Alfonso Reyes

Cuauhtémoc Medina

Francis Alÿs

Ton Marar

For the past ten years, video camera in hand, Francis Alÿs has chased tornados in the highlands south of Mexico City, hoping to access and film the literal eye of the storm. This volume, full of scrapbook and ephemera appeal, compiles Alÿs' notes, drawings, paintings, press clippings and writings for his film Tornado.

In a given situation

Francesco Manacorda

Barbara Fischer

Kitty Scott

Teresa Gleadowe

Lourdes Morales

Raising Frankenstein presents compelling new writing that explores the education and formation of curators. This book offers an overview of recent thinking on curatorial pedagogy, designed to elucidate, define and build on current debates surrounding this subject. The questions posed here are timely and provocative. The five essays provide a set of cogent inquiries and analyses for all those who concern themselves today with the presentation and theorization of contemporary art. At its heart lies the single question, "Where does the curatorial profession reside?" Raising Frankenstein is developed from the conference Trade Secrets: Education / Collection / History, organised by the Banff International Curatorial Institute in collaboration with Teresa Gleadowe, and held at The Banff Centre, November 12 - 14, 2008.

Curatorial Education and Its Discontents

Raising Frankenstein

Teresa Margolles

Taiyana Pimentel

According to press reports, 2008 was the year that more bullets were fired in the recent history of Mexico. That same year, more than 5,000 people were killed in several episodes of violence and extrajudicial activity linked to drug trafficking and its repression. Teresa Margolles, who for nearly two decades has been concerned to explore the artistic possibilities of human remains, focused his participation in the Venice Biennale 2009 in a shipment conceptual, emotional and material evidence of the violence of the streets of Mexico the decadent luxury of the art world. What else could we talk?, Is much more than the documentation of the intervention Margolles in Venice. This book brings together multiple reflection (from the testimony, narrative, historical reflection and production) on a futile crusade against drugs and its pernicious effects. More than an art book is a volume that records the complex interference between violence, aesthetics and politics that emerged in Southern culture in the early twentieth century.

What Else Could We Talk About?

The conference theme was dedicated to the study of the function of art in politics. The present edition compiles the 30 research works divided in 3 sub-topics: Poderes, Cuerpos y Espacios (Powers, Bodies and Spaces); Batallas por el Imaginario (Battles for the Imaginary) and Resistencia y Representación (Resistance and Representation)

La imagen política

ensayos e intervenciones sobre arte postmexicano (1992-2013)

Abuso mutuo

Susan Buck-Morss

Francis Alys

Cuando la Fe Mueve Montañas

Cuauhtémoc Medina

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