Conversation with Tamara Ibarra
ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning): Tamara Ibarra
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
The ALT + SHIFT + COMM conversation series was launched on June 16 with a conversation with Tamara Ibarra to address issues of self- and communal care and strategies for the sustainability of independent practices.
Tamara Ibarra is an artivist and researcher based in Mexico City with a focus on collaborative and resistance-based projects created by and for the benefit of the art community. Her work explores the blurred borders between curatorial practice, art management, and artwork though the creation of platforms, archives, and publishing projects through her ongoing research and work. Tamara analyzes the art community as an ecosystem lab that within its specific groups (independent and feminist) can anticipate the future topics and solutions for society at large.
In 2012, she was nominated for the National Prize in the Arts and was the recipient of FONCA Young Artists Fellowship (2012). With the Curatorial Fellowship awarded by Contemporary Art Patronage PAC (2013), she initiated the research project “Ride the wave. Movement of the Independent Spaces in Mexico.” She is co-founder of BOOMERANG, a forum for spaces and art collectives from across the country. With a grant for publications awarded by PAC (2014), she created the digital platform YEI, which brings together 521 artists from independent projects throughout Latin America. In addition, YEI consists of an ever-growing physical archive of books, objects and recorded interviews. Tamara participated in the Curatorial Intensive Course Bogotá hosted by Independent Curators International (ICI). In 2018, she was invited to present her research at MoMA as part of a conversation that focused on the ways in which independent forms of organizing can inform institutional practices.
In 2018 she founded Prras!, a feminist collective project that creates exhibitions, actions, and publications for the visibility of Mexican female art workers, focusing on notions of labor and value. Prras! has been presented in art fairs internationally (Toronto, Spain, Mexico). In 2020 participated in the 3rd Kamias Triennial in Manila. Currently, Prras! is developing a new book in collaboration with Greek artists.
Links:
https://independent.academia.edu/BoomerangRed
Is A Commons Possible Under Neoliberalism?
https://terremoto.mx/article/bajo-el-neoliberalismo-un-comun-es-posible/
YEI
Fb/IG/Twitter @yeimagmx
https://www.facebook.com/YEImagmx/
https://www.instagram.com/yeimagmx/
https://twitter.com/yeimagmx
www.yeiiii.com (site under construction)
yeidialogos@gmail.com
Prras!
Fb @prrasmx : https://www.facebook.com/prrasmx/
IG @prras_collective :https://www.instagram.com/prras_collective/
https://prrascollective.wordpress.com
prras2018@gmail.com
Independent spaces mentioned:
Biquini Wax: https://www.instagram.com/biquiniwax_tv/
Obrera Centro: https://www.instagram.com/obreracentro/
Digital projects mentioned:
Televética: https://www.instagram.com/proyecto_televetica_/
o-CUPA-ciones:https://www.instagram.com/o_cupa_ciones/
VidaOXXO:https://www.instagram.com/vidaoxxe/
Brkn English:https://www.instagram.com/brkn_english/
Grupo que busca tu meme perdido:https://www.facebook.com/groups/224869678859738/
