SITAC / Second Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory
23/01/2003 - 25/01/2003
www.pac.org.mx/sitac.htm
ART AND CITY
Mexico City / Teatro Julio Castillo / January 23rd. to 25th.
Director: Ery Camara
Key Speaker: Hani Rashid (Jan. 25th 6 P.M.)
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.
