The e-Dialogues program arises from the need to rethink the way of reaching our audiences in a non-face-to-face way, understood as a space for meeting and debate, in the field of visual arts, architecture, cinema and literature. The corresponding sessions will continue to be held weekly during the months of May, June and July, and may be extended beyond this date. The contents will be related to discourses and narratives that bring East and West into contact within the framework of the culture(s) that identify the different geographies of a global world.

In this sixth session of the e-Dialogues program, we will have the participation of Brook Andrew (Sydney, 1970), known for reinterpreting the modern and colonial history of Australia and for presenting alternative perspectives to the conventional art system. He is the first indigenous artistic director of the Sydney Biennale (22nd edition), and is regarded as one of the Aboriginal provocateurs in the Australian contemporary art world. His speech is positioned regarding gender, sexuality, race and the environment. But he also adopts a critical attitude towards the evolution of the Biennials over the last decade, while continuing to claim their interest, on the condition that they adapt to current artistic practices and become radicalized.

This session will be held in English.

In 2014 Brook Andrew worked with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museum of America and the National Museum of Anthropology (Madrid) for the Really Useful Knowledge project at the MNCARS to make the immersive installation A Solid Memory of the Forgotten Plains of our Trash and Obsessions. Previously, among other significant projects, he had curated the exhibition TABOO in 2012/13 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, bringing Aboriginal art and international contemporary art into dialogue. with your research Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial has addressed the commemoration of Aboriginal losses and the frontier wars in Australia. She has been an artist in residence at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien from Berlin (July 2017-June 2018) and holds research positions at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. He is also a Professor of Business in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Indigenous Studies Unit and the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Associate Professor and Research Associate at the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Laboratory at Monash University (MADA) in Australia; DPhil candidate at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford; and Research Associate at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, United Kingdom.

NIRIN is the title of the 22nd Sydney Biennale 2020 directed by Brook and in which he has brought together works by 110 international artists. In this dialogue she will talk about the background of her project and  of the discourse that has allowed him to articulate the works that are exhibited. As Rosana Paulino says, “NIRIN represents something like a spider web that connects people and ideas and is at the same time the border through which things remain united. It is not about a hierarchy of ideas, but rather about being together. There is no center or periphery, it is like being in a digital cloud where everything stays together.”

This event has been possible thanks to the collaboration of the AGI Art Globalization and Interculturality Research Group of the University of Barcelona, ​​“ARES Archive. Aesthetics, identities and audiovisual practices in Spain”, MICIU R&D&i Project, EShID and the Research Group “VIS@LS: Visual Culture and Identity Policies” of the University of Castilla-La Mancha; the Vice-Rector for Culture of the University of Malaga (UMA), the International University of Catalonia (UIC-Barcelona) and VIDEOTAGE-CONTENT LAB of Hong Kong.

Speakers:
Brook Andrew, artistic director of the Sydney Biennale.
Menene Gras Balaguer, director of Culture and Exhibitions of Casa Asia

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