tristestopicos

	Collective background ······································ Paulina Varas A. Joaquín Barriendos Cristián Gómez M. ······································	Tristestópicos is a critical project focusing on the process of construction and circulation of the imaginaries of the Latin America within different European geographical locations. Using a mixed strategy of documentation and analysis of the cultural relations between Europe and Latin America, Tristestópicos claims to reconsider the symbolic place where both territorialities negotiate their always-moving imaginaries. Considering visual and artistic practices, the project reflects how the immaterial realities of Europe and Latin America are intersected, what they have in common and where the boundaries are until it is possible to narrow the gap between them. The main axes of research and inflection of Tristestópicos are the policies of representation, on the one hand, and the legitimizing practices through cultural narrations, on the other. Therefore, Tristestópicos tries to visualize as well as to criticise the curatorial, mediatic, urbanistic and territorial strategies, which people and institutions use to give form to the Latin American imaginaries. Tristestópicos aims to be a project which reflects, on an alternative way, current issues as identity’s comprehension, cultural diversity, aesthetic policies and territoriality of Latin America. ·············································································································································· Background of collective 2005 January _ First publication of the TRISTESTOPICOS bulletin. Documentos (ex)céntricos sobre el imaginario de lo latinoamericano, with the theme “Pounding the imaginary of the Latin-American in Barcelona”. February _ Tristestopicos project presented at the Aula Magna at the faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. Conference: “Pounding the imaginary of the Latin-American in Barcelona” organized by the catalan association REDES: Laboratory of visual culture and TRISTESTOPICOS collective. May _ George Yúdice, USA critic, interviewed. (Professor at the American Studies Program and the Spanish and Portuguese Department, New York University). July _ The dossier published SER. POST. LATINOAMERICANO. The act of remitting as a form of resistance in Brumaria magazine. Artistic, aesthetics, and political practices, Madrid, num 5, 2005. www.brumaria.net September _ Design and production of TRISTESTOPICOS web site at www.tristestopicos.org October _ Paper at II Jornadas Expresiones Vivas organised by Casa Amarilla and asociación cultural raizes da tradicao. This activity was held at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona and Casa America Catalunya between october 5th and 7th. _ Second publication of TRISTESTOPICOS bulletin. (ex) centric documents on the Latin-American imaginary with the theme “Negotiations between the centre and periphery”. _ Production of a debate The idea of the Latin-American as a cultural resource included in a cycle of debates of “NEW CLIENTS/OLD MARKETS. Negotiating the Latin-American cultural imaginary in the global market” Invited panelists: Lluis Bonet, Ivan de la Nuez, Virginia Torrente and TRISTESTOPICOS Collective. October 27 at Casa America Catalunya. www.americat.net 2006 January _ Publication and insert of the George Yúdice interview at CreativeCommons-Es: www.creativecommons.org _ Insertion in the TRANSFORM-eipcp project of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies: www.transform.eipcp.net February _ Participation at a round table debate organized by the Ateneu popular ArtiBarri: “FORUM-DEBATS: Instrumentalitzacio de la cultura (1a part) el rol de les administracions públiques”, February 13 2006. www.artibarri.org April _ Publication of a collaboration text for Yproducciones, Barcelona. “Producta 50: the relations between economics and culture”. www.ypsite.net Juny _ Publication of a dossier for review “Revista de Crítica Cultural”, Santiago de Chile. SER. POST. LATINOAMERICANO: Discernir, disentir. www.revista-de-critica-cultural.cl [ back ] ·············································································································································· Paulina Varas Co-editor of the Tristetoscopios platform. Has studies in art, photography and art history, in Chile and Spain. Participates in projects of documentation and investigation of visual arts in a Latin American context. Her doctoral thesis is being developed on an analysis of conceptual practices and politics in Latin America in the second half of the XX century, at Universidad de Barcelona. Investigator at the Center of International Documentation of chilean visual art of the University of Playa Ancha, Valparaiso, Chile. She currently works as an academic in theory and history of art at University of Concepcion, as well as teacher in a PHD in art, (heritage) at Playa Ancha University. Has written various texts on contemporary and Latin American artists published in digital media, magazines and exhibition catalogs. Joaquin Barriendos Co-editor of the Tristetoscopios platform. Curator and art critic, based in Barcelona. Works as a writer and publisher, mainly on aesthetic theories, post-colonial art, and transnational negotiation of cultural identities. He is Assistant Professor and researcher at the University of Barcelona, where he teaches a class entitled "New Perspectives in Contemporary Art Theory". He is involved in several aesthetic and political projects and has published in Brumaria, Ramona, Codigo, Opcion, and other reviews. Cristián Gómez M. Co-editor of the Tristetoscopios platform. Visual artist and Professor researcher in Visual Culture at the University of Chile. Has studied visual arts, design and philosophy and completed post-graduate studies in Visual Culture. Currently living and working in Barcelona. He is Phd (c) in Art Theory at Barcelona University, he has worked on various multidisciplinary projects and his visual investigations move from performatives practices such as political language, and the invisible processes of cultural documentation. [ volver ] ··············································································································································

Tristestópicos is a critical project focusing on the process of construction and circulation of the imaginaries of the Latin America within different European geographical locations.

