Natalia Espinel
As you read these lines, you are stepping into a field of interconnection, shared movements, moving positions, entangled spaces, and reciprocal affectations. This is a dynamic field where we can experience ourselves as porous beings always nourished by generative exchanges. “On Contamination” functions as an art-generated, art-held, art-moved membrane that foregrounds the multiplicity of these entanglements.
“On-Contamination” exists as a year-long art project grounded on the work of Brazilian artist Ricardo Basbaum and his art residency with the University of Illinois. For over thirty years, Basbaum has studied the multiple ways in which art, language, and subjectivity intersect, construct, and modify each other. Through a rigorous exploration of participation in art and in politics, and a critical analysis of contemporary art as field and practice, Basbaum’s work introduces sensorial-conceptual (post)particip
The project is coordinated by MovEncounters, a collaboration between Catalina Hernandez (Art Education Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois) and Natalia Espinel (Colombian artist and educator, Faculty at the School of Visual arts, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana ). In our collaborative research on the embodied, necessary and creative dimensions of interdependence, we encountered Basbuam’s provocative propositions. His diagrams, games, propositions, and theorizations became a fertile ground to plan
Natalia Espinel