La Otra took place between November 7th and December 10th 2013 in Bogotá, Colombia.
Curatorial team: Gabriela Salgado (Argentina-United Kingdom), Edna Sandoval (Guatemala), Emilio Tarazona (Peru-Colombia) and Guillermo Vanegas (Colombia). Artistic direction: Elisabeth Vollert.
Since its inception in 2007 as an experimental platform for contemporary art, La Otra’s purpose has been to inhabit and activate distinct locations of the city, thereby bringing art and the public to unconventional places, enabling interactions and dialogues in tune with contemporary artistic practice.
This edition of the project adopted the “biennial” framework, inviting artists to produce interventions and projects related to the community context and public space in three Bogotá neighborhoods: La Perseverancia, La Macarena and El Bosque Izquierdo, selected because of their central location, historic heritage and for their importance in the cultural and artistic development of Bogotá.
The core concepts for La Otra Bienal in 2013 were Public Space: In/visible borders; Historical Progression: Memory and the contemporary conditions of the urban fabric and Radical Ecology: the city, sustainability, and food sovereignty
La Otra‘s objectives were to promote everyday public space as a creative meeting point in the urban imaginary by means of re-signification, appropriation, and recuperation. Equally, to propose contemporary artistic practices as catalysts of socio-cultural processes by articulating urban space through interventions in different locations, stemming from their respective contexts.To dismantle the territorial, socio-political, economic and cultural barriers linked to civil life in these communities. Likewise, to strengthen the collaboration between art and community within the neighborhoods.
La Otra Bienal aimed to promote interdisciplinary practices, experimentation and research.
Participating artists invited by Gabriela Salgado: Demián Flores Cortes, Harun Farocki, Nathalie Mba Bikoro, Moataz Nasr, Sammy Baloji, René Francisco Rodriguez and Fidel Y. Castro.
To see the full programme of exhibitions and events visit La Otra‘s webpage:
http://laotrabienal.com/content/artistas
La Otra Bienal, Bogotá, Colombia
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Claudia Casarino, Iluminando la ausencia, 2018, CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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Norton Maza’s new book / Nuevo libro de Norton Maza
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‘GROWING IN DARKNESS’ Book of photographs by Mario Macilau
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Exhibition ‘Crosswords / Palavras Cruzadas’
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‘MARIO CRAVO NETO: A SERENE EXPECTATION OF LIGHT’
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‘MIROIR EFFACEMENT’ EXHIBITION
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CUBA, LA LUCHA
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Meetings in the South phase 3: Brazil and Senegal, May 2014
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Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery
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Art Basel – Salon Discussion: Biennial Biodiversity
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La Otra Bienal, Bogotá, Colombia
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Cruz Diez: 90 años
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Meetings in the South phase 2: Colombia in Cameroon, June 2013
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Visual Poetry Exhibition at Maddox Arts, London, July-September 2013
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Once Upon a Time 2012-2013
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A View from the Other Side, 2012
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FIAC, Retour sur les Biennales et Fesivals du Sud Algiers, Algeria 2011
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Centre of Contemporary Art Lagos, Nigeria 2011
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The Future is Social, London 2011
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Tate Modern, 2006-2011
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Conversations Across Borders, Seagull 2011
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29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil 2010
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Puno MOCA, First Draft, 2010
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Lucy+Jorge Orta, Light Works
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Grzegorz Klaman
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Contemporary Art in Latin America, Black Dog Publishing 2009
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Vienna Art Week, Austria 2009
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2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Praxis, Greece 2009
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PRAXIS, Catalogue 2009
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Inspiring Action, Museums and Social Change
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Fernando Arias, Humanos Direitos, Galeria E. Fernandes, São Paulo 2008
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Kairos Video Art in Latin America, CCEBA, Buenos Aires 2007
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Pulgar21, Caracas 2006
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León Ferrari, A Relentless Critique of Power, University of Essex Gallery 2006
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Casa Abierta/Open House, Embassy of Argentine Republic, London 2006
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9th Havana Biennale, Cuba 2006
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La Octava Región, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires 2006
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Nostalgia of the Body, Colchester UK 2005
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Tucumán Chicano, Argentina 2005
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Tucuman Chicano, book-object by VOX, Argentina
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Arena Mexico, Essex University, UK 2004
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Chance Encounters, Gallery 32, London 2003
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Carlos Cruz-Diez, Chromointerference & Chromosaturation, UK 2003
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León Ferrari, The Architecture of Madness,UK 2002