art and politics
PABLO JOSÉ RAMÍREZ: “LANGUAGE HAS ALWAYS BEEN INSCRIBED IN A SYSTEM OF COLONIAL HIERARCHIES”
At the occasion of the exhibition «The Shores of the World», presented at Display, Prague, in June 2018, curator and theoretician of contemporary art Karina Kottová (1984) discussed with the Guatemalan curator Pablo José Ramírez (1982) about the potentialities and limits of inter-regional and inter-linguistic conversations, both within and beyond this particular exhibition project.
ON «INOCULACIÓN», EXILE AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. INTERVIEW WITH AI WEIWEI
His pieces are denouncing methods and political questionings. Some of his most representative works make up «Inoculación», the artist’s first exhibition in Chile, that will run until 9 September at Fundación CorpArtes’ venue Centro de las Artes 660 (CA660) in Santiago. On the opening day of the exhibition, Ai Weiwei talked to Artishock about the role poetry has in his work, freedom of speech and the state of the world today.