(Part 3) Latitudes interviewed for "Radio For Example, part 2: R22-Dubai", a project by the Curatorial Delegation for Art Dubai 2012 and The Pavilion Downtown Dubai
Fri, Apr 6 2012
Car where the interviews led by the
Curatorial Delegation took place.
Latitudes was interviewed for
Radio For Example by curator and writer Juan A. Gaitán,
member of the Curatorial Delegation together with Rabat’s
L’Appartement 22
founder Abdellah Karroum, organisers of "Radio
For Example, part 2: R22-Dubai" one of the projects of this
year's Art Dubai (see more on the fair in this previous post). Radio For Example consists on a temporary
nomadic recording studio in a car that will be circulating
throughout Dubai, taking people between different art
spaces, public transportation stations and homes, while conducting
a series of dialogues and interviews with artists,
curators and practitioners aimed at exploring the ways in
which individuals engage with notions of the collective
and operate within institutional frameworks.
Juan A. Gaitán holding the mic
and conducting the interview.
Privileging the active role of the listener in the construction
of knowledge, Radio 22 documents a series of
discussions carried out in different places (Morocco, Medellín and
now in Dubai) through live engagement with these specific social, geographic
and political environments.
The interview-on-wheels took place on March
21, between Art Dubai and The
Pavilion Downtown, where Gaitán also curated the yearly 40-metre
banner commission by Lebanese–Egyptian artist Lara
Baladi.
Juan A. Gaitán and Mariana Cánepa
Luna of Latitudes arrive at the
final destination: The Pavilion Downtown, in the background Burj Khalifa, (so
far) the tallest building in the world.
Curatorial Delegation tote bag.
The Pavilion Downtown, a
non-profit contemporary art space in downtown Dubai, also hosted the
exhibition 'Living
with video' curated by Paris-based gallerist Chantal Crousel,
which featured 15 video works of artists Jennifer Allora &
Guillermo Calzadilla, Melik Ohanian, Hassan Khan, Fikret Atay, Wang
Bing, Gabriel Orozco, Mona Hatoum, Anri Sala, Wolfgang Tillmans, all
represented by the French gallery.
Terrace of The Pavilion Downtown
Open cafeteria/restaurant and library
space
Library space. On the shelf a TV
screens Gabriel Orozco's animation "Samurai Tree Animation"
(2007)
Open lounge/cafeteria
Chantal Crousel gives an
introduction to the 'Living with video' show (17 March – 30 June
2012)
Cinema space screening the 16/9 Wang Bing's
film "Man with no name", 2009.
Gallery 2 with works by Fikret
Atay, Anri Sala, Melik Ohanian and a plasma screen with a looped
selection of the films.
A project by the Curatorial Delegatation (Juan A.
Gaitán & Abdellah Karroum)
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Appartment 22 radio interview between Latitudes and Massimiliano Gioni
Mon, Aug 31 2009
During our participation last June in the X Initiative’s NO SOUL FOR SALE - Festival of Independents in New York, James Merle Thomas, a San Francisco-based team member of L’APPARTEMENT 22 from Rabat, recorded a short interview for Radio Apartment 22 between us and Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Gioni briefly talks about the 'introspective' (intead of retrospective) the museum dedicating to Zurich-born, New York-based artist Urs Fischer, opening 28 October.
The interview is part of Appartement 22's 'R22 Universe - Live From NYC' programme available online here.