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390 Broadway, 2nd Floor
June 28 – August 9, 2024
Curated by Eden Deering and Timmy Simonds

***BoriGuay: Off the Grid***
**Curator:** Sofía Reeser del Rio
**Artists:** Luis Camnitzer, Gabo Camnitzer, G. Rosa-Rey, and Liliana Farber
Dates: November 3rd - November 30th
**Opening Reception:** November 3rd, 6-9pm
**Gallery:** LES Gallery
***BoriGuay: Off the Grid*** at LES Gallery is organized within the annual Bormix Festival's main exhibition, 'BoriGuay: El Cinturón del Sur.' Featuring artists such as Luis Camnitzer, Gabo Camnitzer, G. Rosa-Rey, and Liliana Farber, all based in New York City. This exhibition's title, "Off The Grid," signifies more than symbolism. It encapsulates the essence of the show, mirroring the artists' defiance of established boundaries, a core theme of the exhibition that challenges conventional territorial notions. By exploring societal systematizations and their influence on our relationship with the land, this exhibition dives into abstraction, innovative technologies, humor, and profound collective inquiries. These works transcend the ordinary, offering fresh perspectives on boundaries and perceptions of things we coin as natural.
*This exhibition is part of* ***BORIMIX: Puerto Rico Fest 2023***. The festival begins on Nov 1st with a Improv Comedy Show @ LATEA and follows on Nov 2nd with a South-American Performance Art night @ LATEA and on Nov 3 is the BORIMIX Awards Ceremony honoring leaders in the Puerto Rican and Uruguayan community, and follows with the opening of our visual arts exhibitions, and special entertainment by Latin Artists. Don’t miss this fun-filled evening celebrating Puerto Rican arts and culture!

**MOMENTUM 12: Together as to gather** officially opened on Saturday, June 10, with an incredible foam action by German artist, **Stephanie Lüning**; karaoke with Indonesian collective **Gudskul**; and a performance by the **Blikkåpnerne** (16-19 year olds collaborating with MOMENTUM).
Curated by **Tenthaus—**a diverse group of artists and art workers from a variety of cultural backgrounds—the 12th edition includes collaborations with over 90 artists, collectives, and institutions from Norway and around the world and features a constellation of projects ranging from commissioned artworks to a dynamic and community-oriented live programme of discursive and spontaneous events, all of which unfold in the Galleri F 15 exhibition space, on the grounds of the gallery on the island of Jeløy, and across the city of Moss.
As this is the first time the biennale is curated by an art collective, Tenthaus wanted to reflect this in an approach that is less about a unified curatorial standpoint, but instead more of a reflection of the complex polyphony of voices that make up collective work.
There is no specific overarching theme, other than a desire to gather and share experiences. Tenthaus chose to gather what excites, inspires, and interests each of its members, assembled to see how these practices could start conversations with each other and between the collective, the artists and the community.
Over the next four months, *Together as to gather* will be in constant flow and expansion, re-shaping its form to allow for ongoing, open, multifaceted, and elastic conversations and encounters that will seed further gatherings, encouraging us all to experience different types of togetherness, again and again.
Among the commissioned projects are **Enrique Guadarrama Solis** (Mexico), *The P.R.I.N.T. Chronicles* (2023); **Gudskul** (Indonesia), *Stitching Ecosystems: Gudkitchen-Tentskul* (2023); **Anawana Haloba** (Zambia), *When we continue living in stars, a conversation with Hannah Ryggen*; **So Yo Hen** (Taiwan), *Hua-shan-qiang* (2013/2023); **Ann Cathrin Hertling** and Marte Huke (Norway), *Can I breathe in it? (working title)*(2023); **Thomas Iversen** (Norway), *Byens flass [City-dandruff]* (2023); **Morag Keil**, *Untitled* (2023); **Stephanie Lünin**g (Germany), *Island of Foam - Version # XXV / Coloured Barn (2023)* and Collectivity Painting # I & II – MOMENTUM Biennale (2023); **Alessandro Marchi** (Italy), *Ingenmannsretten* (2023); **Germain Ngoma** (Zambia), *Forest*(2023); **Andrea Parkins** (USA), *The Stray II* (2021–2023); **Margrethe Pettersen** (Sápmi) and **Line Solberg Dolmen** (Norway), *Conversations with what runs deep* (2023); **Fotobook DUMMIES Day** (Taiwan), *Bread and Butter Bookshop* (2023); **Kate Rich** (UK), *Feral Business Training Camp* (2023); **Jaanus Samma** (Estonia), *National Utopia* (2023); **WET** (Czech Republic), *Wetcation* (2023); **Nayara Leite** (Brazil), *In Search of Rainbows* (2022); **Marek Sobocinski** (Poland), *SLAVA* (2023); **Gabo Camnitzer** (Sweden / USA), *50 Million Windows* (2023); **Blikkåpnerne** (Norway), *Rage room* (2023); **Luiz Roque**(Brazil), S (2017); **Dáiddadállu Artist Collective** (Sápmi), *Untitled* (2023); **Salangen Biennale/IPIHAN** (Norway), *Info / Merch* (2023); P1 resident artists **Jasper Siverts, Ana Marques Engh** and Bendik-Bendik Syversætre Johannessen, *Things Don’t Run We*(2023); **Lise Linnert** (Norway), *Colours for hope and equality – picnic blankets* (2018–2023); and many more.
The live programme of radio broadcasts, dinners, conversations, workshops and meetings, video recordings, and projections, is intended to make room for experimental processes, and experience-based practices. It features numerous artists and collectives that in turn encourage different types of participation, including **Stéphane Kabila**(Democratic Republic of the Congo), **Paula Chambers** (UK), **The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art / Survival Kit** (Latvia), **Jelsen Lee Innocent** (USA), **Jessica Williams** (USA), **Makda Embaie** (Sweden), **Daddy’s Dinner** (Taiwan, China, Hong Kong), **Deise Faria Nunes** (Brazil), **Iya Luz,** aka Tereza Duarte (Brazil), **Hulias** (Norway), **YTB - Younger Than Beyoncé** (Canada), **Fotogalleriet** (Norway), **Sean Tseng** (Taiwan), **Sara Wu** (Taiwan), **Daniela Ramos Arias** (Costa Rica), **Aisel Wicab** (Mexico), **Stacy Brafield**(UK), **Ewa Hubar** (Poland), **Escuela de Garage** (Colombia), **La Hervidera** (Mexico), **The Seoul Mediacity Biennale**, amongst others.
**MOMENTUM 12: Together as to gather** is complemented by a fully illustrated limited edition publication edited by **Billie MacTernan** (UK) with **Bukola Oyebode** (Nigeria). It includes contributions from **Antawan I. Byrd** (USA), **Stan D’Haene** (Belgium), **Janine Eisenacher** (Germany), **Itzel Esquivel** (Mexico), **Cissie Fu** (Singapore), **Bronwyn Law-Viljoen** (South Africa), **Annette An-Jen Liu** (Taiwan), **Alessandro** **Marchi** (Italy), **moshood** (Nigeria), **Enrique Guadarrama Solis** (Mexico), **Shih Ya Tien** (Taiwan), **Alia Swastika** (Indonesia), **Nikhil Vettukattil** (India), **Salomé Voegelin** (Austria), and **Arnisa Zeqo** (Netherlands). Over the course of the biennale, the publication will be supplemented with six bulletins.
The MOMENTUM biennale was established in 1998 and is organised and produced by Galleri F 15. For over two decades, MOMENTUM has consistently supported compelling curatorial vision and operated as a platform for exploring the exhibition format, both in the Nordic context and with an international perspective.
**MOMENTUM 12: Together as to gather** takes place from June 10 to October 8, 2023.
**More information**
Visit momentum12.info and tune in to Radio MOMENTUM for programming connected to **Together as to gather.**
**Media enquiries**
International: Amanda Kelly and Vanessa Saraceno, Pickles PR
Norway: Ann Kristin Traaen, Galleri F 15

