To explore how opportunities for mutual understanding inform cultural production
Program: Phase 2 Miami, Florida: April 20 – 30, 2016
The second phase of the exchange program included a group of artists and curators from Havana on a ten-day visit to Miami. Their itinerary is described below, followed by information about the two-day symposium at PAMM (Pérez Art Museum Miami), which culminated their program
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is a modern and contemporary art museum dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries that organized and hosted a two-day symposium open to the public featuring panel discussions with leading curators, critics and scholars from both Miami and Havana. For more images about these visits please go to GALLERY.
Symposium
PAMM: Day 1
Panel I: Introduction about the project: Elizabeth Cerejido (moderator)
Shifting Perceptions, Transnational Movements between Miami and Havana
Panelists: Sandra Ramos, Alexandre Arrechea, Glexis Novoa, Emilio Pérez
Panel II: Mapping the Development of Cuban Art in Miami: Private Consumption, Public Circulation
Panelists: Ramón Cernuda, Fred Snitzer, Peter Menéndez, Howard Farber, Moderator: Juan Martínez
Panel III: Dialogues: Cuban and Cuban-American Artists in Conversation: Part 1
Panelists: Humberto Díaz, Bert Rodríguez, Reynier Leyva Novo, Marcos Valella, Juana Valdés, Ruben Millares, Felipe Dulzaides, Wilfredo Prieto. Moderator: Rene Morales (Curator, PAMM)
PAMM: Day 2
Panel IV : El arte cubano a través del lente institucional: desde lo oficial a lo alternativo
Panelists: Aylet Ojeda (Curator, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes), Ibis Hernández (Curator, Centro Wifredo Lam and part of curatorial team of the Havana Biennial), Onedys Calvo (Curator, Factoría Habana ), Nahela Hechavarría (Curator, Contemporary Art, Casa de las Américas), Sandra Ceballos, (Founder, Director, Espacio Aglutinador). Moderator: Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, Director, CIFO
Panel V: Dialogues: Cuban and Cuban-American Artists in Conversation: Part 2
Panelists: Glenda León, Ernesto Leal, Inti Hernández, Yornel Martínez, Leyden Rodriguez Casanova, Ruben Millares, Lázaro Saavedra, Manny Prieres. Moderator: Yuneikys Villalonga, Associate Director of Exhibitions and Education, Bakehouse Art Complex