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| Round Trip NY. Eva Mendoza |
Round Trip NYwww.roundtripny.com Interviews: Round Trip NY #9. Paco Cano Round Trip NY #10. Laura Turégano Round Trip NY #11. Gema Alava Round Trip NY #12. Jodie Dinapoli  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, whose work is in some manner related to New York 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 interviewees are the visual artist Gema Alava, the curators Jodie Dinapoli, Paco Cano and the cultural manager and Associated Director of The King Juan Carlos I Center at New York University, Laura Turégano. Gema Alava considers that if Spanish institutions want to truly support Spanish artists, they must begin to contact them, communicate with them or even pay them a visit at their studios. Follow this link to read the interview: http://www.roundtripny.com/2011/04/round-trip-ny-11-gema-alava.html Jodie Dinapoli is currently working for No Longer Empty (NLE) www.nolongerempty.org, where she is part of a team of curators and directs the scheduling for events that accompany exhibitions.Follow this link to read the interview:http://www.roundtripny.com/2011/04/round-trip-ny-12-jodie-dinapoli.html Paco Cano curated the exhibition N.Y. Motion 1.0 where he blended some ideas: "Motion -so as to study mobility within the world of art; Promotion -since the main aim was to promote a group of Spanish artists from a given generation; and Emotion -because the work of each artist was examined in light of its contact with American culture and art". Follow this link to read the interview: http://www.roundtripny.com/2011/01/round-trip-ny-9-paco-cano.html Laura Turégano finds that one of the major challenges in the promotion and cultural exchange resides in the difficulty to gain visibility in the massiveness of New York City, "the amount of time and effort necessary for a project to be visible in this town is massive." Follow this link to read the interview: http://www.roundtripny.com/2011/04/round-trip-ny-10-laura-turegano.html |
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