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LIVING MEMORY

Program 2024-2027

TEOR/éTica & Lado V – Center for Study and Documentation

This year TEOR/éTica celebrates twenty-five years of walking a wide and varied career surrounded by a multiplicity of people, artists, curators, managers and many organizations and institutions. TEOR/éTica is a constant construction that is always defined in relation to its local, regional and international context, and the people who make it up, that is why it is difficult to outline that wrap that has been woven by so many hands and composed of multiple threads. What is easy to say is how current its existence continues to be and the particularity of being an organization that thinks, that practices critical management and that starts from an ethical and political position to ask not only what it does but how it does it. .

When thinking about how to continue the project that TEOR/éTica and Lado V – Study and Documentation Center have been for twenty-five years, we are interested in focusing on the notion that we are and are constantly creating a LIVING MEMORY. This responds to a way of understanding ourselves as an organism, a body that remains in a state of question and experimentation, in the continuity allowed by the processes of learning, sharing and generating links. Being and making living memory implies keeping a look at the past to recover, learn, seek new readings and re-think what has been done, while working from a present to continue creating and supporting ways of doing in the contemporaneity of our context. We are interested in configuring this organization as a space/time that, through artistic practices, allows us to imagine and think about local and regional realities together with a multiplicity of agents.

Maintaining a living memory means strengthening a platform that is sustained through actions that reverberate together, such as study-documenting-sharing-cultivating relationships. In this way, we catalyze and intersect the multiple possibilities of our lines of action to create cross-pollinations, conversations, and continuity between the projects we propose and the people who participate in the construction of a memory that keeps breathing. 

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PROGRAMMING 2024

TEOR/éTica & Lado V – Center for Study and Documentation

25th ANNIVERSARY

Event commemorating the 25th Anniversary of TEOR/éTica, with the participation of various artists and agents of the local art scene.

CURATORIAL EXPERIMENTS

• Facade Intervention. Commission of the intervention to the façade in commemoration of TEOR/éTica’s 25th anniversary to artist and graphic designer José Alberto Hernández.
• Intervention of Patio TEOR Invitation to  costarican artists Alessandro Valerio to intervene TEOR/éTica’s patio space.
• Curatorial Experiments in Lado V. Curatorial experimentation exercises in collaboration with invited curators in Lado V’s exhibition spaces for modest exhibition projects that link to the archive, the library and more.

• • Curatorial Experiment #1 by Sofía Villena (Costa Rican curator)
  • Curatorial Experiment #1 by Marilia Loureiro (Brazilian curator)  

GRANTS AND SUPPORT

• El Flotador Grant. Fifth launch of the El Flotador Grant, an initiative to support the artistic production of emerging artists from Central America. The scholarships consist of $500 to be used exclusively for the production of artwork.
• Catalyst Grant 2024 Open Call . The Catalyst Grant is awarded to spaces, platforms and collectives that are committed to building community and having an impact on their local artistic ecosystems.
• Catalyst Grant 2023 Public Program .This public program is intended as a space for the recipients of the 2023 Catalyst Grant to share their projects, their learnings and achievements.
• Support for other cultural initiatives – Financial support given to projects not necessarily related to the visual arts that we consider relevant to support in order to strengthen and give them continuity.

STUDY

• ¡UPE!  We want to continue exploring how a cultural institution can be a place of physical and symbolic spatial agency, in addition to trying to put in dialogue voices that coexist and make up the socio-cultural space of the Amón neighborhood and the city of San José. In alliance with Priscilla Mora of Colectivo Nómada we will be supporting the Workshop of Documentary Photography and newspaper making for street dwellers that is taught at the Chepe Se Baña Art School.

• La Diabla – Self-publishing graphic workshop
  • Training Workshops 

1. 1. 1. Workshop A. Open call to select 7 people for a 12 sessions workshop. Writing workshop and technical training aimed at producing graphic and/or editorial materials and promoting the circulation of self-managed publications.
      2. Study Group 

• Public Program La Diabla This public program is intended to strengthen the graphic self-publishing project with Latin American guests who are working in the field of art, graphics, translation and publishing and who have experience managing this type of projects, so that they can share tools and create connections with local agents.
  • Guest #1: Nicolás Pradilla (Mexico) 
  • Guest #2: Johan Mihail (Dominican Republic) 
  • Guest #3: Alf Bojórquez (Mexico) 

EDITORIAL PROJECTS

• Buchaca 2024. Online magazine, a dossier touching relevant themes for the Central American region in dialogue with the Caribbean. Buchaca 2025 will be edited by Maya Juracán, Guatemalan curator/activist, as guest editor.

LADO V – CENTRO DE ESTUDIO Y DOCUMENTACIÓN

From Lado V we continue with the work of cataloging physical materials in the designated funds. Likewise, the review and entry into the database of digital materials continues, in order to make them available to the public and so that the collections can continue to be consulted and activated by artists, researchers, and the general public.

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