Exhibition at Konsthall C, Stockholm Sweden

Joseph Henry interviewed me for Artforum.

https://www.artforum.com/interviews/rethinking-pedagogy-and-social-practice-in-the-pandemic-era-87819

My audio documentary "Glorious Wound" is now available on Montez Press Radio! The documentary consists of interviews I have been conducting with NYC public K-12 teachers over the past few months, reflecting on shifting conceptions of the classroom during the COVID era, the historical forces underlying the current crisis in education, and visions for the future of education. Listen here: https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/2257

Teachers featured:
Grace Chang
Steve Deihl
Ali Haridopolos
Jake Jacobs
Jia lee
Jenn Leyva
Kyla MacDonald
Marilena Marchetti
Dianne Pannullo

"Glorious Wound," takes its title from French communist pedagogue Célestin Freinet’s (1896-1966) description of a lung injury that led to his reimagining of pedagogy. On returning to teaching after being injured in World War I, Freinet, no longer able to project his voice to his pupils, decided to transform his pedagogical approach to emphasize the emancipatory potential of collective creativity. Removing the rows of chairs and desks, he installed a printing press in the center of his classroom, which became the focal point of his new teaching method. He facilitated his elementary school age students in exploring their communities – researching and documenting the lived experiences and materials conditions of community members, and committing the results to print. Through his simple spatial reconfiguration, Freinet reshaped the relationship between student and classroom, and between classroom and world.

"Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences," my collaboration by Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, is featured in the latest issue of POOL, January 2021.

I will be Artist-in-residence at the Queens Museum for the next 18 months as part of their "Year of Uncertainty" programing.

On April 2, 2021, I will be participating in a panel discussion at Teachers College, Columbia University with Bill Gaskins, Miguel Braceli, and Neil Daigle Orians, moderated by Nicole Johnson, as part of Art School Pedagogy 2.0 symposium.

