12:00 m. - 1:00 p. m. 
BIENNALE OR NOT TO BIENNALE

A look at the concept behind the 38th edition of EVA International - Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art (April 2018) and a conversation with one of the participating artists.

Inti Guerrero (Colombia)
Estrellita B. Brodsky Assistant Curator of Latin American Art at Tate Modern in London and curator of EVA International.
Jaime Ávila (Colombia)
Participating artist at EVA International.

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RELACIONES PÚBLICAS 
Director Pablo Helguera (Mexico)

2:00 p. m. - 4:00 p. m.
CENTORTHIP, NOT THE PAINTING, MUST GO: DANA SCHUTZ’S WORK AT THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL 

Examines the controversy surrounding the call for censorship at the Whitney Biennial in New York over the work of Dana Schutz, an American artist. She painted the disfigured corpse of Emmett Till, a fifteen yearold African-American who was lynched in 1955. Fusco explores the effects of censorship of an art work in the context of a biennial, in the actual politic and racial climate in the US.

Coco Fusco (Cuba / USA)
Artist and Writer.

4:30 p. m. - 6:00 p. m. 
DESECRATION OR SELF-CENSURESHIP?  JILL MAGID’S EXHIBITION AT MUAC IN MEXICO

Examines the work The Proposal by Jill Magid, an American artist, who made a diamond with the exhumed ashes of the Mexican architect Luis Barragán and tried to access his documents to create a body of works. The exhibition featured topics such as copyright, the commercialization of archives, cultural heritage and intellectual property.

Cuauhtémoc Medina (Mexico)
Chief curator at Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo MUAC.

6:30 p. m. - 8:00 p. m. 
QUESTIONING AND ENCOURAGING HISTORY

This conversation presents the work of African-American artist Dread Scott. What is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag? (1988), questions the history of racism that has generated social and economic inequality in the USA. The artist will be in conversation with Steven Henry Madoff.

Dread Scott (USA)
Artist.
Steven Henry Madoff (USA)
Curator, Art Historian and Founding Director of the Master’s program in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York.