May 29–June 2, 2012
Rio Grande do Sul Railway
Administration Building (abandoned)
Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
Hours: Tuesday–Thursday, 13–22
Friday 13–Saturday 12
T (55) 32208161
Participating artists and curators:
Adriana Tabalipa (Brazil), Andreia Oliveira (Brazil), Andres Uribe (Colombia), Andressa Argenta (Brazil), Aru Ma (Bolivia), Benjamin Costa (Brazil), Bianca Scliar (Brazil), Bacanikas (coletivo) (Colombia), Carlos Hoelzel (Brazil), Daniel Castellanos (Colombia), Daniel Paz (Brazil), Dany Quiroga (Brazil), Daniel Moralles (Brazil), Elcio Rossini (Brazil), Fabio Purper (Brazil), Florence Endres (Brazil), Gabi Gabelich (Argentina), Gérman Toloza (Colombia), Helga Corrêa (Brazil), Hermes Renato Hildebrand (Brazil), Julio Costa (Brazil), Luana Andrade (Brazil), Lucas Silveira (Brazil), Maria Correa (Colombia), Maria Isabel Rueda (Colombia), Mirieli Costa (Brazil), Noëlle Lieber (Argentina), Ralfie Heinsch (Brazil), Rebeca Stumm (Brazil), Ricardo Garlet (Brazil), Roderick Steel (Brazil), Silvia Laurentiz (Brazil), Sergio May (Brazil), Tamiris Vaz (Brazil), Tatiana Vinadé (Brazil), Vanessa Velazquez (Germany), Claudia Paim (Brazil), Santiago Rueda (Colombia) artist and curator, Caryl Lopes (Brazil) architect and researcher, Vani Foletto (Brazil) artist and researcher, Rondon de Castro (Brazil) journalist and filmmaker, Dario Vargas (Colombia) artist and researcher, Andre Soares (Brazil) heritage specialist, Flavia Brito (Brazil) researcher IPHAN-SP, João Rodolpho (Brazil) historian and researcher, Priscila Quesada (Brazil) architect, Sheila Comiran (Brazil) architect, Bianca Knaak (Brazil) art critic and curator.
General curator: Rebeca Stumm (Brazil)
Assistant curators: Andreia Oliveira, Helga Correa, and Roderick Steel
Latin America Curator: Santiago Rueda (Colombia)
During five intensive days an international art event will take place in the city of Santa Maria that will occupy Rio Grande Do Sul Railway’s Administration building, which has been abandoned since 1997.
The event brings to focus Walter Benjamin’s observation that “It is not a question of presenting works in the context of their time, but rather of describing the time which recognizes them, i.e. our own time, by evolving the time which gave rise to them.”
The event contemplates the possibility of installing works and destroying them, performing works and renewing them; creating an experimental space in which a piece can flow and change from one specific moment to another in accordance with the event’s own dynamic. In this way, arte#ocupaSM seeks to contextualize not only a situation that produces a work, but its reception throughout an event’s duration. As such, it challenges preconceived notions of how art is made and received, and how this relationship is allowed to develop over time within a single art event. arte#ocupaSM is hosting artists and researchers from Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia, Berlin, São Paulo, Campinas, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Porto Alegre, and Santa Maria who will be presenting performances, interventions, paintings, sculptures, multimedia, and interactive video works at different time intervals to highlight and accentuate relations between works at different times and spaces throughout the event’s duration.
Publication
An accompanying book to the event arte#ocupaSM will be published by Universidade Federal de Santa Maria.
For further contact and details on the exhibition visit the website.
Office contact
Federal University of Santa Maria
Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
T (55) 32208161 / 96050690
[email protected]
*Image above courtesy Rebeca Stumm, 2012.
