[NetBehaviour] Bogota-A City-on the Edge

[Angel Rodriguez]

Hi dear Netbehaviour


I am pleased to invite you to the opening evening of Bogota-A City-on the
Edge, that is opening this 22nd of November in *CSW Łaźnia,*
*Gdańsk-Poland.*

*This project brings together four artists working on New Media, making use
of different mediums to build their installation for instance Adriana
Salazar makes Kinetic artworks, Alberto Lezaca de Paz combines mapping,
sonic art and minimalistic sculpture, Andres Londoño works in-situ and
Jaime Avila does mediatic drawings.*

*Please find below brief description and link to the exhibition site.*


*http://www.laznia.pl/index.php?mod=aktualnosciart&aid=752&&lang=en
<http://www.laznia.pl/index.php?mod=aktualnosciart&aid=752&&lang=en>*

*Bogota- A city- on the Edge*

*Curated by: John Angel Rodriguez *

*institutional liaison: Sylwia Krasoń*

*Cities on the Edge*



*CSW Łaźnia, ul. Jaskółcza 1, Gdańsk-Poland*

This exhibition brings together a group of four contemporary artists from
Colombia. These artworks take the viewers through an interpretation of the
main themes that could define the current Colombian capital city situation.

Bogota- A city- on the Edge is an art exhibition which selected art
projects and artworks bringing into play the different city’s environment
social issues, in order to show how Bogota has become an important art
location. Not only identifying where we are in the world, but also showing
our extemporaneous distance to the art world. In this way, the viewers that
will be attending this show are going to have the chance to see the
implications of being and living as an artist in a city like Bogota.

In the context of a South American city like Bogota we must address many
different subjects to understand its social absurd edges. First the
political game that has been played there during the recent decades
includes things such as: re-interpretation of neo liberal North American
politics, hybrid pop-culture citizenship identities and fictional plans of
urban modernisation. These factors have contributed to the loss of its key
social goals; jeopardising the spread of further developments, to mention
just a few examples -the absence of an adequate public systems of transport
or a proper urban infrastructure- not because of the lack of financial
resources, but the inability to cope with abusive administrations.

The events that have been taking place in Bogota akin to science fiction
stories, nevertheless those narratives that the artists have suggested as
motives to create new artworks are now social realities. In some of the
cases the artists have transformed those social narratives from its
original referents and in other cases they have shaped their practices into
social critical views. Therefore this exhibition pretends to offer a
reflection about the problems inside of this city and move away from
typical representations of undeveloped environments.

 This exhibition is presented in the framework of a long-term project
titled *Cities On The Edge*, in which the ‘edgy’ position of Gdańsk is
explored. The project’s point of departure is the meaning of word ‘edgy,
‘which describes contemporary culture and the states of many contemporary
cities being.

-- 
John Angel Rodriguez

 Independent Curator
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