Interactive art, from concept to legacy by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
For three intense days, at the Andreani Foundation, the artist gave a workshop to the scholarship recipients of the PresenteContinuo.org program.
Lozano-Hemmer works with ideas from architecture, technology and performanceHis participatory public art shaped the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the Tlatelolco Massacre Memorial in Mexico City (2008), the Vancouver Olympics (2010), the Raurica Roman Theatre in Basel (2018) and the Memorial for the Victims of Covid at the Brooklyn Museum (2021). In 2007, he was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale and has also exhibited at the Sydney, Liverpool, Kochi, Mercosur, Istanbul, Havana, New Orleans, Shanghai, Singapore and many other Biennials.
At the third and final meeting of the year, he provided training. On the first day, each of the scholarship holders shared their work, projects and expectations to be addressed in the following days of training. During the development of the workshop they received information about concepts such keys such as conception, design, financing, production, exhibition, sale, publication and conservation. The Mexican artist provided tools, references and practical examples. He also answered specific questions and established relevant conversations with each of the participants.