TFT - TROPICAL INTERZONE

TROPICAL INTERZONE

Curated by Anne Brand Galvez

Special Guest Curator Ernesto Bautista

Assistant: Talhat Nurkas and Evelise Texeira

Part of the 4th Edition Nomadic Center of Contemporary Art

Tart Gallery. Zurich, Suiza

July 17, 2015.

ARTISTS: Melissa Guevara, Marie Griesmar, Leila Amacker, Anne-Laure Franchette, Kristina Nedialkova, Anne Brand Galvez, Mauricio Kabistan, Alejandro Mondria H., Crack Rodriguez, Marco Nicolas Heizen, Joël Noël, Ernesto Bautista, Tizian Baldinger, Mauricio Esquivel.

A fictional construction about exotism and tropicalism...

Pertaining to the solstice, far of the parallels of the latitudes between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Far from the two circles of the celestial sphere. Far from the “somewhere” to “turn back”. What it could be? An image of desire? Far of the habit? Far of the ordinary? The otherness? The far..? An excitingly strange... let’s say creature. But this creature, bizarre and untiringly unusual, a foreign allure, overlaps with a series of imaginary constructions, channels for supra realities and fictions. Is strikingly constructed with artificial elements of desire and pleasure, far of ideologies; Could it exist far of the colonial view? Far of the Eurocentric construction of a history of subordination? It might be a fiction, a construction far from the Ecuadorian geographies, latitudes, and clime….

Kinski always says it’s full of erotic elements. I don’t see it so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It’s just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn’t see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and... growing and… just rotting away. Of course, there’s a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. It’s an unfinished country. It’s still prehistorical. The only thing that is lacking is the dinosaurs here. It’s like a curse weighing on an entire landscape. And whoever... goes too deep into this has his share of this curse. So we are cursed with what we are doing here. It’s a land that God, if he exists, has created in anger. It’s the only land where creation is unfinished yet. Taking a close look at what’s around us there.. there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of... overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle - Uh, we in comparison to that enormous articulation - we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban... novel... a cheap novel. We have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication… overwhelming growth and overwhelming lack of order. Even the stars up here in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no real harmony as we have conceived it. But when I say this, I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it, I love it. I love it very much. “But I love it against my better judgment”. Werner Herzog, Burden of Dreams 1982

*Texto retomado del Press Kit de Tropical Interzone.

PROMOTIONAL IMAGE OF THE EXHIBITION

IMAGE COURTESY OF MARCO NICOLAS HELZEN / DESIGN: ANNE BRAND GALVEZ

PROMOTIONAL CURATOR PICTURE

PHOTO: CORTESIA

VIDEO RECORRIDO DE LA EXHIBICION

VIDEO Y EDICION: THE FIRE THEORY

The “Agency for Spiritual Guest Work in the Service of Visualizing” is a curatorial agency run by artists. Based in Zurich & Guatemala, we produce research projects towards exhibitions and collaborations with cultural producers in different fields. Committed to experimenting in artistic and curatorial formats, models of presenting critical discourses, socially and also politically engaged art practices. Implicated in the process of research and production, not with a fixed methodology but with a more laissez-faire attitude towards an organic construction of concepts and dispositves. Currently on-going projects include the Virtual Residency, a pilot digital platform; the Nomadic Center of Contemporary Art, a series of editions of itinerant and ambulatory platforms of exhibitions - research, among others.

The Nomadic Center of Contemporary Art is a catalyst of the social context. A possibility for interactivity and intersubjective encounters. An activator to foster relationships, contribute to decentralisation and promote a space/state in which to question the production of visual arts and contemporary culture. A platform to question how it is organized, interpreted and narrated the history of the present. A potentiality of an alternative narrative. Building possibilities and new contexts, horizons in specific contexts that allows to bring in to analizys and discussions, relevant topics of the contemporary culture. In a contemporary present of globalization, where the networks and structures are not limited by geographies but relations. Build dialogues and contexts thru “walking” to transit realities, as an itinerant research platform.

As an ambulatory apparatus, a tool for questioning the paradigms of dispositives, apparatus of art production. In contexts and geographies but also in realities, in a kind of a post-disciplinary curatorship. In an attempt to build atmospheres and contexts for the subjective experience of perception; As well as a research mode for a possible epistemology of nomadism.

The research implies to build structures and contexts in which to experience the process, elaboration and realization of the editions of the Nomadic Center of Contemporary Art. The project is build in relation to each specific context and public and likes to be in transition and produce interventions, workshops, happenings, exhibitions, It consists in guiding a practice research about nomadism, an epistemology of nomadism.

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