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On March 6, 2021, Mehdi Torkaman and I will be speaking at Bergen Kunsthall. about Camouflage Society, the summer school we organized at Tenthaus Oslo in 2018. The symposium organized by Tenthaus, is part of the programming for Jef Geys respective currently on view at Bergen Konsthall, Curated by Axel Wieder and Steinar Sekkingstad.

https://www.kunsthall.no/en/?k=1&aar=2021&id=26&aid=243&ark=1&arrtID=&ArrLokID=&index=9

https://www.onassis.org/video/compass-house-door-alina-tenser-gabo-camnitzerA Compass for the House Door is a video done in collaboration with Alina Tenser, commissioned by the Onassis Foundation, and curated by Queens Museum. “In A Compass for th… — https://www.onassis.org/video/compass-house-door-alina-tenser-gabo-camnitzer
*A Compass for the House Door* is a video done in collaboration with Alina Tenser, commissioned by the Onassis Foundation, and curated by Queens Museum.
“In A Compass for the House Door, Alina Tenser and Gabo Camnitzer use the floor plan of their apartment as a schema to consider the shifting boundaries of traditional conceptions of space during the COVID-19 crisis. Made using an old camera and craft materials the artists had at home, the video grapples with a wide set of topics including: Lucretius’ conception of the clinamen, marketing consultant Faith Popcorn’s term “cocooning”, Angela Mitropoulos’ consideration of Oikonomia and Edward Hall’s theory of proxemics. The video was made in 120 hours, using an old point and shoot camera and materials lying around our apartment.”

The project, Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences, done with with Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, has been nominated for the Arquia Próxima prize! https://fundacion.arquia.com/convocatorias/proxima/p/ProximaRealizacion/FichaDetalle?idrealiz… — The project, Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences, done with with Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, has been nominated for the Arquia Próxima prize!
https://fundacion.arquia.com/convocatorias/proxima/p/ProximaRealizacion/FichaDetalle?idrealizacion=7090&searchquery=q%3d%26f_ix_catalog%3dareaprofesional.convocatorias.proxima%26f_tipoficha%3drecurso%26f_convocatoria%3d2018-2019%26f_proyectosgalardonados%3dSeleccionado&backurl=%2fconvocatorias%2fproxima%2fexplora%2f%3ff_convocatoria%3d2018-2019%26f_proyectosgalardonados%3dSeleccionado

Art Critic Frida Sandström will be speaking about my collaborative project, …a simple but wonderful device…, at Göteborgs Konsthall. The event will also feature Paula Urbano and Maryam Fanni, who will be discussing their work with Mapping the Unjust… — Art Critic Frida Sandström will be speaking about my collaborative project, *…a simple but wonderful device…*, at Göteborgs Konsthall. The event will also feature Paula Urbano and Maryam Fanni, who will be discussing their work with Mapping the Unjust City / Vem äger staden. https://konsthallen.goteborg.se/program/makten-staden-konsten-vem-ager-staden/

Exhibition at Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden, in collaboration with students from Lövgärdesskolan in Angered, Sweden. (link)

This fall I’ve been working with the youth program at The Sixth Street Community Center (@sixthstreetcc) on a project facilitating children in developing new strategies of pursuing climate justice. Engaging with the history of children’s strikes of the past 200 years, children at SSCC have been reflecting on the shortcomings of sanctioned forms of demonstration and experimenting with ideas that might point beyond the current paradigm. This Friday, November 8th at 730pm, at Tishman Auditorium at the New School, the children will be performing an intervention entitled “We are Animals” at the “Who Owns the World” Conference at the New School.

Image: still from a video we’ve been working on: “Pollution and Their Cronies” shot by Justin Denis.

Thanks to Trebor Scholz, Michael McHugh, and Angela Difede, for organizing the conference and inviting us!

Review in Brooklyn Rail by Joseph Lubitz (link)

CLOSING CONVERSATION WITH ADELITA HUSNI-BEY & PARK MCARTHUR .

To mark the closing of “Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences,” this Sunday, March 10, Lluis Alexandre Casanovas Blanco and I will be in conversation with artists ADELITA HUSNI-BEY and PARK MCARTHUR.

Doors open 12.00 pm.

Talk starts at 12.30pm.

Review in Avery Review by Filipe de Sousa. (link)

http://indexfoundation.se/talks-and-events/seminar-the-urge-the-echo

I’m leading a workshop at Queens Museum as part of the Queens International. (link)

I’m organizing this intervention in Leipzig this International Children’s Day as part of the exhibition Gaudiopolis at GfZK curated by Franciska Zólyom. (link)

Presenting my work at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. (link)

The show we’ve been working on in Oslo is opening. (link)

https://soundcloud.com/untitledartpodcastlive/gabo-camnitzer-with-the-camouflage-society-and-the-tenthaus-artist-group

Presenting my work at Malmö Konsthall.

Public Event, ISP Group Exhibition at Artists Space.