Ketchup Session: Alan Page Arriaga & Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa on Fact, Fiction, Myth, and History
Ketchup Session: Alan Page Arriaga & Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa on Fact, Fiction, Myth, and History. Hosted by Magalí Arriola Thursday, December 16, 2021, 6 pm PST The event will be live-streamed on YouTube . RSVP for Zoom link . Real-time captioning provided. Alan Page Arriaga and Naufus Ramírez Figueroa touch upon the ways in which story and memory interweave. Their conversation will deal with performance and role-playing as strategies to reconcile narratives and strengthen the political formations where historical actors and fictitious characters, tangible facts, and mythic tales collide. In conjunction with The Missing Circle , an exhibition curated by Magalí Arriola on view at KADIST San Francisco through January 8, 2022. Alan Page Arriaga is a Mexican writer, screenwriter and translator living in Los Angeles. Among his most recent work, he wrote and performed Mouthpiece for Six Scripts for Not I, the exhibition catalogue for Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE – 2020) at LACMA, curated by Jose Luis Blondet. Previously he wrote and performed the Causality of Hesitance with Mario García Torres. Among his work in film and television, he most recently co-wrote the film and documentary hybrid I Carry You With Me with Heidi Ewing. Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa lives and works in Guatemala City. He holds a BFA from Emily Carr University, Vancouver, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a research fellow at Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht in 2013. Using performance, sound, drawing and sculpture, Ramírez-Figueroa’s work conjures live and sculptural representations that explore themes of loss, displacement, and cultural resistance. The Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) is a recurring subject in his work, which although often softened by an absurd and humorous approach, fails to conceal the force of history that precedes it. He has exhibited his work around the world and is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Mies Van Der Rohe prize, the Franklin Furnace award, the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship (selected by Dan Graham), and the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence fellowship. Magalí Arriola is the Director at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. Previously, she was the curator at Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Chief Curator at the Museo Tamayo (2009?11) and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (1997-2000). She curated the Mexican Pavilion at the 58 Venice Biennial in 2019. As KADIST’s Lead Curator for Latin America, she organized The Missing Circle , a three-year series of seminars, artist commissions, and exhibitions departing from the shared experience of death and extinction in Latin America from colonial times to the present.