The Corridor Culture collective invites you to Renaissance Event Venue for a very special event with guest, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda, one of the curators responsible for the Havana Biennial.
The roundtable will begin with a keynote from our guest, lead into discussion and finish with plenty of time for talking over wine and cheese. As an initial jumping off point, discussion will emerge from the concept of the ecosystem, with its interdependent relations and hierarchies, as a metaphor for a globalized artistic and curatorial field.
Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda is an expert in modern and contemporary Cuban art and visual culture. Her research has ventured into the historical processes concerning the evolution of Cuban art and its internal and external links with international art, and broader currents of thought entrenched in the modern, the postmodern and the global. She is the organizer of the theoretical event of the Havana Biennial (2003, 2006, 2009 and upcoming 2012) and a member of its team of curators at the Wilfredo Lam Art Centre in Havana. The Havana Biennial was the first Biennial formed in the “global south” and dedicated to contemporary art from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. In the context of her work for the Biennial, she has focused on the study of North-South relations, center-periphery, and hegemonic processes that characterize the formation of a “world culture.” Through her work with the Biennial and her massive project on Cuban art of the 20th Century, her access to and knowledge of Cuban visual culture, including architecture, is unparalleled. She will be hosted by Cultural Studies at Queen’s University and Corridor Culture will bring her more directly to wider Kingston audiences. The collective has also organized a trip for her to engage in a similar way with communities in Windsor.
The Corridor Culture collective builds social connectivity in Kingston and the region’s cultural sector by aiding cultural producers’ travel along Ontario’s rail corridors and by bridging visiting scholars and artists with diverse audiences here and along the corridor. Between Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 we present three discrete public projects: workshops with Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda, a curator from the Havana Biennial and Ariella Azoulay, an important Middle Eastern cultural theorist, and a performance by two established Canadian Aboriginal artists, Terrance Houle and Adrian Stimson.
