inSite — Art Practices in the Public Domain —
SEE: SEE: our list of projects, dates, links to our Reviews, etc.
These word pages are incestuous mixtures of personal supine opine bla bla
and scattered bits of "real facts" lifted from the inSite_05 publiciticetera
Ahem. (By our count what we can find out) Nineteen twenty-one projects of pubic art are being presented and performed and displayed and and in and a variety of sites. We've got'em listed for you over there if you want t'see'em and their various event dates.
i n S i t e : Art Practices in the Public Domain :
the title : subtitle should say it all
if we could all just get along and agree what
it meant/means/shallmean i n S i t e : Art Practices in the Public Domain :
Charlotte's webby hint: "Read the word 'practices' as a verb !"
Look :
See Art run.
See Art practice.
Practice, Art, practice!
i n S i t e : Art Practices in the Public Domain :
Now, now, Junior Dick, before you can play the piano
you must practice your Art for an hour!
The curious but fascinating binational San Diego/Tijuana public arts festival, in its latest incarnation (the fifth after 1994, 1994, 1997 and 2000), inSite_05, is officially "open for business" from August 26 to November 13, 2005.
These eleven weeks are the proverbial icetip from a much deeper berg. Artists, curators, and associated staff and scholars have been preparing more than two years now. In 2004 and 2005 the chosen artists completed a series of residencies and workshops to become familiar (familias) with their developing project ideas, their chosen/answering social, cultural and sub-cultural geographies of interest/work, get to know the curatorial staff who have shepherded their flock through the process, and of course bow down before the heavy-handed inSite sacred-cow ideology of collaborative group effort and death-to-the-romantic lone-artist-as-god religion. (Just a little tongue-in-cheek chic ahem [doble sentido en "religion" pues son dos {de inSite igual como de los romanticos solitos diosesitos}].)
Back on the serious side of buttered bread, here's something from the press release:
More than 100 artists, curators, theorists, and cultural agents from throughout the world and the area, will participate in an interdisciplinary program unfolding through four related components:
For more than 10 years, inSite has focused on stimulating artistic practices that explore what we understand by the terms ‘public’, ‘urban’, and ‘border’. Developing from a series of residencies, 24 artists’ projects will intervene in the social fabric of the San Diego-Tijuana corridor, stimulating new modes of critical engagement.
Curator: Osvaldo Sánchez/ Associate Curators: Donna Conwell • Tania Ragasol • Marcela Quiroz
Scenarios will support the production of new works in three arenas not traditionally associated with the visual arts: an online project, a live image and sound event, and an archive project.
Online Project/ Tijuana Calling / Curator: Mark Tribe
Live Image and Sound/ Ellipsis / Curator: Hans Fjellestad
Archive Project/ Insight_Transborder Archive / Curator: Ute Meta Bauer/ Adjunct Curator: Elke Zobl
inSite continues to broaden its role as a venue for debate and theoretical reflection through a bi-national two-year public program of lectures, workshops, dialogues, and publications engaging practitioners from a variety of fields.
Curator: Sally Yard
Museum Exhibition/ Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art
For the first time, the two largest cultural institutions in the region - the San Diego Museum of Art and the Centro Cultural Tijuana- and inSite, will jointly organize a single exhibition that weaves the work of over 50 artists and documentation of historical moments of crisis in five metropolitan centers in the Americas: Buenos Aires, Caracas, Mexico City, New York, and Sao Paulo.
Curator: Adriano Pedrosa/ Adjunct Curators: Santiago García Navarro • Julieta González • Ana Elena Mallet • Betti-Sue Hertz • Carla Zaccagnini
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Dual information centers for the festival have been constructed and are now (26 August to 13 November) sometimes in the daytime open to the public at the Museum of Art in Balboa Park, San Diego, and the CECUT Centro Cultural de Tijuana, in the Zona Rio. There is also an extensive presence on-line focussed around the address insite05.org although we have already heard complaints about navigation difficulties and confusing categories. Welcome to the big city!
project list
We are not affiliated with inSite although we confess to admiring their work.
Separate from their reality, we nevertheless would welcome any of your comments and insights on inSite.
Our address, as always, is tijuanagringo@yahoo.com or daniel@tijuanagringo.com or even dancharthos@yahoo.com oh yes, and thanks for reading.
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