ZⓈONAMACO Conference Program  February 8-12, Hall D, Centro Citibanamex, Mexico City

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 | 18 H Grupo AXO Acquisition Award, by Tommy Hilfiger  18:30H ARTZ Pedregal Acquisition Award for Public Art​ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9 | 12-13 H Conversation between Tadeo Cervantes, Benjamín Martínez and Liz Misterio about artistic production from a feminist and queer perspective as well of the networks for collaboration, production and distribution of cultural production. 13-14 H Designer Talk: Nikolai Haas in conversation with Cecilia León de la Barra The Haas Brothers, Simon and Nikolai are American designers based in Los Angeles. In their current works, The Haas Brothers explore aesthetic and formal themes related to nature, science fiction, sexuality, psychedelia and color theory in prolific materials. Their mastery and uniquely clever use of materials ranging from brass, bronze, porcelain and fur to highly technical resins and polyurethane, matched with their insatiable curiosity and remarkable visual intelligence, sets them apart as designers. 14-15 H Curators Talk: Dafne Cruz Porchini and Mark Castro. Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950 Mark Castro (The Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Dafne Cruz Porchini (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes), curators of 'Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950', will talk about this ambitious exhibition project that revises Mexican modern art after the Revolution of 1910 and until 1950. This exhibition was shown at The Philadelphia Museum of Art during 2016 and, from February 2017, it will be shown at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. In the summer, it will open in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. 15-16 H Curators Talk: Kiki Mazzucchelli and Catalina Lozano Kiki Mazzucchelli and Catalina Lozano will discuss different curatorial projects which represent a series of challenges regarding the inclusion of certain artistic practices in mainstream art circuits and narratives. Mazzucchelli will discuss her work as curator of the exhibition on Ivens Machado (1942-2015) ‘The Raw of the World' at Pivô (São Paulo) whilst Lozano will address her project ‘What cannot be used is forgotten', presented in 2015 at CAPC Bordeaux, whose aim was to understand how our relation to the material world entails endless processes of assimilation, acculturation, re-appropriation, and ritualization. 16-17 H Book Presentation: Contemporary Art Colombia  Colombia's contemporary art scene―one of the most vibrant in Latin America―nevertheless remains relatively unknown outside that country. This publication is the first comprehensive English-language survey of contemporary art in Colombia, showcasing major works as well as artists, galleries, institutions, and collectors. Contemporary Art Colombia (Thames & Hudson, 2017) was edited by Hossein Amirsadeghi and Catherine Petitgas. With the participation of Catherine Petitgas, Patrick Charpenel and Juan Gaitán. 17-18 H Artist Talk: Pedro Reyes in conversation with Taiyana Pimentel Pedro Reyes is a Mexican artist. He uses sculpture, architecture, video, performance and participation. His works aims to increase individual or collective agency in social, environmental or educational situations. Taiyana Pimentel is Director of Proyecto Siqueiros (SAPS/La Tallera). 18-19 H  Artists Talk: Florence Derieux in conversation with artists of  New Proposals Florence Derieux is Curator of American Art, Centre Pompidou Foundation & Curator-at-Large, Centre Pompidou. She was Director of FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims where she has organized exhibitions of Tom Burr, Antoine Catala, Agnes Denes, Latifa Echakhch, Cyprien Gaillard, Nick Mauss, Ciprian Mureşan, Lisa Oppenheim, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Sterling Ruby and Lara Schnitger. 20-21 H Art21 EPISODE: “Mexico City” Q & A hosted by Carla Stellweg and Liz Munsell Join a discussion of Art21's recently released episode on Mexico City with Carla Stellweg, Latin American scholar, editor, curator and professor, and Liz Munsell, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & Special Initiatives at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Art21 is a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging and educating audiences about contemporary visual art and artists. Stellweg and Munsell will host a Q & A on the inspiration, vision, techniques and challenges of four accomplished contemporary artists living and working in Mexico City who are featured in the episode: Natalia Almada, Minerva Cuevas, Damián Ortega, and Pedro Reyes.  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 13-14 H Book Presentation: Silvia Gruner. Hemispheres: A Labyrinth Sketchbook  'Silvia Gruner. Hemispheres: A Labyrinth Sketchbook'  is a fully illustrated, mid-career study of Mexican contemporary artist, Silvia Gruner (b. 1959, Mexico City).  Published to accompany the artist's solo exhibition presented at the Americas Society, New York (February-June 2016) and at the Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (October 2016-January 2017), the book is the first to examine the vast body of work produced by the artist during the past three decades. Considered a pioneer in film, performance, installation, and photography, the artist delved into the relationship between the body and identity, in both personal and collective ways—reflected in the two hemispheres that dictate the essence of her work: psychological and subjective, and political and cultural. With the participation of Tatiana Cuevas, María Minera and Gabriela Rangel. 14-15 H  Artist talk: John Houck in conversation with Pedro Alonzo John Houck is deeply interested in the dialectic between repetition and desire in contemporary technological culture. In recent years, Houck has pursued this enquiry beyond the studio through psychoanalytic therapy, an exercise in remembering, which remains one of the only acts of daily life that eschews capitalism and is a means to disrupt photographic repetition. Houck found that affecting memories is more about activating the imagination than recalling facts and data. The necessity of imagination in reminiscing is apparent across his works, invoked by layered visual puzzles and often through subject matter as well. Pedro Alonzo, is a Boston based independent curator. He is currently an Adjunct Curator at Dallas Contemporary. 15-16 H Presentation of the Curatorial Program for Research (CPR): Mexico / Insular Curatorial Practices Presentation of the research program that will take place in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Oaxaca. Structure of the organization, format of the program, previous initiatives and launching of the new application for the next program. Public presentation of the practices of the curators in residence in CPR Mexico. 