PROJECT ROOMS CURATORS
EVA GRINSTEIN
Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Grinstein has a B.A. in Communications from the University of Buenos Aires and is a member of the Argentine and the International Art Critics Associations (AACA – AICA). She works as an Art critic, a teacher and an independent curator. She is a correspondent at Art Nexus (Colombia) and Arte Contexto (Spain). She was granted an award by the Carolina Foundation to do a Masters multidisciplinary program for Latin-American artists, curators and critics at the Department of Fine Arts at Casa de América (Madrid 2002-2003). She directed the Visual Arts area at the Centro Cultural Rojas (Buenos Aires, 2005-2006). She was in charge of the Argentine dispatch to the PR04 biennial (San Juan de Puerto Rico, 2004), Bienal do Mercosul (Porto Alegre, 2005) and Mostra Ventosul (Curitiba, 2007). As a curator she presented, among other collective exhibitions,
Superyó (Malba, 2004) and
Motivos personales (Macro, Rosario, 2006) and the individual exhibitions
Bellezas y desastres, David Lachapelle (Malba, 2007),
La escultura del presente, Diego Bianchi (General Roca, 2007),
Adentro, Alberto Goldenstein (Galería Ruth Benzacar, 2008). She curated the Open Space section at arteBA ’08 and the Premio Andreani (MAC, Salta, 2008). She is currently directing the first edition of the Premio Catena de Fotografía Contemporánea 08.
JOSÉ ROCA
Born in 1962, is a Colombian curator working from Bogotá and Philadelphia. He is a graduate of the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum in New York. In 2002 he won the Whitney Lauder Curatorial Fellowship of the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, as well as an award by the American Center Foundation for emerging curators. Among his recent curatorial projects are:
Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence, a traveling exhibition co-produced by iCI (Independent Curators International) and the Museo del Arte de Banco de la República (2007-2009);
Miguel Angel Rojas: Objective Subjective, Museo de Arte del Banco de la República (2007-2008);
Regina Silveira: Luminous Shadow, Museo de Arte del Banco de la República (27);
Botánica política, Sala Montcada, Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona (2004);
Traces of Friday: art, tourism, displacement, ICA, Philadelphia (2003);
TransHistorias, survey of the work of José Alejandro Restrepo, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá (2001);
Carlos Garaicoa: Ruins; Utopia, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá (2000), Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York and Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas (2000-2001); Define
“Context", APEX Art Curatorial Program, New York (2000).
Roca co-curated the Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico (2004), the 27th São Paulo Bienal (2006), the Medellin Encuentro MDE07 and Cart[ajena], urban interventions in Cartagena (2007). He was part of the awards jury for the 2007 Venice Biennale. He is currently the Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia.
PERFORMANCES CURATORS
VIVI TELLAS
Born in Buenos Aires in 1955. Theater director. She graduated at the National School of Fine Arts Manuel Belgrano and the Municipal School of Drama. She broke through in the mid- 80s with
Teatro Malo a season of research to stage three plays by Orfeo Andrade. That first experience marked the direction her work would take: the exploration of the boundaries of practice and institutional theater. In 2000 with
El precio de un brazo derecho her perspective of the theatrical experience embarked on a process of radicalization that would lead to
Proyecto Archivos, a season of documentary theater in which she is still working and that currently includes the plays
Mi mamá y mi tía, Tres filósofos con bigotes, Cozarinsky y su médico y
Escuela de conducción.
She founded and directed the CeT (Centre of Experimental Theater of the University of Buenos Aires at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas) where she conceived the project
Museos (Museums) in which a group of theater directors were invited to work with ways of exhibition proposed by non artistic museums of the city. Between 1998 and 2000 she was in charge of the Scenic Arts area at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, where she creted the Sala Contemporánea. Since 2001 she directs the
Proyecto Biodrama for the Teatro Sarmiento. In March 2008 she dictated the seminar
Teatro de familia in London, invited by the National Portrait Gallery and the legendary experimental space Shunt, and in Dublin invited by the Project Arts Centre. In June she presented four plays of the
Archivos project in the Teatro Sarmiento (CTBA) that included the release of
Mujeres guía and
Disc jockey.
ROBERTO JACOBY
He was born in Buenos Aires in 1944 and performs since 1965, almost always in collaboration and mainly in Argentina. He formulated art as “the design of new ways of living”, in
Mensaje en el Di Tella, in 1968. He took part in
Tucumán Arde and dedicated himself to the research of social conflict and political thinking. He also wrote songs for the pop group Virus, organized shows, parties and an anti-discotheque movement, Club Eros. Since 1998, he has been involved in networks: the database Bola de Nieve, the Chacra99 residence and lab, the magazine Ramona, the micro-society Venus, and the Sociedades Experimentales encounters at the Centro Cultural Rojas.
In 2002 and 2005 he presented
Darkroom, a performance for infrared rays and a single viewer, at Belleza y Felicidad and MALBA.
In 2006-7 he developed
La Castidad, experience and video.
This year he showed
1968 el culo te abrocho in Appetite as well as a series of videos of a gaucho atmosphere available in Youtube under the nickname roberto 100000.
From 22 October to 22 November he presents
La inversión segura at the gallery Ruth Benzacar.
