Forum Lectures #2: María Berríos & Lisette Lagnado
Abstract
The 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art began with three sequential moments, exp. 1, exp. 2, and exp. 3, unfolding from September 2019 to July 2020, and is currently presenting an epilogue exhibition ‘The crack begins within’, running from September to November 2020. Curated by María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and Agustín Pérez Rubio, the biennale was envisioned as a slowly unfolding process with the aim to learn from and build sustainable relations, not only with participating artists and projects, but as importantly, with the city and people of Berlin. Spread across four venues, the exhibition epilogue, alongside a program of tours, events and other forms of dialogue, extends the idea of exchange as an overall concept that weaves together curatorial, artistic, and pedagogical practices.
For this Forum Lecture, the curators María Berríos and Lisette Lagnado, will discuss and reflect on the artistic positions and curatorial strategies that have shaped the biennial. They will show examples of works and projects, and reflect on how solidarity and different forms of care have been part of the process, as well as how the pandemic recontextualized and challenged the lived experience of making a biennial.
About María Berríos
María Berríos (born 1978 in Santiago de Chile) is a sociologist, writer, independent curator, and cofounder of the Chilean editorial collective vaticanochico. Among other projects, Berríos curated with Lisette Lagnado Drifts and Derivations. Experiences, journeys and morphologieson experimental architectural collectives from Chile (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2010), and curated Nuestro desconocido, nuestro caos, nuestro mar (Museo Experimental el Eco, MexicoCity, 2014). She is an ongoing collaborator of the Hospital Prison University Archive (Copenhagen, 2016–to date), a project space and radio station run by artist Jakob Jakobsen in the building where he and Berríos live together with their three-year-old son Teo, who believes he is a ninja.
About Lisette Lagnado
Lisette Lagnado (born 1961 in Kinshasa) is a researcher, art critic, and independent curator interested in strategies for collaborating with sociologists and architects in public space. She was chief curator of the 27th Bienal de São Paulo How to Live Together (2006) and curated Drifts and Derivations: Experiences, journeys and morphologies together with María Berríos (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2010). Recent projects of her include Rivane Neuenschwander: The Name of Fear | Rio de Janeiro (Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, 2017) and León Ferrari, For a World with No Hell (Galeria Nara Roesler, SãoPaulo and New York, 2018). Lagnado is currently a member of the Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo.
Forum Lectures
Forum Lectures is a series of lectures by Danish and international thinkers and cultural workers reflecting on how art co-forms communality. FORUM LECTURES brings thinking and shared study back to the university and invites for public lectures the last Tuesday every month at 17:00 - 19:00.
The initiative is hosted by the research group of the New Carlsberg Foundation research center Art as Forum. Our researchers are occupied by a.o. the infrastructures of the arts, collective modes of production, the entanglement of political theory and aesthetic theory, assembling strategies of curation, dematerialized art, acts of strategic separatism and temporality in digital art.
We hope to accommodate live lectures in a near future. However, the lecture by María Berríos & Lisette Lagnado (50 min, a break + Q&A) will be streamed online and is open for everyone. The online link will be available soon.
The conversation is moderated by Line Ellegaard.