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Gathering “De Agua y Sal”: artistic and institutional perspectives on the production and circulation of Afro artists and collectives in the visual and plastic arts

This gathering has been designed between the Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y los Saberes and MAMM. It responds to the felt need to publicly converse about the current state of management, production, and circulation of Afro artists and collectives from the perspective of institutions. All of this situated in the context of Medellín, in dialogue with the country and other geographies.

This space with free admission and prior registration is intended for artists, curators, cultural managers, researchers, and art students. A certificate of participation will be issued by the Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y los Saberes.

The conversations develop ideas of local management for culture, reflect on spaces of narrative dispute and the role of museums in the circulation of these narratives. It will ask about the mission of institutions in fostering scenarios of self-empowerment, framed in the current relevance of topics such as self-narratives; the historical absence of Afro and indigenous visions in museums and institutions; and the transformation of curatorial practices.

Agenda

Friday, July 12

3 p.m. — 3:45 p.m. Registration.

3:45 p.m. Opening with Liliana Angulo (artist, curator, and researcher; Director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia), Alejandra Sarria (curator, Coordinator of the Visual and Plastic Arts Group at Minculturas), and Maria Mercedes Gonzalez (Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín).

4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. “Making Myself a Cocoon” and “Knotting, Weaving, Letting Go”. On how we create our own narratives and foster local environments.

Guests: Risseth Yanguez (visual artist and filmmaker from Panama); Ashe Pantera (weaving artist, Black migrant from Medellín); Alicia Reyes (singer-songwriter and researcher of sonic worlds, Apartado-Medellín).

Moderator: Yolanda Chois, curator of the exhibition “Desafiar. Atravesar el sol desde un gran Pacifico.”

5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Break

6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Radical Imaginations for New Structures.

Guests: Liliana Angulo (artist, curator, and researcher, Director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia), Emiliano Valdes (Chief Curator of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín), and Alejandra Sarria (Curator and current Coordinator of the Visual and Plastic Arts Group at Minculturas).

Moderator: Maria Eugenia Morales, professor at the Universidad de Antioquia, creator of the cultural space Ubuntu in Medellín.