8th Havana Biennial, 2003: Program overview (Print version)

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8th Havana Biennial
Program overview

This overview has been compiled from information and different press releases that we received from the organizers. It is to be expected that it can change several times until the opening of the Biennial. We do not assume responsibility regarding its accuracy.
Pat Binder and Gerhard Haupt, editors Universes in Universe

Duration of the Biennial: 1 November - 15 December 2003

Opening:
1 November, 11:00 am
Plaza Vieja

2 November, 10:00 am
Opening of the Biennial exhibition at the fortress San Carlos de la Cabaña

Theme: El Arte con la Vida (Art Together with Life)

Curators:
Team of the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam: Hilda María Rodríguez Enríquez (Director), José Manuel Noceda Fernández, Nelson Herrera Ysla, Ibis Hernández Abascal, Margarita Sánchez Prieto, José Fernández Portal. As guests: Group RAIN, at the Pabellón Cuba

Participants:
See the artists list - more than 150 artists and groups.

Organizer:
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam
San Ignacio 22, esquina a Empedrado
Plaza de la Catedral
La Habana Vieja / Cuba
Tel.: (537) 861 20 96 und 861 34 19
Fax: (537) 833 84 77
Email: wlam@cubarte.cult.cu

Symposium:
Forum Arte-Vida (Forum Art-Life)
3 - 5 November 2003, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

Speakers:
Luis Alarcón (Chile)
Moacir dos Anjos (Brazil)
Paul Ardenne (France)
Nicolas Bourriaud (France)
Bill Burns (Canada)
Fernando Castro (Spain)
Rosina Cazali (Guatemala)
Paul L. Costa (France)
Rhana Devenport (Australia)
Magaly Espinosa (Cuba)
Bastien Gilbert (France)
Shifra Goldman (USA)
José Miguel González Casanova (Mexico)
Heidi Grundmann (Austria)
Yuko Hasegawa (Japan)
Pablo Helguera (Mexico)
Annette Huntig (Canada)
Arshiya Lokhandwala (India)
Sebastián López (Argentina)
Fabián Marcaccio (Argentina)
Richard Martell (Canada)
Michelle Marxuach (Puerto Rico)
Justo Pastor Mellado (Chile)
Laura de la Mora (Mexico)
Soledad Novoa (Chile)
Kevin Power (Spain)
Ricardo Ribenboim (Brazil)
Ricardo Rivadeneira (Colombia)
Ana Maria Saavedra (Chile)
Diana Salavarria (Colombia)
Guillermo Santamarina (Mexico)
Guy Sioui Durand (Canada)
Pooja Sood (India)
Eugenio Valdéz (Cuba)
Keith Wallace (Canada)

Performance-Meeting
3 - 7 November, every day starting at 4:00 pm, Pabellón Cuba, Calle 23 (La Rampa), entre M y N.
coordinated by the Canadian artist and editor Richard Martell.

Participants:
Richard Martell (Canada)
Roi Vaara (Finnland)
Seiji Shimoda (Japan)
Iwan Wijono (Indonesia)
Jozsef Juasz (Slovakia)
Betsabe Romero (Mexico)
Jean Claude Saint Hillaire (Canada)
Francois Courbe (France)
Joel Hubaut (France)
Janos Szirtes (Hungary)
Julie Andree (Canada)
Artyr Tajber (Poland)
Chumpon & Chantawipe Apisuk (Thailand)
Barthelemy Toguo (Cameroon)
Valentin Torrens (Spain)
ENEMA (Cuba)
Fernando Aguiar (Portugal)

Special exhibitions and projects:

4D
A project of the group Rain. With participants from various countries.
Venue: Pabellón Cuba

Maneras de inventarse una sonrisa (Ways of inventing a smile for oneself)
Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Plaza Vieja.
Exhibition of Cuban art about humor in daily life and the arts. Curator: Caridad Blanco

Project Isaroko (La California)
The project can be visited: 1 - 10 November
Project together with the neighbours of a district in Havana, directed by the artists Roberto Diago, Manuel Mendive, Eduardo Roca (all from Cuba), Betsabé Romero (Mexico), Fabiana de Barros (Brazil). Workshops, performances, interventions by artists and neighbours.

Proyecto Cultural Espacios
Proposals for the redesign of appartements of Cuban families. Concept: Arch.Vilma Bartolomé Arencibia, in collaboration with Arch. Inger Ponce de León Rego, DI Raidán Valdés Hung, DI Maikel Sánchez, Lic. Silvia Llanes Torres.
Location: Residential district Alamar

Video Projections
Video works by artists from different countries.
Venue: Pabellón Cuba

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