Free*

Artist Paulina Lasa and art historian/curator Cuauhtémoc Medina discuss Museo Tamayo’s Museum as Hub presentation “Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries.” Tlatelolco has been a significant cultural site since the Aztec period, closely identified in the twentieth century with modernist, urban planning ambitions of Mexico and student demonstrations and killings at the time of the Olympics in 1968. A site rich in the complex layering of constructed histories that define contemporary Mexico, and a current active context for cultural production, Tlatelolco inspires consideration of the construction of future possibilities for Mexico, as it looks to define its place within an increasingly globalized world.

Paulina Lasa was born in 1980. Her public interventions and performances feature her interest in hope and optimism as subjects. Lasa has participated in various collective exhibitions including “Declaraciones,” Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and “A Place in Time,” Tobin Building-Camp Street, San Antonio. Her solo shows include: “I´m going to change the world,” at ART&IDEA, New York (2007); “Voy a cambiar al mundo,” Aldaba Arte, Mexico City (2007); “Voy a cambiar al mundo,” Santiguo, Torreón, México (2007); and “Monsters´ Ink,” ART&IDEA, Mexico City (2006). Lasa received the first prize for best documentary at the AluCine festival 2006 in Toronto. Since 2004, Lasa has been part of the Bordermates collective, with whom she produces events in public spaces and collaborates with emerging artists. Lasa studied Visual Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, UNAM. She lives and works in Mexico City.

Cuauhtémoc Medina (b. Mexico City, 1965) is an art critic, historian, and curator. He is as a full-time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at UNAM, Mexico City, and Associate Curator of Latin American Art Collections at Tate Gallery, London. He recently co-curated “La Era de la Discrepancia” at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (2007), and curated “Francis Alÿs. Diez cuadras alrededor del estudio,” Antiguo Palacio de San Ildefonso (2006). Medina has recently co-published books on Francis Alÿs (Phaidon Press, 2007) and on Melanie Smith, Ciudad Espiral y Otros Placeres Artificiales (A&R, 2006), among many others. He is a regular collaborator of “El Ojo Breve,” Reforma. He lives and works in Mexico City.

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