Meeting deadlines: Sustainable production practices
Wednesday 22 November 2023, 5 — 6 pm
- Participants
- Xavier Acarín, ALMARE Collective, Carolina Grau, Vanina Saracino and Théo-Mario Coppola
- Venues
- Almanac Barcelona
- Language
- English
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The meeting will focus on sustainable practices in the art world, focusing on the concept of sustainable production aligned with artistic practices. Can we counteract self-exploitation in a context of limited time for production? <br />
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This meeting aims to explore how projects can be achieved while navigating institutional pressures, self-imposed demands, and time constraints to find a balance between personal artistic growth and sustainable production methods.
Xavier Acarín
- Curator, Participant
Xavier Acarín Wieland is a curator working at the intersection of art and social histories, with a special interest in performativity, process and situational practices. He holds a masters from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. And has curated projects for The New School for Social Research, Elastic City, Chez Bushwick, The Hessel Museum-CCS Bard, Peekskill Project 6, Java Projects, ESTE, and the Abrons Arts Center, where he was the 2016-17 Curator in Residence. He has also been in residency at HIAP, Helsinki (2016) and at La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires (2018). In 2018 he was curator and panelist for the Miquel Casablancas Award, as part of a residency in collaboration between Sant Andreu Contemporani and Fabra i Coats in Barcelona.
He has written for exhibitions at Galería ADN, Barcelona, and Participant Inc., New York. His articles, essays, and interviews have been published at A-Desk (2007-present), Culturas-La Vanguardia, Esnorquel, Terremoto, and BRAC (University of Barcelona). He has participated as author of the books Designing Experience (Bloomsbury, 2014), and Dear Helen (CCS Bard, 2014).
ALMARE Collective
- Artist, Collective
- www.almareproject.it
ALMARE is an artistic-curatorial collective dedicated to practices and researches using sound as means of expression. In particular, ALMARE investigates the notion of listening and how it affects social and political dynamics. ALMARE works in curating, writing, publishing, collective research and sound and music production. In 2020 ALMARE started the production of “Life Chronicles of Dorothea Iesj S.P.U.”, a sci-fi audio-novel supported by the Italian Council – Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. In 2021, ALMARE contributed to found the Turin-based network The Listeners together with Metamorfosi Notturne and Cripta 747.
ALMARE collaborated with national and international institutions such as Fondazione Baruchello, Rome (IT); Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR); Hangar, Barcelona (ES); MACAO, Milan (IT); MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art, Bologna (IT); Polo del ‘900, Turin (IT); Radio Papesse, Florence (IT); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (IT); Timespan, Helmsdale (UK) and has involved artists, musicians, djs, philosophers and researchers including Vinit Agarwal, Thomas Ankersmit, Antwood, Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, Federico Campagna, Eleni Ikoniadou & Viki Steiri, Enrico Malatesta, Porpora Marcasciano, Marina Rosenfeld, Carl Stone.
Supported by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Barcellona
Updated: 15 November 2023
Carolina Grau
- Curator
Carolina Grau is an art historian and independent curator specializing in contemporary art organising international exhibitions, projects and events. She has produced several individual exhibitions (Vasco Barata, Anna Barriball, Phil Collins, Martin Creed, Angela de la Cruz, Patricia Dauder, Muntadas, etc …) and group exhibitions for public institutions in Spain (Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao; Centre d’art La Panera, Lérida; CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo; Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid and Tabakalera, San Sebastian), private foundations and galleries in Brazil, France Portugal and Spain.
Grau was the associate curator for the Arquipelago Centro de Artes Contemporaneas (Sao Miguel, Azores Islands) in 2017 and co-founder and co-curator of the Biennale of Jafre I – VII (2003 to 2015), Gerona, Spain. She is currently presenting Natura Viva (Living Nature): Muse and Mimesis with 10 artistic interventions of new production in 10 cities of Catalonia with 10 artists from October to December 2022.
She is currently an active member of the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) and aFounding Committee Member of GCC Spain.
Vanina Saracino (she/they) is an independent curator, film programmer, writer, and lecturer.
Her work focuses on theories and art practices that explicitly question anthropocentric and binary worldviews from an intersectional perspective, with an emphasis on lens-based and time-based art. Her latest project, Other Minds, is the fourth edition of the Screen City Biennial (curated with Daniela Arriado), which took place at the astronomical observatory Archenhold Sternwarte and other venues in Berlin in 2022.
Since 2021, Saracino has been teaching at the Institute of Time-based Art – IZM, Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin, with Prof. Nina Fischer. She has collaborated with Kumu Art Museum and EKKM (Tallinn), Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi (Venice), TBA21 – Academy, Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo), Cinemateca do MAM (Rio de Janeiro), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), The EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam), and Centro Párraga (Murcia), among others. Saracino has realized residencies at ISCP (New York, 2023), Q21 – MuseumsQuartier (Vienna, 2021), Fire Station Artists’ Studios (Dublin, 2019), CPR – Curatorial Program for Research (Reykjavik, Tórshavn, Tromsø, Boden, Luleå, Hyrynsalmi, Helsinki, 2018), and GENERATOR – 40mcube/EESAB (Rennes, 2018). Graduated in Communication Sciences, Saracino holds an MA in Arts Management (GIOCA, Università di Bologna) and in Philosophy and Art Theory (UAB, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona). She has been a member of IKT since 2015.
Last update: 17th November , 2023
Théo-Mario Coppola
- Curator
Théo-Mario Coppola is a curator and arts writer. They are currently based in Paris, France.
Viewing aesthetic issues as inherently tied to social struggles, Théo-Mario Coppola’s curatorial and critical practice engages with research-based, experimental, narrative and political forms. The projects they have conducted deal with experiences of concrete utopia, personal and collective narratives of emancipation, as well as initiatives of resistance, and examine how these enable the transformation of values in art, governance and society.
Their recent curated exhibitions and programmes include three annual chapters of the HOTEL EUROPA series in various cities across Europe between 2017 and 2019, the third edition of the Nuit Blanche arts festival at Villa Medici in Rome, Italy, in 2018, and the eleventh edition of the MOMENTUM biennale in Moss, Norway, in 2021.
Théo-Mario Coppola has contributed to catalogues, magazines and online publications. They regularly lecture on radical aesthetic practices at art schools and universities.
Last update: November 17th, 2022
