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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.)

www.pac.org.mx/sitac.htm

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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: www.pac.org.mx/sitac.htm
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