Ketchup Session: Adriana Bustos & Cian Dayrit on Counter-Cartographies
Ketchup Session: Adriana Bustos & Cian Dayrit on Counter-Cartographies, Hosted by Inti Guerrero Available to view from December 9, 2021, 12 pm PST Maps are powerful tools for ordering and controlling the world and the discipline of cartography is inherent to colonialism and its lingering traces. Artists Adriana Bustos and Cian Dayrit propose “counter-cartographies” in which drawing, as information, appears as vocabulary to unpack historical processes of exclusion in Latin America and the Philippines respectively. This Ketchup Session maps such complexities through humor, feminist historiographies, punk aesthetics, and vernacular vocabularies. Adriana Bustos ’ work reflects on prevailing social, political, or religious oppression that appears in non-linear interpretations of history through installation, video, photography, and drawing. She has participated in biennials and exhibitions internationally such as Dhaka Art Summit (2020); Pompidou Center (2019); Sharjah Biennial (2019) and Biennial of Montevideo (2014-2018). Her work is part of the public collections of the Foundation Sharjah Biennial, KADIST, Reina Sofía Museum, Museo de Arte Moderno of Buenos Aires, Aciacity Foundation in Singapore, Museum of Contemporary Art Lisbon, Museum of Modern Art Medellín, amongst others. She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cian Dayrit ‘s work investigates notions of power and identity as they are represented and reproduced in monuments, museums, maps, and other institutionalized media. His works often respond to different marginalized communities, encouraging a critical reflection on colonial and privileged perspectives. Recent showings include the 13th Gwangju Biennale (2021) and the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2020), and Dayrit has also participated in exhibitions at ParaSite, Hong Kong, Hammer Museum, L. A., the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. In 2019 he was an artist in residence at Gasworks, London. He lives and works in Manila, Philippines. Inti Guerrero is the Artistic Director of bap – bellas artes projects, Manila (since 2018) and tutor of the Curatorial Studies program at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts-KASK, Ghent. He was the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator at Tate, London (2016-2020); curator of the 38th EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick (2018); Co-curator of Dakar Biennale, La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain, Dakar (2018); and Artistic Director of TEOR/éTica, San Jose (2011-2014). He has edited and contributed his writing to numerous books, magazines, and exhibition catalogs and has taught and lectured at different universities, art academies, and institutions across the world.