documenta fifteen: documenta Halle, Ottoneum
Part 2 of the photo tour through documenta fifteen. 18 June - 25 September 2022, Kassel, Germany. Artistic Direction: ruangrupa. 67 participants.
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(Born out of an artistic action in Havana, Cuba, when, in May 2015, the artist and activist Tania Bruguera held a collective reading of Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951)
On the outside wall of the halls with works of the group appears the reconstruction of a mural by Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas (* 1962 Sancti Spíritus, Cuba), in which the artist satirizes the "revolutionary" propaganda of the Cuban government. The artist painted it in 1988-1989 on a wall at the corner of Avenida de los Presidentes y 15 in Havana's Vedado neighborhood. The text translates as "A way to march forward".
(Text by Universes in Universe)
INSTAR—an acronym, and also a verb meaning “to encourage,” “to instigate,” or “to incite”—works at the fault lines between artistic practice and activism. For documenta fifteen, INSTAR presents a counter-narrative of Cuban cultural history, installed between Havana and Kassel. The project takes place at documenta Halle in Kassel, and in INSTAR’s Cuban headquarters. Viewers can access an operant archive of INSTAR’s activities and aims through ten exhibitions that INSTAR is putting on every ten days. Each show displays a specific project or or practice in Cuba, aiming to give justice to artists and intellectuals censored by the Cuban government.
(From the documenta website)
Venue: documenta Halle
© Photo: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
Part 2 of the photo tour through documenta fifteen. 18 June - 25 September 2022, Kassel, Germany. Artistic Direction: ruangrupa. 67 participants.