 01/19/07 PARACHUTE
How are we to perceive contemporary art in a setting such as Havana? This island nation has been living under Fidel Castros regime since 1959, and yet it is not cut off from international movements. The geopolitics of contemporary art can no longer ignore what has been happening in Havana over the past two decades. Many artists even emigrated, especially in the 1980s and 90s; today, the art scene is increasingly diversified, with influential figures choosing to stay and work in Havana, principally, whether or not they also pursue an international career. The present moment is particularly interesting because it clearly occupies an in-between state politically and socially. The recent health problems of the countrys famous and omnipresent leader have brought about a delegation of power which suggests that a period of change is imminent. But what kind of change? No one is willing to risk a prediction in the current climate. Havana, a white and dilapidated stain facing the sea, lashed by immense waves licking at its ramparts, exists in a sort of suspended time, in a withering socio-political project increasingly overrun by the tourist industry and global culture. (excerpt from Chantal Pontbriands editorial) SUMMARY PARACHUTE 125 LA HABANA page 10 La habana language-education--counter-utopia by Chantal Pontbriand page 18 The Art Victims of Havana by Orlando Hernández page 34 The Streets Appear to Be Quiet:Contemporary Cuban Arts Texts and Contexts by Magaly Espinosa page 56 Horizontal Interactions: Pedagogy and Art in Contemporary Cuba by Eugenio Valdès Figueroa page 88 Alternative Projects in Lapses of Hostility and Turbulent Times by Magda González-Mora Alfonso page 100 An Unpleasant Lucidity: Juan Carlos Alom, Manuel Piña, Felipe Dulzaides and Moving Images in Havana by Antonio Eligio Fernández (Tonel) page 118 visual essay La escritura by Carlos Garaicoa page 126 Glimpses of Eduardo Ponjuáns Latest Images by Elvia Rosa Castro Martin page 137 Adonis Flores Farce de guerre au cur de la chose publique by Héctor Antón Castillo page 144 Les intuitions illogiques de Wilfredo Prieto by Dalila López Arbolay page 150 The documenta 12 magazines project and parachute by Chantal Pontbriand page 157 Books and Magazines by Jacinto Lageira, Rachel Lauzon, Marie-Christiane Mathieu, Frédéric Maufras, Pablo Rodriguez para-para 025 page 2 Vered Maimon > PIERRE HUYGHE / CELEBRATION PARK, Tate Modern, London Vesna Krstich > THOMAS DEMAND, The Serpentine Gallery, London page 3 Ed Krcma > TACITA DEAN / ANALOGUE: FILMS, PHOTOGRAPHS, DRAWINGS, 19912006, Schaulager, Basel Brian Curtin > BELIEF, SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2006, Singapore page 4 Mason White > CITIES: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY, 10th International Architecture Biennale, Venice Benjamin Thorel > LE MOUVEMENT DES IMAGES ART ET CINÉMA, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris page 5 Vanessa Morisset > CINDY SHERMAN, RÉTROSPECTIVE, Jeu de Paume, Paris, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebæk, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin page 6 Tammer El-Sheikh > ANDY WARHOL / SUPERNOVA: STARS, DEATHS AND DISASTERS, 19621964, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Nathalie Côté > HABITER, ÉVÉNEMENT DART PUBLIC, Quartier Saint-Roch, Québec LES CONVERTIBLES, Parc des Champs-de-Bataille, Québec page 8 Julie Matte > MATHIEU BEAUSÉJOUR / 11/2 MÉTRO CÔTE-DES-NEIGES ALAIN DECLERCQ / EMBEDDED VERSUS WILDCAT, VOX, centre de limage contemporaine Montréal For nearest outlet : http://www.parachute.ca/diffusion.php PARACHUTE T. 514-842-9805 F. 514-842-9319 info@parachute.ca http://www.parachute.ca 
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