Round Trip NY #4,#5,#6,#7,#8

Round Trip NY. Eva Mendoza

Round Trip NY 
http://www.roundtripny.com/
Interviews:
Round Trip NY #4. Esther Achaerandio 
Round Trip NY #5. Verónica Peña
Round Trip NY #6. Juanli Carrión
Round Trip NY #7. Ana Morales Partida 
Round Trip NY #8. Abigail Lazkoz

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Founder and Executive Director: Eva Mendoza Chandas

Round Trip NY is a blog about Spanish art in New York that contains interviews with artists, curators, art managers, critics and other professionals devoted to the arts and culture, whose work is in some manner related to NY City.

We are quite well settled in the twenty-first century. We have substituted almost entirely the former analog technology with its digital successor in this new era based on binary codes and pixels. We find a phenomenon, however, that continues to be present nowadays, in spite of the socio-cultural transformations that have taken place in the last years.  This phenomenon is foreign-artist emigration.

Why are artists and other art professionals still choosing NY as one of their main destinations? In contrast with reasons for emigrating in the past- political, economic, etc. - nowadays, the causes of this migratory movement are much more diffuse and imprecise.

What is the role of Spanish culture in NY nowadays? Where is it going? How is this situation affecting the creation and administration fields in the present, and what repercussions will it have in the future?

The new interviewed are the visual artists, Esther Achaerandio, Verónica Peña, Juanli Carrión, Abigail Lazkoz and and the curator and cultural manager Ana Morales Partida. 
In Esther Achaerandio's opinion, there's a deep rift between the incentives which promote Spanish artists' mobility and the actual need for them: "They are few and yet the demand is high. The agreements with American institutions are limited. That's why Spanish artists, and above all the youngest of them, have little impact in NYC." 
Follow this link to read the interview:http://www.roundtripny.com/2010/12/round-trip-ny-4-esther-achaerandio.html

Verónica Peña appreciates the benefits of promoting her work in one of the artistic capitals of the world and the direct facing with curators and gallerists. In her own words, "the system is a bit more approachable than it is in Spain" 
Follow this link to read the interview:http://www.roundtripny.com/2010/12/round-trip-ny-5-veronica-pena.html

Juanli Carrión is in professional contact with Spanish institutions settled in New York, whose work he finds "sporadic and questionable" 
Follow this link to read the interview:http://www.roundtripny.com/2010/12/round-trip-ny-6-juanli-carrion.html

Ana Morales Partida thinks that "NY has a lot to offer to any person related to cultural or artistic fields. In this city it is possible to stay in permanent touch with all kinds of people from everywhere, to be aware of the non-stop bombardment of new things happening, and to learn to work in a businesslike way, which is very important if you really want culture to be a wealth generating industry".
Follow this link to read the interview:http://www.roundtripny.com/2010/12/ana-morales-partida-httpwww.html

Abigail Lazkoz  has noticed that the Spanish Institutions in NY "The policies tend to be erratic, depending on the varied profiles of those in charge of those labors. They seem to be subject to chance and to opportunism rather than to a clearly defined program of action." 
Follow this link to read the interview:http://www.roundtripny.com/2010/12/round-trip-ny-8-abigail-lazkoz.html