Marta Minujín is a pioneer in transforming passive viewers into active participants through happenings, participatory environments, and mass media art. She made her first informalist paintings in the late 1950s, embracing the international art movement that rejected traditional artistic conventions in favor of abstraction and spontaneity. Minujín’s diverse use of materials, media, and technology are examples of the boundless possibilities she finds in art, a practice always rooted in experim...

A conversation about how their work responds to art, writing and popular culture at large. Our guest, Mónica de la Torre is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent publication, Repetition Nineteen, centers on experimental translation. She has published several books in Mexico, including Taller de Taquimecanografía, written in conjunction with the eponymous artists' collective she co-founded. She writes about art, and has translated works primarily from Spanish to English. She teach...

A conversation about the Chicano Art movement and queer communities.Our guest, Joey Terrill is an artist from Los Angeles who uses different types of zine-making, performance and painting to create a body of work that tenderly encompasses his intimate experiences which intersect between the queer, Chicano and artistic communities. Roberto Gil de Montes' work can be described as irreverent and serious, purposeful and inconclusive. His paintings explore the hidden images and forgotten or i...

A conversation about art, fashion, and cultural practices, and how they influence their work.Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, under the figure of the sentimental macho, resists the traditional notions of mexicanidad and its relationship with the feminine and the masculine. Whether through fashion, performance, painting or installation, all of his work presents the anxiety produced by, and our fear to question pleasure and domination in a hegemonic masculine society.Even though Rirkrit Tiravanija’s dive...

A conversation about how the artists first met, as student and teacher, and other contemporary subjects linked to their work.Our guest, Joan Jonas, is a world-renowned artist from New York whose work encompasses a wide range of media. Her experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theater. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhyth...

A conversation about identity through abstraction and the exploration of colors and materials and their underlying meanings. Our guest, Julie Mehretu is a world-renowned artist based in New York. Her work is informed by a multitude of sources including politics, literature, and music. Through her abstracted large scale paintings, drawings, and prints, she engages in a dynamic visual articulation of our contemporary experience, social behavior and the psychogeography of space.Abraham Cruzville...

A conversation about social, political and environmental crises from an art perspective.Our guest, Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His multidisciplinary artistic practice explores the unequal power relations and sociopolitical divisions that result from globalization.Minerva Cuevas is a Mexican artist whose work stems from analyzing the notions of value, exchange, and property inherent to the capitalist system and its social conseque...

FUTURE DIALOGUES, a series of conversations between artists and creatives organized and hosted by kurimanzutto and supported by Casa Dragones.