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DUPLUS
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Members: Santiago García Aramburu, Valeria González,
Teresa Riccardi and Santiago García Navarro.
duplus@argentina.com.ar
duplus2@yahoo.com.ar
Duplus is an experimental and research team of creative and thinking
processes not necessarily generated in the field of art. It constitutes
and promotes the practices related to people and entities linked
or weakly linked among each other. This is done so, through the
organization of reflection workshops, the production and the circulation
of texts and files and the reutilization of the public space through
interventions or signaling of various types. It does not have a
headquarter but it mainly works in Buenos Aires.
In its first stage -by the end of 1999 and 2001-Duplus worked like
an independent exhibition space of contemporary art, managed by
artists: Santiago Garcia Aramburu, Lucio Dorr, Pablo Ziccarello
and Hernan Salamanco. By the end of 2002, the team is changed and
the conceptual basis is redefined: Duplus is defined like a fluent
and open vector, in which different groups, objects, individuals
and information areas through specific projects intertwine and give
rise to new situations.
This implies to take into account:
-The problem of the broadness of the aesthetical fact beyond the
artistic object, like the relations between the artistic and social
practices.
-Today’s artistic production, in the frame of the crisis of
its own identity, which makes relevant the redefinition of the subjectivities
that can materialize in interdisciplinary projects, collective actions,
and other ways of relation in the context of symbolic and material
production.
-Decentralization of the figure of the curator like a privileged
subject in the fashioning of policies of sign circulation.
-The creative ways that come up from the critical social, political,
economic and cultural context characteristic of Argentina after
the 19th and 20th December, 2001.
-The local artistic production like production of locality, this
understood like a praxis that consciously emerges at a global scale.
This involves, in its reflective discrimination horizon, several
practices that are generated in other parts of the planet that hold
a standing, and whose specificity, consequently cannot boil down
to the free circulation of strategies of post-modern times.
2003 PROJECTS
-Workshop on the thinking over the artistic and social practice
in today’s Argentina. As of May.
The objective of the workshop is to fashion a hypothesis through
an exercise of common thinking and trying to find affinities from
specific practices (situated) of every of its members.
-Course “ The practice twist. The arts after their aesthetic
age”, by Reinaldo Laddaga, Julio, Alberto Sendros Gallery,
Buenos Aires.
Duplus is preparing an edition in which the text of the course will
be in dialogue with texts by Duplus and other authors. This is a
project in direct collaboration with the philosopher Reinaldo Laddaga.
-Reflection Workshop with the collective “Situaciones”.
From September.
This workshop is very much alike the workshop of artists’.
Situaciones is a group of political philosophy that conceive research
and activism like just one practice. They have written several books
and notebooks which, undoubtedly, have influenced the working spirit
of Duplus project. In this workshop we got together to think about
the common problems of both groups, for instance, which are the
present ways of representation, the self-representation, the usage
of images in relation with the opposition posture and finally, creativity
in the new social movements.
-Meeting of independent management projects of Latin America
and the Caribbean, Proa Foundation, from 28th October to 2nd
November.
-Library Project. Under construction. To begin at the beginning
of 2004.
Duplus intends to expand the curational activity towards specifically
non art circuits, thus by intervening libraries or public and private
archives of the city of Buenos Aires by specialists in other disciplines.
This projects come true like meetings in situ, and their core target
is to redefine “reading skills” and the public circulation
of theoretical thinking material of diverse fields.
-Duplus members are:
-Santiago García Aramburu.
-Valeria González. She holds a PhD in Art History
from the School of Philosophy and Literature of the University of
Buenos Aires (FFyL-UBA).At present, she is doing a Mastery in Discourse
Analysis at the same institution, where she also works as a researcher
and professor. She was the director of the curational program “Contemporary
Aesthetic Debate” (Proa Foundation together with Santiago Garcia
Navarro), and she was the curator of the show “Al Sur del Sur:
ocho fotografos de Argentina”/Southern South: eight Argentine
photographers”/ official section of PhotoEspaña 2001,
Madrid. She is an art assistant for the newspaper Pagina 12 (Buenos
Aires). She was awarded the Third Essay Prize by the Klemm Foundation,
B.A., 1999. She wrote the chapter on Photography for the book “Arte
Argentino de los Noventa”
/Argentine Art in the 90’s/ (B.A., Adriana Hidalgo, under publishing
process).
-Teresa Riccardi. She holds a doctorate in Arts from the
School of Philosophy and Literature of the University of Buenos
Aires (FFyL-UBA) and she holds a PhD in Arts from the same institution.
She is a doctorate fellowship holder of a career Initiation Subsidy
granted by Antorchas Foundation, Buenos Aires. She collaborated
with the magazines ADEF, BA, La Piel and Mil Palabras/A Thousand
Words/ all of them in Buenos Aires. Today, she works as a professor
at FFyL-UBA.
-Santiago García Navarro. He is a professor of Literature
at the Argentine Catholic University, and he did some studies in
philosophy and art at the University of Buenos Aires. He worked
as a writer specialized in arts for the newspaper LA NACION (1997-2001).
He was a correspondent for Argentina at the Spanish Portal Art Center.
He produced, among other things, the curational projects “U
TUM, A Generation Photos” (Arte x Arte Gallery, B.A., 2000)
and “Contemporary Aesthetic Debate” (Proa Foundation,
B.A., 2000), both in collaboration with Valeria Gonzalez; and “Private
Landscapes, collective prisons” (Ruth Benzacar Gallery, B.A.,
2002). She is a member of the program “Regional Production
and Analysis Meetings for visual artists”, Antorchas Foundation,
Buenos Aires.
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