FROM THE OUTSIDE IN

The fortress, San Carlos de la Cabaña, is the site of the 10th Havana Biennial

(Integration and Resistance in the Global Era).

The larger tents house an incarnation of an ongoing project led by Kcho, in which Cuban artists have been traveling around the island offering workshops and performances following a series of devastating hurricanes in 2008, They traveled to some of the most effected communities to support not only the reconstruction of material damage, but also provide a base for cultural renewal. By engaging both material and cultural needs their efforts help reevaluate the role and importance of art as social practice.

Like the bigger tents, the smaller tents represent collaborative art groups whose practices expand art’s social function to integrate culture into life, collide the people with the art. Then the places for art are also a farm, a bakery, a library, a movie theater, a think-tank, a bedroom, a neighborhood.

Artists from New York:
Caitlin Gianniny
Cathy Mooses
Jenn Su
Martyna Szczesna

Art spaces and colaboratives:
Canasta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Un Vagon Hermoso, Buratovich, Argentina
Art and Agriculture Greene County, New York
LoCurativo, New York City
France Fiction, Paris, France