, the Foundation celebrates the unique legacy of Joan Mitchell as an American artist and seeks to illuminate the important contributions of painters and sculptors working today.
https://joanmitchellfoundation.org/
Care Package
June 24, 2020
Online Printable Exhibition
SVA School of Visual Arts
New York
MFA Art Practice is proud to present CARE PACKAGE, a printable PDF exhibition of work from our alumni to kick off our tenth summer. Featuring Isa Wang ’19, Lindsay Kane ‘18, Ben Quesnel ‘17, Kevin Townsend ‘16, Jason Mena ‘19 and TANGA!intl (Rachel Chick ‘14, Andrew Prieto ‘14 and Alfredo Travieso ‘14)
Summer 2020 is a special one for MFA Art Practice. It’s our 10th anniversary! It’s an occasion to celebrate the extraordinary artists that have made this program so special over the past decade as we look forward to many more years to come.
It’s also the first (and we do hope last) time our intensive summer programming will take place entirely online. Along with our global community, we’ve had to make some changes to the way we’re used to doing things. As we embark today in this new format, we’re proud of the workout faculty and staff has put in to ensure that while this summer may be a bit different, it will be every bit the exciting, transformative, and productively disorienting experience it’s always been.
To mark the occasion, we wanted to do something that felt truly, uniquely, Art Practice. Our community has always valued collaboration and participation as innovation, so we asked a few of our Alumni to contribute works to this PDF exhibition that “viewers” can print out and engage within various ways to make
them their own. So we invite you to:
Print the artworks in this file
Play with your printouts and make them your own
Post photos of your collection with #apcarepackage
http://www.artpractice.sva.edu/
AAC Alliance of Artists Communities Advocacy & Support for Artist Residency Program Grant
Possible by the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts
The Alliance of Artists Communities is an international association of artist residencies — a diverse field of more than 1,500 programs worldwide that support artists of any discipline in the development of new creative work. Believing that the cultivation of new art and ideas is essential to human progress, the Alliance’s mission is to advocate for and support artist communities, to advance the endeavors of artists. Founded in 1991 following a pilot program and recommendation through the MacArthur Foundation, the organization is focused on advocacy, promotion, and cultivation of residencies for artists and artist communities.
https://www.artistcommunities.org/
Fondo de Emergencia de Artistas Contemporáneos del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico
El Fondo fue creado por el MACPR en el año 1997, con el propósito de ofrecer una ayuda económica a los artistas en caso de que les afecte una necesidad temporal. El Fondo se nutre de ingresos que se recaudan mediante actividades que son organizadas anualmente por iniciativa del Museo con la colaboración y participación de los mismos artistas. Los fondos recaudados son contabilizados por el Museo con la participación de un Contable quien certifica la cantidad recaudada. El Museo procede a la erogación de los fondos una vez es autorizado por el comité constituido para esos fines por el CPA José Javier Negrón (Junta de Directores MACPR), el arquitecto Jaime Suárez (Representante de los Artistas) y Marianne Ramírez Aponte (Directora Ejecutiva y Curadora en Jefe del MACPR). El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico es una organización sin fines de lucro 501(c)(3), por tanto todas las donaciones al Fondo son deducibles de contribuciones sobre ingresos.
Gracias a las aportaciones hechas por el Fondo Flamboyán para las Artes y la Miranda Foundation, el MAC pudo complementar los fondos que ya tenía disponibles para este esfuerzo.
Artist + Activist Relief Fund
The Soze Foundation, TaskForce + Invisible Hand
The Soze Agency is a worker-owned organization that creates social impact campaigns about compassion, authenticity, and equity. This fund, created by The Soze Foundation, TaskForce, and Invisible Hand, supports artists + activists whose work has been impacted by COVID-19.
The Soze Agency, a worker-owned cooperative, is made up of entrepreneurs, activists, storytellers, artists, and strategists. Guided by three core values: compassion, authenticity, and equity, we create strategies for the future, immersive pop-up experiences, expansive social movements, and high-profile, large-scale public events.
TaskForce is a Los Angeles based creative agency that collaborates with the most influential non-profits, brands, and people taking on the most pressing challenges facing our state, our nation, and our world. We build capacity and community for those shaping a more empathetic society through public opinion and policy.
