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La Otra Tradición. Un encuentro con el arte contemporaneo en Honduras, 2000-2010 with contributions by Karenia Cintra, Ramon Caballero, Manuel Torres Funes, Adan Vallecillo, and Denisse Rondon
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Download the catalogue (in English and Spanish) Part I – Feb 08 (Jesús Hernández, Luis Carciga & Javier Castro, Rodrigo Rada, Santiago Contreras) Part II – Apr/May 08 (Alfredo Ramos, Cintia Romero, Jorge Luis Marrero, Cristian Segura) Part III – Sept/Oct 08 (Douglas Argüelles, Cesar Barrero, Karime García, Jorge Wellesley) Part IV – Nov/Dec 08 (Diana Fonseca, Walter Velásquez, Lalo Quiroz, Giuseppe Campuzano) Part V – Sept 09 (Yuneikys Villalonga, Beatriz Lemos, Pontogor) Part VI – Nov 09 (Nuria Güell), Josuhé Hernandez Paglieri, Mauricio Esquivel) Part VII – Feb 10 (Noëlle Lieber, Sandra de Berduccy, Gonzales, Aguiar, Rasúa, Maria Isabel Rueda, Dunieski Martin) Part VIII – Apr 10 (Julio Mompié & Manolo Castro, Carla Bertone & Miguel Mitlag, Florencia Levy, Edgar Hechevarría)
Temas Centrales was the first regional symposium to discuss artistic practices and curatorial possibilities. At the end of a decade in which several proposals had sparked relationships and cooperative work within the Central American artistic field, TEOR/éTica, under Virginia Pérez-Ratton’s direction, organized in October 2000 an event that brought together a large group of artists, investigators, historians and cultural agents. The purpose was to share artistic proposals and discuss the most urgent problems present within the different contexts.
Some of the most active artists and critical agents of the Central American region, alongside notable international collaborators, where brought together—possibly for the first time—during these intense sessions, which took place in the National Auditorium in San José, Costa Rica. Moderated by Mexican curator Cuauhtémoc Medina, the event revolved around accounts presented by a speaker from each country. Each one rendered a general narration that provided an outlook on their nation’s local production. In most cases, this became a framework for a wider historical report. In addition to the presentation of “national” contexts, the papers and artists’ talks touched on themes that dealt with performance, artistic education, the lack of institutions to promote art, the urgency for independent initiatives, the work of the artist as a cultural agent and the controversial role of curatorship, amongst others. In some ways, the broad agenda proposed by the symposium aimed to provoke and function as a catalyst, thus becoming more than just a program.
Contributors: Adrienne Samas, Bayardo Blandino, Rosina Cazali, Porfirio García Romano, Rocío Fernández, Cuauhtemoc Medina, Aída Toledo, Anabella Acevedo Leal, Patricia Fumero, Galio C. Guardian and Maricela Kauffmann, Rafael Cuevas Molina, Irmino Perera Díaz, Miguel Huezo Mixco, Humberto Vélez, Cuauhtemoc Medina (English texts).
