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SPEAKEASY - PHILAGRAFIKA INDEPENDENT PROJECT
In February, Vox Populi highlights the collaborative social space that surrounds the practice of printmaking with a series of conversations and drinks (in conjunction with Philagrafika 2010). Curators and artists will tend bar at Vox's specially designed watering hole and lead discussions on topics in printmaking. Please join us. All events are free and open to the public and take place at Vox Populi, 319 N 11th Street, Philadelphia.
Monday, February 8 at 6 pm
Jose Roca
Mark, Cast, Imprint: Curating from the Jungle
Jose Roca, co-curator of the 27th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2006), talks about how the experience of the Brazilian jungle shaped his curatorial approach.
Jose Roca is the Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Philagrafika 2010. Prior to becoming Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010, Roca managed the arts program at the Banco de la Republica in Bogota for a decade, establishing it as one of the most respected institutions in the Latin American circuit. Full bio here.
Thursday, February 18 at 6 pm
Nicola Lopez
The Expansive Nature of Print: Why Printmaking is Today's Medium
Nicola Lopez presents an exploration of how printmaking fits into our contemporary cultural landscape. Printmaking's historical and technical relationship to mass media, as well as its potential for interfacing with new technologies, makes it a natural bridge between "high art" and "mass culture." Its unique characteristics and history also put it in the position to address some of the most pressing issues of our time--issues that are relevant to society at large as well as specifically to artists today.
Nicola Lopez lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Through her work in printmaking, drawing and installation, Lopez describes and reconfigures our contemporary, primarily urban, landscape. Although much of her imagery refers to familiar aspects of our human-built environment, the actual layout and configuration of the landscapes she describes often deny gravity and Cartesian logic. Full bio here.
Thursday, February 25 at 6 pm
Evan Roth
Art, Graffiti, Technology, Data Visualization, Hip Hop, and Culture
Roth will give a live streaming presentation from Paris on the overlap of art, graffiti, technology, data visualization, hip hop, and free culture.
Evan Roth (aka fi5e) is an artist with interests in technology, tools of empowerment, open source, and popular culture. Roth graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in architecture. Roth's projects have recently shown at the Sundance Film Festival, the Moma, the Tate, the New Museum, and on BET. Evan's work has been published in the New York Times, Time magazine, Rolling Sone, and Esquire, and is the number one return for the Google search "bad ass mother fucker." Full bio here.
This program was organized as part of the Philagrafika 2010: Independent Projects. For information on Philagrafika 2010, and the more than 75 other independently curated projects taking place throughout the city, please visit the web site. Philagrafika, the organizing body of Philagrafika 2010, is a nonprofit arts organization in Philadelphia that provides leadership for large-scale, collaborative initiatives with broad public exposure.
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