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Email PageLaboratorio 060
March 13, 2008- April 19, 2008
Reception: March 13, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Laboratorio 060
CUE Art Foundation
511 W 25th StCurated by Pablo Helguera.
"The experimental collaborations, performances, videos and installations of Laboratorio 060 are indicative of the temperament and creative state of mind that characterizes the new generation of Mexican art.” – Pablo Helguera
The Mexico City-based collective, Laboratorio 060, blurs the line between the processes of curating and art making through elements of art history, humor and contemporary social commentary. Since coming together in 2003 as part of a seminar on curatorial practice in Mexico City, Laboratorio 060 has brought their varied projects to traditionally peripheral audiences through inclusion, not just presentation, “creating new communities within the relational sphere of art.” Underlining the participatory and sometimes confrontational nature of Laboratorio 060’s work, the members, Lourdes Morales, Javier Toscano and Daniela Wolf, use terms such as “curatorial actions” and “interventions” to describe many of their projects.
In Traffic (top, left), a curatorial action, Laboratorio 060 took artists’ photographs out of the traditional exhibition space and combined them with phrases from political discourses about progress and the future. They worked with numerous street vendors and brought together 30 people to march down Mexico City’s main freeway during rush hour and bring this truly “travelling” exhibition to an unsuspecting audience. Looking for Venus (bottom, right), a curatorial action and exhibition, investigated contemporary definitions of beauty and their link (if any) to art and involved inviting female passers-by into a small street vending stall to assume poses similar to famous historical depictions of the Roman Godess of beauty, Venus. Through their activites, the collective seeks “to become a cultural mediator that displays imagination as an inhabitable space.”
On view at CUE Art Foundation, Laboratorio 060’s first exhibition in New York, are various forms of documentation of these and other projects of the collective, ranging from flyers to slides to videos to posters. The other projects included are Frontera. A Sketch for the creation of a future society and Video Killed the Radio Star, both of which involve live performances during the opening reception of the exhibition. Stressing their interest in “borders and their active exchange,” Laboratorio 060’s work forces the viewer to question the traditionally unassailable without providing any concrete answers, leading one into a quagmire of social critique and self-reflection.
ARTIST’S BIO:
Laboratorio 060 is an interdisciplinary arts collective based in Mexico City, founded in 2003. Their line of work implies an experimental and critical approach to the public sphere and the articulation of a curatorial practice as a medium for artistic performance. Some of the most relevant projects realized by the collective are:
In 2007 the collective won the First Prize of the Best Art Practices award from the The Italian Culture Department of the Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano for the Frontera project. They have produced several projects and presentations developing the idea of an artistic production as a strategy for further critical developments. Articles about Laboratorio 060 have been published widely in Mexican Media (including TV and radio programs), Art Press (United States), ART (Germany), Exibart (Italy), Sarai (India) and Exit (Spain).
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