Issue Launch: Terremoto

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Terremoto is a bilingual quarterly online and printed magazine dedicated to contemporary art in Mexico City, Latin America, as well as the southern United States. Each issue builds deep and inclusive examination on diverse cultural matters concerning artists and thinkers of the region, such as social inequality and discrimination (“Shadows,” Summer 2016), the ideological hangover (“All Yesterday’s Parties,” Winter 2015), interdisciplinary research (“Wild Researchers,” Fall 2015), shock (“Watching Worlds Collapse,” Spring 2015), among other topics. Terremoto was born out of the interest to reinforce and invigorate dialogues and exchanges between young artistic producers of these regions, as well as analyze its institutions and the role of art in society.

Dorothée Dupuis (curator and director of Terremoto), and Natalia Valencia (curator and editor of Terremoto) will introduce the origins and interest of the projects, as well as present the Summer 2016 edition, “Shadows,”  followed by a performatic reading of  "Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt,” by artist and curator Víctor Albarracín Llanos (artistic director, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia). 

Copies of the magazine will be available for sale at the event. A reception with wine will follow the panel.

Learn more about the magazine at www.terremoto.mx

Dorothée Dupuis (b.1980, Paris) is an independent curator, author, and publisher based in Mexico City, where she founded Terremoto magazine in 2013. She was the director of Triangle France in Marseille (2007-2012) and is codirector of Petunia magazine. A dedicated feminist, her practice seeks to question, expose, and challenge existing power structures from the visual arts. Upcoming curatorial projects include Sophie Bueno-Boutellier at Fondation Ricard (Paris), Biblioteca Orozco at PAOS Gdl (Guadalajara), and Notes from the future: A crossbred laborer’s diary at FRAC Pays de la Loire, France. Her writings have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues as well as art publications such as Frieze, Flash Art, Spike, ArtReview, Metropolis M, Mousse, and Kaleidoscope, among others.

Natalia Valencia (b. 1984, Bogotá) is an independent curator based in Mexico City. She has worked as fellow researcher of Latin American art at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and is editor of Terremoto. Recent curatorial projects include Serpientes, Aurora Pellizzi (2016); and Azul Equivocation, Rometti Costales (2013) at L'appartement 22 in Rabat; Un escalier d'eau at Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2013); Christian Jankowski at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City (2012), among others.

Victor Albarracin is a Colombian artist, writer, curator and educator based in Cali. He is artistic director of Lugar a Dudas in Cali and a member of the curatorial team for the Colombian National Artists' Salon, 2016. His work generates fictions and conflicts to create situations of vulnerability, disenfranchisement, and estrangement through music, literature, and video. He is author of the books Feign (2015), El tratamiento de las contradicciones (2013), and Materials for a Makeshift Shack (2013).