R. Mercado

curadorasincura

    • Edit
    • Delete
    • Tags
    • Autopost

    "Infiltration: Six Attempts". Stockholm, 2008

    Infiltration: Six attempts. Stockholm, Sweden. 2008

     

     Craft exhibition curated collectively with Frida Jeppson, Viveka Forsman, Olof Löf, Viktorija Siaulyte and Natasha Llorens at the gallery/store Blås & Knåda. 

    (download)
    Click here to download:
    infiltration-six-attempts-stockholm-2008-bdzIfvDvsaBBxtJqGDdC.zip (8.37 MB)

     Infiltration is organized by the first year curating Masters students at Konstfack (Write + Interpret + Research + Exhibit, WIRE) at the invitation of Boel Henrikson, curator of blås&knåda’s gallery. WIRE’s motivation is to initiate a dialogue in the space about contemporary craft. Each student conducted research into the history of blås&knåda, its members and their creative work, from which their contribution to Infiltration: Six Attempts have been formulated.

     Infiltration#5: Embodied Craft.

    Crafts are usually approached as an “ordinary” experience, in difference to the experience of fine art that is located in the realm of the “extraordinary”, for the special attitude pre-disposed in order to see it.

     Marie Beckmann, Hizako Mizuno, and Kina Bjorklund’s pieces are some of the most successful objects in the blås&knåda store and by displaying them at unreachable heights, the visitor’s desire towards these objects forces the viewer or consumer to develop a physical relationship with them, using the body as a tool to get to the desired pieces just as the body was once also the tool to process them. Activating this small struggle in travelling to the space in order to see the wanted pieces, predisposes the viewer to add an “extraordinary” quality towards experiencing craft.

     How much effort are we disposed to give to everyday objects when they are out of hand? How aware are we of the physiognomic qualities involved in craft as “hand-made communication”? This project attempts to open a different view in experiencing craft in order to see its pieces as “…a reflecting parallel existence of which the everyday object is a part” Louise Mazanti

     

     R.Mercado

     

    • 3 April 2011
    • Views
    • Permalink
    • Tweet
    • 0 responses
    • Like
    • Comment
  • Rossana Mercado's Space

    (ENG)
    Rossana Mercado Rojas (b. 1982, Lima) is an artist and curator. She has been developing projects with Peruvian and European artists to investigate translation forms, (re)creating hybrid contexts generating dialogue between dissimilar societies—stretching curatorial and artistic roles. For her M.A. thesis, she worked with urban knitting in different socio-geographical circumstances, collaborating with art collectives Stickkontakt (Sweden) and C.H.O.L.O. (Peru). Other projects include: Medium Rare (Sweden, 2009)—in collaboration with Foro Latino, SAL (Latinamerikagrupperna) and FIANSverige—and the curated exhibition “Buitre: de Bulimias y Carroñas” (Lima, 2009). She is currently working on projects in Lima focusing on literature, social science and pedagogy. Mercado holds a B.A. from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in the Arts (2008) and is expecting a M.A. from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Curatorial Practice (Stockholm).

    (ESP)
    Rossana Mercado Rojas (1982, Lima) artista y curador. Ha desarrollado proyectos con artistas peruanos y europeos para poder investigar nuevas formas de traducción, (re) creación de contextos híbridos, generar diálogo entre diferentes sociedades transgrediendo los roles curador/artista. Para su tesis de maestría, trabajó con el tejido urbano en diferentes circunstancias socio-geográficas en colaboración con los colectivos de arte Stickkontakt (Suecia) y CHOLO (Perú). Otros proyectos incluyen: Medium Rare (Suecia, 2009)-en colaboración con el Foro Latino, SAL (Latinamerikagrupperna) y FIANSverige y su primera muestra individual, auto-curada "Buitre: de Bulimias y Carroñas" (Lima, 2009). Actualmente está trabajando en proyectos en Lima que se centran en la literatura, ciencias sociales, pedagogía y lo interdisciplinario. Mercado tiene un B.A. de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú en Arte (2008) y está esperando una Maestría en práctica curatorial de la Konstfack College (Estocolmo).

  • About Rossana Mercado

    (ENG)
    Rossana Mercado Rojas (b. 1982, Lima) is an artist and curator. She has been developing projects with Peruvian and European artists to investigate translation forms, (re)creating hybrid contexts generating dialogue between dissimilar societies—stretching curatorial and artistic roles. For her M.A. thesis, she worked with urban knitting in different socio-geographical circumstances, collaborating with art collectives Stickkontakt (Sweden) and C.H.O.L.O. (Peru). Other projects include: Medium Rare (Sweden, 2009)—in collaboration with Foro Latino, SAL (Latinamerikagrupperna) and FIANSverige—and the curated exhibition “Buitre: de Bulimias y Carroñas” (Lima, 2009). She is currently working on projects in Lima focusing on literature, social science and pedagogy. Mercado holds a B.A. from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in the Arts (2008) and is expecting a M.A. from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Curatorial Practice (Stockholm).

    (ESP)
    Rossana Mercado Rojas (1982, Lima) artista y curador. Ha desarrollado proyectos con artistas peruanos y europeos para poder investigar nuevas formas de traducción, (re) creación de contextos híbridos, generar diálogo entre diferentes sociedades transgrediendo los roles curador/artista. Para su tesis de maestría, trabajó con el tejido urbano en diferentes circunstancias socio-geográficas en colaboración con los colectivos de arte Stickkontakt (Suecia) y CHOLO (Perú). Otros proyectos incluyen: Medium Rare (Suecia, 2009)-en colaboración con el Foro Latino, SAL (Latinamerikagrupperna) y FIANSverige y su primera muestra individual, auto-curada "Buitre: de Bulimias y Carroñas" (Lima, 2009). Actualmente está trabajando en proyectos en Lima que se centran en la literatura, ciencias sociales, pedagogía y lo interdisciplinario. Mercado tiene un B.A. de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú en Arte (2008) y está esperando una Maestría en práctica curatorial de la Konstfack College (Estocolmo).

  • Subscribe via RSS
  • Follow Me

Theme created for Posterous by Obox