Invisible Hand is a social impact and convenings agency that works to spin the world forward toward increased equality and opportunity. We believe in the power of culture as a force of social and political progress. We work with individuals, brands, and institutions on philanthropic strategies, small and large-scale convenings, and leadership advisory services, among other things, that yield positive, measurable change.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Foundation for Contemporary Arts encourages, sponsors, and promotes innovative work in the arts. FCA operates four distinctive programs that provide avenues of support for individual artists and their work.
Since its inception in 1963, the mission of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been to encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations. Its legacy continues today with unrestricted, by-nomination grants supporting pioneering work across the fields of dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry, and the visual arts. A fund is also maintained to assist artists with emergencies and unexpected opportunities related to their work. To date, over 900 artists have made these grants possible by contributing paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs to fourteen fund-raising exhibitions held over the years.
https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/
West Collection Emergency Funds for Visual Artists
The West Collection is the contemporary art collection founded by Al and Paige West in 1996. Their vision is to support emerging artists by collecting their work and showcasing the pieces at the publicly traded investment firm SEI, which was founded by Al West in 1968. Paige West has put together a program around the collection at SEI, where 3,000 financial service employees work among the artwork and engage with it through tours, classes, and related programming. To date, the West's have collected the work of 820 artists, and the collection contains 3,600 artworks. At any given time, around half of the collection is on view at SEI's main campus in Oaks, where employees and 10,000 outside visitors each year interact with the continually changing installations. Artworks in the West Collection also travel to SEI satellite offices in New York, London, Dublin, Johannesburg, Indianapolis, Denver, Hong Kong, and Toronto. Paige West is committed to allowing the collected works to be available back to the artists for museum exhibitions, and numerous institutions have borrowed works over the 24 years, including Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Broad, and Tate Modern.
https://www.westcollection.org/
Works on Paper
Curated by Sofia Vollmer Maduro
Opening March 12, 2020 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Closing April 4, 2020
Studio 1608
West Palm Beach, Florida
"Works on Paper" is an art show exploring art on paper, highlighting differences in technique, style, and presentation. In addition to our wonderfully talented Resident Studio Artists, we have selected guest artists to show their incredible works on paper as well.
Sofia Vollmer Maduro is an internationally recognized art and photography expert and lecturer, who currently serves as Director of Education at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach.
Artists: Bruce Helander, Adam Dolle, Maureen Fulgenzi, Camilla Webster, Clemente, Stephen Johnson, Ellen Liman, Mary Ourisman, Ezra Hubbard, Weatherly Stroh, Cloe Gibson, Charles Bane III, StrosbergMandel, Pamela Acheson Myers, Ann Friedlander, Paul Gervais, Jacqueline Benyes, Nuné Asatryan, Elle Schorr, Annette Colon, Jason Mena, Cara Arlette, Giulia Mangoni, Dan Leahy, Alexander Shundi, Alyssa Shuey, Erica Elliott, Sammi McLean, Leora Armstrong, Ingrid Schindall, Nita Miller, Fransisco Prettell.
Joan Mitchell Foundation Emergency Grant
The Joan Mitchell Foundation provides up to $6,000 in emergency support to US-based visual artists working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and/or drawing, who have suffered significant losses after natural or man-made disasters that have affected a region on a broad scale.
The Joan Mitchell Foundation was established in 1993 to fulfill the ambitions of Joan Mitchell to aid and assist contemporary artists and to demonstrate that painting and sculpture are significant cultural necessities. To further this mandate, the Foundation supports visual artists through a range of grant programs.
The Foundation annually awards grants nationally, by nomination, to individual artists. The Painters & Sculptors Grant Program offers unrestricted career support, and the Emerging Artist Grant Program offers early career artists both unrestricted career support and professional development. The Emergency Grant Program provides funding after natural or man-made disasters that have affected a community, and from 1997-2012 the MFA Grant Program supported artists as they graduated from their respective programs. Further assistance to individual artists consists of program initiatives such as Creating a Living Legacy (CALL), Career Opportunity Grants, and the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, an artist residency program.
By encouraging the work of a diverse group of artists, the Foundation celebrates the unique legacy of Joan Mitchell as an American artist and seeks to illuminate the important contributions of painters and sculptors working today.
https://joanmitchellfoundation.org/
The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant
The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need.