Using a mixed strategy of documentation and analysis of the cultural relations between Europe and Latin America, Tristestópicos claims to reconsider the symbolic place where both territorialities negotiate their always-moving imaginaries.

Considering visual and artistic practices, the project reflects how the immaterial realities of Europe and Latin America are intersected, what they have in common and where the boundaries are until it is possible to narrow the gap between them.

The main axes of research and inflection of Tristestópicos are the policies of representation, on the one hand, and the legitimizing practices through cultural narrations, on the other. Therefore, Tristestópicos tries to visualize as well as to criticise the curatorial, mediatic, urbanistic and territorial strategies, which people and institutions use to give form to the Latin American imaginaries.

Tristestópicos aims to be a project which reflects, on an alternative way, current issues as identity’s comprehension, cultural diversity, aesthetic policies and territoriality of Latin America.

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_ First publication of the TRISTESTOPICOS bulletin. Documentos (ex)céntricos sobre el imaginario de lo latinoamericano, with the theme “Pounding the imaginary of the Latin-American in Barcelona”.

_ Tristestopicos project presented at the Aula Magna at the faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. Conference: “Pounding the imaginary of the Latin-American in Barcelona” organized by the catalan association REDES: Laboratory of visual culture and TRISTESTOPICOS collective.

_ George Yúdice, USA critic, interviewed. (Professor at the American Studies Program and the Spanish and Portuguese Department, New York University).

_ The dossier published SER. POST. LATINOAMERICANO. The act of remitting as a form of resistance in Brumaria magazine. Artistic, aesthetics, and political practices, Madrid, num 5, 2005. www.brumaria.net

_ Design and production of TRISTESTOPICOS web site at www.tristestopicos.org

_ Paper at II Jornadas Expresiones Vivas organised by Casa Amarilla and asociación cultural raizes da tradicao. This activity was held at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona and Casa America Catalunya between october 5th and 7th.

_ Second publication of TRISTESTOPICOS bulletin. (ex) centric documents on the Latin-American imaginary with the theme “Negotiations between the centre and periphery”.

_ Production of a debate The idea of the Latin-American as a cultural resource included in a cycle of debates of “NEW CLIENTS/OLD MARKETS. Negotiating the Latin-American cultural imaginary in the global market” Invited panelists: Lluis Bonet, Ivan de la Nuez, Virginia Torrente and TRISTESTOPICOS Collective. October 27 at Casa America Catalunya. www.americat.net

_ Publication and insert of the George Yúdice interview at CreativeCommons-Es: www.creativecommons.org

_ Insertion in the TRANSFORM-eipcp project of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies: www.transform.eipcp.net

_ Participation at a round table debate organized by the Ateneu popular ArtiBarri: “FORUM-DEBATS: Instrumentalitzacio de la cultura (1a part) el rol de les administracions públiques”, February 13 2006. www.artibarri.org

_ Publication of a collaboration text for Yproducciones, Barcelona. “Producta 50: the relations between economics and culture”. www.ypsite.net

_ Publication of a dossier for review “Revista de Crítica Cultural”, Santiago de Chile. SER. POST. LATINOAMERICANO: Discernir, disentir. www.revista-de-critica-cultural.cl

Co-editor of the Tristetoscopios platform. Has studies in art, photography and art history, in Chile and Spain. Participates in projects of documentation and investigation of visual arts in a Latin American context. Her doctoral thesis is being developed on an analysis of conceptual practices and politics in Latin America in the second half of the XX century, at Universidad de Barcelona.
Investigator at the Center of International Documentation of chilean visual art of the University of Playa Ancha, Valparaiso, Chile. She currently works as an academic in theory and history of art at University of Concepcion, as well as teacher in a PHD in art, (heritage) at Playa Ancha University. Has written various texts on contemporary and Latin American artists published in digital media, magazines and exhibition catalogs.

Co-editor of the Tristetoscopios platform. Curator and art critic, based in Barcelona. Works as a writer and publisher, mainly on aesthetic theories, post-colonial art, and transnational negotiation of cultural identities. He is Assistant Professor and researcher at the University of Barcelona, where he teaches a class entitled "New Perspectives in Contemporary Art Theory". He is involved in several aesthetic and political projects and has published in Brumaria, Ramona, Codigo, Opcion, and other reviews.

Co-editor of the Tristetoscopios platform. Visual artist and Professor researcher in Visual Culture at the University of Chile. Has studied visual arts, design and philosophy and completed post-graduate studies in Visual Culture. Currently living and working in Barcelona. He is Phd (c) in Art Theory at Barcelona University, he has worked on various multidisciplinary projects and his visual investigations move from performatives practices such as political language, and the invisible processes of cultural documentation.