16-18 H  ZⓈONAMACO Sur presents Case Study #3: The F.R. David Complex The panel is an integral part of Case Study #3: The F.R. David Complex and it will further explore the curatorial ideas articulated in the solo projects section of ZⓈONAMACO. In it, the invited speakers will respond to, reformulate or question, through their own curatorial practice, ideas of visuality, intuition and speculative reasoning as modalities of being in and engaging with the world. With the participation of: Luis Silva & João Mourão (Curators of ZⓈONAMACO Sur) Samuel Leuenberger - Founder of SALTS and Curator, Art Basel Alex P. Klein – Curator, The Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber, ICA Philadelphia Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin – Founders and Editors, Cura Magazine João Ribas - Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Serralves Museum. 18-19 H  The Getty: Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles / Latin America Performance by Regina José Galindo Organized by the Getty Foundation on the occasion of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA Regina José Galindo is a performance artist from Guatemala whose work responds to systematic violence, political oppression, and social hierarchies, among other issues. Galindo will be featured in several exhibitions that are part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, an unprecedented collaboration of more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California presenting thematically-linked exhibitions on Latin American and Latino art. Supported by more than $16 million in grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA will take place from September 2017 through January 2018. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 12-13 H  Tequila 1800 Colección Acquisition Award 13-14 H  The gallerist, the designer A conversation between Montserrat Castañon, director of Ángulo ø gallery and designer Fabien Cappello. The conversation will deal with mapping the state of collecting design today in Mexico, the platforms, the creators and the buyers. 14-15 H  La doble moral del arte y el consumo de éste a través de los medios digitales Julieta Sanguino, co-editor and art writer at Cultura Colectiva will talk about social networks and the relevance they have, not only because people spend time immersed in them, but also because they interact with a reality that is apparently not tangible. It seems time is not enough for us to absorb all the information that is generated every minute, that's why media dedicated to inspiring creative minds are succeeding in an atmosphere ruled by an excess of inform. 16-17 H  The Art of Collecting Sara Hermann, Mireya Escalante and José Luis Blondet will discuss several initiatives of institutional or corporate collections with the aim of revising this sort of projects that contribute in several ways to the development of the art system. Sara Hermann is Visual Arts Advisor at the Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes in Santiago, Dominican Republic as well as collaborator of Davidoff Arts Initiative. Mireya Escalante is Director of the Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel (CIAC) in Mexico City. José Luis Blondet es Curador of Special Initiatives, LACMA. 17-19 H  ZⓈONAMACO, New Proposals presents: (human) learning Mexico: Dataism (human) learning is a study platform created by Mexican designer Federico Pérez Villoro and Uruguayan curator Roxana Fabius. The sessions of (human) learning are based in public discussions of critical texts that activate speculation and understanding about a changing world, where systems design and intelligent technologies rule the flow of information and, hence, human behavior. (human) learning´s session in Mexico, especially commissioned by Humberto Moro for ZⓈONAMACO´s New Proposals 2017, will explore the emotional and spiritual relation that humans have with technology. Taking as a starting point the concept of “Dataism”, coined by the historian Yuval Noah Harari, in order to describe the extreme faith of data and algorithms as a sort of god that restraints free will.   SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12 12-13 H  Book Presentation: Darío Villalba. Obras 1974-2015 Darío Villalba is an obligatory reference to understand Spanish art after the generation of Informalist painters, from the 1950s until today. His work criticizes the artistic context, establishing that is the artist and not a particular style what defines artistic production. Always in dialogue with a younger generation of artists, Villalba's work explores the border between photography and painting as well as the limits between object, installation and sculpture. The catalogue Darío Villalba Obras 1974-2015 is part of the exhibition that will be shown at the MACG from February the 3rd to May 14th. With the participation of Carlos E. Palacios and Iván Ruiz. 13-14 H  Book Presentation: Post Neo Mexicanismos / ESPAC- Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo  Publication of the exhibition with works from ESPAC Collection, curated by Willy Kautz, which sought to question the strict dichotomy that has been articulated between painting and conceptual art in Mexico since the 1990s. With the participation of Willy Kautz and Eduardo Abaroa. 14-15 H  Curators Talk: Lucia Sanromán and Megan Steinman On the politics of the object as social choreography  Lucía Sanromán, Director of Visual Arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and Megan Steinman, Director of The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, will discuss exhibitions and artists that test the formal qualities and meaning of their art objects, in order to situate them as part of wider social movements and political events. How can we reimagine exhibitions as porous and malleable spaces where both objects and viewers escape the prescribed rituals of the art museum and its collections, relating instead to conditions beyond art? 16-17 H  Book Presentation: Roberto Rébora. Matter and Discourse of Faith  The publication Roberto Rébora. Matter and Discourse of Faith gathers a group a pieces of the artist, as well as critical texts on his production, since the 1990s until the present day. In recent years, Rébora's work reflects the dissolution of human presence intermingled with the virtual communication networks of our times. Participan: Roberto Rébora, Roberto Turnbull and Daniel Lezama 17-18 H  Artist Talk: Jonathan Hernández, Edgardo Aragón and José Jiménez  Conversation on the relation between each artist's work in connection to the Mexican landscape. Starting from a common interest in several of the implications regarding the social decomposition of the country, this talk will reflect and analize sociocultural paradoxes that link art with economy through the illegality and informality at play in social life, politics and culture.  ​___________________________________________________________________ Hours Wednesday 8th, 2017 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Opening) Thursday 9th, Friday 10th, Saturday 11th, 2017 12:00 PM 9:00 PM Sunday 12th, 2017 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM