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Working through and with the arts, TBA21 is committed to imagining and activating propositions for more socially just and ecologically sound futures. Our contribution to ARCO Madrid 2021 reflects this global mission.

On June 26, Cuban visual artist Hamlet Lavastida was unlawfully incarcerated for his active role in raising awareness against state repression in Cuba. Join us in a special conversation with visual artist Marco Castillo from Los Carpinteros; Chief Curator at MUAC, Mexico City, Cuauhtémoc Medina; and writer, critic, and curator Gerardo Mosquera, moderated by TBA21 Curator’s Sofia Lemos, discussing the right to freedom of artistic expression and international solidarity for Lavastida’s immediate release.

Program:
How to address the most pressing issues of our times through the lenses of art? TBA21 curates a day of roundtables at ARCO Madrid 2021, inviting artists, curators, cultural practitioners, activists, and academics to discuss social and ecological artistic propositions that challenge a world of growing inequality, environmental disruption and human rights violations.

12h30-12h45
Introduction by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, TBA21 Founder and Chairwoman

13h00-14h15
There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard—Ocean agency, artistic practice and a new language for policy making

Markus Reymann, TBA21–Academy Director
Rossella Biscotti, Visual artist
Barbara Casavecchia, Writer and curator. Leader of The Current III, TBA21–Academy
Chus Martínez, Curator and Director at FHNW Academy of Art and Design (Basel)

15h00-16h30
Hamlet Lavastida, In Difficult Times
Panel in response to Hamlet Lavastida’s recent arrest in Cuba

Sofia Lemos, TBA21 Curator
Marco Castillo, Visual artist
Cuauhtémoc Medina, Chief Curator at MUAC, Mexico City
Gerardo Mosquera, Writer, critic, and curator

16h30-17h45
Sensing time

Soledad Gutiérrez, TBA21 Chief Curator
Asunción Molinos Gordo, Researcher and visual artist
Himali Singh Soin, Writer and artist

Thank you for being part of the TBA21 community. Our mission is to promote art as a catalyst for positive change when facing urgent world challenges. With a vision of social and environmental justice in mind, TBA21 aims to contribute to the building of a future in peace, based on coexistence, compassion, care, and kindness, and through active collaborations with artists, cultural practitioners, scientists, activists, indigenous voices, academics, and nature.

WHEN:

July 8th, 2021

WHERE:

Foro Arts Libris, IFEMA, ARCOmadrid,

VIDEO:

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