Octubre 2015 - Marzo 2016

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The MDE15 works, selected by the artists to be exhibited in the conventional showrooms, will be set in the rooms of the Museo de Antioquia and its Casa del Encuentro (Meeting House), and the Casa de la Música de EPM (EPM Music House) located in the Parque de los Deseos (Park of Wishes). The MDE15 will also include some fleeting works made in different public spaces of the city.

The artists invited by the MDE15 under these two categories, alphabetically listed:

Tercerunquinto México

Tercerunquinto’s site-specific interventions address both the gallery space and the cultural contexts that contain them. For MDE15 the artists look into Medellín’s publicpolicies that propose culture and the arts as ways for social development. In Grafiti. Representación en grado cero (Graffiti. Zero Degree Representation, from the Archaeology of Anger series), they suggest the intervention of one of the museum galleries with a series of tags on its walls, typical marks that account for anger vented on the walls in public spaces. These are done by an amateur actor –trained in an acting workshop at a cultural center sponsored by the city— who embodies the role of a person committing the vandalism. Instead of using colors…

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Todo por la Praxis Spain

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Tricilab Colombia

Social and cultural initiatives in Medellín become key components in the transformation and development of the city. Tricilab is a mobile laboratory created by a group of young people from the neighborhood of Moravia. This device is an alternative platform of communication to provide feedback on the social knowledge among different communities. They ask questions about art, and the influence of technology to generate autonomous actions and strengthen youth empowerment. This work is aimed to replicate the knowledge learned in the areas of expanded education that were developed in their laboratories. This team move around different places of Medellín with…

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