Unravel symposium
The Thread Weaves the World
Events — Oct 11, 2024
The symposium offers a more in-depth exploration and innovative perspectives on these two topics. The artists featured in the Borderlands section interrogate how borderlands can serve as sites of significant creativity, subvert the language and aesthetics of borders and transcend them. Ancestral Threads centers on the reclamation of ancestral knowledge by artists from diverse backgrounds. By critiquing colonially imposed ways of being - including imposed boundaries, notions of identity and the devaluation of certain kinds of knowledge - the symposium will evoke journeys through both space and time.
- Price
- Museumticket + €3,-
- Location
- Auditorium & exhibtion Unravel
- Time
- Oct 11, 1 pm until 5 pm
- Main language
- English
- Admission
- Tickets
About the Symposium
This event is the first part of a two-day symposium of Unravel, featuring a diverse program full of interesting speakers and activities. On the first day, before the program in the auditorium begins, artist-led tours will be hosted by Mercedes Azpilicueta and artist duo Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic. A separate ticket is required for the tours. A separate ticket is required for the tours.
program 11 Oct
Afterwards, writer and curator Miguel A. Lopez launches the program of the first day in the auditorium as keynote speaker, followed by a panel discussion led by Ilga Minjon with Mounira al Sohl, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Margarita Cabrera and Miguel A Lopez himself. Concluding the first day, Christel Vesters engages in conversation with Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic as an introduction to the screening of the performance Messengers of the Sun.
- 11.00
- Artist-led tour by: Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic & Mercedes Azpilicueta
- 12.00
- Second round artist-led tour
- 13.00
- Doors open Auditorium
Introduction by Amanda Pinatih - 13.30
- Keynote from Miguel A. Lopez
- 14.25
- Panelconversation with Miguel, Margarita, Mounira, Mercedes
Moderated by Ilga Minjon - 15.30
- Break
- 15.45
- Talk Christel Vesters x Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic with film screening
- 17.00
- End of program
biographies
Miguel A. López
Miguel A. López (Lima, 1983) is a writer and curator. In his practice, he focuses on the role of art in politics and public life, collective work and collaborative dynamics, and queer and feminist rewritings of history. He is a co-curator for the 2024 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art. From 2015 to 2020, he worked as Chief Curator, and later Co-director at TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica.
Mercedes Azpilicueta
Mercedes Azpilicueta is a visual and performance artist from Buenos Aires living and working in Amsterdam. Her artistic practice gathers various characters from the past and the present who address the vulnerable or collective body from a decolonial feminist perspective. In fluid, associative connections she counters rigid narratives of history in an attempt to dismantle them and make room for the affective and dissident voices to emerge.
Margarita Cabrera
The works of Margarita Cabrera (b.1973, Monterrey, Mexico) frequently investigate themes such as labour, immigration, violence and cultural identity through collective art practices that foster community-building. These issues hold personal relevance to Cabrera, who draws on her own immigration history in her work. Her current activities as an artist, activist and assistant professor at Arizona State University are informed by a deep understanding of US-Mexican relations and a desire to strengthen the connection between immigrants living in the USA and the cultural (craft) traditions of their countries of origin.
Antonio Guzman
Antonio Jose Guzman (b. 1971, Panama City, Panama) engages in audiovisual storytelling through multidisciplinary textile installations, experimental rituals and performances, and is involved in other projects related to genetics, decolonisation, postcolonial history and the African diaspora. In his Pan-African work, Guzman explores the relationship between the histories of animism, indigo dye, textiles and sociocultural identity to address migration and investigate the mechanisms of power and violence associated with the ongoing confrontations between different perceptual worlds.
Iva Jankovic
Iva Jankovic (b. 1979, Ruma, Serbia) transforms ideas into performances, installations and unique garments. Merging her background in traditional fine arts with crafts, her sustainable practice serves as a platform for artistic research into the use of patterns and symbols across the world. By deconstructing cross-cultural symbols and bringing them to a local environment, she advocates sustainability as a route towards decolonisation.