Ketchup Session: Daniela Ortiz & Dread Scott
Ketchup Session: Daniela Ortiz & Dread Scott, hosted by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez The event will be live-streamed on YouTube. Free to attend, RSVP for Zoom link . Real-time captioning provided, in English with live Spanish translation. Starting in May, KADIST will host a monthly series of ‘catch-up’ sessions, with short saucy presentations by artists around the world—artists that we’ve been following but haven’t visited in a while. Each session will be hosted by a different international curator, served up via Zoom and streamed via YouTube. We’ll sit-down with 20 artists over the course of the next year, celebrating KADIST’s 20th anniversary. During this first Ketchup Session, Daniela Ortiz and Dread Scott, two artists with long lasting commitments for anti-racial struggles and practices involving the public space, discuss these issues from different geographic and historical perspectives. About Through her work Daniela Ortiz aims to generate visual narratives in which the concepts of nationality, racialization, social class and genre are explored in order to critically understand structures of colonial, patriarchal and capitalist power. Her recent projects and research revolve around the European migratory control system, its links to colonialism and the legal structure created by institutions in order to inflict violence towards racialized communities. Also have produced projects about the Peruvian upper class and its exploitative relationship with domestic workers. Recently her artistic practice has turned back into visual and manual work, developing art pieces in ceramic, collage and in formats such as children books in order to take distance from eurocentric conceptual art aesthetics. Besides her artistic practice she is a single mother of a three-year child, gives talks, workshops, and participates in various discussions and struggles against the European migratory control system and institutional racism. Dread Scott is an interdisciplinary artist whose art encourages viewers to re-examine ideals of American society. In 1989, the US Senate outlawed his artwork and President Bush declared it “disgraceful” because of its transgressive use of the American flag. His work has been exhibited at The Whitney Museum, MoMA/PS1, The Walker Art Center, and in galleries and on street corners. He is a 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and has also received fellowships form Open Society Foundations and United States Artists. Artnet.com highlighted his 2019 performance, Slave Rebellion Reenactment , as one of the most important artworks of the decade. Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez is an interdependent curator, editor and writer. Among the exhibitions she has curated are Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s–1980s , with Giovanna Zapperi, LaM, Lille and Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2019–20; Contour Biennale 9: Coltan as Cotton , Mechelen, 2019; Let’s Talk about the Weather: Art and Ecology in Times of Crisis , with Nora Razian, Sursock Museum, Beirut and Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, 2016/18; and Resilience – U3: 7th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia , +MSUM, Ljubljana, 2013. She was co-director of Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers from 2010–12. She is editor-in-chief of Versopolis Review and was chief editor of Manifesta Journal, 2012–14 and of L’Internationale Online, 2014–17. She is co-founder of the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care, with Elena Sorokina. In 2021 she was appointed Cultural Programmes Manager at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris. She is the curator of the four-year project Not Fully Human, Not Human at All , organized by KADIST (2017-2021).