e-flux SITAC / Second Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory ART AND CITY Mexico City / Teatro Julio Castillo / January 23rd. to 25th. Director: Ery Camara Key Speaker: Hani Rashid (Jan. 25th 6 P.M.) http://www.pac.org.mx/sitac.htm l The Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo (PAC) has organized the second edition of SITAC, this year devoted to the theme ART + CITY, The discussion will center on Urban Aesthetics, Public Spaces, Public Art Policies. Urban space as a territory of change vs. resistance. Strategies for the appropriation of the Public Space. The limits and boundaries between Public and Private. Redefinition of responsibiliities: public patrimony and collective property/services. Speakers: 1./ Urban Aesthetics, January 23rd, Yona Friedman, José Luis Cortés ,Nestor García Canclini. Moderator: Osvaldo Sánchez * break * Raúl Cárdenas (Torolab), Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Raqs Media Collective), Norman Klein. Moderator: Marcela Quiróz 2./ Public Spaces, January 24th. Nelson Brissac, Rosa Olivares, Michel Verjux Moderator: José Luis Barrios * break * Erick Gongrich, Sarat Maharaj, Christoph Schäfer (Park Fiction) Moderator: Itala Schmelz 3./ Public Spaces, January 25th. Ferran Barenblit, Toshio Shimizu, Gustavo Lipkau Moderator: Graciela Schmilchuk * break * Bülent Diken, Neil Leach, Lorena Wolffer Moderator: Alejandro Hernández Gálvez The publication of the 2002 SITAC Memoir “Exchanges in Contemporary Art: Chronicles, Controversies, Bridges” will be available during this event. For more information please go to: http://www.pac.org.mx/sitac.htm l